Source Digital Koans The Association of Research Libraries has published The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone. Here’s an excerpt from the “Executive Summary”: The role of the printed journal in the institutional marketplace faces a steep decline in the coming 5 to 10 years. Print journals will exist […]
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Veerle’s Blog Digital asset management that is the “fancy” term of the topic from last Friday. Since then I’ve tested several of the applications that were mentioned in the comments. For those that haven’t been following along we we’re talking about archiving solutions for all the files that we have to deal with in our […]
Portfolio Best Practices Guide (PDF) A straightforward guide to defining an efficient workflow, creating catalogs, organizing your files and more. Download (1 MB) […]
from PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network by Jennifer Jones Chris Brogan, social media expert and co-founder of PodCamp has three major predictions that can affect marketers. Brogan believes some social networks will start folding, leaving just major platforms afloat, mainstream media will dive deep into online publishing, and PR and marketing firms will announce […]
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LongJump, a provider of highly customizable, interconnectedon-demand business applications, today unveiled applicationprogramming interfaces that enable LongJump’s platform to deliver apowerful “Database-as-a-Service” (DaaS) offering. LongJump’s new DaaSoffering enables companies to self-provision relational databaseaccess and storage on-demand. Similar to Amazon’s S3 on-demand storageservice, LongJump gives developers a compelling alternative forhousing their web-based applications. LongJump’s DaaS provides acomplete […]
Microsoft has taken steps in the direction of supporting Semantic Web standards such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. While their support is minimal and not hyped very broadly it is still nice to see the them implementing these standards in their software. I also haven’t seen any evidence that they wish to formulate a proprietary […]
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One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologies like RDF, OWL and other standards for metadata. Semantic Apps may use those […]
The Assembly Line Approach to Digital Asset Management By Byron Jorjorian, www.naturephotocentral.com Until recently, I suffered from scattered image syndrome. That is to say I had images and projects scattered all over my desktop and throughout multiple hard drives. It seemed a hopeless mess. As a professional nature photographer with more than 180,000 images in […]
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For printers and other graphic communications specialists, harnessing digital asset management as a revenue stream may be getting easier thanks to clients’ awareness of the technology’s power to enable consistent, customized product distribution across geographic distances. “Now PMS blue in Los Angeles will match PMS blue in Peking because everyone is using the same colors, […]
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Available 24/7 globally, your assets are completely secure and easily managed in PaxPro. The PaxPro Digital Asset Manager features thumbnails for easy identification and supports over 400 file formats — from Word to Excel to CAD to Adobe InDesign and pretty much everything in between. Digital assets reside in folders within a workspace for organizational […]
