Box.net recently blogged that they are now supporting video uploads with what appears to be automated transcoding also to generate proxies that can be viewed […]
Continue reading »David Strom writing on readwriteweb.com has written an article: “The True Cost of SaaS Apps Isn’t About the Browser“. I’m not sure about the title which I take to mean a reference to the fact that Cloud apps are often highly scalable for a very low marginal cost …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper aimed at project managers which summarises the key costs and deliverables for DAM projects: The report is entitled: “The 8 Steps To DAM Success: A Manager’s Guide To Planning & Costing Digital Asset Management Projects”:
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Vyre, have released a blog post that discusses workflow and how it can be used to enhance metadata quality and better protect an organisation’s brand:
“The use of Workflow does not need to be limited to managing the production/creation (agency artwork) or …
Continue reading »Philip Hunter, writing for Broadcast Engineering yesterday, discusses how metadata is likely to be more significant at the forthcoming IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in the Netherlands in September. He notes that the majority of metadata activity is associated with Media Asset Management (or Video DAM as some of our readers …
Continue reading »As was widely reported yesterday, HP simultaneously exited the PC hardware market and made a bid to purchase ECM vendor, Autonomy. Why are HP taking this step and what does it mean for DAM and the wider ECM market?
Setting aside personal factors involving HP’s CEO, Leo Apotheker and …
Continue reading »In this article by one of our featured DAM Vendors, WAVE Corporation, the theory outlined by psychologist Barry Schwartz in his video ‘ The Paradox of Choice’ is applied to the predicament that many consumers seeking software to manage digital information face, namely that too much choice makes …
Continue reading »Brian Lincoln of DocuShare, writing on the Digital Landfill blog discusses 5 myths about the ROI that can be obtained from implementation of ECM systems. He answers each of them with very short single paragraph case study to illustrate how each of the points is false:
DAM events organiser, Createasphere have included a special session on open source DAM as part of their September New York Conference. Although just one hour long and dwarfed by the number of proprietary vendor sponsored slots, it sounds of interest to anyone considering Open Source DAM options. The topics covered …
Continue reading »I was interested to read Stacey Higginbottom’s article yesterday regarding her thoughts on the Forrester report ‘Cloud Broker – A New Business Model Paradigm’. Like Higginbottom, I am intrigued by the proposition that cloud providers might become one-stop shops for all computer resources, including short term human resourcing. …
Continue reading »iPhone software vendor, Dear Future Astronaut AB, have recently released Photo Stats – an app that converts EXIF data from photos taken and stored on users’ iPhones. Although gimmicky, this creative use of EXIF data may perhaps have some practical, real-world uses for digital asset management or similar systems, such …
Continue reading »In this interview, Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., explains how taxonomy is crucial for successful digital asset management and describes the exciting range of subject matter she encounters working as a metadata consultant for NASA.
“Taxonomy is fundamental to each stage of Digital …
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