DAM Foundations Recorded Webinar
One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, North Plains have released recordings of a 3 part series of webinars about the foundation of DAM: […]
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DAM Vendor Selection – Time For A Change?
DAM consultants, Daydream, have written a blog post where they consider the role of Digital Asset Management selection consultancies and offer some advice to purchasing managers. They consider 5 areas where vendor selection consultants can potentially arrive at decisions that are not necessarily to the benefit of their clients:
- Charging
Box.net Secures More Funding – Serious Discount Cloud DAM/ECM Competition Imminent?
Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than …
Continue reading »Metadata Strategies Used By The BBC: Are Asset Value Judgements A Potential Source Of Conflict For DAM End Users?
SearchDataManagement.co.uk has an interview with Mike Gunton, Executive Director of The BBC’s Natural History Unit where he describes the rationale behind the corporation’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) which is at the core of its Digital Asset Management strategy. Unsurprisingly, the natural history unit’s metadata and archival requirements are ‘at the …
Continue reading »The Popularisation Of Taxonomies
Darin Stewart, writing on the Gartner blog discusses the ongoing rise in the popularity of taxonomies, in “It’s time for taxonomy“:
“In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments. I considered myself lucky if there were a …
Continue reading »Chrome Beta Includes C/C++ Engine: The Impending Transformation Of Web Digital Asset Management Systems?
This Google blog article discusses the inclusion in their Chrome browser of a C/C++ engine using the same ‘sandbox’ security techniques as JavaScript. The feature is called “NativeClient” and uses Google’s ‘Pepper’ API to allow interaction between the C/C++ and HTML5:
“First, we’re pleased to announce the integration of …
Continue reading »Video DAM: Advice And Recommendations
Edward Smith, writing on the Extensis sponsored “DAM Learning Center” explains some of the basics of video terminology and offers some best practice tips for including it in your DAM. The main advice is:
- Select a common, accessible video asset format*
- Use proxy clips (previews)
- Be prepared for cataloguing and
Amazon Announce Server-Side S3 REST Encryption: The Building Blocks Of Commodity DAM Systems?
On Tuesday, Amazon, announced they were releasing a “Server Side Encryption” module for users of their S3 storage facility. For less technical users, this means they created a method for software developers to encrypt or ‘scramble’ data when it gets stored on their Cloud servers so unauthorised users (aka ‘hackers’) …
Continue reading »Lucene Eurocon 2011: October 19-20, Barcelona, Spain
A conference dedicated to the popular open source Lucene/Solr text search library (which is widely used by both open source and commercial DAM systems) is being held in Barcelona on 19-20th October. The event costs money to attend but if your business or organisation depends on Lucene or Solr …
Continue reading »Alfresco 4 Released
Open Source Content Management (but never to be described as “DAM”) vendor, Alfresco have released version 4 of their ‘open platform for social content management’ yesterday. The stand-out features include:
- High performance indexing
- Integrated workflow
- Enhanced clustering
- Social media integration allows publishing to: YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and SlideShare
“Disaster Porn”: Infrastructure & Hosting Nightmares That Could Be Coming To A DAM System Near You?
The ‘Uptime’ section of Arstechnica.com features an article that reports from OmniTI Surge Conference (held last week) where some of the greatest IT failures were discussed. The keynote features Ben Fried, CIO of Google who describes a previous position he held at Morgan Stanley where a critical application failed, costing …
Continue reading »Adobe Max: Big On Tablets And Mobile HTML But Short On Flash
The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM:
- Adobe announced they are acquiring Nitobi, sponsors of the open source PhoneGap system that allows end users to create mobile