{"id":1816,"date":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2015\/11\/25\/1576-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:00:00","slug":"1576-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2015\/11\/25\/1576-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DAM and the Semantic Web \u2013 our webinar on Dec 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 9th, 2015, Margaret Warren<\/a>, Demian Hess<\/a> and I will be doing a webinar hosted by the DAM Guru Program: How the Semantic Web Will Affect Digital Asset Management<\/a>. You\u2019re welcome to join us, or watch the recording<\/a> later if you cannot attend live.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re already using Linked Data in a DAM context, I\u2019d love to hear from you soon. Maybe I can work some of your examples into the webinar!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not an expert, but I\u2019ve been thinking about this (and doing some experiments) for years. If you want to do some reading on the topic, here\u2019s a timeline of articles about the intersection of DAM and Semantic Web \/ Linked Data:<\/p>\n

Mike Linksvayer (2007) \u2013 Digital Asset Management and the Semantic Web<\/a>: \u201cMicrosoft has apparently gone the next several steps by basing Microsoft Media Manager on RDF and OWL. [\u2026] IMM RDF model overcomes traditional barriers to metadata sharing between external systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naresh Sarwan (2012) \u2013 Semantic Web: The Key To More Meaningful Large Scale Digital Asset Management?<\/a>: \u201cSemantic techniques are likely to become more important as the volume of media stored in DAM systems increases exponentially.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigel Cliffe (2012) \u2013 Your Guide to the DAM Road Map Part 4<\/a>: \u201cSemantic web technologies will find their way into the DAM experience. The development of data about data as well as documents on the web that machines can process, transform and assemble, will enable new value to be gained from that data in really useful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margaret Warren (2013) \u2013 A new system which can help with protecting images from becoming orphans<\/a>: \u201c[ImageSnippets] approaches metadata authoring and editing from an entirely new point of view using linked data techniques. Not only does the linked data tagging offer improved querying (which can be experimented with in the application) but the techniques used also enable innovative methods for the storage and transport of an image and it’s metadata.\u201d<\/p>\n

**Semantic web technologies** will find their way into the DAM experience. The development
\nof data about data as well as documents on the web that machines can process, transform and assemble, will enable new value to be gained from that data in really useful ways. – See more at: http:\/\/www.provideocoalition.com\/your-guide-to-the-dam-road-map-part-4#sthash.57T6UsFv.dpuf<\/div>\n
**Semantic web technologies** will find their way into the DAM experience. The development
\nof data about data as well as documents on the web that machines can process, transform and assemble, will enable new value to be gained from that data in really useful ways. – See more at: http:\/\/www.provideocoalition.com\/your-guide-to-the-dam-road-map-part-4#sthash.57T6UsFv.dpuf<\/div>\n
**Semantic web technologies** will find their way into the DAM experience. The development
\nof data about data as well as documents on the web that machines can process, transform and assemble, will enable new value to be gained from that data in really useful ways. – See more at: http:\/\/www.provideocoalition.com\/your-guide-to-the-dam-road-map-part-4#sthash.57T6UsFv.dpuf<\/div>\n

Me (2013) \u2013 [Linked Data for better image search on the Web](\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/05\/26\/1608): \u201cMake sure there\u2019s a simple HTML page on the Web for each of your images. With essential metadata (license or offer, description, your contact information) embedded in the HTML source code as semantic RDFa markup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ralph Windsor (2013) \u2013 Applying Linked Data Concepts To Derive A Global Image Search Protocol<\/a> (in response to my post): \u201cI suspect that both commercial interests and the complexity of getting everyone in the world to both agree and implement something like this might mean it is some time before it becomes a reality, but the benefits to image suppliers and users alike are clear and that may generate the required momentum to see some gradual progress towards it over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ralph Windsor (2013) \u2013 The Building Blocks Of Digital Asset Management Interoperability<\/a>: \u201cNone of the methods I have described are complex to implement into DAM products as vendors either use them already or (in the case of the Linked Data techniques) they are fairly simple modifications to existing outputs used to populate existing APIs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me (2014) \u2013 Web of information vs DAM, DM, CM, KM silos<\/a>: \u201cWe could find a clever, generic way to link information from various systems together so that we can \u201csurf\u201d it in any direction. Linked data in the form of HTML+RDFa is a great way to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Rourke (2014) \u2013 DAM Report: Henry Stewart London Conference<\/a>: \u201cMark [Davey] spoke on the subject of where DAM is going, postulating that DAM will morph into a knowledge based platform, with assets and content being delivered in new ways. [\u2026] It was suggested that schema.org should become an industry standard, so that we are all speaking the same language.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demian Hess (2014) \u2013 DAM and Flexible Metadata Using Semantics<\/a>: \u201cDigital asset metadata is a challenge because of its variety. [\u2026] Several new types of databases have emerged that provide the flexible solutions that businesses require. While document-oriented databases have commanded the most attention, semantic \u201ctriple stores\u201d have been gaining adherents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Davey (2015) \u2013 What has DAM got to do with Web 3.0?<\/a>: \u201cI will be discussing the future of DAM as it relates to Web 3.0 and the social-network-infused web of data. Exploring DAM’s place in the new machine-readable, knowledge-based economy.\u201d (See also his funny video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Kim Davis (2015) \u2013 The state of DAM: digital asset management in 2015<\/a>: \u201cDAM, for [Mark] Davey, is „the beating heart of the semantic web.“ A „highly controlled vocabulary“ should power search, and without the expertise of a librarian to implement that, your DAM will fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me (2015) \u2013 RDF and schema.org for DAM interoperability<\/a>: \u201cI suggest that we encourage the DAM community to move towards the schema.org vocabulary in an RDF syntax.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you want to dig deeper, the DAM Foundation lists several posts tagged with Linked Data<\/a> or Semantic Web<\/a>, and DAM News has a Semantic Web category<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> Ralph Windsor \u2013 Webinar: How the Semantic Web Will Affect DAM, 9th December 2015, 10am PT<\/a>: \u201cThe Semantic Web remains the richest source (and currently largely unexplored) opportunity for metadata innovation in Digital Asset Management.\u201d<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> Mark Davey (2016) \u2013 Where DAM has been and where it’s going<\/a>: \u201cI believe that DAM will become the beating heart of the Semantic Web.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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