Hi Tony
Just a touch base to say we are grappling with the details of this also.
I am sure that the reference Nick has given will help you (and us)
immensely - with asking the right questions in particular - it certainly
reflects many issues we're looking at.
We are an Adlib (CMS) and Extensis Portfolio (DAM) 'shop' and also have
an initial implementation of a Collections Information Integration
Middleware (CIIM - http://www.k-int.com/products/ciim). Our front end
services (http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/) are currently
reliant on seperate service indexes (which Dominic alluded to) based on
ElasticSearch.
Obviously the idealistic answer is the DAM should provide you with a
unique identifier for each asset and that reference should be put into
your CMS - this belies the complexity of real world scenarios however -
and in particular how handle the fact that *all your assets* are in the
DAM (hopefully) and:
1) you have to deal with IPR and copyright metadata somewhere (and have
systems which honor this data all the way through the 'chain'... do you
put this in CMS or DAM? type questions come up..)
2) you have to deal with the fact that you probably want to reference a
lot of DAM assets in your CMS that you don't want to 'publish' because
they are 'internal' only - e.g 'record images' (not high enough
quality), technical images (xray pictures, 3d models and the like),
and/or as per 2) they are in copyright.. and a host of other possible
reasons..
All this is leading us down a path of having internal systems containing
all the connections/accesses required, and 'service indexes' which
contained 'cleansed' versions of this data/connections for public
consumption. And as Ben highlighted the nightmare (my terminology..) of
this approach is keeping the two in sync and something like OAI-PMH does
help there by providing sensible 'give me updates since' type interfaces..
hope this helps
Shaun
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On 15/04/2013 12:23, HARRIS TONY wrote:
> Can anyone offer any advice on integrating DAM systems with CMS databases? Pitfalls, recommended solutions, thoughts and the like?
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> I know OpenCulture is coming up so one of our staff will be attending.
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> Regards
> Tony
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