DAM News Premium Whitepapers – Final Day Of Discount Offer
I gather from some of our readers that today is what they colloquially refer to as refer to as “Black Friday” and stores or other retail […]
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DAM For Museums Conference Write Up
Last month, we ran an item about the Digital Asset Management For Museums Conference which was held earlier this week in London (UK) on 27th November. Ian Matzen, whose Tame Your Assets blog is one of our featured DAM resources, has a summary write up of the event:…
Continue reading »Bright Interactive Announce “Crowd Feature” For Asset Bank
UK DAM vendor, Bright Interactive, who develop the Asset Bank system have announced a new service called Crowd Feature. This is a website that allows their users to pledge funds for new features in order to split the cost. Asset Bank also envisage Crowd Feature being used by …
Continue reading »DAM – The Software Industry With A Market Identity Crisis
DAMMY award winner and author of the DAM Survival Guide, David Diamond, has written an article on his own DAM Survival blog with the arresting title: The DAM that can Cure Death. The summary of the piece is that David believes the DAM industry has attempted to abstract …
Continue reading »The Role Of DAM In Customer Experience Management, Webinar, 11 December 2013, 7pm (Europe), 1pm (ET), 10am (PT)
One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM are hosting a webinar: The Role Of DAM In Customer Experience Management with two consultants from Cognizant and Accenture on 11 December 2013 at 7pm European time (1pm ET and 10am PT for US attendees). The speakers are Gordon Walsh (Accenture) and …
Continue reading »H.265 Encoders Start To Appear
Andrew Reid, writing on his EOSHD blog discusses CineMartin’s release of CINEC v2.7 which allows H.265 encoding:
“This low data rate and file size makes all kinds of magic possible, because at the same data rate as the old codec you get a massive leap in image quality and …
Continue reading »The DAM Specialisation Debate
My fellow DAM News co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has written a new feature article: The Digital Asset Management Specialisation Debate. The item was inspired by some of the subjects considered during the CMSWire DAM Tweet Jam held last month. He examines three specialisation discussion points:
- Horizontal specialisation
- Vertical market specialisation
Widen Release Media Collective Version 7.0
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released version 7.0 of their DAM system, Media Collective. The key new features are as follows:
- WordPress and Drupal integration.
- iOS and Android mobile interfaces.
- Amazon Glacier interaction (Glacier is a cloud storage and archival system which is designed
Daminion 2.0 Released
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Daminion Software, have released version 2.0 of their desktop client/server DAM system of the same name. The new features include:
- Improved export (no longer strips metadata and a preset editor)
- Administrator control over import settings
- Dropbox integration
- Export metadata to CSV
There …
Continue reading »DAM Glossary Update
It’s nearly two months since we launched the updated DAM Glossary with a dedicated website: http://damglossary.org. As promised, I will report back on any updates. To date, these include:
- New feature to request an editor account (more about this below).
- Proper workflow approval controls for new terms.
- Editor and
Southpaw Technologies Update TACTIC Open Source DAM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technologies have announced an updated edition of their open source DAM solution, TACTIC. The new features include:
- Support for noSQL database: MongoDB
- Perforce integration: Perforce is is a software configuration management system
- Drag and drop upload from file system
- Automated messaging
Introduction To The PLUS Image Registry And Its Potential Benefits For DAM Interoperability
What’s up with PLUS and Why you Should Care appeared on the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) site last month and is an introduction to the work of PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) and their image registry in particular. This is an area that anyone involved in …
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