Lisa McIntyre and Coan Dillahunty from GSD&M Idea City are going to be talking about Digital Asset Management.  They are a full-service ad agency.  I’ve known them for a while and it is important to keep track on how the DAM crowd is doing.

• Deal with a wide variety of content from documents, images, and video.
• Started with software on the local machine, moved to Web-based apps (eRoom and Digital Asset Manager) to “Web-based with benefits” (Media WorkSpace and CenterStage)
• Search is not visual and the creative types don’t necessarily want to search, they want to browse
• CenterStage is still missing calendaring and databases, so they haven’t adopted yet. Waiting.
• Media WorkSpace is a flex-based application that is much faster than DAM, very Mac friendly
• The Data Dictionary support is now a feature of Media WorkSpace.
• General Availability of 1.0 is likely soon as a candidate was recently shared.
• Technical requirements:
  • Requires D6 and higher
  • MTS 6sp2 or higher
  • Suggested to have same service pack level for all of the products, and suggested to be at 6.5
• Media WorkSpace doesn’t enforce the Intellectual Property rights at this time like Digital Asset Manager does.  It does inform the user of the IP rights.
• Have rating for images and shows your ratings and the total ratings, but suggest have a guideline for how to rate the images
• Has a film-strip view to scan images (very nice)
• New flash renditions of video for Media WorkSpace
• Need to configure CTS to produce both the QuickTime and the Flash as it prefers to produce one or the other by default.  This wouldn’t be an issue if they used DAM (QT) or MWP (Flash) but not the other.
• Quickflows are available in MWP (but not in CenterStage?)
• Can print a contact sheet with thumbnails, works with JPG.

Off to see the first half of Ed Bueche’s Performance for Documentum xCP session.  More importantly, I need more coffee and some water.  My espresso from the start of the day doesn’t seem to be working.

Disclaimer

All information in this post was gathered from the presenters and presentation. It does not reflect my opinion unless clearly indicated (Italics in parenthesis). Any errors are most likely from my misunderstanding a statement or imperfectly recording the information. Updates to correct information are reflected in red, but will not be otherwise indicated.

All statements about the future of EMC products and strategy are subject to change at any time due to a large variety of factors.

An important step in defining a Digital Asset Management system or a Web Content Management System strategy is to define the metadata and taxonomy needs that will support an organization’s goals for categorizing and relating both assets and content.

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Open Source DAM Solution For Managing Rich Media Assets Now Available

BOSTON, February 4, 2010–Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announced today the general availability of its open source Digital Asset Management offering Nuxeo DAM.

Nuxeo DAM is the latest application based on the Nuxeo open source ECM platform, Nuxeo EP. Nuxeo DAM addresses the complex and resource-intensive demands of managing the rich media assets that companies rely on. Designed to meet the creative and ever-changing needs of marketing and brand managers, as well as the custodians of digital artifacts in education, government, military and cultural institutions, Nuxeo’s digital asset management software opens up new opportunities for the creators, users and consumers of rich media to take control of their critical image, video or audio content.

According to Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca:

Nuxeo DAM has the same high level of flexibility as its underlying platform – Nuxeo EP – thanks to its extension-point, plug-in infrastructure. Thus, Nuxeo DAM can be adapted and customized to create a new kind of media-intensive content application matching ever-evolving business and creative needs.

Nuxeo DAM is the first application of its kind to meet the currently available draft of the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. Nuxeo, along with many other industry leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe Systems, is involved with CMIS. CMIS is a proposed standard for interoperability across multiple ECM and web content management systems that is expected to be approved this year. Nuxeo EP, as the underlying ECM platform offering from Nuxeo, includes a CMIS Server, based on the latest CMIS specification, ensuring that packaged applications such as Nuxeo DAM and Nuxeo DM benefit from the interoperability enhancements.

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Recently, I got an e-mail newsletter (from: company name redacted) – one of those that goes almost immediately to trash following a quick scan. What made me ROFL was this line: Blogging is easy, usually free, and most importantly, fun! Now, I am not perfect (well, am nearly ) and could use more self-blogging discipline, [...]

This morning, Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announced the release of its new Digital Asset Management offering (Nuxeo DAM) for beta preview. Nuxeo is using the Gilbane Conference in Boston to present DAM as a featured product in its conference booth (#122A).

Nuxeo DAM is a packaged application, based on the Nuxeo open source ECM platform, that addresses the complex and resource-intensive demands of managing the rich media assets of today’s business. According to Nuxeo, Nuxeo DAM is:

Designed to meet the creative and ever-changing needs of marketing and brand managers, Nuxeo’s digital asset management software opens up new opportunities for the creators, users and consumers of rich media to take control of their critical image, video or audio content.

Key benefits that Nuxeo DAM provides include:

• Intuitive experience, designed for creative users
• Productivity accelerant: automate and streamline routine tasks
• Trusted repository, designed for secure and easy scaling as projects expand
• Flexibility: modularity and interoperability through open source and open standards including CMIS compatibility

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