North Plains Are “100 Companies That Matter” in Knowledge Management
DAM Vendor, North Plains, are one of the “100 companies that matter” according to KMWorld. This from the North Plains press release: “Based on the […]
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Google’s New Docs Viewer Format Support: Implications For DAM?
Last week, Google announced that they were introducing 12 new file formats to the Google Docs Viewer, they include:
- Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
- Apple Pages (.PAGES)
- Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
- Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
- Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
- PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
- TrueType
Magnum Photos Use Mechanical Turk To Tag Images
Prestigious photo agency, Magnum Photos, has teamed up with New York start-up Tagasauris to harness the facilities of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk services to revamp their image metadata, it was revealed recently. The venture significantly reduces the labour-intensive overhead that metadata entry incurs by farming out the task to the enormous …
Continue reading »Metadata Harmonisation Webinar, 16th March 2011, 1pm (ET)
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) are holding a webinar about metadata standards on 16th March at 1pm (US Eastern Time). With a wide array of metadata initiatives in circulation across both DAM and ECM, this is certainly a hot topic and one which provokes a lot of discussion and debate.…
Continue reading »Activae Open Source DAM Released
CENATIC, an agency of the Spanish Government Foundation of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce have released Activae, an open source DAM solution authored in Python (as is Notre DAM and Cynapse’s Cyn.in).
Activae uses a permissive BSD Open Source licence (in common with ResourceSpace and some other …
Continue reading »Getting More People Involved In Your DAM Initiative
At the end of January, we featured a blog article by Henrik De Gyor where he discussed some metrics for measuring the success of your DAM system and the ROI obtained. One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen published an article earlier this month about getting users to make …
Continue reading »Nuxeo Offers To Contribute Core To Eclipse Foundation: What It Means For The DAM & ECM Market
ECM and DAM vendor, Nuxeo, have offered to contribute the Nuxeo Core to the Eclipse Foundation and it will become known as the Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository (if their proposal is accepted). Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo is quoted on the Nuxeo Press Release as follows:
“We …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor Research: Information Required
In collaboration with a number of other DAM industry commentators, I am currently helping Leala Abbot to prepare a comprehensive list of DAM Vendors with a paired down list of the need to know technical details about the numerous products that exist in this market (including Open Source, Enterprise/Proprietary and …
Continue reading »DAM Systems: No Substitute For Human Metadata Cataloguing
Writing on the Archive Media Partners blog, Margie Friant critiques those DAM vendors who claim that their software can replace manual tagging carried out by human indexers:
“Isn’t it about time that we, as a profession, sell our abilities as well as the DAM system vendors sell their …
Continue reading »O’Reilly Strata Conference: September 19-21 2011, Times Square, NYC
The O’Reilly Strata Conference: The Business Of Data, runs from September 19-21 this year in Times Square, New York City. The conference is aimed at senior executives and the opportunities offered from leveraging large data sets:
- How data analytics transforms business and management
- Best practices from early adopters and
Content Analysis: Tactical Alternatives To A Full Information Audit
Kate Simpson, writing on FUMSI discusses a tactical alternative to a full information audit using Content Analysis to define the ‘landscape’ of the content in an existing repository that requires optimisation. She identifies four key areas for a summary Content Analysis exercise:
- The ‘As Is’ Landscape
- Content and Usage Metrics
Future Directions For Brand Asset Management
In this special feature, James Waite from one of our featured vendors, Adgistics, discusses future directions for brand asset management and how he sees a move towards what Adgistics term “Brand Centres” which are a combination of:
- Brand Banks (asset storage)
- Brand knowledge
- Brand investment
- Best practice
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