Metadata News & Articles

To paraphrase The Police song (which is apparently the NSA's hold and dial-in teleconference music), "Every Key You Press, The Government is Watching You", as leaked documents show the NSA has full access to most social media and search sites. 

Can a strong hierarchy combined with a good search experience help employees access hard to find files?

Digital asset and font management provider Extensis released the latest version of its Portfolio Server DAM software today. Version 11 provides visual search results, customizable metadata fields, and drag and drop capabilities.

Throw all your documents in a SharePoint library and what do you have? A mess. While some like to think of SharePoint as a glorified file share, it doesn’t have to be. 

The DAM week is behind us, and, in recent digital asset management news: tips on asset and metadata management, Celum’s boffo year, a new experience for WebDAM, compare your salary and is your agency worth a DAM?

It’s a DAM New Year. In recent digital asset management news, WoodWing and Simian update, reasons to avoid DAM systems, a metadata briefer, DAM interns and salary ranking.

These are good times for metadata. In fact, these are great times.

Someone recently asked me again about finding some DAM interns. I have received repeated emails asking where organizations can find Digital Asset Management (DAM) interns for a while now, so here is my answer in the form of a blog post openly shared with all.

In 2012, the enterprise content management industry saw tons of growth and movement -- and 2013 promises to shake it up even further.

The only way you can truly manage your content is to understand it. Depending on who you are, that may sound really simple. The reality? It’s something organizations struggle with every day.

Yet another DAM week. And, in digital asset management news, Southpaw offers TACTIC solutions, DAM gets a “content lifecycle,” a rebuttal ices the DAM cake, Daydream has a major upgrade and Daminion unveils a minor one.

Classifying metadata values along a “content lifecycle” timeline is an interesting exercise that can make your DAM easier to use and maintain. Applying the categories Historical, Current and Future, you’ll find that each metadata value describes something related to the content’s origin or history, its current state or its future use.

With the advent of more technology to help add metadata to digital assets, it would good to review a few tagging options available aside from what may already be done within an organization. 

Ever had one of those discussions in which neither you nor the person with whom you were speaking seemed to understand one another? No matter how many different ways you restate your points, it’s clear that meaningful communication is not what’s taking place. What goes on between a DAM and a DAM user often feels much like this.

There are many positive features to using the Term Store taxonomy management feature within SharePoint 2010. Unfortunately, not everything that we need as information managers is one click away.