One our featured Digital Asset Management Vendors, MailPrint have written a white paper entitled, “Cost Justifying the Investment in New Marketing Systems” (registration required). MailPrint’s […]
Continue reading »This article was discussed on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group (which anyone involved in the nuts and bolts of Digital Asset Management should be a member of). Bill Lefurgy from the Library of Congress outlines the process he has taken to archive his personal digital photos. What is striking reading …
Continue reading »The American Libraries Association (ALA) are hosting a presentation on “Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems” as part of the ALA 2011 Annual Conference on Sunday 26th June (the conference runs from 23rd – 26th).
“Distributed, hosted, and cloud storage are now viable options to incorporate into our digital preservation management …
Continue reading »Modula4, developers of add-ons for Canto’s Cumulus DAM system have announced the release of Web Module 3.1 today:
“In addition to improvements in design and performance, new file sharing links offer easy access to any file or group of files, and watermarking and other image processing instructions are …
Continue reading »This techdirt.com by Jeroen van Rijn article discusses whether on-line digital content is worth preserving as an archival activity in its own right. As well as the question about the significance of maintaining content (much of which may not have any apparent current value) the privacy issue is also considered. …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have released an update to their flagship Telescope Digital Asset Management system. Now on version 9, the new edition includes the following main upgrades:
In this post on techtarget.com, Beth Stackpole discusses some quotes from various industry commentators and WCM/DAM end users who have their own take on the convergence of WCM and DAM, a trend we have observed for some time:
“While some Web content management tools have been enhanced …
Continue reading »Kas Thomas, writing on his assertTrue() blog discusses the XMP embedded metadata standard and contends that it is likely to be come ubiquitous and widely adopted due to its inclusion in consumer content generation devices like cell phone cameras. He also cites its adoption as an ISO standard (ISO/DIS …
Continue reading »Mirroring my own sentiment about the progress of the semantic web (that the promise is currently heavily in debt to the reality), Danny Ayres writing on his personal blog declares that the Semantic Web requires “a big kick up the backside” before it acquires any useful value rather than the …
Continue reading »ICS Solutions are hosting a series of seminars on SharePoint 2010 in Reading and Basingstoke (UK) in June with specific reference to deciding whether to host in the Cloud or go for an ‘on premise’ installed edition:
“Microsoft SharePoint Server can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. This …
Continue reading »Earlier this year, we reported that Leala Abbot was compiling a technically oriented spreadsheet listing all known Digital Asset Management Vendors (no easy task). An updated copy is now available, please visit Leala’s blog to contact her and request access.
“To try and make sense out of the …
Continue reading »Private equity investment group, North Bridge Venture Partners, has released the results of its annual Future Of Open Source survey in conjunction with 20 collaborators. Unlike previous years, the vendor/non-vendor split was 40/60 in favour of the latter. The results indicate that within the next five years, it …
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