In this article, S. Shyamala at Financial Chronicle identifies the unwillingness of the Indian film industry to embrace the latest digital technologies. Both a lack of knowledge and also financial issues severely hamper the adoption of digital technologies in the sector, and despite some market penetration by digital asset management …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream, have released an interesting article that examines how open source licensing models may be the future for digital asset management software distribution.
“There is a great deal of confusion regarding open source software products, which can make it complex for managers to compare the options when …
Continue reading »A recent survey from Communications Of The ACM has investigated the growing use of crowdsourcing in web systems worldwide.
“This survey attempts to provide a global picture of crowdsourcing systems (CS) on the Web. We define and classify such systems, then describe a broad sample of systems… Given the space …
Continue reading »A research project conducted by BML has found in a survey of the UK’s top publishing companies that revenue from e-book sales was predicted to increase significantly in 2011 – 2012, representing a tipping point for mass market adoption of new electronic formats.
“‘If 2010 has been acknowledged as the …
Continue reading »The ongoing legal drama that is the six year-old class action suit against Google Books for scanning millions of books without copyright consent, reached a new chapter recently when a US court blocked the company’s attempts to reach an agreement with publishers.
“Copyright concerns persisted, as the ownership of many …
Continue reading »Nachofoto, developers of a ‘semantic, time-based vertical image search engine,’ have announced they are in talks with a thus far undisclosed major player in the search industry about the adoption of their system, currently in beta.
“Why build when you can buy? “Google of course can do anything,” says Anuj …
Continue reading »OnlineVideo.net has a 6 part article where they evaluate different options for hosting user generated video content. The sites considered are:
“There are two reasons to post videos to a user generated content (UGC) site; first, to reach the constituency of members, …
Continue reading »As reported on Tech Crunch, former Myspace employees, Todd Leloy and Joe Muoz have developed an automated semantic Tagging Robot which crawls Facebook newsfeeds and offers you relevant topics for each link. Tagging Robot uses NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and machine based learning to develop a profile of users …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced a Webinar: “How to Choose Between SaaS or Installed Digital Asset Management” that will take place on Thursday 24th March at 1pm (ET):
“The surviving pure-play SaaS vendors have gotten more capable, but still lack a complete …
Continue reading »It seems that metadata remains a hot topic in DAM at the moment. DAM consultants, Daydream have released an updated white paper entitled: “Metadata Management Strategies for Marketing Based Digital Asset Management”.
The key points are:
Writing on the Archive Media Partners blog, Kim Schroeder discusses the issues that can result from trying to use automated indexing or low-quality human resources who lack an understanding of the nuances of the subject matter.
She points out that the cost savings that these alternatives claim to offer …
Continue reading »Revenue generation often comes up in the list of reasons for implementing Digital Asset Management strategies, but unless they have prior media business experience, most organisations are unsure how to go about achieving this objective and their ROI estimates can suffer as a result.
This onlinevideo.net article and accompanying video …
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