New sharing features including approval of images and granular access rights are among improvements in the first upgrade of Elvis DAM since its acquisition by WoodWing last October.
The new version 3.6 improves the way users can collaborate, share and manage high volumes of digital assets, and supports WoodWing´s Enterprise 8.
Also new is support for taxonomies to enrich the assets’ metadata. Collections can be shared by emailing a link to a colleague, enabling them to open the collection in a browser or Elvis client and preview, download and upload any number of assets. Another new option is to create an HTML gallery and share the HTML code to embed the collection in a web page. Access rights, including an expiration date, can be set.
The update also makes working with photographers easier: Art directors create and send an ‘empty collection’ including a description for the job, for the photographer to batch upload images into.
Taxonomies – the predefined, hierarchical tree of terms used to structure information such as metadata – can be browsed and edited, and existing ones imported in RDF or text format. In Enterprise, assets can be sent to and from its editorial management application and incorporated into workflow.
WoodWing president Erik Schut says the new features will benefit users of both systems: “We promised to speed up development of Elvis DAM and this is the first proof we are delivering. Our next Elvis DAM release will contain a much deeper integration with our publishing system Enterprise 8 and Content Station, along with a number of other features.”