Picturepark, the Swiss DAM company, has just released its long awaited version 8.4. The new version supports asset classes, controlled vocabularies, custom icons for categories, a widget dashboard and more robust permission based capabilities.
In a YouTube presentation the Picturepark rep shows how the new asset classes differ from categories. The first are hierarchical, have unique metadata and definition value management, while the latter are hierarchical only. Controlled vocabularies are extremely important, for example in enterprises where taxonomies are industry-specific.
Picturepark 8.4 can now also have groups of categories that are mutually exclusive, and categories can have custom icons to better show people a category isn’t just a folder.
More improvements include a widget dashboard, with blogs, activity lists, etc, all viewable only by the person with the right permissions.
It’s now waiting for more detailed information. The YouTube presentation is a great video, but such presentations can’t reveal all the ins and outs of the new system. I expect the full details to become available in the coming weeks.
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Thank you so much for posting this, Erik. I’m afraid the video sort of “leaked” out ahead of next Tuesday’s official announcement, which is why we’re short on mentions of Picturepark 8.4. Now, how a video “leaks” onto a company’s own YouTube channel is a bit suspicious, I’ll give you. And when that company sells digital asset management software that includes rights management and flow control, the notion of a leak is even more absurd. Now I know how parents of a toddler feel like: “I swear, I turned my back for only 20 seconds and the damned kid wound up on YouTube!”.
We’re “leaking” the German version tomorrow so that we don’t ruffle any features.
David Diamond
Director of Global Marketing and Leak Prevention
Picturepark DAM