During the last week, we have been discussing metadata and DAM integration on our DAM News LinkedIn group. That has prompted me to consider this subject in more detail via a DAM News feature article: Digital Asset Management And The Politics Of Metadata Integration. The best practice recommendations …
Continue reading »Last week in Why Your DAM Needs Purpose And The Reason It Still Lacks It Now, I wrote about how the metadata schema employed in many DAM implementations is not always as relevant as it should be (from the perspective of DAM users). I used David Diamond’s CMSWire article…
Continue reading »David Riecks has written an article for DAM Coalition: Why Can’t I Lock Up My Photo Metadata? where he discusses various options for preventing the modification of metadata. He also explains why it will be difficult to achieve with currently available image formats and the tools to manipulate them without …
Continue reading »DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written a whitepaper: Metadata Management Strategies For Digital Asset Management. The reports discusses a three-way strategy for improving the quality of metadata applied to assets in DAM systems:
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 »John Horodyski of DAM Education has written an introductory article about metadata for CMSWire. The level is relatively basic and maybe more suitable as an executive overview than for anyone who has done the rounds with a typical DAM implementation, however, the second page has some useful pointers about …
Continue reading »This is one of several articles about The Digital Asset Management Value Chain and how it might shape the future of DAM. The feature article introduces the concept and explains the background behind it.
Metadata is another area where the DAM value chain concept may provide some potential opportunities to …
Continue reading »In this CMSWire article, David Diamond discusses some methods using timelines as a means to help catalogue assets. I found this quite a good item because it offers some practical advice on how to catalogue, which is the challenge that presents itself shortly after you have realised you need …
Continue reading »Andrew Manone has written this post on his own Damaged Workflow blog with a topical twist (for those that follow the US elections, at least) where he adapts the “Vote early, vote often” message to “Tag early, tag often”:
“The tongue-in-cheek phrase about voting when applied to metadata would …
Continue reading »Jonathan Studiman, writing on his personal products of the industrial age blog discusses some improvements he and his colleagues made to a DAM system he is implementing for The City of Toronto’s Clerk’s Office and City Planning departments. The main point of interest in the article is that the system …
Continue reading »On CMSwire,com, Henrik de Gyor has written an article Should I Auto-tag or Crowdsource my Metadata.
The summary of the post is that there are a combination of either automated methods and crowdsourcing techniques which can potentially be used for asset metadata cataloguing, but you need to test each …
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 …
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