February, 2012
General questions
What is Digital Asset Management ? The term Digital Asset Management (DAM) identifies tools and methodologies for ingesting, classifying, searching, adapting, preserving and retrieving the digital assets of an organization. What is Notre-DAM ? Notre-DAM is a multi-user open source Digital Asset Management platform. Which is the user target of Notre-DAM ? Notre-DAM is mainly targeted to the mid-market segment [...]
Terms and Definitions
What is a digital asset ? A digital asset is any media encoded into a binary file, together with the rights to use it. What is a resource ? A resource is a collection of binary data that encodes a media, such as a video clip, an image, a document or an audio clip. What [...]
Using the light-table
The light-table provides an overview of the items of the workspace based on a set of thumbnails. Since a workspace can contain items of different types (image, video, audio, document), a small watermark in the bottom-left corner of the thumbnail identifies the item type. The light-box displays a batch of items at a time. So, [...]
Overview of the UI
After a successful login the browser will display the UI of your default workspace. If you have logged-in for the first time, an empty workspace will be presented to you. The name of your workspace is shown at the top of the window. Your default will have the same name of your user account. You [...]
References
All references to external documents are marked as [ref_id], where ref_id identifies the “reference Id” in the table hereafter. Reference id Document CC Creative Commons web site, http://creativecommons.org DAM-ADMIN NotreDAM Administration Guide (latest version downloadable from http://www.notredam.org/documentation.html ) DAM-DEV NotreDAM Developer’s Manual (latest version downloadable from http://www.notredam.org/documentation.html ) DCMI ES Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Dublin [...]