iBase Digital Asset Management Articles A selection of articles about things we care about. Productivity and ROI with DAM Will we get a return on investment (ROI) from a digital asset management system? What is digital asset management? Because digital asset management has so many uses, a short and simple definition can be difficult to write. DAM for heritage and culture Digital asset management for heritage and culture needs to work for both digital representations of a physical object, and items that were 'born digital'. Revenue from digital assets All kinds of file types can be stored and offered for sale on a public facing commercial or heritage digital asset library. Geographical presentation Geographic coordinates won’t always be relevant or useful in a DAM or picture library system, but it’s surprising how many ways there are in which they can be used. Searching features and options Searching is arguably the single most important feature of digital asset management and media asset library systems. DAM or multi-media library Which do I need? Well, they’re not all that different and the underlying features required for digital asset management and digital media library systems are essentially the same. Productivity and balance of risk This article is an extract from “Productivity - Doing it right, a handbook for business and organisation”, it illustrates the need for digital asset management in the context of risk & productivity and hence the case for a positive ROI. Embedded metadata in video files What is video metadata? For storage, cataloguing and retrieval purposes, video metadata is most commonly associated with the meta-content. Local or cloud hosting for DAM An iBase digital asset management system can be deployed locally in your own IT environment or cloud, or with iBase Media Services' cloud hosting service. Example spec of requirements It can often be the case when starting out with specifying the requirements for a new system that not only do you not know exactly what you’ll need, but you’ll probably also not know what you don’t know - and hence what to ask! Metadata embedded in image files Metadata can be embedded within the digital asset file, or stored separately in an associated database, often both methods are used. Permissions and managing access Whether a system is hosted internally or in the cloud it will usually be necessary to be able to block or restrict access for unauthorised users, or limit what they can see and do. Uses and applications for DAM Digital asset management software can be used for any objective in which the management and distribution of digital assets of all types are part of what is required. SaaS digital asset management Software as a Service (SaaS) means that instead of buying digital asset management as an outright purchase and installing it locally, it can instead be provided as a single program instance via the internet. 1998 Data Protection Act Statement iBase are registered and comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. Click to view the iBase DPA statement. The importance of DAM scalability At the very heart of why digital asset management systems are so important is the rate at which the number of assets that need to be managed by any organisation relentlessly grows day by day.
