Sorenson Media will partner with Adobe and Amazon Web Services to present a training workshop entitled ‘The Business & Technology of Online Video’ at 2010 […]
Continue reading »In addition to our own site: https://damvendors.com/?s=5g2 a number of other blogs and sites have recently been reviewing and discussing the ever increasing number of open source DAM systems. Carol Bean lists a number of conventional and more library oriented DAMs.
“The main difference between proprietary systems and the open …
Continue reading »This week the ‘Flash vs HTML5’ format war continued to rage with suggestions that Apple’s Flash embargo is based purely on commercial strategy and has nothing whatsoever to do with technical issues, a revelation that is sure to convince even more content and digital asset management software vendors that HTML5 …
Continue reading »The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced a series of events and resources for their ‘Beginner’s Guide to Digital Preservation’ project, which aims to provide a straightforward and pragmatic guide to digital preservation.
“There are two JISC related digital preservation events coming up that I’m planning to attend. I’ll …
Continue reading »A new book released this month by information management consultant Heather Hedden, titled ‘The Accidental Taxonomist’, is an ideal read “for anyone challenged to build a business case for launching a taxonomy project, someone who needs to lead a building project, or is asked to participate on a taxonomy team …
Continue reading »In this article, Fran Alexander, discusses the need for ‘metadata about metadata’ and coins the term ‘parametadata’ to describe this information construct.
“Parametadata (or meta-metadata) is another subset of metadata – it is the metadata about the metadata, giving its provenance, date of creation, technical specifications, etc. Once you start …
Continue reading »In this article, Hanns Kohler-Kruner, Principal Consultant for HKK Consulting discusses whether taxonomy is still a relevant concept in a world where social tagging and other ‘looser’ information management approaches are commonplace.
“Of course Social Tagging implies the freedom of users to use whatever terms come most naturally when adding …
Continue reading »In this article, John Mancini speaks to Laurence Hart about why he believes that the CMIS standard will consumerise the ECM market and covers eight points regarding the standard that everyone should know.
“CMIS is not a new interface into your content repository. At its core, it is a Content …
Continue reading »In this article, Eugenia Loli-Queru uncovers a little known fact regarding the license agreement for many professional cameras that support h.264 or mpeg2 formats – you must pay royalties for commercial use.
“No, my friends. It’s not just a matter of just “picking Theora” to export a video to Youtube …
Continue reading »In “Who is Stripping Your Metadata?“, Pro-Imaging.org discusses results of a survey carried out by David Riecks and members of the Controlled Vocabulary discussion forum where they discovered that embedded metadata such as IPTC and XMP is routinely stripped out of image files by social media sites like …
Continue reading »Open Source ECM vendor, Nuxeo have a released a white paper entitled: “8 Things You Need to Know About Open Source ECM“. The paper takes some of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) spread about open source solutions in general and ECM in particular. It was written by …
Continue reading »PoolParty is a thesaurus management system and a SKOS editor for the Semantic Web including text analysis functionalities and linked data capabilities. The system helps to build and maintain multilingual thesauri providing a simple user interface and a couple of semantic services.
More information about PoolParty can be found at …
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