Whilst wandering through the once vibrant and bustling ghost town of DAM innovation, I recently came across an interesting little nugget caught amongst the tumbleweeds. […]
Continue reading »Peter Flood, CEO of AIDA Content Management, has recently published an article on LinkedIn entitled The Value of Accurate and Precise In-Frame Metadata or Dealing with the Current Impenetrable Fog of AI, in which he ponders the current state of AI within DAM and the possible negative effect …
Continue reading »We are once more running our DAM vendor pricing survey 2018 edition and are now inviting responses from vendors. This is the second time we have conducted the survey, the first edition was published in 2016.
Earlier this year, we sent a link to a form on our DAM …
Continue reading »I have recently contributed an article for our features section: Understanding DAM System APIs: A Primer For Non-Technical DAM Users. This is in response to the lack of knowledge that many end-users seem to have about this subject (and in particular that simply having an API is insufficient, of …
Continue reading »London DAM Meetup (which I am a member of) are holding a meetup at the end of the first day of Henry Stewart EU conference. Those members of the group who are are unable to attend the conference itself can participate at the end during the ‘sponsored drink’ session:…
Continue reading »For the more imaginative, concepts such as mistrust in government, document tampering and questionable provenance might conjure up scenes from The Ipcress Files, JFK or tales of cold war espionage and conspiracy. However, amidst the saturation of our information channels with fake news and a growing trend towards truth by …
Continue reading »The W3C Digital Asset Management Ontology Group (chaired by Aaron Bradley, Emily Kolvitz, Matthew Patulski and Spencer Harris) has a conference call tomorrow (5th June) at 10am ET. The call is accessible via https://zoom.us/j/8365763105. The group was started last year and its purpose is discuss, create …
Continue reading »Over the last year or so, I have been reading a number of articles about Content Services, a term allegedly coined by analysts Gartner (although I have my doubts as to its true provenance). A few weeks ago, I discussed Magan Arthur’s article about Business Object Management where it was …
Continue reading »Yaochong Chen who is currently a student on the DAM post-graduate (MA) course at King’s College in London has written an article about the lack of DAM software platforms in China:
“Paradoxically, although many DAM Chinese scholars like me are passionate about bringing these amazing ideas into Chinese …
Continue reading »ECM and DAM commentator, Magan Arthur has recently written an article which he has titled: The End of Digital Content Management and the Need for Business Object Management. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it, however, I do concur with a great deal of what he says. It …
Continue reading »Today, we are launching an industry consortium to research and discuss the role of Digital Asset Supply Chains with a view to deriving both some standards and technology that can be applied to make the theories explored become a reality. Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects have become increasingly prevalent …
Continue reading »Earlier this month, I wrote an article describing how I believe the DAM software business is sleepwalking into a subservient integrator/channel partner model which will have undesirable consequences for innovation (and therefore the sustainability) of this technology sector. At the end of that piece, I said I would write a …
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