How Analogue Thinking Can Impact The Scalability Of Your DAM
In this article, Leala Abbot writing in the Off The Shelf blog discusses how applying analogue methods to asset cataloguing (where every detail about an […]
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SharePoint Book Reivews: Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding And User Interface Design
Perfect for SharePoint developers or user interface designers tasked with the creation of customised, intuitive user interfaces for their SharePoint 2010 applications, Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design By Jacob J. Sanford and Randy Drisgill covers topics from branding basics to advanced branding design for large-scale changes to …
Continue reading »Digital Assets Are A “Feeble Storage Medium”
In this Rolling Stone article: “File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis” David Browne considers the lack of robustness of digital media assets as compared with analogue alternatives. As has increasingly been noted by a number of commentators, digital media tends to age more quickly and …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Review: Professional Microsoft Search – FAST Search, SharePoint Search, And Search Server
Written for programmers, developers, and IT professionals, Professional Microsoft Search: FAST Search, SharePoint Search, and Search Server (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) By Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe and Natalya Voskresenskaya presents an in depth analysis of the key features and functions that are available with FAST search, Microsoft’s latest …
Continue reading »Image SEO: Why Google, Yahoo And Bing Don’t Care About Your Embedded Metadata
Photo metadata and controlled vocabularies guru, David Riecks has written an article on why search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo ignore embedded metadata and, as such, advice that you might read about including it for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) purposes is essentially wrong:
“It is possible …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Reviews: Real World SharePoint 2010 – Indispensable Experiences From 22 MVPs
Providing proven real-world best practices from 22 leading Microsoft SharePoint MVPs, Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences By Randy Drisgill, Reza Alirezaei, Agnes Molnar, Todd Klindt and Claudio Brotto from the Microsoft ‘real world’ series provides a wealth of information on the features and enhancements that SharePoint 2010 has to …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Reviews: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010
Aimed toward developers, IT pros, and technical architects, Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 by Sahil Malik will provide intermediate-level guidance for those developing on the SharePoint 2010 platform for distribution via the web, Microsoft Office or mobile devices. Topics include: sites, web parts, data management, portal solutions, …
Continue reading »Canon Image Authentication Code Cracked By Russian Software Company
Russian password cracking experts, ElcomSoft have cracked Canon’s method of authenticating that images taken by their cameras had not been tampered with (i.e. to prove they were original unmodified images). As reported on The Register:
“The entire image verification system is proved useless,” ElcomSoft CEO Vladimir Katalov said in
SharePoint Book Reviews: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration
The second part of our SharePoint 2010 book review. This week we will concentrate on SharePoint 2010 books for experts. In this review we look at books suitable for experienced SharePoint programmers, administrators and specialist IT consultants.
Once beyond the basics, SharePoint 2010 becomes at platform for a multitude of …
Continue reading »Survey Of Library And Museum Digitisation Projects
Resourceshelf.com has some highlights of research carried out by Primary Research into digitization projects carried out by libraries and museums in the United States. Some stand-out stats of particular relevance to DAM include:
- The mean annual number of staff hours expended per institution on digitisation projects was 2,272 with a
SharePoint Book Reviews: How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Written by a former Microsoft SharePoint Program Manager, How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Stephen Cawood provides a step-by-step guide to mastering the latest features in SharePoint 2010 in a concise and reader friendly manner, specifically for end users who want to get the most out of their …
Continue reading »Nearly 50% Still Using Shared File Servers For Digital Asset Management
A poll by CMSWire: “Are You Currently Using a Digital Asset Management (DAM) System?” reveals that 49.6% of those who responded are still using shared file servers for managing their digital assets. Departmental and Enterprise DAMs accounted for just 24.81% (5.01% and 19.8% respectively).
The numbers are all the …
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