Henry Stewart DAM LA 2010 Speaker Line Up Confirmed
The Los Angeles leg of the Henry Stewart DAM 2010 conferences runs this year from November 15-16. The final line up of speakers has been […]
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HTML5 “Unready For Production Use” According To Senior W3C Official
Philippe Le Hegaret, a senior World Wide Web Consortiumn (W3C) official with responsibility for SVG and HTML specifications, has told Infoworld:
“The problem we’re facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early to deploy it because we’re running …
Continue reading »Content Management: An A-Z Of Top Tips
CMS Report features an A-Z listing of top tips for delivering and using Content Management solutions effectively.
“Whether you’re scanning files for historical reference, providing information access via a customer portal, or are in the midst of enterprise-wide process automation, there are standard steps you should take that will help …
Continue reading »Tips On Organised Folder Structures For Digital Asset Management
An article by Jim Kidwell on the Extensis blog discusses five tips for setting up an organised folder structure for those DAMs that use this metaphor:
- Understand the consequences of spaces and underscores at the beginning of folder names.
- Use folders as a way of applying keyword.
- Avoid ambiguous and
Why SaaS Vendors And Buyers Need To Consider APIs
In this GetApp.com blog entry, the authors discuss the need for SaaS vendors and buyers to carefully evaluate the available API options of the solution they produce or use:
“There are many reasons why clients want APIs and many reasons why vendors should offer them. Whether it’s for …
Continue reading »Fordela Video Management Platform 3.2 Released
One of our featured Digital Asset Management Vendors, Fordela have released version 3.2 of their Enterprise Video Management platform:
“This release is spearheaded by Fordela’s secure Virtual Screening Rooms (VSR’s). These highly customizable and secure environments enable clients to quickly create, customize and distribute high-quality secure video screening …
Continue reading »UK’s PA Accidentally Uses Concentration Camp Image To Accompany “Train Rage” Article
The UK’s Press Association (PA) last week illustrated the dangers of using inadequately catalogued stock photography. The Cambridge News covered a story about “Train Rage” which had been provided by the PA. They had inadvertently chosen an image of the train tracks that lead up to the gates of Auschwitz …
Continue reading »Amazon Cloud Tech Summit: London (UK) Tuesday 9th November
Amazon are holding a tech summit for developers and system architects at the Thistle Hotel in Marble Arch, London, UK, on 9th November 2010. The speakers include Andy Nichol of Telegraph Media Group, Jodi Moran from Playfish, Craig Box from Symbian Foundation and Michael Brunton-Spall, Developer Advocate from guardian.co.uk.
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Continue reading »Simple Template Artwork Generation System Required
One of our readers has contacted us with a requirement which some vendors might be able to help with. Below is the outline:
The client is an agency who are working for a charity that needs to be able to generate a small amount of artwork (50-250 leaflets per month). …
Continue reading »Discovering The Semantic Web, Linked Data, And Knowledge Organisation Systems
Sarah Saunders of Electric Lane presents an overview of the main concepts and techniques used for The Semantic Web, Linked Data and KOS (Knowledge Organisation Systems). If you are new to this subject the article offers a good introduction to what is possible and why so many people are becoming …
Continue reading »Facebook’s Photo Sharing (Also) Fails To Preserve Photo Metadata
Another example of social media websites taking a blasé attitude to embedded metadata is Facebook’s new photo sharing platform. As reported on the Photometadata blog:
“In addition, while the images that can be viewed online are now up to 720 pixels on the long dimension, they are still …
Continue reading »The Digitisation Dilemma: Retain Or Dump Analogue Assets?
Philip Spiegel writing on DAM Ideas proposes that we may now be coming to the stage where it is appropriate to no longer retain or preserve physical or analogue assets after they have been digitised:
“I think the freedom from the physical video media and analog world that comes …
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