Digital Asset Management

The Importance of Usability in Digital Asset Management | We Speak Digital Media. Posted by Joshua Duhl
A recent poll on CMS WiRE on digital asset management (DAM) challenges cited “usability” and “taxonomy/metadata development” as the primary challenges followed very closely (statistically essentially as important) “building the business case/ROI” and “user adoption of the system”.  While the poll [...]

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 [...]

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.

5 Tips for Advanced Metadata Management.
Metadata Management is the process of ensuring that all metadata associated with a digital asset is captured, organized, stored and made available for use by and within other applications. Metadata Management begins at the moment the digital asset is created by an application or captured by digital imaging.

meta·da·ta
noun plural but [...]

Effective DAM Process Integration Requires Smart Metadata.

Most of us apply various forms of metadata when we create or manage content. This metadata helps make our brilliant creations findable. But text-based content has life easy — search engines can also accurately index it. So findability is not so big of a challenge for text assets [...]

Digital Asset Management [Insert beaver joke here] | lingamish.

I know how this little guy feels. The more I chewed on the topic of digital asset management, or DARN as we conservative folks call it, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth. And finally the topic tipped over and crushed me. Nice [...]

via Macworld 2010: Sessions.
Users Conference
US912: Demystifying Digital Asset Management
Feb. 11, 2010    1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Shellie Hall, Consultant, Ducktype Digital
Digital Asset Management is a great way to get digital documents organized so that you can find exactly what you are looking for when you need it. That sounds easy enough, but where do you begin? [...]

Marketing in 2010: It’s All About the Data.

That’s So Meta

Finally, looking beyond data to metadata – that’s where the biggest opportunity lies in the long-run for marketers. Metadata is already here in the form of microformats and the Semantic Web, but it’s still in many ways a frontier.
What is metadata? It’s data that describes data – [...]

2010 A Metadata Odyssey « From Gunar.
2010 will be the year of metadata.  We are already experiencing this with the rise of Twitter, Bit.ly and other ‘micro’ data services.
Ironic that the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey,  2010:The Year We Make Contact was made in 1984 – as in Orwell 1984 (and the Apple’s famous Mac Ad) – both [...]