In the context of digital asset management, recording details about assets and storing them in association with the asset itself, for subsequent search and retrieval via an internal network or on the internet as required. Also referred to as Asset Management Applications which can store images and other types of media asset such as videos, audios a [..]

By using Asset Manager programs it's possible to manage all manner of digital assets. See digital asset management.

A string of characters containing both letters and numerals, for example a U.K. post code LS29 8DD.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange A binary code of eight Bits providing 28 = 256 unique combinations assigned to all of the English alphabet, including upper and lower case, the digits 09, punctuation marks, and a number of special characters. ASCII was originally designed as a code for Telex communications.

Open source web server software in common use. The Microsoft equivalent is IIS.

The dimension of the longest side of a rectangle divided by the dimension its shortest side. Commonly used to describe film and photographic formats, television and computer screen formats etc… Thus an image with a long side of 20cm and a short side of 12cm would be said to have an aspect ratio of 20:12 or 1.67:1

In the context of digital asset management, a record of all actions performed on a system by user and date / time, such as adding an item, adding or changing textual data, deleting an item etc…

A copy or copies of programs, data, digital assets etc…, that can be used to restore a system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Backups might be on another hard drive, or on tape, or both.

In the context of computing, having two states e.g. 0 and 1, or True and False. In everyday counting we use decimal or base 10, which means that each number's position has a value of 10 times the value of the position to its right. In binary counting, which has a base of 2, each number's position has a value of 2 times the value of [..]

A contraction of Binary Digit, abbreviation 'b'. A digital (as opposed to analogue) computer recognises only two states in the smallest item of information available to it - typically represented as 0 and 1. This smallest available item of information is called a Bit. Because digital computers can only recognise two states, they ca [..]