Military technology vendor, Harris, have announced a new release of their “FAME” video asset management facility with what they term: “situational awareness information”
FAME is a collaborative platform that provides video, audio and metadata coding, video analytics and archive capabilities within a unified digital asset management solution. Using the FAME …
Continue reading »The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is currently being negotiated “in secret” and is a proposed trade agreement for establishing cross-border standards on IPR enforcement ostensibly to limit the trade in counterfeit goods (in particular intellectual property). ACTA’s scope covers many areas including counterfeit products, generic medicines, and internet piracy. The agreement …
Continue reading »In this paper: Can Structured Metadata Play Nice with Tagging Systems? Joseph Dalton of the New York Public Library discusses the possibilities offered by mixing user generated tags and semi-structured metadata with more tightly defined and rigid methods of metadata classification:
“This paper discusses the rationale behind NYPL’s decision to …
Continue reading »Following the Government’s removal of the contentious Clause 43 or ‘Orphan Works’ clause from the Digital Economy Bill last week, Sarah Saunders reviews the potential impact that an orphan works policy could have on the media industries and calls for a public discussion of these issues, to raise awareness and …
Continue reading »Following a successful lobbying campaign by many professional photographic organisations against Clause 43 last week, the EPUK (Editorial Photographers UK) asks why BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) were so reluctant to support the removal of the orphan works policy and extended collective licensing from the Digital Economy …
Continue reading »This video produced by the US Library Of Congress, outlines why it is important for all organisations to preserve digital assets and how technological progress is also a factor to consider in any preservation strategy (running time 3 mins 10 secs).
“Traditional information sources such as books, photos and sculptures …
Continue reading »In this article, CMS Watch’s Alan Pelz-Sharpe discusses the pros and cons of the professional services offered by many ECM vendors.
“Professional services can mean a lot of different things, and can represent a very substantial part of a software vendors income. These services can range from initial requirements analysis, …
Continue reading »As reported in Business Week on April 9th, Adobe has been forced to acknowledge the risks to their stock price as a result of Apple’s deliberate legal blocking of Flash content from Apple iPhones and iPads in the latest OS4 release.
“Historically, when we have seen increased competition for any …
Continue reading »Not to be outdone by Autonomy’s latest update to Media Bin 7, Open Text have announced the release of Media Management 7. The update is significant because Open Text have already integrated content analytics technology from Nstein, who they acquired only in February.
Open Text will further …
Continue reading »Autonomy have released updates to Virage MediaBin 7.1 that take advantage of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing (MBC) technology. Of particular interest is the inclusion of text indexing of video content which allows users to “search” videos and see a preview of the frame based on a text query:
“The new …
Continue reading »Saepio will be presenting a webinar entitled “Distributed Marketing Leadership Series: The Enterprise Marketing Management Strategy Guide” on 14th April 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT. The webinar will cover enterprise marketing management technologies and how participants can develop their own EMM strategies.
“Join Saepio’s John Thomson for an …
Continue reading »In this article, image metadata and keywording specialist Liisa Kaakinen discusses how contemporary ideas of political correctness are forcing some historical archives to revise their metadata to provide more palatable terms for their media assets.
“…I looked over the shoulder of one of the keyworders and asked her what she …
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