House & Co Release DigiZuite Media Manager
House & Co (who used to be known as ‘DigiEyeZ’) have announced the release of Media Manager, which is part of their DigiZuite range. The major features are: […]
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Understanding The Value Embedded In Technology Supply Chains
Earlier this week, I saw an article on CMSWire by Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer of CMS vendor, Hippo. In How to Survive in a World Being Eaten By MarTech, he makes the point that marketing technology vendors need to integrate to enable users to aggregate the benefits of individual classes …
Continue reading »The Guardian Release Open Source ‘Grid’ DAM System
UK newspaper, the Guardian recently announced that they had released their new in-house image management system as an open source application. There is an article about this by one of their developers, Sébastien Cevey:
“For about a year, a small dedicated team has been building the Guardian’s new …
Continue reading »The Reel Thing 2015 Technical Symposium, August 20-22 2015, Los Angeles
The Reel Thing technical symposium sponsored by AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) is running from August 20th to 22nd in Los Angeles later this month. The event deals with current thinking and practical examples of developments in the fields of preservation, restoration and media conservation. If moving image archival …
Continue reading »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 in a wider business context. Some are better than others. The first of these: The three steps to becoming a ‘hypergrowth’ company in the …
Continue reading »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 …
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