CMIS4DAM Draft Technical Committee Charter
Those readers with good memories might recall there were some moves from standards organisation, OASIS, last year to establish a DAM metadata interoperability standard which […]
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DAM Implementation: Key First Issues And Questions To Consider
Australian DAM integrators and consultants, DataBasics have written an article on their blog: Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Image Library Requirements Guideline which covers some key issues and questions to consider when implementing DAM. The questions include:
- Do you know what your assets are?
- Do you know where your assets
Usability And User Experience In DAM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a featured article for us: DAM Good? Yes, It Can Be! – How To Make Users Love Your Digital Asset Management System. The item was written by Neil Monahan, their Digital Marketing Manager and describes the importance of …
Continue reading »AtTask Partner With Multiple DAM Vendors
Project management and workflow vendor, AtTask have partnered with two DAM vendors, Widen and WebDAM. They appear to have deliberately selected both vendors as the DAM component of their strategy:
“Don’t torpedo your productivity or your creativity. AtTask has integrated with leading cloud DAM vendors, Widen and …
Continue reading »Digital Photographs And Trustworthiness Of Social Media Platforms
This was announced on David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary list and it should be of wider interest to others involved with Digital Asset Management also (especially those with a special interest in social media). Jessica Bushey of the University of British Columbia is conducting a survey as part of her Ph.D: …
Continue reading »Dropbox Launches Carousel Photo Sharing App – A Game Changer For DAM?
Last week, Cloud Storage provider, Dropbox, announced they were launching a media sharing application called Carousel. This allows simplified browsing of images or video held in your account and (more importantly) it includes features to share this media with other users. Carousel is delivered as a mobile application …
Continue reading »Brandworkz Update To 6.1
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have released 6.1 of their core brand asset management solution. This news was partly covered a couple of weeks ago by my co-contributor, but that dealt with their social collaboration module which was announced separately. The other aspects of 6.1 …
Continue reading »New DAM Whitepapers Site
Earlier this week, we opened up a new dedicated site for Digital Asset Management Whitepapers at damwhitepapers.org. We have transferred all the DAM News reports into this repository and had some early participation from Picturepark also (who have uploaded two of their own papers and helped us with beta-testing). …
Continue reading »The Characteristics Of DAM Systems
Elizabeth Keathley, author of Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos and owner of Atlanta Metadata Authority, has written an article for DAM Foundation, where she discusses The 10 Characteristics of a Digital Asset Management System. She offers the following:…
Continue reading »Reducing Digital Asset Volumes And Cataloguing Them More Efficiently
Romney Whitehead, has written an article Curation Before Creation, on her own Borrowed Insight blog where she discusses how the net overhead of managing media has not really diminished with the introduction of digital media, but has merely transferred from one type of activity to another. To illustrate this …
Continue reading »Audio Version Of Elizabeth Keathley DAM Book
At the end of February, we covered the forthcoming release of a new Digital Asset Management book by Elizabeth Keathley of of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation: “Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos”. The title was released by publishers Apress …
Continue reading »Brandworkz Add Blogging Module To Their Brand Asset Management Platform
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have added what they term a Social Media Collaboration Module to their flagship brand asset focussed DAM platform of the same name:
“Comprising an internal Blog feature and Who’s Who listing of teams within a company, the Social Collaboration module …
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