Digital Asset Management

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 13, 2008 at 4:54pm

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I recently wrote an article on Document Security and Digital Rights Management that goes into different systems for digital product management.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Gallmeyer on June 16, 2008 at 4:54pm

Not so much this as the cataloging and management of the actual digital assets from production and Web for easily reusing in multiple formats.

Permalink Reply by OlegR on June 16, 2008 at 11:05am

Brenda,



A good solution will do the following:
1. seamlessly integrate with your editorial system
2. will have ingestion scripts to automatically ingest and normalize (bring to unified format) all kinds of different documents (Quark/InDesign/Word/Excel/XML feeds/XLBR feeds/etc.
3. automatically tag all your content for better search, categorization, finding related items, and better monetization
4. automatically aggregate and syndicate all of the incoming and outgoing content, normalizing incoming feeds, and preparing outgoing feeds according to receiver's specs
5. automatically push content to your CMS system (per publishing or in-CMS request through APIs)
6. provide workflow management intefaces
7. easily handles 10s of thousands of assets per day
8. is able to manage all kinds of assets - text/pictures/videos/audio
9. is very meta-data aware

Have you looked at Nstein's DAM solution by any chance?
It is being used to top world publishers like Conde Nast, NAPCO, Reed Business, News Corp, Time Inc., etc.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Gallmeyer on June 16, 2008 at 4:50pm

Thanks, I have not looked at this one and will check it out. We definitely have been looking at systems that perform these functions. We have been looked into some others such as North Plains and Artesia as well as other smaller, limited-feature systems.

As a small to mid-size publisher one of the challenges is finding the right system and developing an implementation plan that can take place over the next few years as the financial costs of a full, robust system are not able to be budgeted in too short a time frame.

I was wondering what other smaller publishers have found and been using and if they have had to have a lot of customization done to make these systems work for them.

Permalink Reply by Michael Turro on June 17, 2008 at 12:44pm

Brenda:
We've been using MediaBeacon for the past few years and we've been satisfied with both it's performance and its development path. I won't say it's been glitch free (no solution will be) but it has let us get on top of our image library and workflow. We're a heavy Apple/Adobe environment and MB works well in that space. The new version has a lot of nice scripting options (pretty much any language the mac supports) that we're just starting to explore, but our preliminary tests are extremely promising.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Gallmeyer on June 17, 2008 at 3:19pm

Thanks I'll check it out. In just a quick glance it reminds me of Meta Communicatons Digital Storage Manager.

Permalink Reply by Paul Fulgione on June 17, 2008 at 4:41pm

Whatever system you choose, make sure you have buy-in from the people who will be using the system. This is where I have seen the majority of issues arise. All the metadata you will find useful for re-purposing content need to be associated to the assets you ingest. Especially rights management. If the process is fleshed out and people know what will be expected from them, you will be more successful. Otherwise it could be a real headache.

Cheers,
Paul