DAM News Round-Up – 14th October 2024


A selection of DAM-related articles from around the web, hand-picked by the DAM News editorial team.

10 Things on the 10th October: Knowledge Graphs, Tagging, Taxonomies & Semantic Data

Tracy Forzaglia (aka Mod Librarian) presents her regular round-up of knowledge graph and taxonomy-based articles.  This month’s line-up includes tips on user-generated folksonomies from Connor Cantrell, Heather Hedden’s recent piece on topical taxonomies for search filtering, AI-generated music using metadata from Ingrid Fadelli, an interview with Aaron Bradley, creator of Electronic Art’s semantic foundation, and a series of additional articles studying EA’s approach to semantics.

5 Digital Asset Management workflows that save you time

DAM platform provider Fotoware provide five tips for improving your DAM workflows.  Guidance includes metadata automation and AI-assisted autotagging, editorial and publication workflow automation such as image resizing for multi-channel distribution, digital asset consent and compliance, deletion workflows, and selection and approval workflows.  A free downloadable e-book on the topic is also available (email registration required).

Exploring the ResourceSpace-OpenAI integration

Digital Asset Management vendor ResourceSpace present a case study highlighting the use of their platform’s OpenAI integration to generate alt text descriptions for the Menonite Central Committee’s DAM system – a metadata field that is traditionally created and updated manually.  The post outlines how conventional tools and processes such as using EXIFtool to manually extract metadata are time-consuming and often unsuitable for non-English speakers.

The Complete Guide to Surviving Henry Stewart DAM New York 2024

If you’re visiting the upcoming Henry Stewart DAM New York event for the first time, this survival guide from DAM solution provider MediaValet could help prepare you and your organisation to get the very best out of your experience before, during and after the show.  The guide covers a broad range of common-sense tips, including signing up for pre-event tutorials, understanding your company’s requirements if you’re shopping for a new DAM solution,  creating a game plan to prioritise the vendors, sessions and keynotes you wish to see, seeking advice from previous attendees at the numerous networking opportunities, taking advantage of one-to-one conversations, and following up with emails and arrangements to meet after the event.

5 Ways AI Can Impact and Improve Your Search Strategy

As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly impact everyday searches (not always to the public’s approval), search strategies will also need to adapt in order to keep pace and take advantage of large language models (LLMs).  This recent post explores the implications for content marketing and SEO specialists by highlighting a number of areas where AI assistants can provide additional insights such as keyword research and analysis, competitor analysis, feedback about popular or under-performing content, and running technical audits to identify SEO issues.

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