Report On “DAM Best Practices”:
Research group, Forester have published a report on DAM Best Practices. The report contends that only three elements are needed for a best practice strategy: […]
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NorthPlains Joins MediaBeacon In Positioning For Mobile DAM: But How Long Before Real Users Catch Up?
One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, released their iPad interface in their attempts to corner the mobile DAM market:
“Built to fully embrace the strengths of TeleScope as well as the strengths of the iPad, this interface brings all of the intuitive touch gestures of …
Continue reading »Daydream Release Version 3.4.1 Of FocusOPEN Open Source DAM System
One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have released an update to their .NET open source DAM system, FocusOPEN. The stand out features for me were:
- Image manipulation: cropping, flipping, and re-sizing assets
- Advanced multi-level group permissions features
- Physical asset support and delivery information
- Batch email broadcasts
- PDF contact
HTML5 Poised To Kill Off Flash And Silverlight: Potential Negative Impact For Innovations In DAM Interfaces?
As described in both this article and this one by CMSWire.com, the days of proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight look numbered. From the first article about Flash:
“Shunned by Apple’s iOS and Windows Phones, and offering a spotty experience on Android, Flash on mobile platforms has had …
Continue reading »Why Modern DAM Systems Are So Much More Than Shared Folders
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released a blog post: “A shared folder is no substitute for DAM software“. They pose several reasons why:
- Limited security
- Lack of back up (replication)
- Need to invest in IT equipment
- Lack of proper version control
“The …
Continue reading »Thai Floods Contributing To Hard Disk Price Rises
Peter Krogh, author of the “The DAM Book” writes on the The DAM Show blog about a steep increase in the cost of hard drives due to the flooding taking place at present in Thailand:
“Due to flooding in Thailand, we’re seeing hard drive prices rise steeply …
Continue reading »Visual Searching: The Next Opportunity For DAM Systems?
Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB has written an article entitled: “Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management“. Johannes discusses the reasons why non-text based search strategies are now more important than ever with the exponential rise in image or video digital content. He …
Continue reading »Key Themes From Taxonomy Bootcamp
The Taxonomy Blog covers a report of the Taxonomy Bootcamp which was apparently compiled from tweets rather than attending the event. In “What next, taxonomy?” the authors discuss 5 key themes and questions that were discussed at length during the conference:
- Centralised taxonomies don’t scale. Think federated and
SoundCloud: HTML5 Player For Embedded Audio
Until recently, the method most DAM systems used for delivering audio assets was a SWF player that played a transcoded MP3 proxy file. That’s probably going to be the case for at least the next year (or more) but SoundCloud are aiming to hasten the demise of Flash’s role as …
Continue reading »Adobe Acquires Auditude: Integrated Video WCM/DAM Opportunity Or Another Potential Failed Acquisition?
Adobe, owner of both Day Software and Scene 7 DAM/ECM vendors announced yesterday that they had bought up Auditude, developers of a video advertising platform:
“Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash …
Continue reading »Digital Media Collections: Archivists Need To “Take Control” Back From IT
Joshua Ranger writing on the AudioVisual Preservation Solutions blog discusses how “Digital Media Collections Are an IT Problem But Not an IT Solution”. The essence of Joshua’s post is that while archivists must collaborate with IT professionals to enable digital collections to be established, it is the archivists who should …
Continue reading »Matroska Multimedia Container Format
This was posted on the Controlled Vocabulary list that metadata expert, David Riecks manages. Matroska is a new open standard container format for multimedia files. Many readers will be aware of container formats for video, like QuickTime or AVI etc. Matroska can be used to hold metadata, including ‘time line’ …
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