Joshua Ranger writing on the AudioVisual Preservation Solutions blog discusses how “Digital Media Collections Are an IT Problem But Not an IT Solution”. The essence of Joshua’s post is that while archivists must collaborate with IT professionals to enable digital collections to be established, it is the archivists who should …
Continue reading »This was posted on the Controlled Vocabulary list that metadata expert, David Riecks manages. Matroska is a new open standard container format for multimedia files. Many readers will be aware of container formats for video, like QuickTime or AVI etc. Matroska can be used to hold metadata, including ‘time line’ …
Continue reading »Jeff Carr, writing on the Earley & Associates Blog discusses 5 commonly held misconceptions about taxonomies and SharePoint:
One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have written a whitepaper “Why CIOs are increasingly interested in DAM”:
“New technologies have created a new world of marketing and have led to an increased importance of marketing activities within the enterprise. With these changes, comes new pressure on …
Continue reading »One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, North Plains have released recordings of a 3 part series of webinars about the foundation of DAM:
“The DAM Foundations Series is a 3-part series of DAM webinars and whitepapers designed for DAM evaluators, stakeholders and users to create shared …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream, have written a blog post where they consider the role of Digital Asset Management selection consultancies and offer some advice to purchasing managers. They consider 5 areas where vendor selection consultants can potentially arrive at decisions that are not necessarily to the benefit of their clients:
Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than …
Continue reading »SearchDataManagement.co.uk has an interview with Mike Gunton, Executive Director of The BBC’s Natural History Unit where he describes the rationale behind the corporation’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) which is at the core of its Digital Asset Management strategy. Unsurprisingly, the natural history unit’s metadata and archival requirements are ‘at the …
Continue reading »Darin Stewart, writing on the Gartner blog discusses the ongoing rise in the popularity of taxonomies, in “It’s time for taxonomy“:
“In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments. I considered myself lucky if there were a …
Continue reading »This Google blog article discusses the inclusion in their Chrome browser of a C/C++ engine using the same ‘sandbox’ security techniques as JavaScript. The feature is called “NativeClient” and uses Google’s ‘Pepper’ API to allow interaction between the C/C++ and HTML5:
“First, we’re pleased to announce the integration of …
Continue reading »Edward Smith, writing on the Extensis sponsored “DAM Learning Center” explains some of the basics of video terminology and offers some best practice tips for including it in your DAM. The main advice is:
On Tuesday, Amazon, announced they were releasing a “Server Side Encryption” module for users of their S3 storage facility. For less technical users, this means they created a method for software developers to encrypt or ‘scramble’ data when it gets stored on their Cloud servers so unauthorised users (aka ‘hackers’) …
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