Implementing a digital asset management system : for animation, computer games, and web development

✍ Scribed by Jens Jacobsen; Tilman Schlenker; Lisa Edwards

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 3
What do you get out of this book?......Page 6
About the authors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1.2 What does this book cover?......Page 10
1.3 What's an asset anyway?......Page 11
1.4 What is Digital Asset Management?......Page 12
1.5 How is this book structured?......Page 15
2.1 What can happen.........Page 16
2.2 ...And how it can be avoided......Page 25
2.3 Who needs DAM?......Page 26
2.4 What companies expect from Digital Asset Management (DAM)......Page 28
2.5 What DAM is (and what it is not)......Page 29
2.6 General benefits of DAM systems......Page 34
2.7 Benefits for different departments......Page 37
2.8 The case for Return On Investment (ROI)......Page 38
2.9 Industries benefitting from DAM......Page 42
3.1 Analyze the business - find out where you are......Page 52
3.2 Define desired improvements - find out where to go......Page 64
3.3 Analyze value of desired result - find out what you gain......Page 66
4.1 What is your business objective?......Page 69
4.2 What do your assets want?......Page 73
4.3 What do your users want?......Page 79
4.4 What your new workflow should look like......Page 80
4.5 Compile a list of features needed......Page 87
4.6 Other important features of asset management systems......Page 94
4.7 The most important consideration: focus......Page 95
5.1 Types of DAM solutions......Page 96
5.2 Complexity and capabilities of the solutions......Page 99
5.3 Which size fits for you?......Page 111
5.4 What if there is no suitable system?......Page 112
5.6 Don't over-engineer......Page 114
5.8 Sample scenarios for the application of DAM......Page 116
6.1 Planning......Page 125
6.2 Testing......Page 130
6.3 Team preparation......Page 132
6.4 Workflow integration......Page 135
7.1 Lionhead Studios......Page 143
7.2 Sony Pictures Imageworks......Page 149
7.3 Scholz & Volkmer......Page 154
7.4 Framfab......Page 162
7.5 Attitude Studio......Page 170
7.6 Pixelspell Animation Studios......Page 174
Image catalogs and libraries......Page 180
Software Configuration Management (SCM)......Page 206
Digital Asset Management (DAM)......Page 219
Web Content Management......Page 230
Enterprise Content Management, Document Management, and Brand Asset Management......Page 234
Appendix 2: Glossary......Page 243
Appendix 3: References......Page 250
Index......Page 254