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In the first part of this series of articles, I looked at why there is a need for efficient metadata operations management. While the use of DAM systems to hold digital assets has increased significantly over recent years, the quality of the cataloguing of many assets is becoming an …

Recently, I have been looking for some new terms to go into the community DAM Glossary project which we set up last year. As to be expected, there are an ever-growing range of candidates and part of the problem is deciding how to prioritise which ones should get written up …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …