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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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This article was originally published on the DAM Coalition website, a property of Pro Video Coalition. As DAM Coalition was decommissioned in early 2015, this content was moved with permission.
by Nick Sincaglia
The Value of a Metadata Standard
I have been active in a number of metadata standards …
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Like a lot of people I know in the Digital Asset Management trade currently, my firm has been deluged with client work for a sustained period. Several times in recent weeks, I’ve been asked why I think that is. Some vendors advance the theory that it’s because their solutions have …
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This is the next in our series of articles on managing metadata cataloguing operations.
In part five, the subject was using outsourcing to assist with metadata cataloguing projects. In the final item in relation to human-based methods for efficiently organising metadata operations, I will consider outsourcing. This has …
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Twitter followers of Ian Matzen will have seen a link to the recording of this webinar: Metadata Is The New Gold which was hosted by film industry technology trade association, The Hollywood IT Society on Wednesday (30th July). The event has speakers from NoSQL database vendors, MarkLogic (Matt Turner), Avalon …
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This article is fifth of a series about establishing efficient metadata cataloguing operations.
In part four, the subject was batch cataloguing and using asset supply chain partners to assist with cataloguing. In this item, I will consider outsourcing and then a follow-up article will discuss crowdsourcing.
Introduction
Using supply …
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In the preceding article in this series (part 3) I reviewed human cataloguing methods, especially where each asset is entered manually one at a time. In this piece, I will consider batch cataloguing and using metadata from supply chain partners.
Batch Cataloguing
I include batch cataloguing as a non-automated method …
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In the first part of this article series, I looked at why efficient metadata operations management processes are essential. In the second I outlined some broad methods to segment asset catalogues to make it easier to adapt the cataloguing strategy in a way that is more streamlined and commensurate …
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Faith Robinson, Director of DAM & ECM at Hasbro, posted an article about metadata models on LinkedIn a few weeks ago: It’s always about the metadata. This is one of a number of different metadata-related pieces recently which I have been intending to discuss on DAM News. The …
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