North Plains have announced the release of its Telescope Publishing Platform (TPP) which is aimed at publishers who want to release eBooks using platforms such as ePub, PDF Amazon Kindle and eReader:
“TPP enables publishers to rapidly and cost-effectively streamline their eBook conversion, publishing, distribution and promotion operations, to …
Continue reading »Sarah Saunders of UK photo library training and consulting group, Electric Lane has written a report about IPTC Spring Conference in Paris held last month, in particular some of the trends and emerging standards like IPTC G2:
“G2, which provides an XML-based standard for the exchange of news …
Continue reading »Some research released by Enterprise Information Watch released yesterday reveals that pure play DAM vendors are looking to differentiate themselves from ECM vendors offering ‘one size fits all’ approaches to DAM.
“As DAM applications have moved away from thick clients to web-based applications, and CMS vendors add basic image/video …
Continue reading »Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had sold its Digital Asset Management solution, Expression Media to Phase 1, a digital camera capture and image manipulation software vendor. Expression Media was formerly known as iView when acquired from iView-Multimedia in 2006. iView was popular with photographers and there had recently …
Continue reading »CMS Watch’s Shawn Shell takes a look at the compatibility rush following the launch of SharePoint 2010 earlier this month.
“Within a week of the official SharePoint 2010 launch announcement, the platform’s broad ecosystem was buzzing with parallel announcements about integrations, add-ons, and support options. Contrast this with SharePoint 2007, …
Continue reading »Andrew Frank comments on the sophisticated interactive animation features of HTML5 as demonstrated by Google’s recent PacMan tribute.
“In case you missed this, Google wants you to know that, even though the official standard may be years away, HTML5 today is capable of some pretty sophisticated interactive animation today. Apple, …
Continue reading »As reported on the British Journal of Photography website, stock photo library provider Corbis (which is owned by Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft) are to close down their French subsidiary, Sygma, a prestigious press agency with a 37 year history. In part, the move is due to significant …
Continue reading »The ISOKO “New Technologies for Cultural Heritage” conference being held on 9th June at University College London (UK) will discuss technologies available for the storage and preservation of humanities oriented content and the opportunities offered by Web 2.0.
“Today’s programme will provide an opportunity to hear about …
Continue reading »Earley Associates are hosting a conference on semantic frameworks for data integration on November 15th 2010 in Washington DC. The event promises to help attendees learn from the experiences of global organisations who have gone through the process of integrating taxonomies across the enterprise using semantic frameworks:
“What if your …
Continue reading »As reported on the BBC website, the British Library is to embark on an ambitious programme to digitise 40 million newspaper pages:
“The record of more than 300 years of journalism, including coverage of the Crimean and Boer Wars, will be put on the web by the publisher BrightSolid. …
Continue reading »In this article on the Semantic Web Company’s blog, Tassilo Pellegrini interviews Eric Franzon of Semantic Universe and organiser of the annual Semantic Technologies Conference. One of the key points Eric notes is the gaining mainstream acceptance of the importance of the Semantic Web and associated technology:
“Ours …
Continue reading »Yesterday (May 19th), Google made the VP8 codec open source and contributed this code to The WebM Project. WebM is a new multimedia/video format designed specifically for web based use.. Being modern, open source and interoperable with HTML5, VP8 could quickly usurp many of the competing web video technologies …
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