Metadata Harmonisation Webinar, 16th March 2011, 1pm (ET)
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) are holding a webinar about metadata standards on 16th March at 1pm (US Eastern Time). With a wide array of […]
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Activae Open Source DAM Released
CENATIC, an agency of the Spanish Government Foundation of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce have released Activae, an open source DAM solution authored in Python (as is Notre DAM and Cynapse’s Cyn.in).
Activae uses a permissive BSD Open Source licence (in common with ResourceSpace and some other …
Continue reading »Getting More People Involved In Your DAM Initiative
At the end of January, we featured a blog article by Henrik De Gyor where he discussed some metrics for measuring the success of your DAM system and the ROI obtained. One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen published an article earlier this month about getting users to make …
Continue reading »Nuxeo Offers To Contribute Core To Eclipse Foundation: What It Means For The DAM & ECM Market
ECM and DAM vendor, Nuxeo, have offered to contribute the Nuxeo Core to the Eclipse Foundation and it will become known as the Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository (if their proposal is accepted). Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo is quoted on the Nuxeo Press Release as follows:
“We …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor Research: Information Required
In collaboration with a number of other DAM industry commentators, I am currently helping Leala Abbot to prepare a comprehensive list of DAM Vendors with a paired down list of the need to know technical details about the numerous products that exist in this market (including Open Source, Enterprise/Proprietary and …
Continue reading »DAM Systems: No Substitute For Human Metadata Cataloguing
Writing on the Archive Media Partners blog, Margie Friant critiques those DAM vendors who claim that their software can replace manual tagging carried out by human indexers:
“Isn’t it about time that we, as a profession, sell our abilities as well as the DAM system vendors sell their …
Continue reading »O’Reilly Strata Conference: September 19-21 2011, Times Square, NYC
The O’Reilly Strata Conference: The Business Of Data, runs from September 19-21 this year in Times Square, New York City. The conference is aimed at senior executives and the opportunities offered from leveraging large data sets:
- How data analytics transforms business and management
- Best practices from early adopters and
Content Analysis: Tactical Alternatives To A Full Information Audit
Kate Simpson, writing on FUMSI discusses a tactical alternative to a full information audit using Content Analysis to define the ‘landscape’ of the content in an existing repository that requires optimisation. She identifies four key areas for a summary Content Analysis exercise:
- The ‘As Is’ Landscape
- Content and Usage Metrics
Future Directions For Brand Asset Management
In this special feature, James Waite from one of our featured vendors, Adgistics, discusses future directions for brand asset management and how he sees a move towards what Adgistics term “Brand Centres” which are a combination of:
- Brand Banks (asset storage)
- Brand knowledge
- Brand investment
- Best practice
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Continue reading »Extensis Launches DAM Learning Centre
DAM Vendor, Extensis have launched a DAM Learning Centre that aims to educate users of DAM solutions about Digital Asset Management concepts. The site contains various articles and “how to” information about getting ready to implement DAM:
“DAM Learning Center features articles, documents, tools and videos from experts in …
Continue reading »Levels Of Flexibility For Print On Demand Projects
One of our featured DAM vendors, MailPrint discuss the three main options for print on demand projects:
- Variable data*: contains information or images that changes from piece to piece and personalised for every recipient.
- Versioned: a single strategy translated into several static editions. Not personalised, but grouped to improve
Concept Searching: An Alternative To Manual Metadata Classification?
Writing on the ECM Stuff blog, Jed Cawthorne discusses the role of Conceptual Search and how soon it may be possible to utilise Content Intelligence to automatically identify conceptual metadata to avoid the need for manual classification of assets:
“Now I used to be one of the cynics …
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