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Western Digital Makes DAM More Manageable For Video

by Nick Brookes on September 3, 2010

With the rise of high definition video formats, more and more videographers are turning to WD external hard drives to store their ever increasing volumes of video data.

“However the rise of high definition videos, 2K and 4K image resolution files that require huge storage space compel video makers to consider tapeless-based production or what we call Digital Asset Management (DAM). Still getting nervous on trusting all your work in a single drive? Wait until you learn the ways on how WD makes ‘tapeless’ manageable for you” [Read More]

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Adbeast Acquired By MIJO

September 3, 2010 Industry News

North America’s leading digital television distributor, MIJO Corporation, has recently announced its acquisition of Adbeast – a web-based digital asset management business, dedicated to the needs of the advertising industry. Steve Hancock, Founder and Principal of adbeast adds, “It is with much excitement that we join one of the most respected and progressive companies in the [...]

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Vidispine and Object Matrix Announce ‘Frictionless’ DAM

September 3, 2010 Digital Asset Management

A joint technology partnership between media asset management software vendor, Vidispine and digital archive developers, Object Matrix has been announced.  The partnership aims to produce systems that will meet the demanding requirements of the media and creative industries, where complex workflows must manage and deliver many hundreds of terabytes of digital content, across multiple disparate platforms and in [...]

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8 Criteria For Selecting An ECM/DM Solution

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Charlie Minesinger of Innovative Query writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 criteria for choosing an ECM solution.  As with many of the articles about selecting ECM products, many of the criteria are appropriate for DAM vendor evaluations also: Metadata Maintenance (Automation). Findability. Total Control. Total Cost of Ownership. Flexibility for Applications. Flexibility for [...]

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SKOS Thesauri: The Next Generation Of Semantic Technologies?

September 2, 2010 Semantic Web

Andreas Blumauer writing in The Semantic Web Company Blog discusses why linked data combined with SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Thesauri will enhance search beyond existing simple statistical analysis based techniques: “Providers of first generation semantic technologies calculate rather basic “semantic networks” by co-occurency analysis which results sometimes in disappointing results. Bearing in mind that [...]

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The End Of High End Stock Photography?

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On the WhichStockAgency.com blog, Marianne Winther asks whether the end is nigh for custom high end stock photo shoots.  She takes quotes from three different stock industry commentators, including this one from Glenn Parker, CEO of Photolibrary: “…there is money to be made from ‘image creation’ rather than using the word ‘production’ at an individual [...]

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Identifying Digital Asset Management Needs: Webinar, Tuesday 7th September (2pm ET)

August 31, 2010 Industry Events

Theresa Regli of Real Story Group is hosting a Webinar on September 7th at 2pm (ET) entitled “DAM Diagnostic: Identifying your needs around image, brand, and video management“: “This webinar will feature a quick introduction to digital asset management, explaining precisely how it’s different from other types of content management software. You’ll be armed with [...]

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Introduction to Ontology Course

August 31, 2010 Taxonomy And Metadata

Barry Smith, from Buffalo University has produced this free course: “Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core“.  The course is aimed at those with an information science or philosophy background and covers a number of topics: Ontology as a Branch of Philosophy Ontology and Logic The Ontology of Social Reality Why I Am [...]

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Do Your Developers Use Their Own Software?

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Steve Radick, writing on the Enterprise 2.0 blog asks a valid question about how frequently developers actually use software they have built for users: “Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone at home. Sharepoint developers implement Sharepoint, [...]

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Dialog Launch New Search Service

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The Role of Taxonomy and Metadata in Enterprise Information Management Initiatives: Half Day Briefings

August 27, 2010 Industry Events

Earley Associates are offering a series of half day briefings on the role of taxonomy and metadata in enterprise information management initiatives.  During the briefings, attendees will learn: How best in class organizations are addressing problems of information findability Approaches for integrating applications using business semantics New approaches to integrating taxonomies with search applications Measuring [...]

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