DAMS(1)

Recently mentioned computer systems, especially the publishing and media industry, almost everyone said DAMS, of course, this has nothing to do with the Three Gorges Dam, DAMS represents the Digital Asset Management System, on the surface seems very simple, "Digital Asset Management System "Okay." However, the range of computer technology involved is complex and the concept is different. In the end, what is DAMS and why suddenly become a hot item?

From a sales point of view, the main reason that the author has turned DAMS into a hot item is that the scope is wide enough. Almost any management, data analysis, and image processing and storage devices are related to DAMS, and both affect digitalization and relate to asset management. Coverage is almost equal to information technology. Think of digital asset management as simple file management, normal database, cataloging, search engine, and library system. Digitization, Archiving, Digital Rights Management, Multimedia Management, Knowledge Management, Corporate Intelligence, Business Intelligent, etc. , directly affect the customer relationship management system (CRM, Customer Relationship Management). It's amazing! Of course, various information technologies related to DAMS also require a large amount of resources. From the narrow sense to the broad sense, from concepts and design to complex computer equipment, DAMS is mentioned, and it is necessary to change from a granular sugar to an inter-office plant. Carefully studied the tricks.

To explain the nouns in the first lesson, start with the most basic DAMS. The so-called digital assets, of course, originated from the popularization of computerization, which produced a variety of electronic documents, including texts, pictures, images, data, drawings, and patterns. In addition, the development of multimedia in recent years has added a lot of audio and video, Animated files and the Internet explodes the information. If the digital assets cannot be effectively managed, they will naturally end up losing nothing, or they will be poorly managed. If they can't be searched and reused, they will become equal to nothing. Competitiveness is much more difficult.

From the detailed analysis of system architecture, design concepts, equipment platforms, digital technologies, and so on, to ensure that there are no more than 5,000 words into the topic, readers are already lethargic. It is better to take a shortcut, from the author to the current The most practical DAMS application at the technical level begins.

First of all, a reasoning analysis, in the end what digital assets need the best management?

On the face of it, it seems that the daily processing of text and data files is the largest, and the format is numerous and should be dealt with first. However, from the point of view of data volume, video and audio data can be calculated in hundreds of bytes, but it seems that they should take care of them first. However, under normal circumstances, digital audio and video is still not the mainstream. It is not imperative to organize and manage in a small number of cases. Although there are a large number of text and data files, the amount of data is not high, and it will not directly put pressure on the storage devices. There are also many softwares that can directly interpret various text files, so management will not be too cumbersome. On the contrary, the nature of the image files between the two, especially after the popularity of digital cameras, the number of digital photos rapidly increased, although the data volume of each file is not high, between hundreds of Kbyte to several MByte, but a leisurely one. With thousands and thousands of copies down, the amount of system storage must be increased. In addition, publications in recent years have attached great importance to layout effects, and the number of photos has increased geometrically. Searching image files is not an easy task and the processing procedures are complicated. Many publishing companies, design or advertising companies have paid more and more attention to managing image files.

The Photo Archiving System has become the fastest growing project in many digital asset management systems and seems to be a matter of course. The system architecture and design will be introduced in detail in the next period.