Do Digital Asset Services Exchanges Represent The Future Of Content DAM?
In the second part of my article on the role of blockchains and Content Digital Asset Management, I have examined some non-fintech oriented uses of […]
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The Role Of Blockchains In Content Digital Asset Management
I have written the first of a two-part article on the features section of Digital Asset News, Blockchains: Catalysts For Innovation In Content Digital Asset Management. The piece explains what blockchains are (including their historical context) and how they are more like databases than many might realise. The wider …
Continue reading »Review Of Bynder’s Orbit Content DAM System
Spencer Harris, who a number of DAM News readers will know from his participation in various DAM-related LinkedIn groups and his contribution to the excellent New Jersey DAM meetup group webinars about metadata automation last year has written an initial review of Bynder’s recently released Orbit DAM system. The …
Continue reading »Analysing The Intrinsic And Extrinsic Value Of Preservation Digital Assets
Annella Mendoza has contributed another feature article for DAM News: High Value Digital Assets And Migration. This item applies the definition of digital assets that I offered on Digital Asset News last month, in particular the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic value:
“In the course of conducting business, …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management Is Not Content Management
Last week, there was a post on one of the LinkedIn DAM groups by David Diamond, Reason enough to say that “digital asset management” has died for us? For anyone who does not have access to the group, this is the post:
“Major players in the Financial sector are …
Continue reading »Digital Asset News Launched
Today we are launching a new title: Digital Asset News, this covers the subject of digital assets, but in a wider sense of the term and follows on from feature articles I wrote at the start of 2016, the piece on digital asset value chains going back to …
Continue reading »Are Bynder Orbiting Or Departing From Planet DAM?
Last week, DAM vendor, Bynder announced the release of a ‘creative files management’ tool called Orbit. There is a waiting list to get an account, so I will have to defer any assessment of its capabilities for a while. I have not yet encountered anyone who has been …
Continue reading »Extensis Update Portfolio For 2017
DAM vendor, Extensis announced an update to their Portfolio DAM solution earlier this week. This is the press quote from Toby Martin, whose job title is ‘Vice President of Development and Strategy’ (which sounds like he has to deal with all the jobs at Extensis that no one …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Supply Chains And Seismic Changes In The Enterprise DAM Software Market
I have written a feature article for DAM News with the title: Enterprise Discontent With Current DAM Solutions And The Impending Future Of Digital Asset Management. The piece covers a number of concurrent developments in the enterprise segment of DAM (and quite possibly applies to smaller-scale implementations also). This …
Continue reading »Northplains NEXT – A Step Forward Or Too Little Too Late?
A couple of weeks ago, Northplains released a new DAM platform called NEXT (not to be confused with similarly named competitor, NetX). This replaces their Telescope and OnBrand products, the former their original platform first developed 20 or more years ago and the latter dating from their acquisition of …
Continue reading »Metadata, Findability And Their Relationship With DAM Adoption
Annella Mendoza has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Metadata And The Findability Of Assets. In the piece, she discusses how metadata is integral to the findability of digital assets and how this has a direct relationship on how likely (or not) a DAM solution is to be …
Continue reading »DAM Standards Site For API Documentation
As described in my recent feature article: Finding Signs Of Life In DAM: Interoperability 1.0 we are assembling a repository of DAM-related API documentation to be held at damstandards.org. The intention behind this is to build a library of DAM system APIs (and other related standards that may not …
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