Defending PDF
Kas Thomas, writing on his assertTrue() blog, defends the PDF format, noting that despite its bloated size and idiosyncrasies it still has a role because […]
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12 Crucial Points About Video DAM
DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a report, Video Digital Asset Management: 12 Crucial Points which covers a range of different topics about handling video in DAM systems. The report appears to be written from a reasonably neutral perspective and should be of interest to anyone looking into Video DAM.
The …
Continue reading »Alchemy’s Phraseanet DAM Goes Open Source
French DAM vendor, Alchemy have re-released their Phraseanet DAM solution as a free and open source product with a GPL3 licence. Formerly licensed at 7,500 Euros, the application can now be freely downloadable from http://www.phraseanet.com or SourceForge. The application is PHP based and includes support for most types of media:…
Continue reading »Is Your DAM Social?
Writing on the Mad Perspective blog, Peggy Dau asks whether currently available DAM solutions make sufficient use of social media concepts and techniques to enhance the user experience. She makes specific reference to user generated content, commenting on assets, ranking and other forms of direct user feedback mediated via …
Continue reading »Remixing vs Copyright
The DAM Show (the site operated by Peter Krogh, author of The DAM Book) recently posted a video “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” by Canadian Film-maker, Brett Gaylor of EyeSteelFilm which discusses the distinction between what might be termed “creative plagiarism” (or remixing) and more shameless copyright infringement …
Continue reading »Structured Dynamics Develops Semantic Components
Semantic Web developer, Structured Dynamics have developed what they term “Semantic Components” using Flex:
“”A semantic component is an ontology-driven component, or widget, based on Flex. Such a component takes record descriptions, ontologies and target attributes/types as inputs and outputs some (possibly interactive) visualizations of the records. Depending on …
Continue reading »White Paper: Usability And DAM – How Hard Can It Be?
DAM Vendor, Vyre have released a white paper on DAM usability:
“With the rapid proliferation of rich media content the interest in Digital Asset Management solutions has increased. However, increased demand also brings challenges: most notably, usability and the ‘findability’ of assets:
- The process of uploading and tagging of
Createsphere Announce DAMMYS Awards
Createsphere, organisers of the DAM Expo on September 23rd-24th in New York (NYC) later this year have announced they will present “The DAMMYS”, a series of awards specifically for the DAM industry:
- DAMMY of the Year.
- Best Storage, Archive, and or Preservation Solution.
- Best Strategy or Solution for Digital &
i-Semantics Conference 1 – 3 September 2010, Graz (Austria)
The iSemantics conference is being held between 1-3 September 2010 in Graz, Austria and features speakers such as Marti Hearst from Berkeley University, Peter Gloor of MIT and Rafael Sidi of Reed Elsevier:
“With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe …
Continue reading »Socialtext To Enhance SharePoint Integration
The SharePoint juggernaut continues to gather pace as enterprise wiki and social media developer, Socialtext announce enhancements to their Sharepoint connector:
“Socialtext announced today a major upgrade to SocialPoint, the connector that enables customers to integrate its enterprise social software platform with Microsoft SharePoint. Building on the recent release of …
Continue reading »Training Examples: NLP and Machine Learning Q&S Site
The Training Examples site is another StackOverflow inspired community questions based site about NLP (Natural Language Processing), Text Analysis, AI and other machine learning oriented subjects where…
“…data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical …
Continue reading »Web Engagement Management Perspectives On DAM
In this CMSWire.com article, Irina Guseva proposes that DAM vendors need to apply WEM (Web Engagement Management) techniques to encourage greater use of DAM solutions and integrate them more closely with other solutions (in particular: WCM or Web Content Management):
“What is missing right now is clear understanding of …
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