Johannes C. Scholtes examines the benefits and limitations of traditional web search engines, such as Google, for use within in-house mission-critical applications. “It is easy to […]
Continue reading »Peter Heneback discusses why the pursuit of a collection of reusable and standardised industry services proposed by the Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) Task Force, a joint working group set up the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), will fail without widespread vendor adoption of open IT standards and robust …
Continue reading »Extensis have launched a new resource called DAM Street Smarts, an email newsletter that will provide readers with digital asset management tools, tips and tricks. Register here.
Continue reading »“Content is king!” An adage that Bert Sandie, Director of Technical Excellence for Electronic Arts, maintains is still a crucial factor in the success of Enterprise 2.0 solutions.
“As we examine the critical elements that make our E2.0 solutions a success we need to thoughtfully look at content. The first …
Continue reading »The Second Annual Cloud Computing World Forum will take place at Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK, from the 29th June to 1st July 2010. Register online free.
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Philip Spiegel, writing under his DAM Ideas blog discusses how Digital Asset Management has the (partially realised) potential democratise access to content. He also cites some examples of museums and archives that once used to require a time consuming and highly formalised process to allow access to their archives …
Continue reading »Using MD5 checksums (or hashes) to identify if a file is unique has become de-rigueur for most DAM solutions these days. There are many ad-hoc uses for them outside a more comprehensive system, however, and human managers of digital assets need to be aware of what tools and techniques are …
Continue reading »The Online Information Expo takes place in London (UK) between 30th November and 1st December 2010. The event covers the full range of online information activity, including: Content Resources, ePublishing Solutions, Library Management, Content Management, Search Solutions and Social Media:
“Dedicated to the information and information management industry, Online …
Continue reading »North Plains “We Speak Digital Media” blog covered an interesting topic yesterday: the difference between the way publishers and printers make use of DAM technology. The key take-away point is that publishers use DAM solutions to manage a range of components they use to develop or maintain a …
Continue reading »Vendor WebDAM have written a blog post that discusses the relative merits of building vs buying a DAM solution. As one might imagine, they tend toward the “buy” side of the argument, however, the points proposed are succinctly put and a fair evaluations of the arguments for building an in-house …
Continue reading »Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent, writing on the O’Reilly Radar blog introduces some performance tests they have carried out on a number of well-known Cloud providers, including:
“We (Bitcurrent) decided to find out. With the help of Webmetrics, …
Continue reading »As reported by David Riecks on ControlledVocabulary.com Apple’s Aperture 3 does not preserve IPTC Extension and PLUS embedded metadata from PhotoShop files:
“IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata does not survive a round-trip through Aperture 3. I had tested this previously with Photoshop CS5 beta, but as that product had …
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