Digital Asset Management

The logic of document capture | Capture Blogs. Establish a well thought-out taxonomy Taxonomy is defined as classifying organisms into groups based on similarities.  Why is taxonomy relevant for document capture?  For several reasons, including security, quicker access to information and retention policies.  So, if you work backwards in the methodology of how and what, technology [...]

The DAM Show | Making the world safe for your photos Writing the filename into the IPTC title field is a really useful practice. It preserves the name in a place that’s accessible, and likely to survive any kind of renaming I typically use it for one of three reasons. I like to write the [...]

VocabControl.  by Fran Alexander This is the first of a series of summaries of the Henry Stewart DAM London conference on June 30, chaired by David Lipsey. The panels (one of which included me) were a pleasing mix of very practical information and more theoretical discussion. Classic DAM vendor “overstatements” Theresa Regli, who does a great job as [...]

“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.” The title of that track from the 1974 Bachman-Turner Overdrive album Not Fragile aptly describes the state of today’s Digital Universe. Between now and 2020, the amount of digital information created and replicated in the world will grow to an almost inconceivable 35 trillion gigabytes as all major forms of [...]

As a Digital Asset Management professional, one of the many non-tangible things I deal with on a regular basis is metadata. This is a must. Any standards which already exists can help as a starting point. There is no sense recreating the wheel from stone since someone has done that work for you by putting advanced knowledge and further developments behind it. The issue is there are many, many standards for metadata. Here is some help…

Everything is Miscellaneous | Twitter metadata and where standards come from. Matthew Ingram at Gigagom blogs about an upcoming Twitter feature called Twitter Annotations. Well, it’s not actually a feature. It’s the ability to attach metadata to a tweet. This is potentially great news, since it will give us a way to add context to tweets [...]

How to succeed in publishing digital content – media use of metadata and semantics | BetaTale Content needs to be free to succeed! Not as in gratis, but free to travel everywhere the users are. That’s the essence of a very interesting report fromRazorfish. The report offers valuable advice to media companies.  Razorfish just published the [...]

Open Source DAM vs. Commodity Digital Asset Management Pricing. There is always discussion on various chat groups about saving money by using Open Source code for building your own digital asset management (DAM) system. There was a time when IT departments were better staffed and funds for development projects were not limited – during this time, [...]

3 nimble trends changing content and marketing – Chief Marketing Technologist. 2. Structured data and metadata around content are becoming increasingly important. As Facebook’s Open Graph protocol is demonstrating, even just a little bit of semantic markup associated with your content can go a long way in making — your content more friendly to find, share, [...]

SAP Community Network Blogs. As a follow up on my last blog „Digital Asset Management – Enrich Marketing Processes“, which gives information on the business challenges when it comes to Digital Asset Management, I would like to share now more details on our product “SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text“. SAP Digital Asset Management [...]