O’Reilly Strata Conference – Making Data Work, September 22-23, 2011
The O’Reilly Strata Conference: “Making Data Work” is being held between 22nd and 23rd September, 2011. It has a wide ranging brief and hopes to […]
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Alfresco Team – “Content Collaboration Platform” Or Serious Open Source DAM Competition?
Alfresco, who often appear to have a semi-detached take on the Digital Asset Management market yesterday released ‘Alfresco Team’ which is touted by them as a “Content Collaboration Platform” – or a DAM system to use an alternative term more familiar to readers of sites like this one. The basic …
Continue reading »Open Source DAM Myths
In this special feature exclusive to DAM News, Ralph Windsor, a senior partner in DAM Consultants, Daydream de-bunks 10 myths about open source software. Amongst those considered include:
- Open source software costs no money
- Open source and Cloud DAM are different
- Open source DAM Is Not ‘Enterprise’
- Open source DAM
Annoying ECM Marketing Jargon #ecmbanned
John Mancini writing on The Digital Landfill blog is collecting a range of annoying ECM marketing jargon. This is a follow up to his earlier coverage of 18 words or phrases that should be banned from marketing, sales, corporate communications featured in the book Content Rules by Ann Hadley and …
Continue reading »Createasphere Digital Asset Management Seminars, Chicago, July 20th 2011
Digital Asset Management events organiser, Createasphere have lined up a seminar in Chicago on July 20th. The line-up includes: David Riecks, Dan Mcgraw and Jim Sippel. There is a free after hours networking event also: “Marketing, Digital Asset Management and the Digital Supply Chain”. The David Riecks session is …
Continue reading »Justifying ROI In DAM And Other Marketing Technologies
One our featured Digital Asset Management Vendors, MailPrint have written a white paper entitled, “Cost Justifying the Investment in New Marketing Systems” (registration required). MailPrint’s blog gives a summary of the key points; the stand out one for me was the final paragraph which reminds readers to …
Continue reading »Personal Digital Archives – The Biggest Risk Is You
This article was discussed on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group (which anyone involved in the nuts and bolts of Digital Asset Management should be a member of). Bill Lefurgy from the Library of Congress outlines the process he has taken to archive his personal digital photos. What is striking reading …
Continue reading »Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems: ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, 26th June, 2011
The American Libraries Association (ALA) are hosting a presentation on “Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems” as part of the ALA 2011 Annual Conference on Sunday 26th June (the conference runs from 23rd – 26th).
“Distributed, hosted, and cloud storage are now viable options to incorporate into our digital preservation management …
Continue reading »Modula4 Releases Web Module 3.1 For Canto Cumulus
Modula4, developers of add-ons for Canto’s Cumulus DAM system have announced the release of Web Module 3.1 today:
“In addition to improvements in design and performance, new file sharing links offer easy access to any file or group of files, and watermarking and other image processing instructions are …
Continue reading »Digital Heritage: Is It Worth Preserving?
This techdirt.com by Jeroen van Rijn article discusses whether on-line digital content is worth preserving as an archival activity in its own right. As well as the question about the significance of maintaining content (much of which may not have any apparent current value) the privacy issue is also considered. …
Continue reading »NorthPlains Announce New Version Of Telescope: Custom Content & Video Targeted As Key Areas
One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have released an update to their flagship Telescope Digital Asset Management system. Now on version 9, the new edition includes the following main upgrades:
- New HTML5 interface
- Drag and drop files from Telescope to other applications
- User friendly visual workflow
WCM & DAM Convergence: Marginalisation Of Pure Play DAM Or An Opportunity To Demonstrate ROI?
In this post on techtarget.com, Beth Stackpole discusses some quotes from various industry commentators and WCM/DAM end users who have their own take on the convergence of WCM and DAM, a trend we have observed for some time:
“While some Web content management tools have been enhanced …
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