NorthPlains Extends TeleScope DAM With Partner Solutions
One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains has announced that it has integrated a range of partner solutions and services into its flagship TeleScope […]
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When Your Investment Site Tips Your DAM Vendor Is It Time To Sell?
The investment site, The Motley Fool, has tipped Czech Digital Asset Management vendor KIT Digital as a stock to watch noting that the Video Asset Management sector is a growth area as more companies outsource their video content management facilities:
“It’s a simple thesis, really. Video content is going …
Continue reading »Amazon Outage: Implications For Cloud DAM?
As most readers will be aware, last week Amazon’s AWS Cloud service had a major outage that affected a number of popular websites and services. There has been no shortage of comment from the mainstream media, websites and blogs. A number of DAM vendors (both pure play Cloud offerings and …
Continue reading »In-Sourcing Or Out-Sourcing DAM Hosting: Which Is Best For Marketing Managers?
DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper, ‘Digital Asset Management Hosting For Marketing Managers’ that examines whether a DAM system should be hosted internally on the business’ own hosting equipment or if it should be out-sourced to the system vendor (or a partner supplier). The report offers a number …
Continue reading »BBC To Embrace Semantic Web
In this BBC Internet blog article, Mo McRoberts reflects on a recent speech by the BBC’s Director of Future Media, Ralph Rivera, regarding the ways the British broadcaster is seeking to get the maximum value from its media archive and its position in the ‘digital public space’.
“The Semantic Web …
Continue reading »Celum Opens R&D Centre In Linz
One of our featured DAM vendors, Celum, will open a new research and development centre in Linz, Austria on 17th May 2011.
“The new R&D Center, ARK 1 is located in the Linzer green belt. The architecture firm Schauer designed an ultra-low energy building with space for up to …
Continue reading »Free Data Services From The British Library
As part of its initiative to open its metadata for wider use beyond the UK library community, the British Library is offering free data services via access to the Library’s full Integrated Catalogue and the British National Bibliography Z39.50 databases and corresponding datasets (for research purposes only).
“Access to either …
Continue reading »Digitization in the Real World: Oregon State University Libraries
In this chapter excerpt from the book ‘Digitization In The Real World’, Sue Kunda looks at some of the key steps involved in running a medium to smaller sized digitisation project for Oregon State University Libraries. The entire chapter can be downloaded in PDF format for free.
“With the help …
Continue reading »Why Metadata Matters
In this article, Mac Slocum outlines why metadata is so vital to the user experience in his critique of the popular ‘ShowYou’ iPad video app.
“The area where metadata is most important, however, is video. That content is locked within formats that are generally inaccessible to search spiders and aggregation …
Continue reading »Visit Britain Signs Exclusive Film Distribution Deal With Photolibrary Group
As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, the UK’s national tourist agency, Visit Britain has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Photolibrary.com who will promote 600 rare film clips in their collection:
“Photolibrary Group has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with VisitBritain, Britain’s national tourist agency, to include access to it’s collection …
Continue reading »Leipzig Semantic Web Day: 5th May 2011
The Leipzig Semantic Web Day is being held (in Leipzig, Germany) on 5th May 2011:
“The theme this year is “Linked Data for the Masses”, particularly focusing on its use in enterprises. This event will not only give you the opportunity to discuss current developments around semantic web technologies, …
Continue reading »Bursting The “Cloudbursting” Bubble
Chris Hoff, writing on his Rational Survivability Blog discusses his contempt for “Cloudbursting”, this is a corruption of the term ‘bursting’ and refers to a technique where enterprises can increase capacity rapidly for a short period of time by temporarily expanding out into a public Cloud infrastructure:
“Either you …
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