Category: Industry Events

Fran Alexander, writing on VocabContro.com, summarises several key sessions from the recent Henry Stewart DAM conference in London last month.  The sessions discussed include:

• Speech to text – the automated recognition and indexing of narrative content to simplify transcription of dynamic media.
• Image viewers and advanced zoom controls

Earley Associates are offering a series of half day briefings on the role of taxonomy and metadata in enterprise information management initiatives.  During the briefings, attendees will learn:

• How best in class organizations are addressing problems of information findability
• Approaches for integrating applications using business semantics
• New approaches to integrating

The Up! 2010 Conference, is being held virtually from November 15-19th 2010.  The event promises:

“UP 2010™ is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trending isses and challenges in the world of cloud computing and ICT, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting …

The Second Annual Cloud Computing World Forum will take place at Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK, from the 29th June to 1st July 2010.  Register online free.

Show Highlights:

• 3 day conference and exhibition on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service
• Co-located with CloudCamp London
• Co-located with the Green Enterprise World

The Online Information Expo takes place in London (UK) between 30th November and 1st December 2010.  The event covers the full range of online information activity, including: Content Resources, ePublishing Solutions, Library Management, Content Management, Search Solutions and Social Media:

“Dedicated to the information and information management industry, Online …

The Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference moves to London on June 30th with speakers including Gai Coleman of Pearson Education, Fran Alexander (BBC Taxonomy Manager) and Ian Davis, Taxonomy Delivery Manager for Dow Jones amongst others:

“The briefing will deliver exactly what it promises: the latest thinking …

DAM Vendor, ADAM have announced a Webinar: “Managing and strengthening your brand with ADAM DocMaker 3.0”.  The presentation commences at 4.30pm European Time (3.30pm UK, 10.30am ET):

“ADAM DocMaker 3.0 is the latest major release of its media intelligent studio tool for editing, managing and localizing media rich …

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 …