Nuxeo: Fighting The Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt About Open Source ECM
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 […]
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Thesaurus and Linked Data Management With PoolParty
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 …
Continue reading »SciDB – A Science Oriented Large Scale Open Source Database
Most traditional relational databases are oriented towards the needs of business users rather than those of other problem domains, in particular scientists who need to manage data sets that tend to be much larger in scale (hundreds of Petabytes rather than Terabytes). Scidb.org aims to change all that by providing …
Continue reading »Createasphere/EXPLORE DAM Conference New York – September 23-24 2010
The Createasphere/EXPLORE Digital Asset Management Conference line up has been announced. The conference will take place on September 23-24th this year in New York and includes presentations from a number of speakers, including MediaBeacon’s Jason Bright, Gunar Penikis of OpenSAMSN and Roger Howard of Blizzard Entertainment:
“If you are responsible …
Continue reading »Steve Jobs ‘Can’t Get His Facts Straight’ On Flash
More responses to Steve Job’s attempt to justify the exclusion of Flash from Apple mobile devices. This analysis by Streaming Media guru, Dan Rayburn is the most accurate (in our view) and highlights the fact that money rather than open standards is Apple’s primary motivation for not supporting Flash on …
Continue reading »Getting The Right DAM/ECM Solution
This article from FierceContentManagement.com offers prospective buyers of ECM solutions some useful tips on choosing the right ECM solution for your business. Although the article is about ECM, all of the recommendations are relevant for anyone choosing a DAM system also.
“It’s not easy to find the right enterprise content …
Continue reading »Webinar: Metadata And SEO – 6th May 4pm ET
Earley Associates are hosting a webinar on the use of metadata for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) at 4pm (ET) on 6th May:
“Seth Earley and Jeff Carr of Earley & Associates will explain the importance of metadata and taxonomy and how they affect the positioning of your website in search …
Continue reading »Google Compares Apple To “North Korea” And Commits To Flash Support For Android
In an interview with the New York Times, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Andy Rubin confirmed that Android 2.2 will include support for Flash:
He also promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android, code-named Froyo, for frozen yogurt (previous Android …
Continue reading »Using Taxonomy & Controlled Vocabularies With SharePoint 2010
This blog post by Jeff Carr from Earley Associates explains how to apply Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies to SharePoint 2010 in order to enrich content using semantic principles:
Tagging in SharePoint 2010 is approached from two perspectives, with the first originating from controlled vocabularies via Metadata Terms. Controlled terms are …
Continue reading »Predictions For Enterprise Content Management In 2020
Craig Rhinehart looks into his crystal ball and makes some predictions for the future of enterprise content management over the next decade.
“With a few big ECM related announcements over the past couple of weeks … Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and IBM Advanced Case Management topping the list, I thought I …
Continue reading »Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010 – Prague, Czechoslovakia (18-21 May)
The Apache Lucence European Conference in Prague between 18th and 21st May promises to provide professional training on Lucene and Solr and the chance to learn from the search experts. Lucene is a popular text based search system used in a number of open source Content Managers and DAM applications.…
Continue reading »Top Trends From AIIM 2010
Fiercecontentmanagement.com have published a review of the AIIM show in Philadelphia last week where they identify 5 key trends that they perceive as being significant from this year’s show:
- Focus on the user
- Business process is very important
- Create off-the-shelf components with common use cases
- Offer services instead of monolithic