Digital Asset Management

3. July 2009

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Single User Edition of Cumulus Returns

Single User Edition of Cumulus Returns Based on Cumulus 8, Canto Single User to be sold through Canto Partner Network. BERLIN, 02 JUL 2009 — Canto® today announced the return of Canto-branded digital asset management (DAM) for individuals. Based on Cumulus 8 technologies, Canto Single User offers state-of-the-art file management for professionals, hobbyists and smaller organizations [...]

3. July 2009

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DAM those silos

Almost one-third of enterprise content represents multimedia digital assets today, yet few organizations strategically evaluate digital asset management (DAM) options. Instead, several siloed solutions often exist across an organization. InfoTrends, the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry, analyzed ADAM Software’s recent successes. The main differentiator [...]

2. July 2009

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Clickability shows how not to write a white paper

Image by DistractedMind via Flickr White papers are not something we typically critique or comment on, butClickability’s new white paper, billed on their website as “What Vignette is Not Telling You,” does, in fact, require special comment. The paper’s stated goal “is to provide strategic data and insights that will help in your decision-making process regarding Web Content Management.” But [...]

2. July 2009

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Search with the Monkey

Last week I went to the Semantic Conference in San Jose. Before I went there I was pretty new to the whole Semantic Web, so the conference gave me a chance to discover some interesting things. One of the people I met at the conference is Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research. He is working onSearchMonkey, which is a service [...]

2. July 2009

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Feedback from InfoComm and NAB

The recent annual InfoComm (Pro Audio/Visual) and National Association of Broadcasters (”NAB”) industry trade shows had some interesting, and perhaps surprising trends this year. Each are roughly $12 billion industries on the equipment side – double that amount with services added. Here are a few takeaways from the show: 8. Onward and Upward – Automation and [...]

1. July 2009

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Digital Asset Management ROI – The Basics

Following our presentation at Henry Stewart London for return on investment, we took an approach based on the content itself and the future of content. Related articles by Zemanta Latest Trends in Digital Asset Management (digitalassetmanagement.org.uk) We have not invested in a DAM yet because… (digitalassetmanagement.org.uk) Level of Risk for Digital Asset Management Implementations [...]

1. July 2009

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Do you use reports from your DAM?

If you use a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution within your organization, do you use reports generated by the DAM directly?

1. July 2009

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Analyzing online content with OpenAmplify

Extracting information from content not as easy for computers. Making sense of Web content is mostly easy for humans but rarely easy for computers. Part of the issue is that recognizing the “interesting” parts of online content involves what is mostly unstructured data, making the task very difficult. For example, consider text that you, a human, have [...]

1. July 2009

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OpenEdit DAM is now EnterMedia for Digital Asset Management

New features of EnterMedia include a new user interface, the ability to combine and customize catalogs, cross catalog searching, dynamic search query builder, saved search queries, multi-record editing, albums (collection baskets are out, albums are in!), browser based drag and drop upload, slideshow, CSV exports, PDF page previews, video and audio support, and image orientation [...]

1. July 2009

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Danish Parliament Votes For SSL Gravity

A state-of-the-art SSL Gravity MAM (Media Asset Management) system coupled to a Snell automation system will be instrumental in bringing Danish Parliament TV to the digital terrestrial network when national digital switchover occurs on November 1 2009. Selected after considerable consultation and deliberation by contract winner and service provider Studios A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark, Gravity will [...]

1. July 2009

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Extensis intros Portfolio Server 9

Extensis intros Portfolio Server 9 digital asset management software Adds new Java server platform, web clients, and MediaRich processing engine Nick Spence Extensis, digital assets and fonts management software specialists, have announced Portfolio Server 9, offering what the company says are a range of new features and enhancements. Portfolio Server 9 allows organisations to deploy multi-channel marketing, control their brand, [...]

30. June 2009

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Simple Things

Everybody, it seems, is using Sharepoint. For a product which does enterprise document and content management (including metadata and taxonomy handling) badly in its native state, and collaboration only in a mediocre fashion compared to competitors, it’s not the best deal for knowledge managers to have to grapple with. You really need to have ingenuity [...]

30. June 2009

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“Where the #%*! are My Pictures?””

Image by Cayusa via Flickr Video Review: Reichmann and Resnick’s “Where the #%*! are My Pictures?”” June 28, 2009 by Joe Decker Several times a year I teach a one-day workshop on optimizing images using Lightroom at the local art league, and in doing so I’m often asked for a good book recommendation for someone learnning Lightroom. As I’ve mentioned in [...]

30. June 2009

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Neoliberal Digitalism?

Susanne Gaschke‘s book Klick – Strategies Against Digital Stultification describes how the increasing prevalence of the internet and new media influences the culture of knowledge and education. She criticizes an infinite optimism of media, politics and science towards this phenomenon and decries an uncritical handling of the internet. Gaschke characterizes people following the paradigm of new [...]

30. June 2009

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Akamai Technologies and KIT digital Enter into Strategic Alliance

Image via CrunchBase KIT VX Video Management Platform to be Offered with Akamai Solutions KIT digital and Akamai to Collaborate on Joint Sales and Marketing Efforts on a Global Basis CAMBRIDGE, MA and DUBAI – June 29, 2009 – KIT digital, Inc. (OTCBB: KDGL), a leading global provider of Internet Protocol-based video management technologies, and Akamai Technologies, [...]

