David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and marketing director of Picturepark, has contributed an article for CMSWire: Reinventing Digital Asset Management. He covers a number […]
Continue reading »On Wednesday, Adobe launched the Creative Cloud Market. In brief, this is a stock media library that allows Creative Cloud users to access pre-built design elements like graphics etc. The source assets are provided by selected designers from Behance, a stock design market platform Adobe bought up in …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion have upgraded their desktop app-based workgroup DAM solution of the same name. Here are some of the key new features:
DAM Guru are hosting a webinar: Essential DAM Planning for Museums on 16th July 2014 at 10am Pacific Time (6pm UK, 7pm mainland Europe). The session is lead by Susan Barrett, Instructional Designer with Arizona State University:
“Join Susan Barrett as she offers attendees a better understanding of …
Continue reading »This article is fifth of a series about establishing efficient metadata cataloguing operations.
In part four, the subject was batch cataloguing and using asset supply chain partners to assist with cataloguing. In this item, I will consider outsourcing and then a follow-up article will discuss crowdsourcing.
Introduction
Using supply …
Jeff Lawrence writing on the Celerity blog, has an article: How to Improve Your Search Engine: Unlocking Basic Features. Jeff discusses three basic routes:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen have updated their principal DAM solution, Media Collective to version 7.2. The major alterations in relation to integration with Silicon Publishing, AtTask and ProofHQ we have already covered in previous articles. Most of the other new stuff looks fairly maintenance oriented …
Continue reading »In the preceding article in this series (part 3) I reviewed human cataloguing methods, especially where each asset is entered manually one at a time. In this piece, I will consider batch cataloguing and using metadata from supply chain partners.
Batch Cataloguing
I include batch cataloguing as a non-automated method …
In the first part of this article series, I looked at why efficient metadata operations management processes are essential. In the second I outlined some broad methods to segment asset catalogues to make it easier to adapt the cataloguing strategy in a way that is more streamlined and commensurate …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, WoodWing, have upgraded their Elvis DAM solution to version 5.0. The key enhancements relate to scalability and the architecture of their solution to support a much larger volume of assets (up to one billion according to their press). This is the quote …
Continue reading »Faith Robinson, Director of DAM & ECM at Hasbro, posted an article about metadata models on LinkedIn a few weeks ago: It’s always about the metadata. This is one of a number of different metadata-related pieces recently which I have been intending to discuss on DAM News. The …
Continue reading »For some time now, we have featured articles about the potential risks of hosting DAM solutions with a third party, such as the one by Dan Huby yesterday and our own DAM SaaS Survival Guide. Most of the recommendations are preventative in nature, such as data security and vetting …
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