Section
Asset management
Digital asset management as it is actually run: what makes a file an asset, how a library is structured so that it can still be searched a year later, and what is lost when one system is replaced by another.
Most asset libraries fail quietly. Nobody deletes them; they simply stop answering questions, because the vocabulary drifted, the ingest rules were never written down, and the person who knew where things were left.
What we gather here is about keeping a library answerable: how a taxonomy is designed so it survives its author, what metadata has to be captured at the point of ingest because it can never be reconstructed later, how permissions are modelled, and what a migration really costs once the mapping is done honestly.
- New
Designing a DAM taxonomy that survives its first year
Most asset-library taxonomies are designed by the people doing the filing and used by the people doing the finding, and those are rarely the same people…
29 September 2026
- New
Migrating to a new asset library without losing the metadata
Files migrate reliably. Metadata does not. Every asset-library migration that goes wrong goes wrong in the same place: the images arrive intact and…
29 September 2026
- New
File naming conventions for media archives
A filename is the one piece of metadata that cannot be stripped. It survives export, email, re-encoding, and every system the file passes through on its…
29 September 2026
- New
Keywording images with a controlled vocabulary
Free-text keywording feels faster and produces a library that gets worse every month. Each person adds the terms that occur to them, each term arrives…
29 September 2026
- New
What counts as a digital asset in a newsroom
A newsroom produces enormous quantities of files and a much smaller quantity of assets. Telling them apart is the first decision in building a library…
29 September 2026
- Archive 2005
Digital asset management: the terms, and what they actually mean
DAM, ECM, WCM, MAM — the acronyms most often met in the trade, set out one at a time.
- Archive 2005
Media Mogul DAM: out of sight, front of mind
Managing and controlling media files for timely enterprise-wide access.
- Archive 2005
Exploiting a DAM library: the same ingredients, a different result
Knowing where the assets are, what may be done with them and who may do it.
- Archive 2005
AMMOS: linking assets together to provide a full user history
The multi-asset software behind the browser system installed at BBC Worldwide.
- Archive 2005
Hosted asset management: simple, efficient, expandable
A secure and accessible library without the capital outlay of running one.
Archive index
A census of this site: how much sits in each section, how much of it is reproduced 2005 archive and how much was written for the relaunch.
| Section | All | Archive | New |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picture desk | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Asset management | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Rights & licensing | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Archives | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Workflow | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| Case studies | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| News | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Total | 70 | 48 | 22 |