Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM)
DIW, Singapore
For many years, we are so used to categorise our digital files by using the hierarchical folder structure in our computer. This organising habit is certainly inherited from the way we organise the physical documents in the real world, which has become so intuitive that we’re not aware that there are better ways to do …
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On 9 Sep 2016, The Straits Times published a news about the future Tengah HDB town and this picture was printed on the front page. When I saw the red HDB logo watermark at the bottom right hand corner of the picture, I know that the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system that we implemented for …
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Whenever the people we talked to understand what a DAM system is for, very often, they will say something like “Isn’t it similar to storing the digital files in our shared network folder?” “Our Web Content Management System also has a media library module.” “The application we are using provides an archive function for storing …
What you need to know when your DAM vendor promised that they can fulfil all the features you want. DIW did not manage to secure a Digital Asset Management (DAM) project recently. The main reason is because we were given a low score for the part on Functional Requirements, while the other two vendors …
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To be able to manage and preserve digital assets and information responsibly requires more than just having a “good software system”. Internal policies must be in place for proper management of digital materials. A Digital Asset Management (DAM) system fulfils both requirements. It serves not only as a good software system, it can also help …
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DIW's new success story is reported in Australia's IDM magazine: Singpore's oldest school Raffles Institution and A History Lesson. Using Cumulus to gain tools for organisation, keyword searching, and sharing of its extensive document and image archives. Cheryl Yap, head of the Raffles Archives and Museum wanted "an integrated solution which documents visual images of …
… and what lesson can you learn from here? An organisation is going to streamline their operations by reducing some software systems that are used for managing their collections of images, manuscripts, research papers, audio and video recordings. They decide to migrate all data and digital files into a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system …
With the help of DIW, ISEAS Library has benefited from the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system it deployed in 2010 and 2011. The library's mass digitisation of some 50,000 old slides and photographs and a growing multimedia collection resulted in a large amount of digital images and associated content requiring unprecedented institutional management. The DAM …
We have been invited by a few organisations to suggest solutions on digitising paper documents. These organisations range from a shipping company to a school. The main reason that initiates their move is the most obvious advantage of digitising paper documents: Saving storage space.
I am sure you have seen many mural size prints in shopping malls, outside buildings or in exhibitions. Most often, you are viewing them from a distance such that you can see the entire print. Have you ever gone closer and see the details of the print? Let me use a mural size print in …
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