This special feature has been written by DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor.
Introduction
One area that seems to have got more attention in DAM recently is User Experience (UX). It is instructive to understand what pressures have lead to this becoming a theme as they reveal both a threat …
Continue reading »Remko Noteboom, CTO of one of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw Technology, has contributed a special feature article for DAM News: Configurable Workflow Systems. The item explores the opportunity in applying some techniques from large-scale manufacturing and industrialisation to the management of digital content, especially with reference to …
Continue reading »This special feature was contributed by Remko Noteboom, Co-Founder and CTO, Southpaw Technology.
Overview
Today, every organization and company in the world is struggling to keep up with the proliferation of digital assets. As a result, digital workflow technologies have become mission critical technologies anywhere large quantities of digital …
Continue reading »Yesterday, CMSWire ran an article Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop written by David Diamond, author of the The DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director of Picturepark and contributor to DAM News. David looks at why Photoshop has been more successful as a product than the entire DAM …
Continue reading »In this feature, DAM specialist David Diamond looks at what it takes for an individual project leader to single-handedly implement a digital asset management system that will deliver, regardless of the many potential pitfalls that he/she might encounter.
What it takes to do DAM alone, without a team
In DAM …
Continue reading »After a brief pause, we are resuming our ongoing analysis of DAM Value chains. For those who are new to this subject, the introductory article explains more about what it is. Next up on the list of subjects, is Collaboration.
What Is Meant By Collaboration?
In DAM terms, …
Continue reading »Subscribers to David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group may have seen a post by David himself: why app developers / providers have such a dim view of their users intellectual property. This describes an exchange he had with developers on EyeEm, including this response:
“it’s definitely not a technical challenge. …
Continue reading »Ralph Windsor interviews David Diamond about the recently launched DAM Guru Program which he has helped to set up.
Can you give us a short introduction to the DAM guru programme and explain what it’s all about?
After the release of DAM Survival Guide, I started getting a lot of …
Continue reading »This special feature has been written by DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor.
Why Findability Is Critical To DAM ROI
The premise of this article is that the quality of metadata you apply to assets dramatically affects the chances of them being found and subsequently used. This has a major …
There were a couple of items that caught my attention this week and they pinpoint some truths about the future of DAM software and possibly a wider point about software in general. The first was this item by David Diamond, author of The DAM Survival Guide, explaining why he …
Continue reading »This glossary was originally written by DAM consultants, Daydream and was donated to DAM News in February 2013. It covers common terminology used in the field of Digital Asset Management and is the copyright of Digital Asset Management News. You may link to it, but you are not permitted to …
Continue reading »This feature article has been written by DAM News contributor, Ralph Windsor
One of the key differences between preservation and other DAM uses cases is the complexity of the metadata schemas (or ‘metadata design’ to use a less technical term). In particular the distinction between assets and other objects.
In …
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