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Enterprise digital imaging departments are facing massive challenges in storage and asset management with few complete solutions on the market that address their workflow needs. Photography has gone digital but the supporting workflows largely remain analog. The baseline for growth will not be set until true digital workflows are designed and built for enterprise digital photography users.
Despite the tremendous qualitative improvements in digital photography, the first thing usually done after capture is printing contact sheets and shipping them around the country. Instead, better color calibration, bandwidth, web standards, metadata flexibility, industry knowledge and realized ROI are creating a sweet spot that will allow forward thinking companies to revolutionize the medium of photography.
This paper outlines the asset management issues that enterprise digital photography departments are facing today and seeks to provide a framework for how asset management technology and techniques can be critical in helping the industry move towards a fully digital imaging workflow.
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1has been at the forefront of media technology innovation throughout his career, working in animation, audio engineering, broadcast television and digital asset management. In 2002, Aaron was recognized by the US Department of Homeland Security for his outstanding contributions in the field of interactive media technology. In 2004, Aaron founded Markham Street Media, a company dedicated to the development and deployment of advanced digital asset management systems. Working closely with Industrial Color, MSM was instrumental in the technical design and development, project management and market development for GlobalEdit, a powerful on-line image management service that is experiencing explosive growth as a pioneer in the DAM industry. Since the successful collaboration, Aaron Holm has joined Industrial Color as Vice-President of Development and Integration. Industrial Color builds proprietary digital capture and asset management systems with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami. The company has 25 employees and produces and manages an average of 10 shoots per day in locations across the globe.
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Holm, A. Rethinking asset management for enterprise digital photography. J Digit Asset Manag 2, 231–236 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.dam.3650037
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.dam.3650037