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 For digital asset management, search is not enough [ABSTRACT]
Friday, 1st October 2010
By
Fran Alexander
Abstract:
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems bring the promise of increasingly sophisticated search techniques but all that glistens may not be gold. Fran Alexander examines the pros and cons of tagging, content-based image retrieval, face recognition, digital fingerprinting and screen-to-text, and concludes that they are very exciting but may be in the category of 'nice to have' rather than business critical.
Article:
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems bring the promise of increasingly sophisticated search techniques but all that glistens may not be gold. Fran Alexander examines the pros and cons of tagging, content-based image retrieval, face recognition, digital fingerprinting and screen-to-text, and concludes that they are very exciting but may be in the category of 'nice to have' rather than business critical.
What's Inside:
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems often include the latest search technologies such as tagging, content-based image retrieval, face recognition, digital fingerprinting and speech-to-text but beware of the hype and consider the pros and cons. A DAM system that supports your business critical, rather than your 'nice to have', functions is likely to be more cost effective overall.
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By Fran Alexander
Fran Alexander is Taxonomy Manager at the BBC Archive, one of the world's largest audiovisual archives. She began her career as an editor of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri and almanacs, with a focus on converting print products to online formats. In 2001, she joined Keesing's Worldwide where she managed the creation of a new online news archive before becoming editorial director in 2007. She has a Master of Research degree from the Department of Information Studies at University College London and blogs at http://www.vocabcontrol.com.
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