Section
Case studies
Deployments in newspaper, magazine, broadcast and corporate publishing, told from the record: the problem, the system put in, and the effect reported at the time.
The deployments below are reproduced from the record of Picdar, the St Albans company that supplied digital asset management and workflow systems to British publishing from 1984 until the middle of the following decade. They describe newspaper, magazine, broadcast and corporate installations as they were written up at the time.
We keep them because they are evidence rather than marketing: they name the problem each customer had, the system that was installed against it, and the effect reported afterwards. Nothing in them has been updated, corrected or added to, and figures, dates and quotations stand exactly as published.
- Archive 2005
Mortons Media Group: a quantum leap in production management
Heritage magazine publishing, eight new titles in a year, and no increase in staffing.
- Archive 2005
TUI: brochures and web from one library
How Thomson Holidays removed six-figure repro costs from brochure production.
- Archive 2005
BBC Worldwide: a ten-year archive of 140,000 records
A cumbersome manual approach replaced, and new business opportunities opened.
- Archive 2005
The Economist: news, comment and opinion under one system
High-speed wires meant more incoming information than the old process could take.
- Archive 2005
Hasbro: child’s play across multiple markets
Diverse requirements in several territories, and an 85 per cent reduction in turnaround reported at the time.
- Archive 2005
Customer: BBC Worldwide
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: The Economist
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: Hasbro
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: Kent Messenger
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: Médecins sans Frontières
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: RNLI
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
Customer: TUI UK
The challenge, the solution and the result, as recorded.
- Archive 2005
The Daily Telegraph: the next phase of a DAM strategy
One of the first UK installations, revisited.
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 |