DAM Weekly Round-Up – 20th August 2018
A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM. Getting Organized: Taxonomies, Keywords and Tags This handy […]
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Checking Out Swivle’s Agent
I have recently tested the Swivle Agent – a multi-purpose connector that allows users to check-in and check-out files that are stored in Woodwing’s ‘DAM Lite’ solution Swivle. A more in-depth review of Swivle itself was previously published by my co-contributor Ralph Windsor – in this article I will be …
Continue reading »DAM Federation: New Industry Association Launches
Today DAM Federation, a new DAM industry association officially launches. This is a loose association of affiliated Digital Asset Management community information and educational resources of which DAM News is a member:
“DAM Federation is a group of affiliated Digital Asset Management information services providers who have a …
Continue reading »AI and DAM: A Pick ‘n’ Mix Approach To Automated Metadata?
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay; much like the way blockchain technology has been hijacked and eclipsed by the frantic rise and fall of cryptocurrency, so too has AI been prematurely blasted from the over-zealous scattergun of emergent technology and hyped as the next big thing before it has reached …
Continue reading »Resurrecting The Advanced Search: A Boolean Visualisation Tool
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. Strangely familiar, yet subtly different from its common predecessors, 2dSearch is a project that’s aiming to resurrect the mother of unused features – the …
Continue reading »AI & DAM – The Value Of Process And Data Accuracy To Enhance Contextual Awareness
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 »DAM Vendors 2018 Pricing Survey Now Open For Participation
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 »Understanding Digital Asset Management APIs
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 EU Meetup – 28th June 2018, 5.30pm, Radisson BLU Portman Hotel, London W1
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 »UK Government’s Archive To Investigate Blockchain Technology
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 »W3C Digital Asset Management Ontology Community Group Call, 5th June 10am ET
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 »Why The Value Of Content Services Is Diminished Without Interoperability Standards
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 …
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