In this article, Philip Speigel takes a humorous look at the polarised roles of visionary DAM strategists and DAM metadata analysts, and explains how with good communication and a willingness to collaborate, both these ‘information superheroes’ can contribute to overall organisational success.
“Micro-boy wants to circle the wagons and fix …
Continue reading »IT Enquirer has published email interviews with 4 vendors: ADAM, Celum, MediaBeacon and WAVE. The questions covered include:
Last week on the YouTube blog it was announced that auto captioning will be added to videos uploaded to YouTube. Ostensibly this is to support improved accessibility to video content for the visually impaired, however, the potentially immense time (and cost) savings possible by applying this technology will be immediately …
Continue reading »In this post on the Earley Blog, Heather Hedden discusses various tools available for managing Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies. As many DAM professionals are aware, most taxonomies tend to get developed (at least initially) with conventional desktop applications such as Excel and these are often not ideal for ongoing management:…
Continue reading »Jeremy Wilker of TWEAKDigital outlines the hidden costs of DAM system in this article. In summary, he assess 6 areas
The point relating to Quality is very relevant and a number of industry commentators have also been drawing attention to the …
Continue reading »In a recent poll conducted by CMS Wire, usability was voted the biggest challenge faced by those tasked with the implementation of a digital asset management system. The poll, which ran over a week, found that taxonomy and metadata design were also a key concern, in addition to building a …
Continue reading »Business consultancy, Earley & Associates, are running the third in their series of Jumpstart webinars on digital asset management. This webinar, which is free to attend, will examine digital asset reuse – the role of taxonomy and metadata. Speakers include: Stephanie Lemieux, Henrik de Gyor and Diane Burley and will …
Continue reading »This tutorial explains how to build a very simple transcoder for a DAM system using FFMPEG and Windows Scripting Host (using JScript as the scripting language). The code provided will convert an input video into FLV (Flash Video) format that can be used for previewing and produce a single thumbnail …
Continue reading »In the first of a series of three media streaming articles, Naresh Sarwan describes how streamed media works and looks at two main methods: progressive download and true streaming. The other two articles in the series are Streaming Video Formats For Digital Asset Management and What Streaming Media Player Should …
Continue reading »Modern DAM systems can provide several search mechanism to enable their users to locate assets. In this article, we describe three main user interface search metaphors used and some of their advantages and disadvantages.
Keyword Search
Provides users with a textfield into which a keywords are entered and a button …
Continue reading »This article from Henrik de Gyor discusses reasons customers do not wish to invest in DAM systems:
…Continue reading »A few months ago, I posted a poll to gauge the main reasons why some organizations have not invested in a DAM yet. Aside from the needed awareness about what is a DAM
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