We briefly covered Big Data a couple of weeks ago with Ralph’s feature article about the subject and his conclusion was that most current DAM requirements were not yet big enough to justify that description, although they might be when combined with data from other sources like website log files. …
Continue reading »This Computerworld article covers an interesting take on metadata from representatives of Australia’s Pirate Party which isn’t one that is familiar to members of the DAM community where we’re all encouraged to view metadata as being a wholly positive concept that is essential for finding assets. In this case, the …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart’s DAM LA conference ‘early bird’ offer expires tomorrow (14th September 2012) so if you plan to attend and want the $200 discount, this is your last call to get it:
“From the ‘User’s Perspective’ we’ll look at what are the DAM fundamentals in 2012/13. Brand and content …
Continue reading »The Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA) is including a special Digital Asset Management Expo at their annual conference on October 22nd-26th 2012 in San Diego:
“A number of hands-on workshops will be offered during the conference, focusing on DME laboratory best practices, DSLRs for crime/critical incident …
Continue reading »Long standing DAM vendor, Canto, have recently upgraded their flagship DAM system, Cumulus to version 8.6. The new version apparently adds ‘over 50’ updates. Of potential interest to some might also be the Google Maps visualisation of geodata embedded within media.
The new edition’s major functional enhancement, however, appears …
Continue reading »Introduction
This guest post is from Ralph Windsor, a senior partner in Digital Asset Management implementation consultants, Daydream.
Background
This article is about proxy files in DAM systems and how I see their role changing from practical necessity towards a specialised form of functional metadata. As I will explain, I …
Continue reading »Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market:
“In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen …
Continue reading »DAM vendor consolidation at the enterprise end of the market continues with today’s announcement from one of our featured vendors, North Plains that they are acquiring competitor, Xinet:
“Through this acquisition, North Plains leverages Xinet’s best-in-class technology for file-based management of WIP assets as well as its success serving …
Continue reading »Another DAM-specific conference, the ambitiously titled “Digital Asset Management World Summit” takes place in Amsterdam this June on 26-27th June this year (2012). The key issues to be addressed are described as:
“IP Based workflows, rights and royalties of digital assets, workflow in the cloud, business process management, collaborative …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, released their iPad interface in their attempts to corner the mobile DAM market:
“Built to fully embrace the strengths of TeleScope as well as the strengths of the iPad, this interface brings all of the intuitive touch gestures of …
Continue reading »Joshua Ranger writing on the AudioVisual Preservation Solutions blog discusses how “Digital Media Collections Are an IT Problem But Not an IT Solution”. The essence of Joshua’s post is that while archivists must collaborate with IT professionals to enable digital collections to be established, it is the archivists who should …
Continue reading »Brian Lincoln of DocuShare, writing on the Digital Landfill blog discusses 5 myths about the ROI that can be obtained from implementation of ECM systems. He answers each of them with very short single paragraph case study to illustrate how each of the points is false:
