#1 Secure DAM solution

Digital Asset Management Solution for Governments

Keep government archives secure, organized, and easy to find.

The Best Digital Asset Management Solution for Governments
900+ organizations worldwide already keep their assets safe and accessible with Daminion
Secure Storage

Bring Order to Your Digital Archives

Eliminate scattered drives and outdated files

Daminion unifies photos, videos, and documents into a searchable, well-structured archive accessible to every authorized department.

Features

Key Features

Secure, compliant, and efficient digital asset management for government agencies

Government departments and agencies generate large volumes of photos and media from inspections, public works, infrastructure projects, events, and community programs. A DAM brings all this content into one organized, searchable library instead of scattered network drives, emails, and personal folders.

Websites, press releases, public reports, social channels, and presentations all rely on visuals. With a DAM, teams can quickly find and reuse approved photos and media instead of repeatedly requesting files or recreating materials.

Facial recognition helps organize large collections of photos by people, making it easier to find images of public officials, speakers, staff members, or recurring participants across events and initiatives. This simplifies preparation of public communications, reports, and archives that rely on accurate, consistent visual representation.

Geo-tagging allows media to be tied to real locations – streets, facilities, districts, or regions. Teams can browse assets directly on a map, track changes over time at the same site, and understand how work is distributed geographically.

A DAM allows government agencies to define who can upload, edit, approve, and download media. Internal working materials can be separated from content cleared for public use, helping teams follow internal policies and reduce the risk of accidental misuse.

Choose Daminion

Why Choose Daminion?

Built for the unique security and compliance needs of government agencies

Best-in-Class On-Premise DAM Solution

Runs entirely on your infrastructure, with no reliance on external cloud providers. Fully compliant with government security standards.

20+ Years of Expertise

Trusted by 800+ organizations worldwide to manage millions of assets securely and efficiently.

Workflows for Government Needs

Supports the day-to-day work of communications, public affairs, and other teams with tools for organization, search, and collaboration.

Easy Steps

How Government Agencies Use Daminion

Organize, protect, and distribute digital assets across departments and public services

Organize and Protect

Import existing archives into a centralized system. Detect and remove duplicates, and configure role-based access to protect sensitive records.

Automate Discovery

Use AI tagging, facial recognition, and advanced filtering options to make officials, events, and documents instantly searchable.

Improve Public Service

Respond to FOIA and public records requests in minutes, prepare press releases faster, and support city planning with quick access to the right assets.
FAQs Made Easy

Frequently Asked Questions

How Daminion helps governments manage digital assets securely and efficiently

FedRAMP (or GovRAMP) certification is typically required for cloud services. Since Daminion is primarily an on-premises solution, all data stays fully under your agency’s control, behind your firewall, and does not require FedRAMP certification. This ensures maximum security and compliance with government IT policies.

Yes. Daminion supports locally hosted AI models for automatic tagging and facial recognition. All processing happens on-premises, fully behind your firewall. The quality is comparable to modern OpenAI models, but with no compliance risks.

Event photos from council meetings, press briefings, or public gatherings can number in the hundreds. On-prem facial recognition automatically identifies officials and staff, saving hours of manual tagging and enabling faster media releases and reports.

Very granular. Permissions can be configured per department, per user, or even per asset. You can also control who can view, edit, download, or share files.

By default, only the latest approved revision of each file is shown. Older versions remain archived for audit purposes but cannot be mistakenly reused. You can also enforce license tracking to prevent use of expired images.

Yes. With cloud DAMs, storage costs continuously increase as your archive grows — making long-term expenses unpredictable and often much higher. With Daminion’s on-premises deployment, storage runs on your own servers, so costs stay predictable and significantly lower over time.

No. Daminion works directly with your existing NAS or file server. You can keep your current folder structure intact, and Daminion will index the files to make them instantly searchable by metadata and tags.

Yes. Daminion runs on Windows Server and integrates with Active Directory for user management. You can apply your existing authentication policies and security standards without duplicating systems.

Yes. Administrators can configure file- or folder-level permissions, or even restrict access to specific catalogs. Sensitive or classified information can be limited to a defined user group, while other departments work freely with approved public assets.

Daminion’s metadata filters let you narrow results by date, event, location, or keyword. This makes responding to public records requests take minutes, not days — saving staff time and improving transparency.

Real Reviews

Voices from the Public Sector

Hear how government agencies use Daminion to secure archives, streamline communications, and improve public service

With Daminion, all photos can be found very quickly.

The Tacoma Media Relations Office uses Daminion for storing and processing photographs. With Daminion, all photos can be found very quickly, and thanks to the integration with Photoshop and InDesign, they can be easily processed.

Brian Cox
Media Relations Office
All the functions we needed are provided by Daminion.

We were looking for software to organize photos and videos for distributing content professionally. We also needed a tool that allowed departments outside of our organization to easily search for images and videos in an organized way.

All these functions are provided by Daminion, so now our work with images runs very fast and effectively.

Collin Davis
Mount Pleasant Gov
All the features we were looking for, we found in Daminion.

We wanted to find software that could be used by both external and internal parties, with the ability to regulate privacy and features for external users. It also needed to support various formats, allow resizing and reformatting of files within the software (including built-in resizing for social media aspect ratios), and integrate with Adobe Creative Suite as well as other storage platforms like Google Drive and Dropbox for easy drag and drop.

All these features we found in Daminion. Our cooperation is a success, and I’m happy that we started using the DAM system.

Victoria Sharp
texas.gov
Daminion helps us create a centralized archive and find photos easily.

We tried to create an image catalog with multi-user access, but our assets were scattered across disks and cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox, making it difficult to use photos and track current licenses.

As part of our work, we take photos of different animals and plants. These images are needed immediately for brochures and manuals, and later for books — so they must not be lost. Daminion helps us create a centralized archive and makes photo searching much easier.

Karl Souza
Director of Finance & Operations
Daminion has helped our business become significantly more efficient.

Each employee spends less time searching through folders and more time growing the company. As a systems director, it gives me a nice, clean feeling to know all our media is properly organized and can be located within a few short clicks.

I consider Daminion’s excellent support team to be one of the best insurance policies we ever bought.

Kedar Tilak
Systems Director
Daminion strikes a perfect balance.

Daminion strikes a perfect balance between standalone ‘wannabe’ catalog software and DAM suites that are way too expensive and complicated for our purposes.

During those hectic festival days without Daminion, we had to choose between getting some sleep and delivering the best results. Now, with Daminion, we can do both!

Stijn De Naeyer
Archivist
We needed a solution to organize our archive.

As an engineering company, we take a lot of pictures when working on different projects. When starting a new project, it’s always good to look at similar projects we’ve already worked on — but this was impossible because our files were scattered all over the server.

We had many protocols in place to keep the server organized, but over time it got messy. That’s why we needed a solution to organize our archive.

Henrich Henriksen
Business Development, President