Amazon are presenting a Lunch And Learn Seminar introducing their AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud platform to prospective end users. The seminar is on 4th December 2012 at the America Square Conference Centre in London (EC3 – City area near to Tower Hill or Fenchurch Street). The event is free …
Continue reading »Chris Heilmann, who is a “principle developer evangelist” at Mozilla (why aren’t there job titles like that in the software companies I do work for?) describes some myths about HTML5, with special reference to the lack of adoption of HTML5 for mobile applications:
On CMS Report yesterday, an article claimed that over 75% of users in the US (and 83% in Europe) now have HTML5 compatible browsers:
“With nearly 75% of end users in North America, and 83% in Europe, running browsers that support a large segment of the HTML5 feature set, …
Continue reading »We briefly covered Big Data a couple of weeks ago with Ralph’s feature article about the subject and his conclusion was that most current DAM requirements were not yet big enough to justify that description, although they might be when combined with data from other sources like website log files. …
Continue reading »Ralph Windsor of DAM consultants, Daydream is joining us as a contributing editor of DAM News to help Naresh and I with sourcing articles and writing commentary about the Digital Asset Management industry. Ralph has previously contributed several articles for our features section, as well as helping Naresh to …
Continue reading »Adobe announced the release of Acrobat XI yesterday. The main features of interest are all fairly predictable stuff like tablet support and cloud integration. Of greater significance for the DAM/ECM industry (although still predictable) is the SharePoint integration features which allow PDFs to be more seamlessly shared:
“The industry …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, MediaBeacon announced version 5.1 of their R3volution DAM system late last week. The new features include:
“‘I couldn’t be prouder of the grace and power behind MediaBeacon 5.1,’ …
Continue reading »Lorraine Wilson, writing for IT Business Edge discusses the devil in the detail of some Cloud/SaaS agreements and how a number of end users are unaware of what exactly they are letting themselves in for in this article:
“Another popular misconception discussed in the article: You won’t need developers …
Continue reading »This Computerworld article covers an interesting take on metadata from representatives of Australia’s Pirate Party which isn’t one that is familiar to members of the DAM community where we’re all encouraged to view metadata as being a wholly positive concept that is essential for finding assets. In this case, the …
Continue reading »Ralph Windsor, senior partner with Digital Asset Management consultants, Daydream, has contributed another feature article exclusively for DAM News (to add to several others he has provided us). This piece considers how Big Data strategies might be used in combination with DAM. He concludes that while DAM is …
Continue reading »The UK’s JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) who provide information and leadership on digital technologies for education and research have published a whitepaper: Curation in the Cloud which considers the opportunities and risks of using Cloud infrastructure services for digital preservation and research:
“Digital curation involves a wide range …
Continue reading »In this article, Michael Daconta at Government Computer News, discusses how well structured and considered metadata can improve the mechanisms of government and therefore better protect consumers and citizens.
“The key to metadata design is developing the best descriptive fields that increase the usage value of the data to …
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