Digital Assets And The Securitisation Of Human Effort
In the last few weeks, there have been a few different articles and videos which cover Digital Assets in less task-specific terms and discuss the topic […]
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Canto Release Cumulus X
Last week, Canto, released an upgraded ‘X’ edition of their long-standing Cumulus DAM application. There are three major new features:
- “Portals” for sharing Cumulus assets via externally accessible websites
- iOS mobile client
- Updated REST API
As should be clear to those with some experience of the DAM software market, …
Continue reading »Daminion Update To Version 4.0
Last week, Daminion announced an upgrade to version 4.0 of their client/server desktop DAM solution. As seems to be the convention currently, none of the updates are likely to have anyone falling off their chair in shock and amazement, but there are a decent number and some of their peers …
Continue reading »Bynder Announce Updated Features For July 2015
Earlier this week, Bynder, announced some updates to their SaaS DAM platform. As is the case with this kind of vendor news currently, the level of innovation is not exactly sending the graph into a frenzied state, but these features may hold more interest for some people:
- Arabic language
Google’s Visual Case Study Of The Perils And Politics Of Automated Metadata
About six weeks ago on DAM News, we reported some problems that Flickr ran into with their automated tag suggestion feature and noted that there were both perils and politics involved with this type of exercise. Last week, with the revelation that Google had catalogued the images of two people …
Continue reading »Special Libraries Association DAM Section Inaugural Webinar – 12pm ET 15th July 2015
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) are holding an open meeting on 15th July at 12pm ET that will present their newly formed Digital Asset Management section, which is co-chaired by Deb Fanslow and John Horodyski:
“This session will introduce DAM, its concepts and foundational elements. (The recording and …
Continue reading »Understanding The Key Themes of Successful Digital Asset Management Initiatives
This week the DAM EU conference was held in London. As with previous years, I was unable to attend this event due to some client upgrade roll-outs that I get co-opted into troubleshooting around this time, although I was able to get along to the London DAM meetup in the …
Continue reading »Adobe Officially Launches Stock Media Offering – DAM Convergence Trends And The Implications Thereof
Earlier this week, Adobe officially consolidated their stock media ambitions with the launch of Adobe Stock. As reported on The Verge, this is the culmination of several manoeuvres and acquisitions in the last twelve months., in particular, the fact that you do not need to leave Adobe Creative …
Continue reading »The Undervalued Role Of The Corporate Digital Asset Librarian
On CMSWire, yesterday, there was an article by Elizabeth Keathley from Atlanta Metadata Authority: DAM Positions Are Going Unfilled. The item is about the difficulties some firms are finding hiring Digital Asset Managers to take charge of their DAM initiatives. Elizabeth identifies three different causes of this problem:…
Continue reading »Interoperability Standards And The Future Of Digital Asset Management
Andreas Mockenhaupt Director of Professional Services at DAM vendors, Canto has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Why Interoperability Standards Are So Critical To The Future Of Digital Asset Management. The article describes the OASIS-sponsored CMIS4DAM standard which has been in-progress since September 2013:
“The concept behind …
Continue reading »ResourceSpace Upgraded To Version 7.2
The open source DAM application, ResourceSpace (developed and maintained by UK vendor, Montala) has recently been upgraded to version 7.2. The new features can be summarised as follows:
- Custom links (‘dash tiles’) linking to searches, collections, statistics etc – what I would guess are arbitrary URLs. These can be
Extensis Integrate With Workfront
Legacy DAM vendor, Extensis, have announced a recent partnership with workflow vendor, Workfront (who were formerly known as AtTask). Workfront is essentially a project management tool for keeping track of various types of work packages, with a focus on specific business activities, one of which is marketing, which is presumably …
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