Before we had our DAM in place, we were able to identify that some of the assets we acquired for our projects already had a fair amount of metadata embedded. This metadata was unreliable as it came in from disparate libraries, but we wanted to leverage what was already there for our own system.  I […]

System Architecture One of my first duties when I began as Digital Asset Manager was to select the systems that the team would use to access content. The team of 25+ video editors were working off a traditional server that was dropping connections multiple times a day, forcing the editors to pull projects onto...

I had the pleasure of being featured in the Backblaze blog and at their NAB booth as a case study in the complex realm of video asset workflows and storage.  Read more about my configuration challenges (and ultimate solution) for media storage. 

The taxonomy to the right was created to organize the visual resources library used by videos editors creating educational content for high schools. I wanted to capture the relevant topics as they related to high school curriculum to increase the usefulness of the catalogs for the defined users. The challenge with...