In this article, John Mancini speaks to Laurence Hart about why he believes that the CMIS standard will consumerise the ECM market and covers eight points regarding the standard that everyone should know.
“CMIS is not a new interface into your content repository. At its core, it is a Content …
Continue reading »In this article, Eugenia Loli-Queru uncovers a little known fact regarding the license agreement for many professional cameras that support h.264 or mpeg2 formats – you must pay royalties for commercial use.
“No, my friends. It’s not just a matter of just “picking Theora” to export a video to Youtube …
Continue reading »In “Who is Stripping Your Metadata?“, Pro-Imaging.org discusses results of a survey carried out by David Riecks and members of the Controlled Vocabulary discussion forum where they discovered that embedded metadata such as IPTC and XMP is routinely stripped out of image files by social media sites like …
Continue reading »Open Source ECM vendor, Nuxeo have a released a white paper entitled: “8 Things You Need to Know About Open Source ECM“. The paper takes some of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) spread about open source solutions in general and ECM in particular. It was written by …
Continue reading »PoolParty is a thesaurus management system and a SKOS editor for the Semantic Web including text analysis functionalities and linked data capabilities. The system helps to build and maintain multilingual thesauri providing a simple user interface and a couple of semantic services.
More information about PoolParty can be found at …
Continue reading »Most traditional relational databases are oriented towards the needs of business users rather than those of other problem domains, in particular scientists who need to manage data sets that tend to be much larger in scale (hundreds of Petabytes rather than Terabytes). Scidb.org aims to change all that by providing …
Continue reading »The Createasphere/EXPLORE Digital Asset Management Conference line up has been announced. The conference will take place on September 23-24th this year in New York and includes presentations from a number of speakers, including MediaBeacon’s Jason Bright, Gunar Penikis of OpenSAMSN and Roger Howard of Blizzard Entertainment:
“If you are responsible …
Continue reading »More responses to Steve Job’s attempt to justify the exclusion of Flash from Apple mobile devices. This analysis by Streaming Media guru, Dan Rayburn is the most accurate (in our view) and highlights the fact that money rather than open standards is Apple’s primary motivation for not supporting Flash on …
Continue reading »This article from FierceContentManagement.com offers prospective buyers of ECM solutions some useful tips on choosing the right ECM solution for your business. Although the article is about ECM, all of the recommendations are relevant for anyone choosing a DAM system also.
“It’s not easy to find the right enterprise content …
Continue reading »Earley Associates are hosting a webinar on the use of metadata for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) at 4pm (ET) on 6th May:
“Seth Earley and Jeff Carr of Earley & Associates will explain the importance of metadata and taxonomy and how they affect the positioning of your website in search …
Continue reading »In an interview with the New York Times, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Andy Rubin confirmed that Android 2.2 will include support for Flash:
He also promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android, code-named Froyo, for frozen yogurt (previous Android …
Continue reading »This blog post by Jeff Carr from Earley Associates explains how to apply Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies to SharePoint 2010 in order to enrich content using semantic principles:
Tagging in SharePoint 2010 is approached from two perspectives, with the first originating from controlled vocabularies via Metadata Terms. Controlled terms are …
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