Cloud vs On-Premise DAM – Having Your Cake And Eating It
One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions have written an article: The Battle Between Cloud & On-Premise: 5 Things to Consider. The 5 points raised […]
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DAM Survival Guide – Free Excerpt
We’re all fans of David Diamond’s DAM Survival Guide here at DAM News. If you were deliberating over whether to buy a copy or not, there is a free 100 page excerpt on the Picture Park site. Our senior editor, Naresh Sarwan wrote this about it in June this …
Continue reading »Tips For Creating A Controlled Vocabulary
This Archimedia article has some tips about creating controlled vocabularies. There are two parts to the item, this is from the second:
“Try to think of what your image or asset is about, stay away from jargon words and acronyms. Examples:
Jargon words: ACID RAIN, DUE DILIGENCE, TEAM PLAYER, …
The Building Blocks Of DAM
Metadata guru, David Riecks, whose Controlled Vocabulary site and associated Yahoo group is often featured on DAM News has written an article: The Building Blocks of DAM. He outlines six major areas that are common to nearly all DAM systems and also some that are not. These include:
- Create a
O’Reilly Tools Of Change Conference, Feb 12-14 2013, New York (USA)
Publisher O’Reilly are hosting their 2013 ‘Tools of Change conference in NYC between 12th and 14th February. The event covers five major themes:
- User Experience
- Collaboration and Connection.
- Open Platforms, Open Standards, and Open Systems
- Publishing-Related Technologies
- Best Practices & Business Models
“This unique, full-day event is oriented …
Continue reading »DAM For Creative Work In Progress, Webinar, 6th December 2012
DAM conferences organise, Henry Stewart are hosting a free webinar about the challenges of using DAM for creative ‘work in progress’ on 6th December at : 9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm UK, or 6pm Europe (note to other webinar organisers: this is the optimum time slot to get a full …
Continue reading »Daminion Software Release 0.9.7b
One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion Software have released version 0.9.7b of their flagship DAM system. Apart from wining the award for more obscure product version number of the week (and they’re not even open source!) the update contains a variety of new features:
- Import Office documents like
Southpaw Launches DAM Solutions Modules
One of our featured Open Source DAM vendors, Canadian company, Southpaw Technology, developers of the TACTIC Open Source DAM system have released Southpaw Solutions. This appears to be a series of add-ons built on top of their platform. They include:
- Custom Data Management Solution – allows TACTIC
Using Timelines As Tools To Help Develop Metadata Schemas For Better Cataloguing
In this CMSWire article, David Diamond discusses some methods using timelines as a means to help catalogue assets. I found this quite a good item because it offers some practical advice on how to catalogue, which is the challenge that presents itself shortly after you have realised you need …
Continue reading »Amazon Free “Lunch And Learn” AWS Seminar, London (UK), 4th December 2012
Amazon are presenting a Lunch And Learn Seminar introducing their AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud platform to prospective end users. The seminar is on 4th December 2012 at the America Square Conference Centre in London (EC3 – City area near to Tower Hill or Fenchurch Street). The event is free …
Continue reading »ADAM Release Updated Teamwork Artwork Annotation Tool
One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released an updated edition of their Teamwork artwork annotation tool. The new features include:
- Mobile approvals, allowing users to approve or reject assets and projects via a smartphone.
- Integrated annotation workflows ADAM’s existing workflow capability.
- An API that can be
Integration – The Key Cloud Battleground
Integration has been discussed quite a lot on DAM News before. This article by William Vambenepe describes how integration will be an important competitive battleground as more traditional larger enterprise application vendors need to replace their on-premise based integration components with ones that can work on a Cloud platform:…
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