I am pleased to announce that the PhotoMetadata.org project which is managed by David Riecks has recently joined DAM Federation, the community of Digital Asset Management resources that was set up in August:
“Everyone involved with digital images shares the challenge of tracking and managing their rapidly expanding …
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Artificial Intelligence is here to stay; much like the way blockchain technology has been hijacked and eclipsed by the frantic rise and fall of cryptocurrency, so too has AI been prematurely blasted from the over-zealous scattergun of emergent technology and hyped as the next big thing before it has reached …
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As many DAM users will be aware, recently there has been a lot of interest in using Artificial Intelligence and visual recognition tools to automate the tagging and cataloguing of content digital assets like images and video with relevant metadata.
While the results of these technologies have improved over recent …
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This feature article has been contributed by Spencer J Harris.
We are all guilty of having files on our computers with a filename similar to img_3579 or DCS_8642. As a result, when you look at the names of your own files your initial reaction is “what is this a …
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John Horodyski has recently written an article entitled: Metadata Matters … it’s everything which explains the business justification for investing in metadata analysis and management:
“There has never been a more important time to make data a priority and to have a road map for delivering value from it …
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I have written a feature article for DAM News on the use of AI in combination with digital asset supply chains (which seems to be the hot topic of the day at present).
“DAM vendors who are seeking to gain some kind of competitive advantage with their use of …
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Annella Mendoza has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Metadata And The Findability Of Assets. In the piece, she discusses how metadata is integral to the findability of digital assets and how this has a direct relationship on how likely (or not) a DAM solution is to be …
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This article was contributed by Annella Mendoza.
“Can’t find anything!” – How did that happen?
For many institutions, metadata was the automated catalog information to describe books, museum objects, other collections to enable library users and researchers to locate resources for their own needs. For information professionals, it was …
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a feature article, Finding Signs Of Life In DAM about why some people are saying ‘DAM is dead’ and what could be done about it. In the first piece, I attempted to diagnose the problem and came up with some possible lines of enquiry …
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As part of the DAM Guru Program initiative to connect people and expand DAM education, we will be sharing deliverables from relevant DAM group events. The “Guru Share” is a way to expand DAM knowledge provided by peers, and promote the great content being discussed and dissected by these groups …
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Deb Flanslow, one of the maintainers of the DAM Directory, has written an article describing the recent addition of a metadata standards section to the guide:
“So many standards, so little time! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place to browse the most common metadata standards …
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