DAM Lowdown: DAM Conference in New York, Tape Stock Shortage Survey Results, Quick Hits

By Jason Campbell (@jemorycampbell) May 25, 2011

After celebrating Memorial Day a little too early and too often, the DAM Lowdown arrives with: an Agenda for Henry Stewart's DAM NY, Consolidated Graphics' Debut of WorkSmart Suite, a Handbook for Image Metadata, Some Alarming Results from a Survey on Tape Stock Availability and Quick Hits.

Agenda Available for DAM New York

Now a regular in the DAM Lowdown, the Henry Stewart Group has released the agenda for the upcoming event in New York on June 8 and 9. The event will be chaired by David H. Lipsey and will include presentations from:

Richard Buchanan, Vice President & General Manager, Content Services, Comcast Media Center (CMC)
Theresa Regli, Principal, The Real Story Group
Pieter Casneuf, CEO, ADAM Software
Matt Turner, Principal Media Technologist, MarkLogic Corporation
Jason Bright, Founder, MediaBeacon, Inc.

Along with individual presentations, the conference will also offer the following panels:

DAM and Its Future for Broadcast, Media and Entertainment: An “Eye to the Enterprise” Executive Roundtable
Protecting the Brand with DAM — Experiences from the Front Line
Distribution, Protection and Monetization of Digital Content: The Ecosystem Around Securing and Enabling the Supply Chain.
How the iPad /Tablet has Changed Our DAM consumption
How to Overcome Change Management Challenges and Successfully Integrate DAM into Your Organization

If you are going to be in the city on June 8-9, it's worth your time (and your company's money) to join the DAM fun.

Consolidated Graphics Unveils WorkSmart Suite

Consolidated Graphics is most well known as a print production powerhouse. And yet, before assets can be printed, they have to be created and managed in a digital format.

Targeted specifically at marketers and marketing departments, WorkSmart Suite is a technology platform for creating, managing and distributing marketing campaigns.

WorkSmart Suite is made up of three integrated yet separate applications:

Streamline, formerly known as StoreFront: A web-based solution that combines a variable-data printing engine with an e-commerce component to provide screen proofing, mail list procurement, and HTML products
Connect, formerly known as CrossMedia: A direct marketing tool that provides the personalization of direct mail, websites, webmail, text messages, and QR codes
Organize, formerly known as Digital Asset Management: A digital library for marketers accommodating all forms of digital media

More information can be found at www.cgx.com.

Finally, a Handbook for Image Metadata

Commissioned by CEPIC — a European photography agency — and created by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook is available for free download from the IPTC website.

The handbook is a PDF package including:

Image Metadata Planning Guide
Information on the Legal Framework for Metadata Use
Quick Reference Charts for IPTC Core and Extension Fields
Interactive Metadata Workflow Planning Tool

If you are looking for a starting point to wrap your head around managing image metadata, here it is.

Survey Says: Tape Stock Shortage is a Crisis

JCA, a digital production house and media asset management platform provider, has released the results of a survey of the UK production industry about the tape shortage resulting from the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan.