New DAM Directory Resource
Deborah Fanslow and Emily Kolvitz have put together a DAM Directory under the auspices of DAM Foundation with a lot of useful links to various DAM […]
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DAM Confusion Or Irreparable Fragmentation?
Last week, CMSWire ran an article with the title DAM Confusion in the Marketplace by Elizabeth Keathley of Atlanta Metadata Authority and author of the book Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. This prompted a fair amount of interest, mainly because …
Continue reading »The NetScout/Gartner Dispute And DIY Evaluation Techniques For DAM Buyers
Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News has provided a feature article: The Broken IT Analyst Market And Evaluation Options For Cost-Conscious DAM Buyers. He assesses the impact of the NetScout lawsuit against Gartner, considers some alternative perspectives on the role played by them both and discusses the wider implications. …
Continue reading »Picturepark Partner With Sorenson Media To Update Video Support
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have announced updated support for video via partnership with Sorenson Media today:
“In addition to making audio and video available in many more formats than were previously available in Picturepark, the new Video Converter also enables Picturepark to accept …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management Workflow – The Key To Implementing Effective CXM Strategies
There have been a few more articles on DAM in CMSWire over the last week or two. One which is short, but makes a very good point is this by Irina Guseva: Improve DAM Creative Workflows First, CXM Will Follow. The theme of the item is that CXM depends …
Continue reading »Southpaw Introduce Apps To Extend The Functionality Of The TACTIC Platform
One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have developed a series of app that are designed to run on top of their TACTIC DAM platform. The three apps are:
- VFX App – a specialist workflow tool for visual effects studios
- aSync – synchronisation of multiple
Methods To Improve DAM Adoption
CMSWire are running another series of DAM-related articles this week (and next, I believe). The focus this time around is more practical stuff about how to get more out of the technology, as opposed to the comment and opinion feature series they have run. There have been a few good …
Continue reading »Metadata Operations Management Strategies Part 6 – Crowdsourcing
This is the next in our series of articles on managing metadata cataloguing operations.
In part five, the subject was using outsourcing to assist with metadata cataloguing projects. In the final item in relation to human-based methods for efficiently organising metadata operations, I will consider outsourcing. This has …
Continue reading »Metadata Is The New Gold Webinar Review
Twitter followers of Ian Matzen will have seen a link to the recording of this webinar: Metadata Is The New Gold which was hosted by film industry technology trade association, The Hollywood IT Society on Wednesday (30th July). The event has speakers from NoSQL database vendors, MarkLogic (Matt Turner), Avalon …
Continue reading »London DAM Meetup, Wednesday 20th August, 7pm
The next London DAM meetup, which is organised by Michelle Jouan and Ian Matzen is being held on August 20th at 7pm. The venue is to be decided (but is likely to be somewhere in Central London). More details are here: http://www.meetup.com/LondonDAM/events/198361392/
The last one in late June was definitely …
Continue reading »DAM And Digital Preservation Webinar – September 9th 2014, 10am PT
DAM Guru are hosting a webinar DAM and Digital Preservation, with Emily Kolvitz as the speaker (who appears in our list of featured resources) on September 9th 2014 at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern Time, 6pm UK & Ireland, 7pm Continental Europe). The webinar will cover a variety …
Continue reading »Time For A Statement Of DAM Core Values?
Ian Matzen wrote an article with the title: Statement of Core Values on his Tame Your Assets blog about a month ago, but I have only just got the opportunity to read it properly and write a response. The post is timely because there are a number of DAM standards …
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