Charlie Minesinger of Innovative Query writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 criteria for choosing an ECM solution. As with many of the articles about selecting ECM products, many of the criteria are appropriate for DAM vendor evaluations also:
TinEye is a reverse search engine which can find related images (and other information) based on a source file:
“TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of …
Continue reading »Metadata vocabularies are becoming increasingly complex, granular and multi-faceted – nowhere more so than preservation and heritage oriented archives which typically catalogue a much greater amount of information about assets and artefacts than business oriented DAMs. While extending the depth of cataloguing data helps to provide an enhanced range of …
Continue reading »Metadata and photo management expert, David Riecks from ControlledVocabulary.com has written a highly informative article that explains how to de-dupe an image collection using MD5 checksum tools and a spreadsheet. The process will also produce a rudimentary asset audit that will identify the file locations, duplicate status and file name. …
Continue reading »Russell Glenister, writing on the whichstockagency.com blog describes some of the less than enlightening descriptions that microstock photos often have applied to them:
“First, let us take a brief look at bad keywording and descriptions because, although it’s a problem for microstock companies as they insist their contributors post …
Continue reading »German SharePoint extensions vendor, Layer 2, have introduced “Tag Suggester” for SharePoint 2010. The tool assists users with the process of tagging and categorising object in SharePoint.
Tag Suggester provides a range of content-based suggestions while tagging, analysing terminology taxonomies and metadata to present prospective relevant options for the …
Continue reading »As reported on the Google Blog, Google have introduced some changes to their image search facility such as larger thumbnails and search by colour, similar images and general user interface enhancements:
“There’s even more sophisticated computer vision technology powering our “Similar images” tool. For example, did you know …
Continue reading »Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics covered include:
The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) and PLUS (Picture Licensing Univeral System) have a released a free Adobe Bridge plugin which allows users to view and edit the full set of IPTC Core, IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata frameworks.
The toolkit includes:
One of our featured DAM vendors, dutchsoftware.com have released a new edition of their DAM solution, Elvis. The updates includes:
Fran Alexander, writing on VocabContro.com, summarises several key sessions from the recent Henry Stewart DAM conference in London last month. The sessions discussed include:
DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a report, Video Digital Asset Management: 12 Crucial Points which covers a range of different topics about handling video in DAM systems. The report appears to be written from a reasonably neutral perspective and should be of interest to anyone looking into Video DAM.
The …
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