DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper aimed at project managers which summarises the key costs and deliverables for DAM projects: The report is entitled: “The 8 Steps To DAM Success: A Manager’s Guide To Planning & Costing Digital Asset Management Projects”:
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:
Ralph Windsor discusses some myths about open source software.
In this article, I will examine a number of the myths about open source software and try to clear up some misconceptions which I regularly encounter.
If you intend to invest into a DAM system, it is important that you …
Continue reading »This techdirt.com by Jeroen van Rijn article discusses whether on-line digital content is worth preserving as an archival activity in its own right. As well as the question about the significance of maintaining content (much of which may not have any apparent current value) the privacy issue is also considered. …
Continue reading »The ongoing legal drama that is the six year-old class action suit against Google Books for scanning millions of books without copyright consent, reached a new chapter recently when a US court blocked the company’s attempts to reach an agreement with publishers.
“Copyright concerns persisted, as the ownership of many …
Continue reading »At the end of January, we featured a blog article by Henrik De Gyor where he discussed some metrics for measuring the success of your DAM system and the ROI obtained. One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen published an article earlier this month about getting users to make …
Continue reading »Dominic Case writing on the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) Blog discusses an increasing concern shared by several commentators that digital preservation is turning out to be more expensive and complicated than analogue:
“…no-one knows how long digital data can be preserved or how much more it …
Continue reading »As 2011 approaches, in this special feature, we make some predictions about trends and forthcoming developments in the DAM market for the forthcoming year. In the first of two articles, we look at DAM industry predictions, the second will examine technology trends.
The …
Continue reading »Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics covered include:
Writing in the Taxonomy Blog, Marlene Rockmore considers whether the GoodRelations retail ontology developed by Martin Hepp is possibly a “Game Changer” (yes, another one). Marlene discusses a case study with retailer best buy:
“GoodRelations is a retail ontology, which offers facets or classes, metadata descriptions and attributes …
Continue reading »The Online Information Expo takes place in London (UK) between 30th November and 1st December 2010. The event covers the full range of online information activity, including: Content Resources, ePublishing Solutions, Library Management, Content Management, Search Solutions and Social Media:
“Dedicated to the information and information management industry, Online …
Continue reading »Vendor WebDAM have written a blog post that discusses the relative merits of building vs buying a DAM solution. As one might imagine, they tend toward the “buy” side of the argument, however, the points proposed are succinctly put and a fair evaluations of the arguments for building an in-house …
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