29. June 2009

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Digital Xpress boosts performance with ADAM Software

Digital Xpress boosts performance with ADAM Software download this press release in word DOC & PDF format DEINZE, June 29 , 2009. Graphics and IT business builds on existing system with state-of-the-art DAM platform As a business that prides itself on its technological know-how in the field of marketing, prepress, IT and graphic design, Danish company Digital XPress [...]

29. June 2009

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Metadata as source of digital anthropology

Image via CrunchBase One of the most interesting things I am focused on right now is how to use the metadata that is increasingly abundant on web 2.0 sites. My main focus is tags on places like Flickr, and Technorati. This form of tagging has the rather clumsy name of a folksonomy. A Folksonomy is a system of classification [...]

29. June 2009

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How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking

by Erick Schonfeld on June 28, 2009 Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. No, Posner does not work for the Associated Press (which also has some strange ideas [...]

29. June 2009

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misunderstanding the culture of piracy

Image via Wikipedia Producers losing $300m by taking wrong turn Digital content producers and entertainment companies in the Asia-Pacific region are losing hundreds of millions of dollars by misunderstanding the culture of piracy, a conference on digital asset management has heard. Rather than running head-first at a problem that conservatively costs the industry more than $300 million a [...]

28. June 2009

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Why do I need reports from a DAM?

If you select a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution meant for an organization (rather than a DAM meant for an individual), you should be able to generate reports directly from the DAM. Why do you need reports from a DAM solution? Well, let's see...

26. June 2009

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Document and Records Management: Controlling Information Risk and Aiding Compliance

Aarkstore announce a report “Document and Records Management: Controlling Information Risk and Aiding Compliance” through its vast collection of market research report. We are now in the second wave of Document and Records Management, with many organisations that implemented DRM systems a few years ago now looking to replace or roll out their systems to a [...]

26. June 2009

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DAM does not cut it as an acronym anymore

The Coming Acronym Crisis 25-Jun-2009 — Comments — none yet As I talk to people in the content-technology industry (if I may call it that), I’m struck by a common thread that has begun to emerge in conversations involving roadmaps and futures. Vendors are beginning to unshackle themselves from acronyms. Let me spare you the suspense [...]

26. June 2009

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Solid State Logic Gravity Media Asset Management Systems Draws Wide Interest At InfoComm And Telemundo Shows

Solid State Logic’s Gravity Media Asset Management Systems are wowing the crowds at both InfoComm 2009 and Telemundo 2009 Born from a universal desire for intelligent media management and video content production for IPTV and broadcast playout, Gravity’s web based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) forms the basis of a core networkable asset management system. Gravity is format [...]

25. June 2009

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NewsGator Adds Enhanced Knowledge Mgt Capabilities to Social Sites 3.0

Image via CrunchBase NewsGator (news, sites) believes that social computing solutions like Social Sites are the next generation of operating system for the organization, calling them the “most productive home base for knowledge workers“. They say the latest version of Social Sites — v3.0 — includes new capabilities that will transform the content in your organization into social [...]

25. June 2009

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You can now share files on FriendFeed

Image via CrunchBase Posted by Dan Hsiao on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 One of my favorite things about FriendFeed is how quick and easy it is to upload and post a photo. Now, we’ve added the capability to share files as well. You can easily attach any file, such as a PDF or a spreadsheet, to your FriendFeed post. To [...]

25. June 2009

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The Beauty of XML is its Flexibility

XML, or EXtensible Markup Language, is a platform-independent way to represent data. Simply put, XML enables you to create data that can read by any application on any platform. It is based on the same tag-based technology that underlies HTML. For example, suppose you want to use XML to store information about a transaction. This transaction [...]

25. June 2009

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Equilibrium announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist

SAUSALITO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Equilibrium announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist inCommunications Sector Partner of the Year. Equilibrium (www.equilibrium.com), a software company with more than fifteen years experience in automated media processing, worked closely with Microsoft to enhance the value of Microsoft SharePoint by bringing higher levels of [...]

24. June 2009

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Explore and report on multi-dimensional XBRL data

Image via Wikipedia PARIS & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced the general availability of xfy XBRL Report, the first and only desktop application that enables users to view, explore and report on multi-dimensional XBRL data; combine it with other content; [...]

24. June 2009

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Pegasus Chooses VFM Leonardo Digital Asset Management System For Visual Content

– Hotels, 6/23/2009 9:08:00 PM Pegasus Solutions’ and VFM Leonardo have formed a strategic partnership to provide hotels with industry-leading end-to-end visual and descriptive content management and distribution. The agreement will allow Pegasus, which maintains the largest collection of electronically bookable hotels in the world, to leverage VFM Leonardo’s VScape Digital Asset Management System and visual [...]

24. June 2009

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Gravity Systems Represent New Benchmark for Advanced Asset Management for Broadcast News

ORLANDO, FLORIDA & MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – Solid State Logic’s Gravity Media Asset Management Systems are wowing the crowds at both InfoComm 2009 and Telemundo 2009. Born from a universal desire for intelligent media management and video content production for IPTV and broadcast playout, Gravity’s web based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) forms the basis of [...]