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 […]
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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.
The …
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 …
Continue reading »Cloud Computing And Geo Apps
In a recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog post, Jinesh Varia discusses the role of the Cloud and how it is well suited to supporting the needs of “Geo Apps” – systems that leverage geographical data (often publicly available) and social media concepts to derive a new generation of Cloud …
Continue reading »Search Not Enough For Digital Asset Management
In this FUMSI article, Fran Alexander of the BBC Archive argues that text search alone is inadequate to support business processes that are typically required of a Digital Asset Management system. She also critiques a variety of techniques including Tagging, CBIR (Content Based Image Retrieval), Face Recognition, Speech to Text …
Continue reading »Dissecting Digital Asset Management Expertise: The Skills Required To Develop DAM
Tom Gleason, writing on the ResourceSpace Labs Blog discusses required skills to develop DAM systems. The points are obviously slightly skewed towards ResourceSpace (in terms of the PHP development skills mentioned) but are generally applicable to most other DAMs also:
- Graphics/File Formats
- Metadata
- SQL
- PHP/HTML/CSS
- Server Administration
- Workflow
If you …
Continue reading »Control vs Usability: Managing The Balance Between User Engagement & User Management
Rob Gray (from Google’s Enterprise division) discusses the trade-off between user control and usability in this Enterprise 2.0 blog guest post:
“One of the biggest problems with “systems of control” such as most records management systems, is that they have been designed for records managers, not end users. The …
Continue reading »Online Video Commoditisation: “Not A Dirty Word”
Dan Rayburn of Streamingmedia.com discusses the issue of commoditisation on a recent blog and contends that it is not a “dirty word” but a healthy trend that allows vendors to demonstrate how their technologies are acquiring mass acceptance and scaling to meet increasing demand:
“No single individual including myself …
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