Edward Smith, of Extensis has written an article for CMSWire.com entitled: Who Should Enter Metadata in Digital Asset Management?
“Metadata is important because it helps you and other DAM users find the right files (keywords), understand the content of the files you find (descriptions) and use those files correctly …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Picture Park, are running a webinar: “Metadata Myths and Madness!” on Wednesday 25th July between 10am and 11am Pacific Time. The presentation will include John Horodyski from DAMEducation.com as well as other Picture Park staff such as David Diamond (author of the DAM …
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This guest post is from Ralph Windsor, a senior partner in Digital Asset Management implementation consultants, Daydream.
Background
This article is about proxy files in DAM systems and how I see their role changing from practical necessity towards a specialised form of functional metadata. As I will explain, I …
Continue reading »Sarah Saunders, from photo metadata consultancy, Electric Lane gives an overview of a presentation she delivered at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference held in London earlier this year in regard to ‘Orphan Works‘. This a fairly hot topic in the whole image rights industry and covers the use …
Continue reading »The Photo Metadata Conference is being held in conjunction with the CEPIC conference in East London (UK) on 17th May 2012. The event costs 120 UK Pounds and will cover both applying metadata to help photos get found in searches and a rights presentation on preventing images from becoming ‘orphaned …
Continue reading »In this article, Michael Daconta at Government Computer News, discusses how well structured and considered metadata can improve the mechanisms of government and therefore better protect consumers and citizens.
“The key to metadata design is developing the best descriptive fields that increase the usage value of the data to …
Continue reading »Earley and Associates have published a blog post last week on Metadata and Taxonomies:
“Business makes extensive use of taxonomy and metadata in a variety of scenarios including accounting, databases and inter/intra-net based applications to provide structure and organize information. All this is normal and straightforward. Chaos arises, however, …
Continue reading »This was covered on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group. The Embedded Metadata Manifesto discusses 5 key principles for using and creating embedded metadata and is aimed at both intellectual property originators (creators of assets like photographers, film makers etc), tool developers (i.e. DAM vendors) and end users. The following is …
Continue reading »The New York Enterprise Search Group is holding a ‘meetup’ seminar that will discuss “Video Search and the Rise of Time-coded Metadata”. Timecode or timeline metadata is one of these subject areas that offers currently untapped potential for DAM systems, so this event looks well worth attending if you either …
Continue reading »SearchDataManagement.co.uk has an interview with Mike Gunton, Executive Director of The BBC’s Natural History Unit where he describes the rationale behind the corporation’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) which is at the core of its Digital Asset Management strategy. Unsurprisingly, the natural history unit’s metadata and archival requirements are ‘at the …
Continue reading »Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland of Free University Brussels (ULB) have launched a demonstration site based on Google Refine that aims to show irregular or imperfect metadata can become more valuable even if released rather than holding on to it in order to ‘perfect’ the data. They are interviewed …
Continue reading »Philip Hunter, writing for Broadcast Engineering yesterday, discusses how metadata is likely to be more significant at the forthcoming IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in the Netherlands in September. He notes that the majority of metadata activity is associated with Media Asset Management (or Video DAM as some of our readers …
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