Philip Hodgetts gives his opinion on Avid’s recent announcement at NAB 2010 of their tools for better metadata management. The company also presented their latest version of Interplay, which has been transformed into two separate yet compatible tools: Interplay Media Asset Management and Interplay Production.
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Continue reading »Google have announced that they will open source the VP8 video codec for HTML 5 video, representing another blow to Flash video as the primary format for online video distribution.
“Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we’ve learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to …
Continue reading »Encoding.com has recently announced support for HTTP streaming to iPhones and iPads, providing another alternative to Flash-based video delivery for DAM technologies.
“What is iPhone / iPad HTTP Streaming? Designed into iPhone OS 3.0, the built-in video player now supports adaptive bit rate switching during playback. As a user watches …
Continue reading »Tim Siglin, chairman of Braintrust Digital and co-founder of business consultancy Transitions, Inc. provides an excellent overview of HTTP streaming and related technologies, providing readers with what they need to know in order to harness this popular hybrid delivery approach.
“Of all of the terms, though, the one that seems …
Continue reading »In this post on the Earley Blog, Heather Hedden discusses various tools available for managing Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies. As many DAM professionals are aware, most taxonomies tend to get developed (at least initially) with conventional desktop applications such as Excel and these are often not ideal for ongoing management:…
Continue reading »Strongly Attached Metadata with Semantic Namespaces (SAMSN) is an initiative to standardise metadata frameworks and use embedded metadata standards like XMP to more closely link metadata back to an original asset in the same manner as barcodes do for physical goods.
Gunar Penekis is a leading advocate of SAMSN and …
Continue reading »Session and keynote videos from the Streaming Media West And OVP Summit Conference held in San José in November 2009, are now available online via the StreamingMedia.com website, covering the business of online video and the technology of streaming, downloading, Webcasting, Internet TV, IPTV, and mobile video.
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Continue reading »According to the British Journal of Photography, the UK national newspaper, “The Independent” has been forced to apologise to a photographer for breaching copyright when using a Flickr stream containing copyrighted images:
…Continue reading »The Independent newspaper has apologised, after it was accused of breach of copyright for publishing a Flickr
This CMSWatch article has a humorous take on a number of common ECM acronyms:
Modern DAM systems can provide several search mechanism to enable their users to locate assets. In this article, we describe three main user interface search metaphors used and some of their advantages and disadvantages.
Keyword Search
Provides users with a textfield into which a keywords are entered and a button …
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