The Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference runs from March 2-3 2011 at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California. The conference will feature speakers such as Lela Abbott from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Alan Pelez Sharp of Real Story Group:
“This two day professional conference is comprised …
Continue reading »The Publishers Association and the Centre for Publishing will be holding the latest in their series of Digital Publishing Forum seminars on Wednesday 12th January 2011 at University College London. Aiming to brief publishers on technical developments, market trends and legal issues in the area of digital publishing, keynote speakers …
Continue reading »Content migration guru, David Hobbs has written an article weighing the pros and cons of automated migration (i.e. writing scripts or using tools to transfer content/data from one system to another). He discusses 5 factors to help evaluate whether automation is appropriate or not, including:
If you are interested finding out more about Digital Preservation, Bill LeFurgy writing on Agogified.com has compiled 15 sources of information which he has used to train library school students:
“I wanted sources that covered issues of current importance, were succinct and that were reasonably friendly to the non-expert. …
Continue reading »One of our featured Open Source DAM Vendors, Razuna, have released an update (v.1.4.1) to their CFML based DAM solution, including:
“Thought, Razuna 1.4.1 might sound like …
Continue reading »Dominic Case writing on the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) Blog discusses an increasing concern shared by several commentators that digital preservation is turning out to be more expensive and complicated than analogue:
“…no-one knows how long digital data can be preserved or how much more it …
Continue reading »In our first feature we assessed the DAM Industry and the prospects for 2011. The second article examines technologies that will shape the DAM market in 2011 and beyond. We consider the following topics:
In the first of our special features, we assess the state of the DAM market and make some predictions about where the industry is going in 2o11 and beyond. The trends covered include:
DAM consultants, Daydream have published a blog post that discusses the risks of Cloud hosting. They make reference to Wikileaks and the financial crisis as good examples of why you should avoid placing too much trust in Cloud hosting as your exclusive method of delivery:
“I do believe …
Continue reading »Publisher O’Reilly have announced the 2011 dates for their Tools of Change Conference which will take place February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers (USA). The conference deals with the topic of publishing technologies with a particular focus on emerging platforms like iPads, HTML5 but also …
Continue reading »Extensis have upgraded Portfolio Server and Portfolio Studio to version 9.5.3. The point release includes these enhancements:
StreamingMedia.com carried an article last week on the poor performance of the majority (68%) of US consumers broadband connections were not meeting the definition of true broadband speed (4Mbps down, 1Mbps up). The article was based on a US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) report from 2009.
Tim Siglin, the …
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