During the course of the last eighteen months or so, I have discussed DAM with a number of people, including users, vendors, consultants and investors. While there is a general acknowledgement that demand remains firm and that the growth cycle which first commenced around 2003-2004 is still in-progress, there is …
Continue reading »One of the recent changes in DAM system technology over the last five years has been the increased use of cloud storage providers to hold asset files. Previously, most DAM solutions relied on a file storage method that worked more or less like a big hard disk, even if it …
Continue reading »Last week, CMSWire published an article by Mohan Taylor, from North Plains: DAM Goes to Market(ing). This is one of the better argued pieces I’ve read about handling the marketing use-case in DAM:
“I fundamentally believe that the software solution is only as good as the …
Continue reading »This feature article was contributed by Deb Fanslow and John Horodyski. Deb has also written the four-part feature article Who Needs A DAM Librarian?
What is the new SLA DAM section?
Co-chaired by John Horodyski and Deb Fanslow, the Special Library Association (SLA) recently became the home of a …
Continue reading »Last week, Daminion announced an upgrade to version 4.0 of their client/server desktop DAM solution. As seems to be the convention currently, none of the updates are likely to have anyone falling off their chair in shock and amazement, but there are a decent number and some of their peers …
Continue reading »Deborah Fanslow, has written the fourth and final instalment of her DAM News feature article series: Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part IV: The Rise of the Information Professional. The item continues the same the device of using a job interview between a hiring manager and an information …
Continue reading »This special feature was contributed by Deborah Fanslow and is the final item in a series of four articles. A PDF is also available for download.
At last, we’ve reached the point where I can effectively answer David Diamond’s call for information professionals to “come …
Continue reading »This feature article has been written by DAM News Editor, Ralph Windsor.
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the possibility that some sophisticated software will magically transform all that dry asset cataloguing work into a task that is no more of a chore than loading your washing machine is a subject …
Continue reading »Last week, Adobe’s PR people sent us a variety of links in relation to their summit which were demonstrations of technologies from their ‘labs’ research division. One example which is specifically about DAM is called SmartPic. There is a quote below, but to understand the first issue I will discuss, …
Continue reading »It is a month since we published the What’s Holding DAM Back? series of article which was written by Jeff Lawrence, David Diamond and myself. Previous to that we published, our critique of current DAM innovation which used Jeff’s CMSWire article as a primary source. There have been a some …
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Whether it’s digital asset management or media asset management, David reminds us it’s always about metadata schemas.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
I have been very fortunate to be able to work on DAM at organizations both large …
Continue reading »This article was originally published on the DAM Coalition website, a property of Pro Video Coalition. As DAM Coalition was decommissioned in early 2015, this content was moved with permission.
I was talking with a client recently about some of the challenges they were experiencing with …
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