One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM solutions have added some new features to their Cloud DAM system. The new facilities are based around taxonomies […]
Continue reading »David Diamond, from one of DAM News’ featured DAM vendors, Picturepark has written an article for CMSWire: Forget the Buzzwords, Focus on the Work. There were a couple of quotes that I found especially noteworthy:
“We like buzzwords because they fool us into thinking things are moving …
Continue reading »We briefly covered Big Data a couple of weeks ago with Ralph’s feature article about the subject and his conclusion was that most current DAM requirements were not yet big enough to justify that description, although they might be when combined with data from other sources like website log files. …
Continue reading »On CMSwire,com, Henrik de Gyor has written an article Should I Auto-tag or Crowdsource my Metadata.
The summary of the post is that there are a combination of either automated methods and crowdsourcing techniques which can potentially be used for asset metadata cataloguing, but you need to test each …
Continue reading »Ralph Windsor of DAM consultants, Daydream is joining us as a contributing editor of DAM News to help Naresh and I with sourcing articles and writing commentary about the Digital Asset Management industry. Ralph has previously contributed several articles for our features section, as well as helping Naresh to …
Continue reading »Box demonstrated a technology yesterday at their ‘BoxWorks’ convention called Box Embed. In essence, it allows the user to take an item of Box content and all their collaboration facilities (such as tagging, comments etc) and embed it into another web application – in a similar fashion to YouTube video …
Continue reading »One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Razuna, have announced the release of an enterprise edition of their flagship DAM system of the same name:
“Following the successful launch of version 1.5 of the company’s digital asset management software, Razuna now announces the availability of Razuna …
Continue reading »According to the The Register yesterday, EU ministers have approved legislation that will allow public sector organisations, including libraries, museums and universities to use so-called ‘orphan works’ (intellectual property such as photographs where the owner cannot be identified)
“Under the terms of the new Directive the various public bodies …
Continue reading »Ed Smith, of Extensis, has written an article for CMSWire: My Other DAM is a Self-Service Intranet Portal. He uses the metaphor of petrol pump attendants in Oregon (where it is compulsory to have someone fill up your car, apparently) to illustrate how a self-service DAM rather than a …
Continue reading »Yesterday, WoodWing Software, developers of the ‘Enterprise’ multi-channel publishing software system acquired DAM vendor, Dutchsoftware, who develop Elvis DAM:
“Our publishing system, Enterprise, and Elvis DAM are very much complementary,” said Erik Schut, President of WoodWing Software. “Enterprise streamlines the publishing process through collaboration, an efficient workflow and easy …
Continue reading »Adobe announced the release of Acrobat XI yesterday. The main features of interest are all fairly predictable stuff like tablet support and cloud integration. Of greater significance for the DAM/ECM industry (although still predictable) is the SharePoint integration features which allow PDFs to be more seamlessly shared:
“The industry …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, MediaBeacon announced version 5.1 of their R3volution DAM system late last week. The new features include:
“‘I couldn’t be prouder of the grace and power behind MediaBeacon 5.1,’ …
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