A conference dedicated to the popular open source Lucene/Solr text search library (which is widely used by both open source and commercial DAM systems) is being held in Barcelona on 19-20th October. The event costs money to attend but if your business or organisation depends on Lucene or Solr …
Continue reading »Open Source Content Management (but never to be described as “DAM”) vendor, Alfresco have released version 4 of their ‘open platform for social content management’ yesterday. The stand-out features include:
The ‘Uptime’ section of Arstechnica.com features an article that reports from OmniTI Surge Conference (held last week) where some of the greatest IT failures were discussed. The keynote features Ben Fried, CIO of Google who describes a previous position he held at Morgan Stanley where a critical application failed, costing …
Continue reading »The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM:
Eight seems to be a popular number with DAM consultants right now, one of our featured DAM vendors, Vyre have released a two-part article on “Eight Steps to a Successful DAM/MRM Project”:
“Any successful project must begin with finding a supplier and solution that can elegantly solve your problem. …
Continue reading »Adobe have released an updated Lightroom version 3.5 and also Cmera Raw 6.5 The desktop photo management tool which is very popular with photographers for metadata management tasks features support for a wide range of new cameras but also various bug fixes:
Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland of Free University Brussels (ULB) have launched a demonstration site based on Google Refine that aims to show irregular or imperfect metadata can become more valuable even if released rather than holding on to it in order to ‘perfect’ the data. They are interviewed …
Continue reading »Chris Riley, writing on the AIIM blog discusses and age-old debate: end users vs IT departments. He contends that many debates about certain technologies are fundamentally about the needs of end users vs the intransigence of IT departments:
“What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo, have published an introduction to ECM as a series of whitepapers. Their ContentGeeks.net site has an overview of part 1 of the paper:
“In this first part, we’ve tried to provide insight into what Enterprise Content Management really is—and not …
Continue reading »Jim Shaw, general manager of Acquia writing for UK VAR channel publication: CRN discusses the benefits of an open source solution when using SaaS or Cloud software solutions. He outlines the issues of using proprietary SaaS products, namely that if users decide they wish to move away from the vendor …
Continue reading »Makx Dekkers, outgoing Managing Director of DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) is interviewed by Friedel Grant in this piece from DublinCore.org site. It’s interesting to note how DMCI (once a relatively obscure standard only used by public sector organisations) has expanded into a much wider and more encompassing role:
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Continue reading »Earley Associates have written a two part article for CIO Update: “Transforming Information into Knowledge“. The piece describes a 7 stage ‘recipe’ for breaking down the complex issue of converting disparate sources of corporate information into knowledge (i.e. information which can be acted upon). The stages are
