In this article by DAM vendor, Elvis, Nico Krijnen outlines how they have used the open source Lucene text indexing engine for improving text search:
“For elvis 2.1 we wanted a more performant and easier to maintain search engine. We decided to rewrite a large part of our …
Continue reading »Adobe has announced support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming:
“The release of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® 2 runtimes introduces support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming for on-demand and live video streaming online. This new delivery method enables on-demand and live adaptive bitrate video streaming of standards-based MP4 …
Continue reading »In this article, Shawn Shell ponders whether SharePoint 2010 has spread itself too thinly with its numerous bells and whistles and asks ‘has SharePoint got too big for its own good?”
“In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has created much broader management capabilities and better integration services. SharePoint now carries many more …
Continue reading »Talis will be presenting a series of free open days at the British Library, London, UK that aim to provide information on understanding and applying Linked Data in the world of National, International, Cooperative, and other large libraries. The latest is on 21 July 2010.
“These Open Days are …
Continue reading »In this article Alan Pelz-Sharpe discusses various approaches to managing multiple document silos in order to gain the most from these often disparate business resources.
“Multiple repositories can come in many different forms, be they hundreds of SharePoint sites, a handful of massive ECM systems, or a combination of shared …
Continue reading »David Roe examines whether enterprise content management solutions that offer basic digital asset management features are a cost effective alternative for businesses with significant DAM requirements.
“If the decision as to whether an enterprise should deploy a full-blown digital asset management system has been complicated, new research from the Real …
Continue reading »Video On Demand and more recently TV and video streaming operation, Netflix, has revealed that it expects the DVD rentals by mail market (which it pioneered) to peak by 2013 and to be gradually replaced by direct streaming of video content direct to consumers. The slideshow highlights a number …
Continue reading »This year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference is being held on June 15-17 in Boston (USA). The conference highlights include:
In this two part article from Baseline Consulting, Evan Levy considers the benefits of a Data Warehouse appliance to those considering replacing ageing in-house or custom built solutions developing using conventional SQL based RDBMS. He notes that the average lifespan of a data warehouse is typically just 3-4 years and …
Continue reading »This article by Pew Research analyses responses from 895 survey respondents as part of Pew’s “Future of the Internet” survey. The research revealed that almost half the respondents (47%) believe that by 2020, the Semantic Web will not be as effective as some visionaries such as Tim Berners-Lee …
Continue reading »The CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies) New Media Conference is being held in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin (Ireland) this year. The event will cover a range of new media topics that are of relevance to stock photo libraries including stock video, microstock and metadata (the event is combined …
Continue reading »As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, legendary investor, Warren Buffet, CEO and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and the world’s 2nd richest man has recently acquired nearly 800,000 shares of Document Management group, Iron Mountain.
Buffet is renowned for his tendency to avoid tech stocks because …
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