Thursday, July 7th, 2011
In digital asset management, the search function allows you to find what you’re looking for quickly and easily. This time saving feature can be fully utilized by making sure your DAM is organized. By taking a good look at some of the basic DAM fundamentals, DAM greatness can be achieved. Just a few changes can optimize your assets for search! After all, one of the key benefits of having a DAM is to make workflows quicker and easier. With all your assets at your immediate fingertips, you’ll be unstoppable!
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Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata, Retrieval
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
You’ve been requesting some DAM webinars and now your wishes are coming true- in a whole series! To continue our commitment to customer success at WebDAM, we’re excited to announce our summer webinar series on digital asset management. We’ll be covering all of our customers most requested topics from metadata strategies to user adoption. These webinars will be hosted by our very own customer success manager, Leigh Ann Ledford! Visit our previous post, Do You Have a Customer Success Manager??? and get reacquainted with Leigh Ann and her important role here at WebDAM.
Leigh Ann will start off the series with “Metadata 101: Building a Solid Foundation” on Thursday, July 14 at 10am PT featuring our very own industry expert, Jody Vandergriff. All the webinars in this series are perfect for users across all levels of experience. To reserve your spot today, or to get a closer look at this webinar, register for free here.
To check out the whole series and uncover the topics that will be presented in the upcoming webinars, visit the Summer Webinar Series Schedule. Space is limited so save the dates and make sure to reserve your seat as soon as the registration pages become available.
Fresh off the press, read this press release that reveals more information about the series at: http://webdamsolutions.com/press_summer_webinar_series.php
Join us in our Summer Webinar Series and have fun learning about Digital Asset Management!
Tags: Digital Asset Management, events, metadata, WebDAM, Webinars
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Our development team have been busy little beavers (get it, DAM, beavers?) working on powerful enhancements to the search and metadata capabilities of WebDAM – two of our most popular and useful features. We love the updates and we know you will too.
Stop the Metadata Madness!
Tired of entering metadata manually every time you upload a new batch of assets? With the new custom dropdown menu feature, the need for manual metadata entry every time has been eliminated! Plus, say bye bye to inconsistency!
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Tags: Digital Asset Management, distribution, metadata, WebDAM, What's New, workflow
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Picture this: your firm’s marketing department sends over a request for some stock images for use in an online campaign. With multiple demands coming your way, you quickly dig around in your digital archives, looking for the right image but failing to check the fine print — in this case, the copyright and license metadata for each image. Finally, the perfect image comes across your screen, and you fire it off to the marketing department, confident that it’ll make a sparkling new web advertisement.
Some months later, you get a notice saying that the image in use has violated the terms of the license. Now, the legal department has to get involved.
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Tags: copyrights, costs, Digital Asset Management, marketing, metadata
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
We are pretty excited about the latest updates to WebDAM. It is jam-packed with usability enhancements making digital asset management easier than ever! As always, all features are readily available for our users. Nothing to upgrade, license or install! Simply login to see the updates!
The new Asset Preview Page: An even easier-to-use WebDAM!
Thanks to your feedback, the new Asset Preview Page is here! Our user interface engineers have spent countless hours redesigning the WebDAM asset preview to ensure flawless usability. The new layout features a nifty options box with easy-to-recognize icons for faster access to your favorite WebDAM features such as: Slideshow, Lightbox, Email Sharing and more. The Download option is now prominently placed with a large button, making it a cinch to find for even the novice WebDAM user. Tour the new Asset Preview Page by clicking the image below:
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Tags: Digital Asset Management, distribution, EXIF, IPTC, metadata, WebDAM, What's New
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Keywording images can take on many forms. For instance, keywords can be used to describe objects, emotions or even time. What’s more, keywording is a very subjective task and can differ greatly from person to person. So how do you ensure consistency in your keywording efforts? By utilizing a predefined set of terms, called a Controlled Vocabulary.
WebDAM supports the use of a controlled vocabulary to facilitate keywording in a consistent manner. For many organizations, the controlled vocabulary is often custom created to include words such as product names or industry-specific terms. For others, such as stock agencies, it makes sense to purchase a standard controlled vocabulary which includes broader terms such as man, woman, office, child. Whatever the source, WebDAM fully supports it in several ways: (more…)
Tags: feature in focus, metadata, WebDAM, workflow
Posted in Metadata and Taxonomy, WebDAM Features | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Metadata is as important to your digital assets as the assets themselves. Metadata not only enhances search-ability through keywording, but can also be used for to track key pieces of information such as copyright, location, image source and more. Whether you are new to metadata or you are a seasoned digital archivist, the following resources are sure to have all your metadata answers. Here goes our picks for the best metadata resources on the web:
Controlled Vocabulary
http://controlledvocabulary.com/
The Controlled Vocabulary website, founded by David Riecks, contains a wealth of information on building vocabulary lists and keyword hierarchies for describing images in databases. (more…)
Tags: IPTC, metadata, WebDAM's Top 5, XMP
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
You may have heard the term “metadata” thrown around quite a bit in regards to, well, pretty much anything in the digital world. Metadata is used to describe data. For instance, a book’s metadata may include the author, publisher, or copyright notice. Similarly, images have metadata to aid in searching, tracking and retrieving.
Photo metadata can be a bit convoluted and overwhelming at first glance, especially since different standards exist for storing it. (more…)
Tags: EXIF, IPTC, metadata, workflow, XMP
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Looking for an easy to way to organize, tag and categorize your images? Here is a list of the top 5 desktop photo management and workflow tools.
Adobe Bridge CS4
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/bridge/
Adobe Bridge lets you browse, locate, organize, view and tag your digital photos. Bridge is included in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4. This is the perfect solution for less advanced workflows looking to centralize and access local files. (more…)
Tags: desktop tools, Digital Asset Management, image management, metadata, Photo Management, WebDAM's Top 5, workflow
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