Digital Asset Management

Dropping costs allowed for massive growth in Ethernet networks and use of centralized servers – single hard drives or RAID arrays – DAM technology had already experienced significant progress. However, because different solutions were adopted in different types of industries, DAM vendors matured in specialized areas, even as the early 1990s brought the Internet into [...]

Taxonomy vs. Metadata | DPCI.
An important step in defining a Digital Asset Management system or a Web Content Management System strategy is to define the metadata and taxonomy needs that will support an organization’s goals for categorizing and relating both assets and content.
Having worked with numerous clients and partners on defining such a strategy I’ve [...]

3D 21st Century Taxonomies « Making Knowledge Work.

Fran Alexander has an enviable talent for taking the terror out of taxonomy.  Her pre-dinner talk made LIKE 11 (our first anniversary meeting) a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening event.
She began by explaining that people have been organising ideas and making lists for thousands of years. By the time of [...]

Indexing Craziness : Beyond Search.

I read “Folksonomy and Taxonomy – do you have to choose?,” which takes the position that a SharePoint administrator can use a formal controlled term list or just let the users slap their own terms into an index field. The buzzword for allowing users to index documents is part of [...]

6 Thoughts About Location Madness.

Location based social networks – are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW.
We’re excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter’s Geolocation API Makes Possible and The Era of Location as Platform Has Arrived. But it’s [...]

web-ifying
In collaboration with the the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York and the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), METRO is pleased to present “Semantic Web for Librarians & Special Collections” with Corey Harper, Metadata Services Librarian from New York University.

Discovery systems and library web interfaces increasingly need to make [...]

Metadata – The Heart and Soul of ECM – Peter Near.

I thought I’d start the ball rolling with a discussion about metadata and the important role that it plays in big “E” enterprise content management.  I’ve had the pleasure of helping several organizations implement content management solutions of various stripes, and I’ve been right there [...]

DAM Talk  George Knox CEO @ Vamosa Enterprise Content Governance, talks to Paul Quigley.
George seeks to deliver customers with control and structure to all enterprise content in a fully automated way with the broadest and most technologically advanced range of products and professional services. His vision for the customer has helped to define a software [...]

Good article on collaboration, throw in an ARG (Artificial Reality Game) on a concept such as this and you have a powerful force for knowledge exchange and for doing good.
Is collaboration enough to connect-the-dots? « Product Four.

Connecting the dots is what we call the problem of finding various bits of the answer from various people [...]

Your DAM is only as good as its metadata…and the DAM’s usability.

If you have a Digital Asset Management solution in your organization, how many metadata fields do you have within the DAM? Take this quick, anonymous poll.