Digital Asset Management consists of the tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage and retrieval, of
digital assets, such as digital photographs, animations, videos, and music. Digital asset management systems are computer software systems that
aid in the process of digital asset management.
The term "digital asset management" (DAM) refers to the protocol for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing,
maintaining, thinning, and exporting files. "There are two primary types of DAM software: browsers and cataloging software. A browser reads
information from a file but does not store it separately. Cataloging software stores information in its own separate file, however, the software
and catalog document it makse are distinct from the photo's themselves.
BlackBall, The Unstructured Data Management Company, provides solutions to your digital asset management problems.
Our solutions provide a foundation to automatically and intelligently categorize, store, manage, version, and retrieve your high quality audio and
video files including MP3's, WAV files, Audio files, MOVie files, and FCC mandated requirements for compliancy. The digital world has overwhelmed
us with landslide of audio, video, and picture files that need to be quickly located and retrieved. However, finding your file can be frustrating
and time consuming when utilizing standard file system and cataloging systems. Searches can take forever and often return nothing. You want
robust search criteria like UMID (Unique Material IDentifier), Essence Marks, MPEG metadata, etc. BlackBall solutions have put order to chaos by
empowering individuals and enterprises by providing a way to catalogue digital asset by meaningful descriptions and by offering the fastest index
and search using new techniques to address your digital asset storage and retrieval needs.
SearchIn provides automatic organization and keyword query access to unstructured files.
Search queries can be targeted down to specific metadata fields, file attributes, or file content. Users can enhance the organization of their
unstructured files by assigning their own metadata tags to files. Search query results can be acted on immediately to provide comprehensive data
management capabilities. BlackBall's SearchIn family of products can easily manage all of your rich media and/or unstructured file types. The
SearchIn unstructured database is tightly coupled with a file management system, and search engine technology so you can find any data any where,
while keeping track of the relationships between different sets of data.
