Eight seems to be a popular number with DAM consultants right now, one of our featured DAM vendors, Vyre have released a two-part article on […]
Continue reading »Adobe have released an updated Lightroom version 3.5 and also Cmera Raw 6.5 The desktop photo management tool which is very popular with photographers for metadata management tasks features support for a wide range of new cameras but also various bug fixes:
Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland of Free University Brussels (ULB) have launched a demonstration site based on Google Refine that aims to show irregular or imperfect metadata can become more valuable even if released rather than holding on to it in order to ‘perfect’ the data. They are interviewed …
Continue reading »Chris Riley, writing on the AIIM blog discusses and age-old debate: end users vs IT departments. He contends that many debates about certain technologies are fundamentally about the needs of end users vs the intransigence of IT departments:
“What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo, have published an introduction to ECM as a series of whitepapers. Their ContentGeeks.net site has an overview of part 1 of the paper:
“In this first part, we’ve tried to provide insight into what Enterprise Content Management really is—and not …
Continue reading »Jim Shaw, general manager of Acquia writing for UK VAR channel publication: CRN discusses the benefits of an open source solution when using SaaS or Cloud software solutions. He outlines the issues of using proprietary SaaS products, namely that if users decide they wish to move away from the vendor …
Continue reading »Makx Dekkers, outgoing Managing Director of DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) is interviewed by Friedel Grant in this piece from DublinCore.org site. It’s interesting to note how DMCI (once a relatively obscure standard only used by public sector organisations) has expanded into a much wider and more encompassing role:
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Continue reading »Earley Associates have written a two part article for CIO Update: “Transforming Information into Knowledge“. The piece describes a 7 stage ‘recipe’ for breaking down the complex issue of converting disparate sources of corporate information into knowledge (i.e. information which can be acted upon). The stages are
One of our featured DAM vendors, Dutch Software, have released a new beta version 2.6 of their Elvis DAM system. The upgrade includes:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, have released a whitepaper: “Building A Better DAM”. The report covers:
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 via a browser. That announcement in itself is nothing special, however, I believe it indicates evidence of a trend towards the commoditisation of DAM technologies …
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 …
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