The DAM Show (the site operated by Peter Krogh, author of The DAM Book) recently posted a video “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” by Canadian Film-maker, Brett Gaylor of EyeSteelFilm which discusses the distinction between what might be termed “creative plagiarism” (or remixing) and more shameless copyright infringement …
Continue reading »Semantic Web developer, Structured Dynamics have developed what they term “Semantic Components” using Flex:
“”A semantic component is an ontology-driven component, or widget, based on Flex. Such a component takes record descriptions, ontologies and target attributes/types as inputs and outputs some (possibly interactive) visualizations of the records. Depending on …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor, Vyre have released a white paper on DAM usability:
“With the rapid proliferation of rich media content the interest in Digital Asset Management solutions has increased. However, increased demand also brings challenges: most notably, usability and the ‘findability’ of assets:
Createsphere, organisers of the DAM Expo on September 23rd-24th in New York (NYC) later this year have announced they will present “The DAMMYS”, a series of awards specifically for the DAM industry:
The iSemantics conference is being held between 1-3 September 2010 in Graz, Austria and features speakers such as Marti Hearst from Berkeley University, Peter Gloor of MIT and Rafael Sidi of Reed Elsevier:
“With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe …
Continue reading »The SharePoint juggernaut continues to gather pace as enterprise wiki and social media developer, Socialtext announce enhancements to their Sharepoint connector:
“Socialtext announced today a major upgrade to SocialPoint, the connector that enables customers to integrate its enterprise social software platform with Microsoft SharePoint. Building on the recent release of …
Continue reading »The Training Examples site is another StackOverflow inspired community questions based site about NLP (Natural Language Processing), Text Analysis, AI and other machine learning oriented subjects where…
“…data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical …
Continue reading »In this CMSWire.com article, Irina Guseva proposes that DAM vendors need to apply WEM (Web Engagement Management) techniques to encourage greater use of DAM solutions and integrate them more closely with other solutions (in particular: WCM or Web Content Management):
“What is missing right now is clear understanding of …
Continue reading »One of our featured vendors, Celum, today released DYNAMO, a Web-To-Print tool that enables the creation and editing of template based Adobe InDesign files:
“Using celum DYNAMO companies are able to quickly deploy a brand management portal, enjoying its benefits within days, even when integrating with an existing …
Continue reading »Writing in the Taxonomy Blog, Marlene Rockmore considers whether the GoodRelations retail ontology developed by Martin Hepp is possibly a “Game Changer” (yes, another one). Marlene discusses a case study with retailer best buy:
“GoodRelations is a retail ontology, which offers facets or classes, metadata descriptions and attributes …
Continue reading »Most readers of DAM News are probably actively involved in using and providing XML data on a daily basis and few would doubt that it will be actively used for the foreseeable future. Computing history, however, is full of examples of file formats that were once considered essential building blocks …
Continue reading »Johannes C. Scholtes examines the benefits and limitations of traditional web search engines, such as Google, for use within in-house mission-critical applications.
“It is easy to use, fast and the results are often accurate and precise. Google does a phenomenal job keeping up with new information and it is often …
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