As part of its initiative to open its metadata for wider use beyond the UK library community, the British Library is offering free data services via access to the Library’s full Integrated Catalogue and the British National Bibliography Z39.50 databases and corresponding datasets (for research purposes only).
“Access to either …
Continue reading »In this chapter excerpt from the book ‘Digitization In The Real World’, Sue Kunda looks at some of the key steps involved in running a medium to smaller sized digitisation project for Oregon State University Libraries. The entire chapter can be downloaded in PDF format for free.
“With the help …
Continue reading »In this article, Mac Slocum outlines why metadata is so vital to the user experience in his critique of the popular ‘ShowYou’ iPad video app.
“The area where metadata is most important, however, is video. That content is locked within formats that are generally inaccessible to search spiders and aggregation …
Continue reading »As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, the UK’s national tourist agency, Visit Britain has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Photolibrary.com who will promote 600 rare film clips in their collection:
“Photolibrary Group has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with VisitBritain, Britain’s national tourist agency, to include access to it’s collection …
Continue reading »The Leipzig Semantic Web Day is being held (in Leipzig, Germany) on 5th May 2011:
“The theme this year is “Linked Data for the Masses”, particularly focusing on its use in enterprises. This event will not only give you the opportunity to discuss current developments around semantic web technologies, …
Continue reading »Chris Hoff, writing on his Rational Survivability Blog discusses his contempt for “Cloudbursting”, this is a corruption of the term ‘bursting’ and refers to a technique where enterprises can increase capacity rapidly for a short period of time by temporarily expanding out into a public Cloud infrastructure:
“Either you …
Continue reading »The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has published an article about the risks of outsourcing data storage to external providers who hold records in the cloud. NAA have indicated that most of the risks can be mitigated if recognised:
According to this Digidaily.com article, almost half the agencies and advertisers and agencies in one of their recent surveys are planning to increase their spending on on-line video advertising, with roughly 30% predicting a double digit rise:
“More than half of the more than 100 responding advertisers and agencies …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, Extensis will be sponsoring a workshop a the Museums and the Web 2011 Conference in Philadelphia this Saturday (9th April). The presentation will be delivered by Edward Smith from Extensis and Maggie Hanson, from Portland Art Museum. It will cover topics such as:
DAM conference organiser, Henry Stewart, have announced dates of their L0ndon (EU) and Los Angeles (LA) conferences. The London event will take place on 24th June 2011 at the Le Meridien Piccadilly:
“We are delighted to welcome back as chair, David Lipsey, well-known digital media industry founder and contributor …
Continue reading »One of our featured open source DAM vendors, ResourceSpace, have released an updated version 4.1.2567 with a range of fixes and new features, including:
Createasphere, have announced that they are now accepting nominations for the 2nd DAMMY Awards. The categories include:
