iPhone software vendor, Dear Future Astronaut AB, have recently released Photo Stats – an app that converts EXIF data from photos taken and stored on users’ iPhones. Although gimmicky, this creative use of EXIF data may perhaps have some practical, real-world uses for digital asset management or similar systems, such …
Continue reading »In this interview, Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., explains how taxonomy is crucial for successful digital asset management and describes the exciting range of subject matter she encounters working as a metadata consultant for NASA.
“Taxonomy is fundamental to each stage of Digital …
Continue reading »In this article Jeremy Sohn explains the key challenges facing marketers in today’s media rich world and explores some solutions to media management overload.
“With increased demand for high-quality content experiences, communication between companies and their customers has shifted. This shift has created both challenges and opportunities for today’s marketers …
Continue reading »Following Adobe’s recent preview launch of Adobe Edge, their new HTML5 authoring tool, there has been much speculation as to whether this product release spells the end for Adobe Flash as an interface technology. The question for DAM vendors and their users, however, is whether this latest trend is …
Continue reading »Returning to New York for a second year, the 2011 Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference will be held from 22nd – 23rd September 2011 at the New Yorker Hotel, New York. The schedule includes: Leveraging the Cloud, Storage & Disaster Recovery, Open Source, Immersive Technologies, Metadata and Branding & DAM.…
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, are hosting a webinar on 10th August to demonstrate the enhanced image search features provided by plug-ins for their Canto Cumulus software.
“Modula4 demonstrates ImageSorter and Image Search, add-on products for Canto Cumulus that let you find images based on visual …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Conecture Technologies, have announced a major new release to their Mediabox-DAM software. The release includes features to switch between light box and list views of assets, zoom into images to view details, transform and resize images while downloading, customize proof sheet reports …
Continue reading »Microsoft SharePoint consultancy, ICS Solutions, are running a series of seminars addressing popular issues with SharePoint 2010 throughout late summer/autumn 2011. Topics include: ‘SharePoint Online or On-premise: Which is right for you?’, ‘What you need to know about Collaboration and Social Computing with SharePoint 2010’ and ‘How to get control …
Continue reading »The organisers of the 4th Annual Cloud Computing Forum, which will be held at Earls Court in London, UK next June, are now offering early-bird discounts on Gold and Gold + passes for the 2012 show. The highest attended cloud event in Europe, CCWF attracts some of the biggest names …
Continue reading »Marketing automation provider, Vyre, have recently announced the 4.6.2 release of their Unify platform. The release includes enhanced statistics and reporting, protected content sharing, web-to-print and support for ReCAPTCHA.
“VYRE Unify 4.6.2 is a new major version release of VYRE’s marketing automation platform. This release includes greater search …
Continue reading »In this article, semantic web software engineer and CEO of Smartetics, Davide Palmisano, explores the impact that the open data movement has had on the growth of open online data resources worldwide.
“More than two years after President Obama’s memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands of public authorities and …
Continue reading »In a recent move to enhance their image search, Google will now index the embedded Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data from image files featured in their image search. The EXIF format, that records detailed information regarding the technical specification of each image (such as aperture, focal length, exposure length …
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