Digital Asset Management (DAM) refers to technology which helps us to manage the mass of data which we work with in our personal and professional lives.

Digital asset management is a set of processes that when working together give a system, repository, and enabling workflow process for managing publishable media content such as images, illustrations, documents, audio, video and physical (non-digital) elements.

Digital assets include documents, emails, pictures, MP3’s, online movies, and any other content which we store on a computer.

Digital Asset Management applications try to help with one or more of the typical file management tasks:

  • Searching for a digital asset
  • Organizing digital assets
  • Backing up digital assets
  • Securing digital assets
  • Verifying the integrity of digital assets
  • Discovering duplicate copies of digital assets

Open Source Digital Asset Management Software

DSpace

DSpace is a Digital Asset Management system which was developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP Labs.

DSpace is designed to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute enormous volumes of digital data.

DSpace runs on Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.

Image Arcadia

Image Arcadia is a Digital Asset Management server package. Image Arcadia runs on Unix or Windows NT under Apache and PERL. Image Arcadia Incorporates an extensible file type manager so that any type of file is supported.