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Hello and Welcome to the Very First Issue of Createasphere's DAM Newsletter!
This year Createasphere launched its first Digital Asset Management Conference & Expo in both Los Angeles & New York City. To accommodate the ongoing discussions and challenges in the space we have also begun to create a series of webcasts. Now we are very proud to continue the conversation and provide you with additional news that we hope you will find useful.
In this first newsletter we are proud to present the case study of UPS, the winner of our DAMMY award for Best Storage, Archive and or Preservation Solution. We also have a great article from David Riecks of Controlled Vocabulary and an honorary judge for Createasphere’s DAMMY’s. He explains some myths of embedded photo metadata. He was also kind enough to point us to some FREE tool to use in your digital workflow. Lastly, we were able to catch up with Andrea Kalas of Paramount for a quick interview and hear how she ended up in the Digital Asset Management space and how she is dealing with massive amounts of assets on a daily basis.
We hope you will find our newsletter informative and entertaining. If you have any suggestions for challenges that need to be tackled in the space, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Best regards and Happy Holidays,
Kristin Petrovich Kennedy - kristin@createasphere.com
Mary Yurkovic - mary@createasphere.com
PS – Don’t forget that registration is open for our Digital Asset Management Conference at Universal City. We have a great line up of speakers, education and solution providers. We look forward to continuing the conversations in person! |
 Feature Interview
5 QUESTIONS WITH ANDREA KALAS
Written by Christine Purse
Andrea Kalas has been Vice President of Archives at Paramount Pictures since 2009. She has worked as an archivist at the British Film Institute, Discovery Communications, DreamWorks and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. She is a former President of AMIA and holds a Masters from UCLA in film history. She recently presented a paper on digital preservation at The Reel Thing in August.
Q: How did you get into the digital asset management (archiving) industry?
A: When I worked at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, I gave a presentation at an AMIA conference about how closed caption text could be extracted into a searchable file for television news researchers. This was the spark, and one thing led to another. I eventually found myself working with some brilliant technologists on a digital archive for DreamWorks Animation. Read full article
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DAMMY Corner
The DAMMY Awards debuted on September 24th in New York, recognizing companies and individuals who have pushed the boundaries of the burgeoning digital asset management industry. Industry insiders and luminaries gathered at The New Yorker Hotel to celebrate the nominees and winners at a gala luncheon. The DAMMY Awards are Createasphere's awards for excellence in digital asset management and cap the Digital Asset Management Conference and Exposition in New York. Read full article and see the winners. |
 Techie Talk
The Top 12 Myths about Embedded Photo Metadata
Written by David Riecks
There are a number of myths or misconceptions that surround the practice of embedding information such as IPTC, IPTC-IIM, XMP or even Exif into a digital image file — like JPEGs, TIFFs, Photoshop, DNG and other Raw files). There are a number of applications or utilities which can do this easily and safely, but first, let's take a look at the list.
- Embedded photo metadata is something that is hard to read unless you have photoshop or some other professional software application.
- If I embed my copyright (or caption or keywords, or other metadata field) into my images it will always be there.
- Embedding photo metadata adds a lot of disk space overhead to an image file.
- Read all 12 Myths Here
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DAM Poll
How important is digital archiving to your organization?
The results of this poll will be announced in the next newsletter. |
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