Digital Asset Management
Workflow for graphics, images, video, and more
Digital Asset Management is a form of content management for effectively ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storing, retrieving and distributing digital assets - digital assets that may be defined in three ways: as textual content, images/photos and multimedia.
Canto Cumulus
Canto Cumulus is a powerful digital asset management system for all organisations where effective workflow management and rich media asset control is paramount. Cumulus simplifies the creation, control and deployment of digital asset management solutions for users, administrators and system integrators.
Equilibrium - MediaRich for SharePoint
Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint brings a robust, low cost Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office systems. It allows any organisation from small workgroups to large enterprises to collaborate and manage all of a company's digital assets making Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies an invaluable collaboration platform.
- DataBasics online Cumulus demo server.
- Flash movie tour plus iPrefiller Pro movie for controlled entry of metadata, and Cumulus Sites movie.
- FREE Cumulus demo discs - email us
- Digital Asset Management overview: Why DAM Makes Sense! (pdf) and Cumulus overview(pdf).
- Success stories: Cumulus case studies.
- DAM metadata online info, and Cumulus for iPhone/iPad!
- General product info, pricelist and more.
- Online videos of MediaRich AV Features, Mediarich for Sharepoint and Technical Overview
- Online demos of MediaRich Server and Zoom and Pan
- General product info, pricelist and more.
What typifies a good DAM system as distinct from any old document management system are the following:
- ability to handle large files
- capacity for reuse via on the fly requests for resizing, tranformations, conversions
- workflow integration with tools such as Photoshop, InDesign
- compound document indexing eg PDF pages, layouts and documents with embedded graphics
- mapping of embedded metadata such as IPTC/XMP, Dublin Core etc
- watermarking of assets and more.
For more information see Wikipedia's entries under Digital Asset Management (DAM) and related entries under Content Management (CMS) etc. For some useful definitions, see Step Two Design's Definition of information management terms.
