Digital Asset Management, 2nd Edition

13 Databases

Introduction

Most potential owners of digital asset management systems already own one or more databases. They are used by office systems, for employee records, artists’ contracts, and for the sales and traffic management of television commercials. Many media companies use databases to manage rights information—that is, ownership of the intellectual property, and the logging of usage of that material. Another database application is the simple index systems for existing libraries of tapes and photographs.

These applications will have to be closely integrated with the digital asset management systems. Should they use the same database platform? If you are already using a single database vendor, you will have staff trained and experienced ...