ADAM DocMaker 3.0 Webinar: 8th June
DAM Vendor, ADAM have announced a Webinar: “Managing and strengthening your brand with ADAM DocMaker 3.0”. The presentation commences at 4.30pm European Time (3.30pm UK, […]
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Open Video Conference, NYC October 1-2, 2010
The Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) are holding a workshop in New York City on 1-2 October 2010. The workshop promises:
“FOMS is a action-oriented workshop designed for individuals that work on open audio and video software. This year, FOMS will have a special emphasis on the new …
Continue reading »Apple’s HTML5 Showcase Site Only Works On Safari
Apple have fired another shot across the boughs of Adobe with this site which aims to demonstrate the superiority of the “open” HTML5 standard. Except if you try to use it in anything apart from Safari, this is what awaits you:
Electric Lane Keywording Course: 1 July, London
Photo library training and consulting services group, Electric Lane are hosting courses on keywording (including video) on 1st July in London (UK).
“The course will look at keywording schemas, the principles of controlled vocabulary and thesauri, and methods of captioning and keywording. We will look at ways to do …
Continue reading »Elvis: Optimising Lucene For Faster DAM Text Searching
In this article by DAM vendor, Elvis, Nico Krijnen outlines how they have used the open source Lucene text indexing engine for improving text search:
“For elvis 2.1 we wanted a more performant and easier to maintain search engine. We decided to rewrite a large part of our …
Continue reading »Adobe Releases HTTP Dynamic Streaming: Does RTMP Have A Future?
Adobe has announced support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming:
“The release of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® 2 runtimes introduces support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming for on-demand and live video streaming online. This new delivery method enables on-demand and live adaptive bitrate video streaming of standards-based MP4 …
Continue reading »H.264 vs. VP8: How Do They Compare?
Jan Ozer provides several tests of H.264 and VP8 to see how these standards for video compression compare.
“VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn’t substandard, so that’s not an issue, but neither is it twice the …
Continue reading »Is SharePoint Too Big?
In this article, Shawn Shell ponders whether SharePoint 2010 has spread itself too thinly with its numerous bells and whistles and asks ‘has SharePoint got too big for its own good?”
“In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has created much broader management capabilities and better integration services. SharePoint now carries many more …
Continue reading »Talis Open Day: Linked Data and Libraries, 21 July 2010
Talis will be presenting a series of free open days at the British Library, London, UK that aim to provide information on understanding and applying Linked Data in the world of National, International, Cooperative, and other large libraries. The latest is on 21 July 2010.
“These Open Days are …
Continue reading »Moving Multiple Document Mountains
In this article Alan Pelz-Sharpe discusses various approaches to managing multiple document silos in order to gain the most from these often disparate business resources.
“Multiple repositories can come in many different forms, be they hundreds of SharePoint sites, a handful of massive ECM systems, or a combination of shared …
Continue reading »Enough DAM For Your CMS Dollar?
David Roe examines whether enterprise content management solutions that offer basic digital asset management features are a cost effective alternative for businesses with significant DAM requirements.
“If the decision as to whether an enterprise should deploy a full-blown digital asset management system has been complicated, new research from the Real …
Continue reading »Netflix: Threats To Pay Per View Streaming Model
Video On Demand and more recently TV and video streaming operation, Netflix, has revealed that it expects the DVD rentals by mail market (which it pioneered) to peak by 2013 and to be gradually replaced by direct streaming of video content direct to consumers. The slideshow highlights a number …
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