The Special Libraries Association (SLA) are holding an open meeting on 15th July at 12pm ET that will present their newly formed Digital Asset Management […]
Continue reading »This week the DAM EU conference was held in London. As with previous years, I was unable to attend this event due to some client upgrade roll-outs that I get co-opted into troubleshooting around this time, although I was able to get along to the London DAM meetup in the …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, Adobe officially consolidated their stock media ambitions with the launch of Adobe Stock. As reported on The Verge, this is the culmination of several manoeuvres and acquisitions in the last twelve months., in particular, the fact that you do not need to leave Adobe Creative …
Continue reading »On CMSWire, yesterday, there was an article by Elizabeth Keathley from Atlanta Metadata Authority: DAM Positions Are Going Unfilled. The item is about the difficulties some firms are finding hiring Digital Asset Managers to take charge of their DAM initiatives. Elizabeth identifies three different causes of this problem:…
Continue reading »Andreas Mockenhaupt Director of Professional Services at DAM vendors, Canto has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Why Interoperability Standards Are So Critical To The Future Of Digital Asset Management. The article describes the OASIS-sponsored CMIS4DAM standard which has been in-progress since September 2013:
“The concept behind …
Continue reading »The open source DAM application, ResourceSpace (developed and maintained by UK vendor, Montala) has recently been upgraded to version 7.2. The new features can be summarised as follows:
Legacy DAM vendor, Extensis, have announced a recent partnership with workflow vendor, Workfront (who were formerly known as AtTask). Workfront is essentially a project management tool for keeping track of various types of work packages, with a focus on specific business activities, one of which is marketing, which is presumably …
Continue reading »An article which has been bought to my attention by a few different people recently is Image Content Recognition: A Stillbirth? by Paul Melcher, writing on kaptur.co. The item discusses some controversy surrounding Flickr’s recent introduction of their auto-tagging feature (which they rolled out without asking permission and then …
Continue reading »Australian DAM Vendor, IntelligenceBank have announced the availability of a connector for their DAM to the SiteCore CMS:
“We are pleased to announce the launch of a connector for Sitecore – a leading CMS and CX software provider.With this new connector, web content managers can seamlessly browse and search …
Continue reading »Over on DAM Guru, they are running a series on DAM for librarians: Librarian Tips for DAM Managers with some contributions from various of their members who have a Library or Information Science background. The first two are Why Librarians Understand DAM by Linda Rouse and Standards and Metadata…
Continue reading »There have been a couple of interesting articles about DAM workflow recently which I have been intending to get around to discussing on DAM News for a few weeks. One of these is by Roger Howard with the title, Workflow Doesn’t.
Without misinterpreting Roger’s piece, the thesis seems to …
Continue reading »Australian Digital Asset Management VAR, DataBasics, have provided a condensed presentation where they list the top ten DAM solution implementation mistakes that users tend to make:
