In this article, Philip Spiegel writing in his blog discusses the growing potential for educators to exploit Digital Asset Management technology to deliver innovative learning experiences. He bases this hypothesis on his recent visit to the SIIA Edtech Summit in San Francisco. Philip also points out that there are considerable …
Continue reading »In this article by Merlin One, the authors compare open source DAM vs hosted commodity solutions:
“We’ve also found the person who “inherits” the system is less enthusiastic about answering trouble calls at 3 AM than its inventor may have been. What about 24×7 support? Granted that might not …
Continue reading »Fabian Williams writing in EndUserSharePoint.com discusses Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010, including its impact on taxonomy, navigation and aearch. The article is split into two parts: “Focusing on Managed Metadata, Term Store, Navigation and Search” and “Focusing on Content Organizer, Routing Rules, Content Types and Search“. …
Continue reading »In this article, Rhonda Basler of MailPrint discusses how the provision of an excess number of choices for users in Marketing Asset Management (MAM) systems can actually reduce uptake of the system as users become bewildered by the array of different options. Rhonda compares studies carried out on consumers purchasing …
Continue reading »The Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference moves to London on June 30th with speakers including Gai Coleman of Pearson Education, Fran Alexander (BBC Taxonomy Manager) and Ian Davis, Taxonomy Delivery Manager for Dow Jones amongst others:
“The briefing will deliver exactly what it promises: the latest thinking …
Continue reading »The SharePoint Best Practices Conference is being held on August 24-27 in Washington DC. The conference brings together a number of leading SharePoint experts and MVPs and covers a full agenda of best practice techniques.
“The Best Practices Conference is where you’ll find the smartest ideas, activities and techniques …
Continue reading »Following the revelation that Facebook, Flickr and other social media sites routinely strip embedded metadata from images, it has been revealed that Google does the same from thumbnails in image searches. Gunar Penikis, formerly of Adobe and leader of the OpenSAMSN project makes this point in a recent …
Continue reading »In this article on the Ux Booth blog, Donna Spencer outlines a number of different classification schemes that are commonly encountered in Information Architecture (IA) designs when used for content delivery:
“When you do information architecture work you’ll realize that most sets of content can be organized in …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor, ADAM have announced a Webinar: “Managing and strengthening your brand with ADAM DocMaker 3.0”. The presentation commences at 4.30pm European Time (3.30pm UK, 10.30am ET):
“ADAM DocMaker 3.0 is the latest major release of its media intelligent studio tool for editing, managing and localizing media rich …
Continue reading »The Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) are holding a workshop in New York City on 1-2 October 2010. The workshop promises:
“FOMS is a action-oriented workshop designed for individuals that work on open audio and video software. This year, FOMS will have a special emphasis on the new …
Continue reading »Apple have fired another shot across the boughs of Adobe with this site which aims to demonstrate the superiority of the “open” HTML5 standard. Except if you try to use it in anything apart from Safari, this is what awaits you:
Photo library training and consulting services group, Electric Lane are hosting courses on keywording (including video) on 1st July in London (UK).
“The course will look at keywording schemas, the principles of controlled vocabulary and thesauri, and methods of captioning and keywording. We will look at ways to do …
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