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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Digital Asset Management consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage and retrieval of digital assets, such as digital photographs, animations, videos and music. Digital asset management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems that aid in the process of digital asset management. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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A digital asset is an image, pdf-document or another digital media that constitutes an asset. ...
The Nikon Coolpix 950 Casio Exilim Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses an electronic sensor to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. ...
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The term "digital asset management" (DAM) also refers to the protocol for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining, thinning, and exporting files. "There are two primary types of DAM software: browsers and cataloging software. A browser reads information from a file but does not store it separately. Cataloging software stores information in its own separate file, however, the software and the catalog document it makes are distinct from the photos themselves."
Uses Many businesses and organizations are adopting Digital Asset Management as a business strategy because managing image, video and other media assets presents unique challenges and requires solutions designed specifically to streamline the acquisition, storage and retrieval of digital media. Effective implementation of a DAM system should reduce the time and cost of content production, maximize the return on investment (ROI) from media assets, bring new products and services to market faster and streamline compliance. This system should be designed in such a way that enables cost-effective optimization of media asset management across an organization.
Types of Digital Asset Management systems The following broad categories of digital asset management systems may be distinguished: - Brand asset management systems, with a focus on facilitation of content re-use within large organizations.
- Library asset management systems, with a focus on storage and retrieval of large amounts of infrequently changing media assets, for example in video or photo archiving.
- Production asset management systems, with a focus on storage, organization and revision control of frequently changing digital assets, for example in digital media production.
- Digital supply chain services, pushing digital content out to digital retailers (e.g. music, videos and games).
Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ...
Providers Enterprise-level solutions often involve scalable, reliable, configurable products that can handle vast numbers of assets (files) as well as large numbers of simultaneous users, workflows, or use cases (multiple applications simultaneously operating against the system). Enterprise systems may, but do not necessarily, include customized products or features added on to the base system or custom developed to match an organization's workflow. Enterprise class systems are also applicable to small to medium businesses (SMBs), or departments or work groups within an organization. In many cases these systems enter a company in one department and eventually expand to others or the entire enterprise as its utility becomes proven, understood and valued. Enterprise systems are offered as installed software or as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) -- hosted, web-based offers that are managed and maintained externally. Enterprise Software is software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture. ...
For individuals either proprietary or open source applications can be adequate for digital asset management. Some image viewers provide management functionality, including backing up, organizing, and reading/writing metadata and keywords. Some photography-specific applications like Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture also have this functionality. Note 1: Adobe Bridge comes free with the Adobe Creative Suite CS2, Adobe Production Studio and Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac OS X. Adobe Bridge cannot be purchased separately, but Photoshop Elements are available from Adobe for $70 and Photoshop is available for $400. ...
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photography software program developed by Adobe Systems for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, designed to assist professional photographers in managing thousands of digital images and doing post production work. ...
Aperture is a software program for Mac OS X announced by Apple Inc at a New York media event on October 19, 2005, designed to assist professional photographers in post-production work. ...
Print and web publishers should also look into systems from established industry providers. AGFA's Apogee Media combines an automated publishing workflow with Digital Asset Management all in a web-enabled environment to support multi-site & multi-user collaboration.
See also Collaborative software is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. ...
Audio & Visual Media Digital media (as opposed to analog media) usually refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. ...
Digital preservation refers to the management of digital information over time. ...
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is any of the strategies and technologies employed in the information technology industry for managing the capture, storage, security, revision control, retrieval, distribution, preservation and destruction of documents and content. ...
The Extensible Metadata Platform or XMP is a specific type of extensible markup language used in PDF, photography and photo editing applications. ...
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// Summary The Repository Open Service Interface Definition (OSID) is an O.K.I. specification which defines the storing and retrieving of digital content, referred to as Assets. ...
ResourceSpace with the blue theme ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system originally developed for Oxfam. ...
A web content management system is content management system software implemented as a web application used for creating and managing HTML content. ...
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Further reading - Jacobsen, Jens; Schlenker, Tilman; Edwards, Lisa (2005). Implementing a Digital Asset Management System: For Animation, Computer Games, and Web Development. Focal Press. ISBN 0-240-80665-4.
- Krogh, Peter (2005). The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-10018-3.
- Austerberry, David (2006). Digital Asset Management, Second Edition. Focal Press. ISBN 0-240-80868-1.
- Mauthe, Andreas and Thomas, Peter (2004). Professional Content Management Systems: Handling Digital Media Assets. Wiley. ISBN 0-470-85542-8.
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