Flickr Now Has 5bn Images Online
As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, Flickr reached another milestone today with the 5 billionth image being uploaded: “Here we are, only 5 short years since Flickr […]
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Controlled Vocabularies Compared With Full Text Search
Lesley Mackenzie-Robb, writing on vantaggio-learn.com compares free text searching and controlled vocabularies.
She makes the point that while Controlled Vocabularies should theoretically provide an enhanced search experience because they offer the user a more focussed and subject oriented range of options to narrow searches, there is subjectivity involved in …
Continue reading »Six Tips for Managing ECM Change
Jom Thumma, writing for CMSReport.com describes six tips for managing the organisational changes bought about by implementing ECM solutions:
- Assess change readiness
- Communicate the reasons for change
- Develop concrete plans
- Reveal how changes will affect employees
- Present a united front
- Manage resistance
“Change management planning revolves around a specific, …
Continue reading »Extensis Release Portfolio Digital Media Archive Server Update
Extensis have released an updated edition of Portfolio Digital Media Archive Server:
“Today we introduced a new addition to our line of Digital Asset Management (DAM) products: Portfolio Studio™. This is image archive server was developed for small teams to allow for automatically archiving and centralized access to photos …
Continue reading »Createasphere DAMMY Award Winner Announced
Createasphere have announced that they have selected Jason Bright of Media Beacon as the winner of their DAMMY of the year award:
“The goal of the DAMMY Awards is to raise awareness of the rapidly evolving, increasingly crucial role of digital asset management (DAM); to promote creative and technical …
Continue reading »HTML5: What Video Producers Need To Know
Jan Ozer discusses HTML5 on OnlineVideo.net and in particular the implications for video producers of a move away from plug-in based video delivery technologies like Flash towards native browser solutions. The main point is that HTML5 will likely not add much in terms of user experience if your DAM system …
Continue reading »Flash Media Server 4: First Thoughts
Writing on Streamingmedia.com, Tim Siglin reviews the recently released Flash Media Server 4 and discusses some its newer features, including support for multicasting and HTTP streaming:
“Adobe’s Flash Media Servers have undergone a radical set of changes in the past few revisions. FMS version 2 offered numerous iterations. …
Continue reading »Wowza Announce Licensing Agreement With Dalet
Breaking News – Wowza Media Systems, developers of the Wowza Media Server, have announced a new licensing agreement with digital media asset management provider, Dalet Digital Media Systems.
“The integration of Wowza Media Server 2 adds market-proven streaming capabilities to the Dalet MAM platform’s already powerful functionality, which includes shot …
Continue reading »Fear And Losing Control To Field Sales And Marketing
Rhonda Basler, of Mail Print, one of our featured DAM Vendors, have posted a blog entry about fears many larger organisations have about ceding control over sales and marketing to colleagues in the field and what technology options are available now to assuage those concerns. The fears discussed …
Continue reading »Keywording: Mundane But Essential For Effective Digital Asset Management
Matt Brandon, writing on The Digital Trekker blog describes how keywording (adding tags, descriptions and other metadata to assets) is a mundane but essential task – especially for photographers who need to sell images:
“For some of you, this is not very important, all you need to do is …
Continue reading »Car Talk: Thoughts On I-SEMANTICS
In this article, Thomas Schandl, Helmut Nagy, Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer share their initial thoughts and opinions about the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS, whilst on the move.
“Imagine the following: A car full of Semantic Web Experts is on it’s way back from Graz. They hand …
Continue reading »Western Digital Makes DAM More Manageable For Video
With the rise of high definition video formats, more and more videographers are turning to WD external hard drives to store their ever increasing volumes of video data.
“However the rise of high definition videos, 2K and 4K image resolution files that require huge storage space compel video makers to …
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