Metadata Operations Management Strategies Part 6 – Crowdsourcing
This is the next in our series of articles on managing metadata cataloguing operations. In part five, the subject was using outsourcing to assist with […]
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Metadata Is The New Gold Webinar Review
Twitter followers of Ian Matzen will have seen a link to the recording of this webinar: Metadata Is The New Gold which was hosted by film industry technology trade association, The Hollywood IT Society on Wednesday (30th July). The event has speakers from NoSQL database vendors, MarkLogic (Matt Turner), Avalon …
Continue reading »London DAM Meetup, Wednesday 20th August, 7pm
The next London DAM meetup, which is organised by Michelle Jouan and Ian Matzen is being held on August 20th at 7pm. The venue is to be decided (but is likely to be somewhere in Central London). More details are here: http://www.meetup.com/LondonDAM/events/198361392/
The last one in late June was definitely …
Continue reading »DAM And Digital Preservation Webinar – September 9th 2014, 10am PT
DAM Guru are hosting a webinar DAM and Digital Preservation, with Emily Kolvitz as the speaker (who appears in our list of featured resources) on September 9th 2014 at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern Time, 6pm UK & Ireland, 7pm Continental Europe). The webinar will cover a variety …
Continue reading »Time For A Statement Of DAM Core Values?
Ian Matzen wrote an article with the title: Statement of Core Values on his Tame Your Assets blog about a month ago, but I have only just got the opportunity to read it properly and write a response. The post is timely because there are a number of DAM standards …
Continue reading »Transforming DAM From A Product To Service-Oriented Delivery Model
David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and marketing director of Picturepark, has contributed an article for CMSWire: Reinventing Digital Asset Management. He covers a number of the themes which we have discussed on DAM News for the past few years (and David is gracious enough to …
Continue reading »Adobe Launches Stock Design Marketplace – Further Integration Across The Digital Asset Supply Chain
On Wednesday, Adobe launched the Creative Cloud Market. In brief, this is a stock media library that allows Creative Cloud users to access pre-built design elements like graphics etc. The source assets are provided by selected designers from Behance, a stock design market platform Adobe bought up in …
Continue reading »Daminion Upgrade To Version 3.3
One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion have upgraded their desktop app-based workgroup DAM solution of the same name. Here are some of the key new features:
- Duplicate assets checking (and search for dupes)
- Enhancements to the built-in taxonomy
- Synonyms and tag groups
- Faster rendering (display) of large images
Essential DAM Planning For Museums Webinar, 16th July 2014, 10am PT
DAM Guru are hosting a webinar: Essential DAM Planning for Museums on 16th July 2014 at 10am Pacific Time (6pm UK, 7pm mainland Europe). The session is lead by Susan Barrett, Instructional Designer with Arizona State University:
“Join Susan Barrett as she offers attendees a better understanding of …
Continue reading »Metadata Operations Management Strategies Part 5 – Outsourcing
This article is fifth of a series about establishing efficient metadata cataloguing operations.
In part four, the subject was batch cataloguing and using asset supply chain partners to assist with cataloguing. In this item, I will consider outsourcing and then a follow-up article will discuss crowdsourcing.
Introduction
Using supply …
Improving Your Search Engine
Jeff Lawrence writing on the Celerity blog, has an article: How to Improve Your Search Engine: Unlocking Basic Features. Jeff discusses three basic routes:
- Review the server and search logs
- Review your search interface
- Review the features and functionality offered by your existing search tool and check if
Widen Update Media Collective To 7.2
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen have updated their principal DAM solution, Media Collective to version 7.2. The major alterations in relation to integration with Silicon Publishing, AtTask and ProofHQ we have already covered in previous articles. Most of the other new stuff looks fairly maintenance oriented …
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