DAM Lowdown: DAM Conferences, Video/Audio Search, New iPad Solution, Cloud Sharing

By Rikki Endsley (@rikkiends) Nov 21, 2011

This week, the DAM Lowdown rounds up takeaways from the Digital Asset Management Conference Europe, a new solution for video and audio searches, Forrester's list of best practices, Razuna 1.4.7, Nuxeo World videos, choosing a DAM solution and a podcast interview with a DAM expert.

Ten Takeaways

The Digital Asset Management Conference Europe was held November 8-9, 2011 at World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands. Kashyap Kompella offers a list of Top 10 takeaways.

Kompella's takeaways include:

CIOs and CMOs are paying more attention to DAM projects.
When large enterprise CMS vendors ingest specialist DAM vendors, the projects tend to languish.
Cloud adoption for DAM solutions will be slower than other segments of the technology industry.
Mobile vendors will add solutions based on consumer demand.
We still have a long way to go on "socializing" DAM products.
Users want more collaboration, which must coexist with workflow.
Preserving assets for the future is still a challenge.
"Content may be king but Context will be emperor."
Search is still the most-demanded feature
Are next-generation search features, such as search by color, really useful?

Video/Audio Search

In an article on the MerlinOne site, David Tenenbaum asks, "How do you make a video/audio file searchable without paying someone to sit down and type out a transcript?" He says the Merlin solution is a process that extracts audio tracks from video files and puts them through a speech-to-text engine. The text output is then indexed by their search engine against timecode. The solution still isn't perfect. For example, background noise can interfere with the speech-to-text process. A video demo is available on the MerlineOne website.

DAM Best Practices List

Forrester released a list of DAM best practices based on interviews with vendors, customers and industry professionals. Forrester's broad recommendations are to develop a taste for the different flavors of DAM, apply rich media-specific governance and make rich media metadata management a priority.

Enterprise DAM iPad Solution

North Plains, LLC, announced the iPad interface for its enterprise digital asset management solution TeleScope. The company says, "North Plains runs a very engaged user group and customer technical advisory panel, and they clearly indicated that the iPad and mobile digital assessment are becoming essential to their 2012 content creation and delivery processes." The iPad interface should be available by the end of 2011.

Cloud Sharing With OpenText Tempo

OpenText released OpenText Tempo, a document-sharing solution that allows users to gain access to and synchronize content across computers and mobile devices. "OpenText has filed a patent related to OpenText Tempo's hybrid-cloud capabilities, which allow the enterprise to keep data safe in existing systems, while providing the cloud-based app experience that users demand," the announcement says. The new product will be available in January 2012.