We recently chose ResourceSpace as our DAMS. It's an open source
project, so the licensing
is free. A company called Montala provides support for it, which we
chose (reasonable pricing
which is displayed online).
Products we looked at:
http://www.resourcespace.org/
http://www.notredam.org/
http://www.extensis.com/digital-asset-management/portfolio/
http://netx.net/
https://www.canto.com/cumulus/
Most, if not all, of these products support documents, images, videos, etc.
ResourceSpace and NotreDam were both open source so the licensing is free.
ResourceSpace had the benefit that Montala had a TMS (our collections
system) integration.
When you're looking at solutions, try and choose one with either an
existing integration with
your collections platform or an API (application programming interface).
The API will allow
programmers to develop an interface with your collectinos system much
easier and should
cost you less.
We polled users of our current system to come with requirements. We took
these requirements
and compared them to the products. We then chose the products that met
the "hard" requirements
and pared them down to a single choice by collections integration, ease
of use, additional features,
and price.
-Doug R.
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