Adbeast Acquired By MIJO
North America’s leading digital television distributor, MIJO Corporation, has recently announced its acquisition of Adbeast – a web-based digital asset management business, dedicated to the needs […]
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Vidispine and Object Matrix Announce ‘Frictionless’ DAM
A joint technology partnership between media asset management software vendor, Vidispine and digital archive developers, Object Matrix has been announced. The partnership aims to produce systems that will meet the demanding requirements of the media and creative industries, where complex workflows must manage and deliver many hundreds of terabytes of …
Continue reading »8 Criteria For Selecting An ECM/DM Solution
Charlie Minesinger of Innovative Query writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 criteria for choosing an ECM solution. As with many of the articles about selecting ECM products, many of the criteria are appropriate for DAM vendor evaluations also:
- Metadata Maintenance (Automation).
- Findability.
- Total Control.
- Total Cost of Ownership.
SKOS Thesauri: The Next Generation Of Semantic Technologies?
Andreas Blumauer writing in The Semantic Web Company Blog discusses why linked data combined with SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Thesauri will enhance search beyond existing simple statistical analysis based techniques:
“Providers of first generation semantic technologies calculate rather basic “semantic networks” by co-occurency analysis which results …
Continue reading »The End Of High End Stock Photography?
On the WhichStockAgency.com blog, Marianne Winther asks whether the end is nigh for custom high end stock photo shoots. She takes quotes from three different stock industry commentators, including this one from Glenn Parker, CEO of Photolibrary:
“…there is money to be made from ‘image creation’ rather than …
Continue reading »Introduction to Ontology Course
Barry Smith, from Buffalo University has produced this free course: “Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core“. The course is aimed at those with an information science or philosophy background and covers a number of topics:
- Ontology as a Branch of Philosophy
- Ontology and Logic
- The
Do Your Developers Use Their Own Software?
Steve Radick, writing on the Enterprise 2.0 blog asks a valid question about how frequently developers actually use software they have built for users:
“Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone …
Continue reading »Dialog Launch New Search Service
Online information services provider, Dialog, have recently announced the launch of their new search service, ProQuest Dialog, a service intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organisations.
“The first release of ProQuest Dialog offers subscription-based access to databases from some of the world’s most trusted publishers , …
Continue reading »The Role of Taxonomy and Metadata in Enterprise Information Management Initiatives: Half Day Briefings
Earley Associates are offering a series of half day briefings on the role of taxonomy and metadata in enterprise information management initiatives. During the briefings, attendees will learn:
- How best in class organizations are addressing problems of information findability
- Approaches for integrating applications using business semantics
- New approaches to integrating
On Cloud Mine: Are Private Clouds Worth It?
In this article, Bhaskar Krishnamsetty presents the benefits of private cloud use and explains how private clouds can contribute to maximising the return on your IT investment.
“The best way to assess the value of the cloud is in terms of the economic drivers and long term benefits. Implementing a …
Continue reading »Open Text Release New Sematic Search Based On Nstein Technology
Open Text have announced the release of a new semantic search feature based on Nstein technologies, the fellow Canadian Digital Asset Management company that Open Text acquired in February 2010.
“According to Open Text, the Open Text Content Analytics engine, as they are calling it, “intelligently extracts meaning, sentiment and …
Continue reading »Keeping Your Eyes On The Metadata Prize: Meaningful, Interoperable Information
In this article, Mike Bergman discusses how linked metadata can hinder the ultimate goal of metadata management – namely meaningful, interoperable information – if it is made an objective in itself.
“Linked data is a good thing, but not an ultimate thing. By making linked data an objective in itself …
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