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A DAM system is a software system that, in combination with other systems, stores and distributes digital assets in a controlled and uniform way. DAMs arrange, describe, store, and provide access to digital assets that are linked to metadata models, which allow a digital asset manager to work with the assets in desirable ways. The DAM itself should function with a search engine to provide results for assets, and it should include workflow capabilities that document and regulate the creation, review, and approval of new digital assets. Common systems connected to a DAM might be an email server for the distribution of assets and workflow alerts; an index engine like Solr for generating search results; a transcode engine that generates several versions of the master file for easier playback and distribution of video; and custom application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow uploading or downloading to the DAM from web sites. Mature DAMs often have a dozen or more other systems connected to them in order to serve their asset ingestion and retrieval needs. DAMs allow for the creation and maintenance of access control lists (ACLs) that reserve some content for specific groups of users, while releasing other content in search results for all users. All true DAMs are capable of generating detailed metrics on all system actions, in order for digital asset managers to know which assets are in the system, who is working with those assets, and how assets are being used within the DAM.
Elizabeth Ferguson Keathley - Personal Name
978-1-4302-6377-7
NONE
Management
2014
1-182
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