Open Source ECM vendor, Alfresco, are holding a developer’s conference in Paris (France) between 20th and 21st October:
“The agenda includes deep dive sessions on CMIS, WCM, content services and best practices for ECM application development. You’ll also have a chance to learn about Activiti, the open source …
Continue reading »Writing on DocFinity.com, Mike Douglass, offers six methods of ensuring a successful ECM training rollout:
“Managers who approach training …
Continue reading »Prototyping is an integral part of most software development projects, however, the method used is often paper-based, even if it does not necessarily fit the environment in which the software would be used – this is particularly true of mobile applications. In this article, Thomas Davies writing on the UX …
Continue reading »Writing on her “Off The Shelf” blog, Leala Abbot considers the type of people (as opposed to technology) required to successfully deliver DAM. She also summarises 4 types of expert who are important for a DAM solution (based on a list in The Content Management Bible by Bob Boiko):
Metadata and photo management expert, David Riecks from ControlledVocabulary.com has written a highly informative article that explains how to de-dupe an image collection using MD5 checksum tools and a spreadsheet. The process will also produce a rudimentary asset audit that will identify the file locations, duplicate status and file name. …
Continue reading »Writing on the bnode blog, Benjamin Nowack describes a method for using Dynamic Semantic Publishing to automatically aggregate and publish inter-related content. He offers the BBC website (where this technique was employed during their recent World Cup 2010 coverage) as an example and describes how it could be …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Celum today announced they have launched an iPhone/iPad app that can be downloaded for free and provides access to the functionality of their DAM solution:
“celum mobile.connect enables users to access the celum IMAGINE user interface and to distribute content with iPhone, …
Continue reading »Russell Glenister, writing on the whichstockagency.com blog describes some of the less than enlightening descriptions that microstock photos often have applied to them:
“First, let us take a brief look at bad keywording and descriptions because, although it’s a problem for microstock companies as they insist their contributors post …
Continue reading »Preservapedia, a recently launched wiki based site about preservation and related topics is looking for contributors to help expand the range of topics and subject depth:
“Because Preservapedia is intended for a specific audience, the cultural heritage conservation community, its articles contain information which is not generally of interest …
Continue reading »Dylan Jones, writing on the DataMigrationPro.com website includes a comprehensive check list that will be of use to anyone who is involved in data migrations from legacy DAM solutions or manually prepared asset catalogues. The post is longer than a good number of white papers and is packed with useful …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Nuxeo, today announced version 1.1 of their Digital Asset Management application and also an Amazon Cloud based offering:
“Nuxeo DAM – Cloud Edition brings feature-rich and sophisticated digital asset management to businesses who don’t have the time or IT resources to …
Continue reading »Google have announced a special government/public sector edition of Google Apps – their on-line productivity tools stack and MS Office alternative. The suite features the same applications as the regular editions of Google Apps but provides greater security (according to Google).
It is the first range of cloud based applications …
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