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 Welcome to Volume 6, Issue 3. The season 
of spring has sprung and with that comes 
much growth in the fi eld and practice of digital 
asset management. This issue sees much growth 
with many great articles and interviews to 
stimulate the mind and rejuvenate our interest 
in DAM. 

 To begin with,  JDAM  is pleased to have 
a book excerpt from Patricia Russotti and 
Richard Anderson ’ s,  Digital Photography Best 
Practices and Workfl ow Handbook: A Guide to 
Staying Ahead of the Workfl ow Curve . Chapter 7, 
 Getting To Work  –  Image Ingestion , covers the 
key components of getting digital images from 
the camera into the computer. The ingestion 
step is one of the most important steps in 
a safe and effi cient digital image workfl ow. 
Performing this step properly can provide the 
best opportunity to automate the digital 
workfl ow and ensure organization and safe 
keeping of the photographer ’ s work. The 
authors discuss best practices for: options for 
safe transfer of images utilizing dedicated 
ingestion software, creating a fi le and folder 
backup, and many more. 

 Michael Moon interviews Cheryl McKinnon, 
Chief Marketing Offi cer at Nuxeo. This 
interview provides insights into Nuxeo ’ s market 
strategy, differentiation and why DAM is an 
essential move for the company. Nuxeo 
announced the availability of Nuxeo DAM, its 
fi rst digital asset management earlier this year. 
An established vendor offering open source 
Enterprise Content Management since 2000, 
this move into DAM was largely prompted by 
demand from its diverse install base. Nuxeo 
DAM builds upon the strength of the Nuxeo 
Enterprise Platform, a highly extensible Java-
based environment designed specifi cally for 
content applications. Nuxeo DAM has been 
designed with the creative content consumer 
in mind  –  offering the key functionality 
needed to manage multiple renditions of rich 

content, ease the storage burden, protect against 
intellectual property or copyright breaches, and 
enable easy and intuitive search and navigation 
through media assets. 

 In less than 3 years, Aaron Fulkerson, CEO 
of MindTouch, has grown MindTouch from 
a small open source project into one of the 
world ’ s most popular open source collaboration 
platforms. Its wiki-like platform enables tens 
of millions of users globally to connect and 
customize enterprise systems, social tools 
and web services. Michael Moon interviews 
Aaron and provides a fascinating discussion on 
enterprise 2.0 and open source collaboration 
markets. In fact, enterprise spending on Web 
2.0 technologies is predicted by Forrester to 
grow strongly over the next 5 years, reaching 
US $ 4.6 billion globally by 2013 and 
MindTouch was cited by Forrester as the best 
alternative to industry heavyweights Microsoft 
and IBM. 

 In a captivating and most timely article, 
Doug Liles, Group Director, Enterprise 
Solutions for Southern Graphics Systems 
provides insight into Web Services and DAM. 
With such topics as DAM as workfl ow, WCM 
Integration, Beyond Plug-Ins and the need 
for standards, Doug makes an impassioned 
appeal to the DAM marketplace to integrate 
web services APIs   into the core of Digital 
Asset Management solutions to meet user and 
application demands. 

 Randal Luckow, Digital Archivist, manages 
the Metadata and Digital Media Services 
Department at Tuner Entertainment. In his 
intriguing article, he argues that when a needed 
controlled vocabulary does not exist in available 
taxonomies, it is necessary to develop a new 
taxonomy based upon original research and or 
authoritative sources. His article presents an 
example of how an animation-specifi c taxonomy 
and subsequent controlled vocabulary was 
constructed to assist in the successful search and 

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retrieval of animated moving image assets. The 
outcome of this research was used to assist in 
the automation of internal workfl ows used to 
comply with the Children ’ s Television Act. 

 To conclude this issue, Michael Moon 
provides an exciting interview with the Digital 
Asset Manager of K12 Inc, Henrik de Gyor, 
on the implementation and daily operations 
of the Digital Asset Management within the 
education company. K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN), 


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