Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the public beta of SharePoint 2013 (along with announcements about Office). This developer’s overview has some more useful info about what to expect and covers a few different areas:
Adobe UK are running an online event this week aimed at creatives. The final session today (13th July) kicks off at noon and asks the question: “Is digital photography all tech and no talent?“. The sessions covered are:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Picture Park, are running a webinar: “Metadata Myths and Madness!” on Wednesday 25th July between 10am and 11am Pacific Time. The presentation will include John Horodyski from DAMEducation.com as well as other Picture Park staff such as David Diamond (author of the DAM …
Continue reading »Writing on the Semanticweb.org site, Jennifer Zaino describes how Schema.org and the Web Intents specification are mapping terminology (Vocabulary) from Schema.org to the Web Intents specification. She quotes from Michael Hausenblas of Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway:
“With Schema.org we have a way to …
Continue reading »John Goodwin, writing on the UK’s government, data.gov.uk website explains the basics of Linked Data:
“The Linked Data Web is not just about connecting datasets, but about linking information at the level of a single statement or fact. The idea behind the Linked Data Web is to use URIs …
Continue reading »Long standing DAM vendor, Canto, have recently upgraded their flagship DAM system, Cumulus to version 8.6. The new version apparently adds ‘over 50’ updates. Of potential interest to some might also be the Google Maps visualisation of geodata embedded within media.
The new edition’s major functional enhancement, however, appears …
Continue reading »In this guest feature article written exclusively for DAM News, Ralph Windsor of DAM consultants, Daydream, discusses the role of the proxy files and how both their past and current use might highlight trends in the DAM solution market which end users may need to carefully consider before making …
Continue reading »The DAM Survival Guide written by David Diamond has recently been released as an Amazon Kindle title. David’s book explains how to plan a Digital Asset Management initiative and covers a wide range of topics:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released version 6.1 of their Widen Media Collective DAM system. The main new features seem to be as follows:
* I think this is a reference to …
Continue reading »One of our featured open source DAM vendors, FocusOPEN, have released version 3.4.3 of their flagship FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager product. The new release (which is still in beta) appears to address many of the themes and issues with DAM systems which we have discussed this year:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, are running some DAM webinars where they assess the relative benefits of Cloud (or SaaS) hosting as opposed to on-premise (or internal hosting). The events are being held at 9am PT on Wednesday 27th June:
“Do you know the truth about …
Continue reading »Sarah Saunders, from photo metadata consultancy, Electric Lane gives an overview of a presentation she delivered at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference held in London earlier this year in regard to ‘Orphan Works‘. This a fairly hot topic in the whole image rights industry and covers the use …
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