Making The Case For Dedicated DAM Solutions And Strategies
Romney Whitehead, writing on her own Borrowed Insight blog, makes the case that organisations should have a dedicated DAM solution rather than seeking to incorporate […]
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Feature Article: Understanding The Meaning And Scope Of Digital Assets
I have written a two-part feature article for DAM News entitled Re-Defining The Meaning And Scope Of Digital Assets. This continues my examination of the themes in the item from last month, Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets but I have gone into far more detail about distinctions between …
Continue reading »London DAM Meetup – 10th March 2016, 6.30pm, The Dover Castle W1
Next month on March 10th, there is a London DAM Meetup Group social which will be held at 6.30pm in The Dover Castle, 43 Weymouth Mews in W1:
“Join us for our first MeetUp of 2016 to discuss the nuances of Digital Asset Management, compare business war stories and …
Continue reading »Trust In Short Supply On Digital Asset Management Software Review Sites
A couple of weeks ago, a representative from a DAM vendor contacted me about a DAM software review site that had requested a trial edition of their solution. They were somewhat suspicious about the motives of the operators and shared their concerns with me. The site appears to be French …
Continue reading »DAM Vendors Pricing Survey – Last Call For Participation
DAM News is in the process of setting up a vendor pricing survey to get a better idea of the range of fees being applied for DAM software (and associated services). We have already contacted those firms who are registered on damvendors.com and currently around 30 have expressed an interest.…
Continue reading »Enterprise Digital Asset Management In 2016
Hassan Kotob, CEO of North Plains, has contributed a feature article for DAM News, What Does 2016 Hold For DAM? The item is relatively short (compared to some of our feature pieces) but contains a number of well-argued points, for example:
“Successful adoption of DAM requires consultancy and …
Continue reading »Social Media Sites Still Stripping Embedded Metadata
As reported on David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group (and elsewhere) the IPTC’s Embedded Metadata Manifesto Initiative has repeated a test it carried out of popular social media sites three years ago and found that many are still stripping embedded metadata from images uploaded to them. The Social Media Sites Photo …
Continue reading »Digital Provenance Protocols And Other Emerging Blockchain Trends
As described in my Appreciating The Value Of Your Digital Assets post earlier this week, this year we’re going to be investigating far more of the metadata and infrastructure side of digital assets, because that is where I believe the more important (and therefore, interesting) activity is taking place.…
Continue reading »ADAM Update To Version 5.5
DAM vendor, ADAM Software, have released version 5.5 of their flagship DAM solution. Here is the obligatory press quote from their boss, Pieter Casneuf:
“ADAM 5.5 is our most significant, far-reaching and game-changing software release to date. It combines product information and rich media management to help …
Continue reading »Feature Article: Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets
To get proceedings started off for 2016 on DAM News in terms of comment and analysis, I have written an article for our features section: Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets: Understanding The Potential Of DAM In 2016. The item describes the current state of the DAM market (which …
Continue reading »Updated Edition Of “Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order Out of Media Chaos”
Elizabeth Keathley from Atlanta Metadata Authority has published a new edition of her textbook: Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order Out of Media Chaos. In addition to over 30% of the material being re-written by Elizabeth, the update includes a preface by Henrik De Gyor …
Continue reading »Balancing The Pros and Cons Of Cloud-Based DAM
Jon Hornstein, from DAM reseller, Modula4 has recently posted an article: Should Your DAM be in the Cloud? 3 Reasons Why It Should, 3 Reasons Why It Shouldn’t. In the piece, Jon gives a balanced view of the pros and cons:
“Everyone’s looking to the cloud these …
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