Lesley Mackenzie-Robb, writing on vantaggio-learn.com compares free text searching and controlled vocabularies.
She makes the point that while Controlled Vocabularies should theoretically provide an enhanced search experience because they offer the user a more focussed and subject oriented range of options to narrow searches, there is subjectivity involved in …
Continue reading »Jom Thumma, writing for CMSReport.com describes six tips for managing the organisational changes bought about by implementing ECM solutions:
“Change management planning revolves around a specific, …
Continue reading »Extensis have released an updated edition of Portfolio Digital Media Archive Server:
“Today we introduced a new addition to our line of Digital Asset Management (DAM) products: Portfolio Studio™. This is image archive server was developed for small teams to allow for automatically archiving and centralized access to photos …
Continue reading »Createasphere have announced that they have selected Jason Bright of Media Beacon as the winner of their DAMMY of the year award:
“The goal of the DAMMY Awards is to raise awareness of the rapidly evolving, increasingly crucial role of digital asset management (DAM); to promote creative and technical …
Continue reading »Jan Ozer discusses HTML5 on OnlineVideo.net and in particular the implications for video producers of a move away from plug-in based video delivery technologies like Flash towards native browser solutions. The main point is that HTML5 will likely not add much in terms of user experience if your DAM system …
Continue reading »Writing on Streamingmedia.com, Tim Siglin reviews the recently released Flash Media Server 4 and discusses some its newer features, including support for multicasting and HTTP streaming:
“Adobe’s Flash Media Servers have undergone a radical set of changes in the past few revisions. FMS version 2 offered numerous iterations. …
Continue reading »Breaking News – Wowza Media Systems, developers of the Wowza Media Server, have announced a new licensing agreement with digital media asset management provider, Dalet Digital Media Systems.
“The integration of Wowza Media Server 2 adds market-proven streaming capabilities to the Dalet MAM platform’s already powerful functionality, which includes shot …
Continue reading »Rhonda Basler, of Mail Print, one of our featured DAM Vendors, have posted a blog entry about fears many larger organisations have about ceding control over sales and marketing to colleagues in the field and what technology options are available now to assuage those concerns. The fears discussed …
Continue reading »Matt Brandon, writing on The Digital Trekker blog describes how keywording (adding tags, descriptions and other metadata to assets) is a mundane but essential task – especially for photographers who need to sell images:
“For some of you, this is not very important, all you need to do is …
Continue reading »In this article, Thomas Schandl, Helmut Nagy, Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer share their initial thoughts and opinions about the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS, whilst on the move.
“Imagine the following: A car full of Semantic Web Experts is on it’s way back from Graz. They hand …
Continue reading »North America’s leading digital television distributor, MIJO Corporation, has recently announced its acquisition of Adbeast – a web-based digital asset management business, dedicated to the needs of the advertising industry.
Steve Hancock, Founder and Principal of adbeast adds, “It is with much excitement that we join one of the most …
Continue reading »A joint technology partnership between media asset management software vendor, Vidispine and digital archive developers, Object Matrix has been announced. The partnership aims to produce systems that will meet the demanding requirements of the media and creative industries, where complex workflows must manage and deliver many hundreds of terabytes of …
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