Taxonomy Boot Camp 2010: November 15-16, Washington DC
Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics […]
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Embracing Enterprise Search: Best Practices For Better Solutions
Bert Sandie Director of Technical Excellence at Electronic Arts, writing on the AIIM community Enterprise 2.0 blog discusses options for enterprises that wish to invest in an Enterprise Search facility for locating critical information stored anywhere in the business:
“Companies from small start-ups to the mega corporations all …
Continue reading »Tips for Designing Taxonomies
Writing on the Zylab blog, Johannes Scholtes offers 6 practical tips for designing taxonomies. As Johannes points out in the introduction:
“…the role of taxonomy is becoming increasingly important to the complete search experience as well as the automatic classification of documents in various applications.” [Read …
Continue reading »RackSpace Challenges Cloud Vendor Lock-In With OpenStack
RackSpace’s recent announcement of the release of “OpenStack” – their open source Cloud service stack could present a credible challenge to more established Cloud vendors (such as Amazon) according to some commentators.
A key issue with current Cloud services is vendor lock-in. At present, while a number of enterprises have …
Continue reading »Google’s Acquisition Of Metaweb To Lead To ‘Greater Understanding’
Writing on the official Google Blog, Jack Menzel, Director of Product Management at Google explains how Google’s recent acquisition of Metaweb, an open directory of over 12 million things, including films, television shows, literature and business, will help Google improve search and make the web more meaningful for users.
“Over …
Continue reading »Smart Content Analytics Conference: Call For Speakers
The Smart Content Analytics Conference, which will be held October 19, 2010 at the Executive Conference Center in New York, has issued a call for speakers. Registrants are asked to provide a speaking proposal by July 26, 2010 for a 35-minute presentation, which can cover topics as diverse as content …
Continue reading »The Evolution Of Digital Asset Management
In this series of short videos presented by Createasphere, Alex Grossman, CEO of Active Storage, discusses how increasing demands on the creative process has forced DAM vendors to develop ever more flexible and high performance digital asset management solutions. [Watch Now]
Continue reading »IPTC-PLUS Toolkit Released
The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) and PLUS (Picture Licensing Univeral System) have a released a free Adobe Bridge plugin which allows users to view and edit the full set of IPTC Core, IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata frameworks.
The toolkit includes:
- A comprehensive User Guide
SaaS: No Longer An “Experiment”
Jeff Kaplan, writing on the Think IT Services blog contests various recent assertions that SaaS (Software as a Service) is a failed model and not reliable for production use. He counter argues with those who claim that the SaaS “experiment” is over by highlighting the number of mainstream services that …
Continue reading »Elvis 2.1 Released
One of our featured DAM vendors, dutchsoftware.com have released a new edition of their DAM solution, Elvis. The updates includes:
- Metadata based permissions
- Required metadata
- Permissions for metadata fields
- Improved performance & stability
- A mobile client to allow iPads, iPhones and other non-Flash supporting devices to use the
Strategies And Tactics For Managing Permanent Data Storage
Last month, George Crump from Storage Switzerland, writing in the Information Week blog discussed the benefits of a strategy of retaining data permanently (as opposed to removing it when it ceases to have known utility for the business). The points raised are of particular significance to DAM solutions and …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart DAM Conference (London) Event Experiences
Fran Alexander, writing on VocabContro.com, summarises several key sessions from the recent Henry Stewart DAM conference in London last month. The sessions discussed include:
- Speech to text – the automated recognition and indexing of narrative content to simplify transcription of dynamic media.
- Image viewers and advanced zoom controls