Category: Emerging DAM Technologies

As described in my Appreciating The Value Of Your Digital Assets post earlier this week, this year we’re going to be investigating far more of the metadata and infrastructure side of digital assets, because that is where I believe the more important (and therefore, interesting) activity is taking place.…

One of the recent themes in DAM with the corporate users I deal with, is the role of mobile.  When asked to explain the reasoning behind their interest, some commonly-held misunderstandings about our subject are sometimes revealed.  These are partly related to topics I mentioned a few weeks ago in …

Andrew Reid, writing on his EOSHD blog discusses CineMartin’s release of CINEC v2.7 which allows H.265 encoding:

“This low data rate and file size makes all kinds of magic possible, because at the same data rate as the old codec you get a massive leap in image quality and …

This post by Chirag Mehta discussed the role of Gamification with special reference to enterprise applications.  For those who has unfamiliar with the term, Gamification means the application of gaming techniques to create more engaging user experiences.  Chirag argues (correctly in my view) that flow and a simple, uninterrupted user …

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:

• HTML5 doesn’t perform
• HTML5 can not be

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, …

The  Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA) is including a special Digital Asset Management Expo at their annual conference on October 22nd-26th 2012 in San Diego:

“A number of hands-on workshops will be offered during the conference, focusing on DME laboratory best practices, DSLRs for crime/critical incident …

ReadWriteWeb.com covers ‘Boom Town’, an HTML5 game that has been simultaneously offered on Apple App Store, Android Google Play and Facebook.  The game itself sounds pretty dull, but I’m not a massive gamer and the real point of covering this story here on DAM News is that demonstrates how the …

Until recently, the method most DAM systems used for delivering audio assets was a SWF player that  played a transcoded MP3 proxy file.  That’s probably going to be the case for at least the next year (or more) but SoundCloud are aiming to hasten the demise of Flash’s role as …

This Google blog article discusses the inclusion in their Chrome browser of a C/C++ engine using the same ‘sandbox’ security techniques as JavaScript.  The feature is called “NativeClient” and uses Google’s ‘Pepper’ API to allow interaction between the C/C++ and HTML5:

“First, we’re pleased to announce the integration of …

As reported on Tech Crunch, former Myspace employees, Todd Leloy and Joe Muoz have developed an automated semantic Tagging Robot which crawls Facebook newsfeeds and offers you relevant topics for each link.  Tagging Robot uses NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and machine based learning to develop a profile of users …

The Ariadne website has details of an archive developed by the British Library that has used ‘Crowd Sourcing’ concepts to construct an archive of sounds captured across the United Kingdom.

The archive uses some highly innovative ‘mash-up’ style techniques to construct the archive such as mobile devices to record the …