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One of the biggest hurdles in implementing an effective Content Management application is to establish a usable Metadata Model. Having a repository of data that users cannot search and access information from is no better than storing data on a simple file system. Let's look at some common models, in particular Dublin Core.

Welcome to 2011, everyone. During the holiday break, we CMSWire kids pushed some nifty year-in-review pieces on everything from content management to Google. Here's a roll-up of those highlights, just in case you were too busy drinking eggnog, pouring tambiko or spinning the dreidel. 

Digital Asset Management (DAM) has seen a surge of elevated attention in 2010. But this is not the only year-in-review highlight we point out as we close the DAM books this year.

The Asia Pacific region is seen as a growth market for cloud computing services, particularly starting in 2011. With business booming and competition becoming more intense, organizations will look for ways to cut costs and improve efficiency. Given the market potentials, Oracle (news, site) is launching its cloud solutions center in Beijing, meant as a development platform for its regional partners.

When people think about creating new digital assets, products like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Avid Media Composer or Sound Forge Pro are the professional’s first choice -- depending on the task at hand. Many of these products include a workflow management application which allows users to create projects, share files and apply some level of versioning to the files. Unfortunately however, not all products work together during the creation process.  

Continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific region, Brightcove (news, site) has recently announced the launch of its Australia headquarters in Sydney, citing a fast-growing market for on-demand video in the country. Brightcove also announced partnerships with clients in various industries, such as real estate, media and fashion.

Video hosting platform Vzaar gets itself some high-profile investment in the form of Oliver Stone. So what does the great director see in this company's future and its new video platform?

The explosion of digital assets on the Internet (and intranets) has filled the sails of the Digital Asset Management (DAM) market. The obvious solution to the asset madness is to implement a DAM system, but people like yourself have many tool options and even more possible approaches to take.

This brings us to our latest poll:

The poll will run until November 30th, but don't wait until you are stuffed with Thanksgiving turkey (if you live in the US of A that is) to vote.

Enterprises in the Asia Pacific region are eager to adopt cloud-based services, according to recent studies. With this in mind, service providers are gaining ground in the region by signing up new clients through collaboration and networking with local organizations. Document collaboration service provider Workshare (news, site) is one such SaaS provider that has recently announced expanding into the Asia-Pacific region starting with China.

Thanks to the iPad and other tablet devices, the publishing industry has been able to survive, even thrive. Of course in doing so, they’ve had to transform themselves away from print and toward electronic models. A recent study from Outsell’s Gilbane Group examined the ways in which the book publishing industry has evolved technologically over the past few years.

Brightcove (news, site) has recently announced the launch of its country office in Seoul, South Korea, capitalizing on the existing infrastructure and the potential market for video-on-demand services. The company has also announced the addition of several key clients from different industries that include online advertising, design and pharmaceuticals.

Digital Asset Management, or DAM, has been a buzz word for over a decade. Unfortunately, when I speak to clients about what it means for them, I get a wide variety of largely disappointing responses. Here's a look at what Digital Asset Management has become in 2010.

Yes, what you see in front of you is a DAM new column. I’ll try to bring you some of the latest news in Digital Asset Management, as well as thoughts around the DAM industry. Off we go…

The Web is awash with digital assets and the trend is not slowing down. In the world of education content management, OmniUpdate's (news, site) Campus CMS gets a mid-term boost with flashy digital asset management features.

With almost one-third of enterprise content consisting of multimedia digital assets, the need to cost effectively and reliably manage this information is becoming more urgent. Belgium based, ADAM (news,site) software, is positioning itself to meet this need. Earlier this month, ADAM announced the opening of its first US-based office located in New York, led by Dagbert Sansen, newly appointed US Sales Manager.