Category: Industry Events

The Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) are holding a workshop in New York City on 1-2 October 2010.  The workshop promises:

“FOMS is a action-oriented workshop designed for individuals that work on open audio and video software. This year, FOMS will have a special emphasis on the new …

Photo library training and consulting services group, Electric Lane are hosting courses on keywording (including video) on 1st July in London (UK).

“The course will look at keywording schemas, the principles of controlled vocabulary and thesauri, and methods of captioning and keywording. We will look at ways to do …

This year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference is being held on June 15-17 in Boston (USA).  The conference highlights include:

• Defining an Enterprise 2.0 Strategy
• Social Business Applications and Platforms
• Using Search To Manage Complexity
• Using Video For Enterprise Collaboration
• Integrate Social Media Into Your Enterprise
• Adoption in the Enterprise for Practitioners

The CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies) New Media Conference is being held in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin (Ireland)  this year.  The event will  cover a range of new media topics that are of relevance to stock photo libraries including stock video, microstock and metadata (the event is combined …

The ISOKO “New Technologies for Cultural Heritage” conference being held on 9th June at University College London (UK) will discuss technologies available for the storage and preservation of humanities oriented content and the opportunities offered by Web 2.0.

“Today’s programme will provide an opportunity to hear about …

Earley Associates are hosting a conference on semantic frameworks for data integration on November 15th 2010 in Washington DC.  The event promises to help attendees learn from the experiences of global organisations who have gone through the process of integrating taxonomies across the enterprise using semantic frameworks:

“What if your …

The EuroIA Sixth Information Architecture Summit has been announced by the European Chapter of ASIS&T.  The organisers recommend attendance for:

• Anyone concerned with the design of navigation, organization, labelling, and search systems.
• Content owners responsible for creating taxonomies and information architectures.
• Application Developers.
• Project and business managers needing to

Amazon and partners, RightScale and HyperStatus have announced a special webinar on Application Security in the Cloud: Best Practices for Amazon Web Services.  The webinar is scheduled for May 20th at 11am PT (2pm ET, 7pm UK).

With a number of DAM vendors now moving to Cloud based delivery, …