Digital Asset Management

The Importance Of Digital Asset Management For Business.
By Dr John Yardley, JPY
Simply put, Digital Asset Management (DAM) products provide a way to organise your company’s valuable files – your ‘digital assets’ – in a way that makes them quick-to-find and easy to access.
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) live or die by their data. In an information economy, [...]

Will Google Goggles Finally Bring Mobile Image Recognition Mainstream? : Mobile Marketing Watch – The Pulse Of The Mobile Marketing Community.
I’ve long been a fan of the concept of image recognition, especially in terms of mobile marketing and the potential it has when combined with today’s feature-packed smartphones. Problem is, several underlying technologies [...]

New CEPIC member Orange Logic helps picture libraries and photo agencies go “one level higher than the canned licensing solutions”
Orange Logic (www.orangelogic.com) was founded in 1998 in New York and expanded in 2000 in France to provide high-end solutions for organizations managing and distributing media, and not willing to be constrained by the limitations of [...]

Why Wuala?
Online storage is coming quickly, superseding traditional technologies and methods such as external hard-drives, USB flash drives, and tedious email attachments. Why? Because it makes life easier.
With an online storage you can securely store and backup files online. Once uploaded, you can access your files from anywhere at any time, and you can recover [...]

Latest Quark versions now working with Cumulus 7.6.
(IFRA EXPO) AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 27 OCT 2008 — Canto®announced today at the IFRA Expo new versions of its popular Quark integration products: QXP Companion, QXP Server Companion and QPS Companion. The products offer seamless integrations with QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress Server and
the Quark Publishing System, respectively.
New in the product [...]

Professional Photography Site Digital Railroad Shuts Down Operations
October 29, 2008 — Digitalrailroad.net, a popular website for professional photographers to manage, market, and sell stock imagery was abruptly shut down after giving their customers just 10 hours notice.   The Digital Railroad Marketplace was home to millions of stock photos all shot by Digital Railroad member photographers [...]

BERLIN, GERMANY, 01 SEP 2008 — Canto® announced today the immediate availability of Cumulus® 7.6, a major feature update to the product line, offering new features that could save customers thousands—and protect their assets.Built in rendering of PDF files leads the pack of new Cumulus 7.6 features. High
quality PDF thumbnails and previews can be generated [...]

Digital Disambiguation by Eleta Exline
Digital Libraries
In practice, digital libraries are often viewed as an extension of traditional library collections. They usually contain digitized materials from the library’s paper or analog collections, and are often drawn from rare books collections, special collections, archives, or otherwise highlight the particular strengths of a given library. Digital library collections [...]

Capture One PRO is RAW workflow software designed for the professional photographer.
Capture One allows you to load in RAW files from the most commonly used DSLR cameras or shoot tethered to the computer. The intuitive Capture One RAW workflow guides you through image capture, editing and enhancement in a few simple steps and converts your RAW files into TIFF-RGB, TIFF-CMYK or JPEG images on-the-fly
Capture [...]

When “non-destructive” edits start making changes to the original files…
A few days back, I was extolling the virtues of the Sidecar (.XMP) file format that Adobe uses for storing updated metadata and edits to digital images in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR):
“It turns out that Bridge (together with ACR) is exactly what I needed to organise [...]