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Do Your Developers Use Their Own Software?

August 31, 2010 Opinion

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

August 27, 2010 Enterprise Search

Online information services provider, Dialog, have recently announced the launch of their new search service, ProQuest Dialog, a service intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organisations. “The first release of ProQuest Dialog offers subscription-based access to databases from some of the world’s most trusted publishers , such as Embase, BIOSIS Previews, [...]

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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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On Cloud Mine: Are Private Clouds Worth It?

August 27, 2010 Cloud Computing

In this article, Bhaskar Krishnamsetty presents the benefits of private cloud use and explains how private clouds can contribute to maximising the return on your IT investment. “The best way to assess the value of the cloud is in terms of the economic drivers and long term benefits. Implementing a private cloud allows organizations to have a dynamic [...]

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Open Text Release New Sematic Search Based On Nstein Technology

August 26, 2010 Semantic Web

Open Text have announced the release of a new semantic search feature based on Nstein technologies, the fellow Canadian Digital Asset Management company that Open Text acquired in February 2010.  “According to Open Text, the Open Text Content Analytics engine, as they are calling it, “intelligently extracts meaning, sentiment and context from content, and in turn [...]

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Keeping Your Eyes On The Metadata Prize: Meaningful, Interoperable Information

August 26, 2010 Taxonomy And Metadata

In this article, Mike Bergman discusses how linked metadata can hinder the ultimate goal of metadata management - namely meaningful, interoperable information - if it is made an objective in itself. “Linked data is a good thing, but not an ultimate thing. By making linked data an objective in itself we unduly raise publishing thresholds; we set [...]

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Incorporating Legacy Data Cleansing Into An Information Management Strategy

August 25, 2010 Document Management

Johannes Scholtes writing on the Zylab blog has an article on managing legacy information where he outlines some risks and opportunities for organisations that have not yet considered a strategy for dealing with it: eDiscovery costs and risks will be much higher. Better Early Case Assessment (ECA) is only possible if you know what information [...]

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5 Reasons Photographers Should Take Note Of The iPad

August 24, 2010 Emerging DAM Technologies

Writing on the JMG Galleries blog, Jim Goldstein discusses 5 reasons why photographers need to be interested in the iPad: It’s more than an iPod Touch. The highly advanced interactivity and transformation user experience. New opportunities to publish content. The impact that Apple’s conventions for navigating and viewing content will have on other devices. The [...]

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How Professional Photographers Deal With Workflow For Larger Volumes Of Digital Assets

August 23, 2010 Workflow

Jay Goodrich writing on The Outdoor Photographer explains his own approach to workflow and how he deals with the large numbers of digital assets that he generates in his work as a photographer: “I teach a bunch of workshops every year and inevitably, a long discussion on workflow happens. I am never really surprised because [...]

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The Interactive Knowledge Stack

August 23, 2010 Semantic Web

On the Talis Nodalities blog, Richard Wallis presents a podcast where he talks about The Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) with Wernher Behrendt  and John Pereira of Salzburg Research who developed it: “The four year project started in January 2009 to provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems.  The concept behind [...]

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Tin Eye Reverse Image Search Engine: A Step Beyond Checksums?

August 23, 2010 Emerging DAM Technologies

TinEye is  a reverse search engine which can find related images (and other information) based on a source file: “TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find [...]

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