{"id":1871,"date":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2017\/11\/30\/1630-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"1630-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2017\/11\/30\/1630-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Asset Management Reading List Nov. 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the last month\u2019s Digital Asset Management articles which had a lasting impression on me \u2013 picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM<\/a>. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links<\/a> and Tracy Wolfe\u2019s 10 things on the 10th<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I currently don\u2019t have much time to read about DAM. If you do, here\u2019s lots of links from October:<\/p>\n

Industry and product news:<\/strong> Ralph Windsor reviews the Elvis-based Swivle \u201cDAM Lite\u201d system<\/a>. Acquia creates its own DAM system for Drupal<\/a>. Northplains licenses CHALEX SmartFlo<\/a>. Razuna 2.0 is delayed<\/a>. Extensis Portfolio is named \u201cLeader\u201d and \u201cTrend Setter\u201d by G2 Crowd and KMWorld<\/a>. Bynder is working on GDPR compliance<\/a>. Webdam has a new Salesforce connector<\/a>. Active Logistics partners with Picturepark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The IPTC updates the RightsML standard<\/a> and searches for a new managing director<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On DAM News, Ralph Windsor requests article submissions for a \u201cDigital Asset Supply Chain And Creative Operations Management\u201d series<\/a>. The DAM Vendors Directory Premium Accounts are now free of charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conference reporting:<\/strong> From recent conferences, watch the recorded presentations of Theresa Regli, Engines of Empathy<\/a>, and Jason Gould, Developing a Technical Roadmap for Creative Operations<\/a>. Elise Hollinger can\u2019t wait to be back at Henry Stewart DAM Chicago<\/a>. Vendors reflect on their customer events, namely censhare ecosphere days<\/a>, Canto DAM Summit Europe<\/a> (plus a German summary<\/a>), and the Widen Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Metadata:<\/strong> Kristin Twiford explains the basics in How to make your media library searchable with metadata<\/a>, while Melody K. Smith\u2019s Meta What?<\/a> starts with HTML \u201cmeta tags\u201d. David Diamond warns about slippery synonyms<\/a>. Dan Hudson recommends using XMP to bring metadata, data and Big Data together<\/a>. Carey MacDonald has tips on how to encode metadata using file-naming conventions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taxonomies seem to be a hot topic \u2013 Melody K. Smith explains what taxonomies are good for<\/a>, Carey MacDonald has the librarian\u2019s guide to building a taxonomy<\/a>, and Heather Hedden writes about taxonomies for specific business needs<\/a>. If you have an hour to spare, you might want to watch Andreas Blumauer\u2019s webinar recording Taxonomies as the Corner Stone for Semantic Information Management<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

AI:<\/strong> Even if \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d is not your pet topic, I recommend reading Ralph Windsor\u2019s in-depth article Combining AI With Digital Asset Supply Chain Management Techniques<\/a>. Jake Athey thinks AI is the Fourth Era of DAM<\/a>, and presents survey results on whether DAM professionals think image recognition is finally ready<\/a>, while Peter Krogh suggests using the term Computational tagging<\/a>. In product news, Aprimo (formerly ADAM) adds automated tagging<\/a>, and Box introduces the \u201cBox Skills\u201d framework for \u201csmarter content\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other:<\/strong> Jarrod Gingras publishes a recording of his webinar The Right Way to Select DAM Technology<\/a>. Uri Kogan also does a webinar on Challenging the Rules of DAM: 7 Game Changers for 2018<\/a>, and kicks off a related series of blog posts called 7 Common Beliefs in the DAM Market\u2026 That Just Ain\u2019t So: Predictions for 2018<\/a> (part 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Emily Kolvitz tells us how to use a DAM to optimize digital files for SEO<\/a>, and Radmila Milenkovich says that your AdWords are your DAM problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carl Petruson shares his thoughts on blockchain in the DAM community<\/a>. Erika Morphy is sure that blockchain slowly moves into the marketing industry<\/a>. Once more, the \u201cdeep dive\u201d comes from Ralph Windsor: Linked Blockchain Data: Semantic Web Powered Digital Asset Supply Chains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nate Holmes knows where to start with DAM integrations to connect teams<\/a>. Courtney Roe has four stops you need to make when plotting your DAM site audit roadmap<\/a>, Beth Straeten four steps for easy implementation of a DAM system<\/a>. Taylor Fleischner applies archival wisdom to DAM, explaining asset lifecycle<\/a> and asset preservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deanna Ballew shows how DAM systems are built in How we make software at Widen<\/a>. On the Adobe blog, there\u2019s a post about healthcare and DAM<\/a>. Miles Kehoe asks whether your business needs a Search Center of Excellence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DAM experts:<\/strong> There\u2019s a lot of interviews with DAM \u201cgurus\u201d or \u201cchamps\u201d this month \u2013 check out Mark Davey (consultant)<\/a>, Kevin Gepford (AT&T)<\/a>, Steve Bevilacqua (consultant)<\/a>, Uri Kogan (Nuxeo)<\/a>, Ben Baker (Vice Media)<\/a>, Jan Sykes (consultant)<\/a>, Gabe Ables (consultant)<\/a>, Mark Leslie (adidas)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Screencasts and screenshots:<\/strong> Daminion 5.5<\/a>, Nextware Active Directory user management for Canto Cumulus<\/a>, and Brand Management with Canto Flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Case studies:<\/strong> Niagara Falls USA<\/a>, University of San Francisco<\/a>, Argos<\/a>, plus several ones from Brandworkz<\/a> and Widen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See you next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the last month\u2019s Digital Asset Management articles which had a lasting impression on me \u2013 picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links and Tracy Wolfe\u2019s 10 things on the 10th. Sadly, I currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}