Whether it’s digital asset management or media asset management, David reminds us it’s always about metadata schemas.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
I have been very fortunate to be able to work on DAM at organizations both large …
Continue reading »This article was originally published on the DAM Coalition website, a property of Pro Video Coalition. As DAM Coalition was decommissioned in early 2015, this content was moved with permission.
I was talking with a client recently about some of the challenges they were experiencing with …
Continue reading »As reported on CMSWire earlier this week, stock media library, PhotoShelter have recently launched Libris, a SaaS DAM solution. This follows similar moves from other larger stock media libraries such as Shutterstock and then Adobe moving into stock media (going in the other direction). PhotoShelter appear to have …
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The topic of consolidating DAM solutions seems to come up a lot in Digital Asset Management implementations currently, usually when end users become aware that their use of DAM (both prospective and current) is wider than they initially thought. …
Continue reading »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 metadata cataloguing projects. In the final item in relation to human-based methods for efficiently organising metadata operations, I will consider outsourcing. This has …
Continue reading »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 …
In the first part of this article series, I looked at why efficient metadata operations management processes are essential. In the second I outlined some broad methods to segment asset catalogues to make it easier to adapt the cataloguing strategy in a way that is more streamlined and commensurate …
Continue reading »Adobe announced the new release of their Experience Manager suite today. There are updates across Sites, Assets, Apps, Communities and Forms elements. For assets, they offer the following in their press release:
“Dynamic, interactive media experiences, including video, can now be authored and delivered across devices. Advanced video …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, stock media leviathan, Getty Images announced that is was going to allow some limited cost-free non-commercial usage of its library of 35m images. They have to be housed within their own embed player which is similar to the method employed by YouTube where the media resides on …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
Continue reading »Writing on his own AssertTrue blog, Kas Thomas (who I believe was once employed by ECM analysts, Real Story Group) has a critique of the monopolistic tendencies of Amazon in his article: Amazon: The Everything Company. The summary of the article is that Amazon give the impression of being …
Continue reading »Desirae Odjick writing on the ConceptShare blog has made a comparison of Best of Breed and what she terms ‘All In One’ software. The former is an implementation strategy where multiple applications developed by different vendors are combined. The latter is an aggregated package, usually delivered through interdependent components and …
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