The Limelight blog has an article on what to consider when adding video content to your web presence:
“Build or buy. The choice to build your own video platform or outsource video publishing depends in part on your ability to make educated decisions about video player technology, transcoding needs, …
Continue reading »Jinesh Varia writing on the Amazon AWS blog does a good job of summarising the three main types of Cloud licences that are prevalent for applications and services:
Also included is some advice …
Continue reading »Ken Colburn writing for the East Valley Tribune describes EXIF data in layman’s terms and explains what kind of information may be held about photos. In particular, the question of whether EXIF data can be used to determine where a photo was taken is discussed:
“In the case of …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream have posted an article by Ralph Windsor on the dangers of what they call “Digital Asset Micromanagement”, which discusses how permissions controls can damage the productivity of your employees if not applied with care and attention. The seven “deadly sins” (as they call them) cover these areas:…
Continue reading »The third and final title in our roundup of books on Digital Asset Management for photographers is “Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook: A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve” by Patricia Russotti and Richard Anderson.
Aimed at professional photographers and archivists, this universal guide, …
Continue reading »As reported by the British Journal of Photography, the new UK coalition administration intends to review copyright law once more (this is in addition to the Digital Economy Bill introduced by the last government). Specifically, a ‘fair use’ policy will be considered to make it easier for Google, Facebook …
Continue reading »The second in our roundup of DAM related books for photographers and photo libraries is “The Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find, and Share Your Photos” by Sarah Bay Williams.
Aimed more at the individual, rather than the professional photographic studio or archive, this book explains strategies for …
Continue reading »Chris McNulty from Knowledge Management Associates describes 9 rules for making effective use of Managed Metadata Services (MMS). This is SharePoint 2010’s method for improving the consistency of tagging and metadata schemas across an enterprise implementation of SharePoint 2010. These are taken from Chris’s book: Sharepoint 2010 Consultant’s Handbook.…
Continue reading »The first in our series of features on popular books, reports and white papers that cover the topic of digital asset management and related subjects. In this review, we look at books that focus on digital asset management for photographers and photographic libraries.
It could be argued that the first …
Continue reading »Many organisations are considering moving their storage facilities to the Cloud to take advantage of the enhanced scalability opportunities. However, the problem is that the connectivity available to most companies is inadequate for this to be a usable alternative when compared with the performance of local storage that users are …
Continue reading »As reported by CNET last week, Adobe are currently working on an edition or variation of Photoshop that will operate on tablet devices such as the iPad or Smasung’s Galaxy Tab. While the limitations of the touch based interface mean that the tablet isn’t likely to be a replacement …
Continue reading »Leela Abbot writing on her personal blog describes a recent DAM meetup she conducted in New York. She describes the session in some detail with descriptions of the Q&A sessions, including questions such as these:
