One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have released version 9.1 of their flagship product, Telescope. Last year, we mentioned that North Plains (along with Media Beacon) were one of those eager to provide iPad interface for their product. The press release is a bit short …
Continue reading »In this ReadWriteWeb article, Chris Lamb discusses how relevancy has increased significantly in importance over and above the news ‘containers’ of the past (e.g. newspapers). He considers some emerging technologies that might help people extract more meaningful content. One point he raises is that current applications are inadequate:
“The …
Continue reading »In this Onlinevideo.net interview, Lauri Kivinen of Finnish TV broadcaster, YLE is interviewed and comes down on the side of HTML5 for content delivery:
“Big content creators are already moving away from apps. Kivinen relates that The Financial Timeshas gone with an HTML5 format with no apps required for …
Continue reading »Christine Connors, writing on the TriviumRLG blog has written a brief history of classification. This paragraph about the history of taxonomies in the enterprise stood out specifically for me:
“Taxonomies in the enterprise reach back further than one thinks, but became known to researchers in 1858 when the NY …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto are hosting a one hour webinar presentation on “The Invisible Dangers of DAM”. The webinar will cover these major topics
Danny Ayers writing on his personal blog discusses his take on Cloud with this article: “The Emperor’s New Client“. In the article, Danny describes how he agrees with and likes many of the building blocks of the cloud such as the http protocol but dislikes the clients used …
Continue reading »Yesterday we analysed the prospects for the DAM industry in 2012. Today we look more closely at our DAM technology predictions for 2012 and consider a number of themes as, such as:
In this the first of a two part piece, we have written an article where we outline our predictions for the Digital Asset Management industry in 2012. The key themes to emerge from our discussion are the impact of the wider economic environment and the increased competition in in …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, WAVE Corporation have written a blog post which definitely resonates with my own consulting experience when working with clients who are interested in implementing Digital Asset Management. They discuss how when they get enquiries, sales prospects can tend to expand the scope of …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis have released version 10.1 of their Portfolio Digital Asset Management System. The point release has a variety of new features and bug fixes, including:
In “Despite its allure, digital asset management not always the right fit” Jonathan Gourlay writing on the Search Content Management section of TechTarget.com suggests that organisations may not necessarily require a DAM system if they have WCM (Web Content Management). He refers to Forrester research and other consultants …
Continue reading »This was covered on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group. The Embedded Metadata Manifesto discusses 5 key principles for using and creating embedded metadata and is aimed at both intellectual property originators (creators of assets like photographers, film makers etc), tool developers (i.e. DAM vendors) and end users. The following is …
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