Daminion Update To Version 3.0
One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion, who specialise in low-cost desktop single user and client/server DAM solutions, have announced version 3.0 of their solution. […]
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Widen Media Collective Upgraded To Version 7.1
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution. The new features include:
- Asset level analytics (reporting on per-asset downloads etc)
- Stylized Collections (branded image galleries derived from favourites/lightboxes/collections etc)
- Video editing and frame-selection (cropping
Adobe Update Experience Manager
Adobe announced the new release of their Experience Manager suite today. There are updates across Sites, Assets, Apps, Communities and Forms elements. For assets, they offer the following in their press release:
“Dynamic, interactive media experiences, including video, can now be authored and delivered across devices. Advanced video …
Continue reading »Razuna DAM Cloud Sustains Major Hardware Failure
Update: As of today (26th March) Razuna report that data recovery has been 100% successful.
Open Source DAM Vendor, Razuna, announced last week that they had sustained a 39TB data loss due to failure of multiple RAID drives in their hosting environment. Data recovery experts were required to retrieve …
Continue reading »NetXposure Upgrade NetX To Version 7
Earlier this week, one of our featured DAM Vendors, NetXposure upgraded their flagship NetX DAM software to version 7. The new features include:
- A revised HTML5 user interface.
- Auto-matching of input fields based on a CSV tagging map.
- Controlled Vocabularies.
- Auto-selection of metadata based on user category selections.
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Metadata Whitepaper From Optimity Advisors
Optimity Advisers, who count a number of DAM luminaries among their staff (including, David Lipsey and John Horodyski) have recently published a whitepaper Metadata Matters. They have decided to call them ‘Orange Papers’, presumably because everyone else uses ‘Whitepaper’ and their logo is orange too (fortunately the text …
Continue reading »Introduction To Facet Analysis
Ian Matzen, writing on his Tame Your Assets blog. has written an introductory article to Facet Analysis, which is the process of de-constructing metadata subject domains into discrete elements (facets) so they can be re-assembled in a modular fashion to provide faceted search features for DAM systems and other …
Continue reading »Is Your DAM System A Place Where Assets Are Sent To Be Lost And Never Found Again?
David Diamond has written an article for CMSWire this week about digital assets getting lost in DAM system. The basis of the article is a surprisingly common scenario where users upload digital assets and then either they or their colleagues can never find them again. David cites five reasons …
Continue reading »DAM Projects Site Launched By DAM News
At DAM News we have recently been working on a dedicated site where those who need some Digital Asset Management expertise (including supplying software products) can post up their requirements. I am pleased to say that DAM Projects is now live and open for anyone who wishes to post. My …
Continue reading »Metadata Monday Seminar, March 31st 2014, 6-9pm, NYC
Consultants, Optimity Advisors, who have both David Lipsey and John Horodyski on their staff are hosting a metadata seminar in New York City on March 31st 2014 between 6pm and 9pm. The session will cover various metadata related topics:
- Metadata Exercise
- Metadata Concepts and Terminology
- Metadata Benefits
- Metadata
Getty Images Opens Its Image Library For Limited Cost-Free Usage Via Embed Player
Earlier this week, stock media leviathan, Getty Images announced that is was going to allow some limited cost-free non-commercial usage of its library of 35m images. They have to be housed within their own embed player which is similar to the method employed by YouTube where the media resides on …
Continue reading »The Opportunities And Risks Of Creative Production Supply Chains
An article by Nish Patel, CEO of ConceptShare, discusses what his firm calls Creative Production Supply Chains. It was published last month and has been on my list of items to cover for DAM News for a while now. Part of the reason for the delay has been …
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