Scottish Linked Data Interest Group: Edinburgh, 13th July
The Scottish Linked Data Interest Group will hold its first meeting on 13th July at the Outhouse in Edinburgh (Scotland). Readers based in Scotland may […]
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Metadata Management: The Future Is All About Machines & Users
In “Cyborg Metadata“, Matt Moore of Innotecture proposes that in the future, metadata will increasingly be managed by machines and users rather than subject experts or information architecture specialists. The abstract is below:
“Traditionally, metadata has been managed by experts. This article suggests that in the future, …
Continue reading »SaaS Pricing Trends: Cause For Concern Or The Evolution Of New Models?
In this article by Larry Dignan on the ZDNet blog, he analyses some practices by vendors that increasingly look like a return to the standard software licence and maintenance deals that enterprise software vendors are more associated with. In particular he notes multi-year lock-ins are often pushed by SaaS …
Continue reading »Streaming Media Europe London: 14-15 October 2010
The Streaming Media conference moves to London on 14th-15th October this year. The event comprehensively covers all aspects of on-line video delivery technology and will benefit all those involved in delivering, supplying or analysing this increasingly important (and complicated) arena, including:
- Executives, directors, producers, and engineers involved in the creation,
Where Next For CMIS?
Following the first release and ratification of the CMIS standard, several commentators have begun looking to the future of CMIS and how the standard may develop to support additional functionality. Laurence Hart, writing in his Word of Pie blog outlines some limitations and opportunities for enhancements:
- Hierarchical metadata
Elsevier Acquires Collexis
Collexis, a semantic technology and knowledge discovery software vendor has been acquired by STM publisher, Elsevier. The combination is an an obvious fit, Elsevier publish over two thousand specialist science journals and Collexis’s technology has been widely adopted by the academic market:
“Elsevier’s research performance, planning and funding …
Continue reading »3Play Launches Transcript Plugin
Transcription specialist, 3Play Media, have announced the availability of a plug-in which links a transcript of the text of a video to spoken word footage. The timeline can be searched for occurrences of a given term either across a single video or an entire library:
“Installing an interactive …
Continue reading »Google’s WebM & VP8 : Patently High Risk?
In this StreamingMedia.com article, Tim Siglin discusses whether WebM and the VP8 codec are genuinely open source compliant and the possible risks via Google’s use of a ‘poison pill’ clause that attempts to indemnify them from the risk of patent infringement lawsuits:
“…we’ll look at what needs to happen …
Continue reading »How The Library Of Congress Preserves The Past And Present
Rob Beschizza gives his account of two recent visits to Library Of Congress departments to see what techniques and practices are used in this prestigious organisation to preserve their immense collections.
“The Library of Congress has nearly 150 million items in its collection, including at least 21 million books, 5 …
Continue reading »Is Data Management Too Focused On Trends?
In this article, Dale Vile asks why, despite advances in technology and practice, some business data issues never seem to go away and postulates as to whether IT departments and solution vendors are too focused on chasing the lastest trends than solving the fundamentals.
“No one disputes the fact that …
Continue reading »Navigating The Video Format Battlefield
As the tech leviathans, including Google, Adobe and Apple, fight it out in the global arena for video format supremacy, the rest of us are left with a bewildering array of choices and incompatibilities to factor into the design of our video workflows:
“For content publishers and consumers, there is …
Continue reading »Planning Content Migration
Alice Ainsworth discusses the subject of planning content migration in this article. She describes the process as “dull but essential” – and few would argue over that. A series of 5 steps are outlined to help the reader understand the process and plan for it effectively:
- Know where your