Digital Asset Management System
The Media Vault’s Digital Asset Management System provides a comprehensive solution for digital media management, from creation and collaboration to searching, storage and distribution. It works seamlessly between unlimited users, both internal and external, helping you to easily track down any file anywhere.

The Media Vault also offers content creation resources including professional expertise and state-of-the-art digital video production facilities housed at The Technology Innovation Centre, Millennium Point in Birmingham city centre.

The Digital Asset Management platform combined with improved access to broadband network capability removes the need for creative and new media companies to invest in substantial hardware, software, connectivity and technical support, by providing internet-based access to media management, digitisation, intake, archive, retrieval, re-purposing and distribution technology.

Help your business to:
Improve Productivity
	Create a reliable and accessible archive of your company’s digital media assets
	Distribute video, photo, graphics, audio and production files quickly and easily across the globe
	Directly annotate photos, graphics and frame-by-frame on video footage

Save Money
	Minimise the cost of printed collateral such as style guides, cell sheets, product brochures and presentations
	Accelerate production cycles to increase revenue and lower cost
	Eliminate media or film duplication as well as overnight deliveries

Protect your assets
	Protect valuable assets from unauthorised use with powerful rights management functionality
	Selectively control access to particular assets

By using a DAM system users will hopefully become more productive, deliver a better product and will be able to repurpose content easier, therefore creating new revenue streams.

Key advantages:
	Powerful natural language search - for retrieval of stored assets.
	Web based system - needing no propriety software.
	Powerful annotation tools - to allow easy collaboration between remote partners.

The TIC and its team have unmatched knowledge, experience and resources in the Midlands to significantly help creative and new media companies.

Solution for Business
The unique benefit of the Digital Asset Management System is the ability to work on-line with a number of companies at various points around the globe at anyone time.
For example: a composer in America, editor in China and a sound engineer in Europe.

	This is the central hub where all of the collaborators can monitor, what has been achieved so far.
	All of the members of the project are able to upload and download project assets (saves on shipping costs).
	Organised workflow incl. receipts and logs for transactions, downloads, etc.

For the future: Broadband TV.
	A large archive used in conjunction with editing software and a fast upstream and downstream, Broadband TV.

Key Technologies
Collaboration Areas
	Users can share files by storing them in online work areas called projects.
	A number of users can work successively on writing, reviewing, editing, and approving captioning information for a group of files that are waiting to be uploaded into the MediaPartner system.

Annotation Tools
	The Viewer's annotation tool allows the user to annotate images, videos, and other files by writing or drawing on them adding visual or audio notes.

Storing and searching for files
	Natural language searching (developed and patented its own natural language search technology).
	Keyword searching (search by individual keywords).
	Boolean searching ('and', 'or', 'not' constructions).

Loading and captioning your media files
	You can load your images, videos, and legacy data, and caption these files online in a seamless workflow.
	Users can also create storyboards for many video and document files.

Rights Management
	MediaPartner is a fully customizable piece of software that allows users to either directly download media files or order them through a shopping cart. This can then be presented with a license agreement and so create a 'new' revenue stream.

Projects
	Detailed workflow and timelines can be set up to increase efficiency through the project life cycle.
	Built in feed back loop, to allow users to give approval/permission for actions to be undertaken.
	Subprojects to help divide work between users.

And of course...
	Administration, User Permission, Navigation, Security, Scalability, Documentation and Online help.

Why register? Find out about the benefits of registering on The Media Vault Website. Questions? Contact us to find out more.

THIS PROJECT IS BEING PART-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY European Regional Development Fund