The Metadata Working Group which counts Adobe, Nokia, Sony, Apple and Microsoft amongst its number has recently published an updated set of guidelines for handling image metadata:
“Consumer sharing of still images has exploded with the maturing of Internet services for the storage, manipulation, and sharing of pictures. However, …
Continue reading »If there’s one piece of kit any serious DAM pro needs, it’s a lot of storage to retain all of those precious digital assets. Even if you use a DAM provided by a service provider or your organisation’s own enterprise installed DAM system, having a decent amount of capacity to …
Continue reading »Web design guru, David Siegel has written an article “What Is The Semantic Web” appearing on SemanticFocus.com which gives a succinct description of what the fuss is all about if you’re still struggling to understand this emerging area. Instead of explaining each of the latest buzzwords, he characterises many of …
Continue reading »Stefan Waldhauser writing on The Digital Landfill blog predicts that 2011 will be the “Year of CMIS” and offers eight reasons why:
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The Digital Landfill blog describes what they call “Great moments in Document Management” for 2010. These might be great for DM solution vendors and consultants looking for case studies to demonstrate to prospective clients the risks of failing to manage documents and records properly, but they aren’t what you would …
Continue reading »Wondering what to get the DAM professional in your life this Christmas? As the holiday season gets into full swing, here’s the first of our suggested list of stocking fillers:
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Continue reading »In a further significant move for the use of Cloud based storage for Digital Asset Management, Amazon have announced on their web services blog that their S3 service will now handle objects (files or digital assets) up to 5TB in size. This makes S3 a serious proposition for storage of …
Continue reading »In this article, Leala Abbot writing in the Off The Shelf blog discusses how applying analogue methods to asset cataloguing (where every detail about an asset will attempt to be recorded) can negatively impact archivists productivity and the resulting scalability of the DAM. Although she is considering preservation and museum …
Continue reading »Perfect for SharePoint developers or user interface designers tasked with the creation of customised, intuitive user interfaces for their SharePoint 2010 applications, Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design By Jacob J. Sanford and Randy Drisgill covers topics from branding basics to advanced branding design for large-scale changes to …
Continue reading »In this Rolling Stone article: “File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis” David Browne considers the lack of robustness of digital media assets as compared with analogue alternatives. As has increasingly been noted by a number of commentators, digital media tends to age more quickly and …
Continue reading »Written for programmers, developers, and IT professionals, Professional Microsoft Search: FAST Search, SharePoint Search, and Search Server (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) By Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe and Natalya Voskresenskaya presents an in depth analysis of the key features and functions that are available with FAST search, Microsoft’s latest …
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