I have read a few articles etc recently which advance the currently widely held opinion that DAM is exclusively a marketing concern. This is not one I share (although I will acknowledge that, at present, marketing people are the largest single group of DAM users I come into contact with). …
Continue reading »David Diamond has released another book titled: Metadata For Content Management as a follow-up from DAM Survival Guide. The new publication does not specifically refer to Digital Asset Management because David says he wants the topics discussed to be relevant to all types of system that mange content (i.e. …
Continue reading »DAM Guru Program creator, David Diamond, has released a new book entitled, Metadata for Content Management. It’s David’s first book release since DAM Survival Guide, back in 2012.
Metadata for Content Management helps digital content managers design better content organization strategies, and envision and deploy creative ways in …
Continue reading »Over the last few months, I have been involved with an increasing number of DAM integration projects where interoperability with some other third party system has been a key issue. At the same time, I have also had consulting assignments that were not related to Digital Asset Management, but more …
Continue reading »As reported on David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group (and elsewhere) the IPTC’s Embedded Metadata Manifesto Initiative has repeated a test it carried out of popular social media sites three years ago and found that many are still stripping embedded metadata from images uploaded to them. The Social Media Sites Photo …
Continue reading »About six weeks ago on DAM News, we reported some problems that Flickr ran into with their automated tag suggestion feature and noted that there were both perils and politics involved with this type of exercise. Last week, with the revelation that Google had catalogued the images of two people …
Continue reading »An article which has been bought to my attention by a few different people recently is Image Content Recognition: A Stillbirth? by Paul Melcher, writing on kaptur.co. The item discusses some controversy surrounding Flickr’s recent introduction of their auto-tagging feature (which they rolled out without asking permission and then …
Continue reading »Over on DAM Guru, they are running a series on DAM for librarians: Librarian Tips for DAM Managers with some contributions from various of their members who have a Library or Information Science background. The first two are Why Librarians Understand DAM by Linda Rouse and Standards and Metadata…
Continue reading »by Lisa Grimm, MA, MS-LIS
While librarians love global standards and useful metadata, even within the traditional library, we can be confronted a less-than-consistent institutional approach to those standards, and even wider variation in the tools used to maintain good metadata. That’s especially true in the DAM world, where …
Continue reading »Last week, CMSWire published an article by John Horodyski of consultants, Optimity Advisors: Metadata Maturity Helps You Maintain Business Relevance. This is one of the best articles I’ve read this year in relation to metadata and content management (with particular reference to DAM). John describes five metadata maturity levels …
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, …
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