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 […]
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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 …
Continue reading »The Perils And Politics Of Automated Metadata Generation
An article which has been bought to my attention by a few different people recently is Image Content Recognition: A Stillbirth? by Paul Melcher, writing on kaptur.co. The item discusses some controversy surrounding Flickr’s recent introduction of their auto-tagging feature (which they rolled out without asking permission and then …
Continue reading »IntelligenceBank Announce SiteCore Connector
Australian DAM Vendor, IntelligenceBank have announced the availability of a connector for their DAM to the SiteCore CMS:
“We are pleased to announce the launch of a connector for Sitecore – a leading CMS and CX software provider.With this new connector, web content managers can seamlessly browse and search …
Continue reading »Understanding And Implementing Metadata Standards In Digital Asset Management Initiatives
Over on DAM Guru, they are running a series on DAM for librarians: Librarian Tips for DAM Managers with some contributions from various of their members who have a Library or Information Science background. The first two are Why Librarians Understand DAM by Linda Rouse and Standards and Metadata…
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