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Image via Wikipedia ABC The Drum Unleashed – Can computers really tell what we think?. “Julia Gillard was in my dream last night. It was quite bizarre.” One point for Julia. “Tony Abbott‘s laugh is a little bit terrifying, but at least he can laugh.” One point for Tony.This is how computers are determining whether our [...]

VocabControl » The power of parametadata. First we had content, then not long after that we had metadata, although no-one called it that. Now we need parametadata – the metadata about metadata! Neither metadata nor parametadata are anything new, but what is new is how central they have become to all sorts of business processes. [...]

DAM Talk  George Knox CEO @ Vamosa Enterprise Content Governance, talks to Paul Quigley. George seeks to deliver customers with control and structure to all enterprise content in a fully automated way with the broadest and most technologically advanced range of products and professional services. His vision for the customer has helped to define a [...]

IEEE Spectrum: The Social Panopticon And You. POSTED BY: SALLY ADEE Over the past couple of weeks, Google has gotten repeated bloody noses from tech journalists over theBuzz debacle. Before Buzz, Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” philosophy was backed up by a lot of carefully thought-out and well-executed applications. By comparison, Buzz was so uncharacteristically tone-deaf [...]

From metadata to the meaning of life, and all points between, the DAM Busters crew ( Editor-in-Chief Paul Quigley spoke with Henrik de Gyor and Mark Davey) waxed lyrical with Pearson’s Director of Content Madi Solomon DAM Busters Episode 2 Subjects covered: Taxonomy, Ontology, Philosophical borders and Nerd Hubris

Photo organization: How Geoff does it | Photodoto. Photodoto reader Geoff Coupe sent in some very helpful and detailed responses to my plea for help regarding my Great Photo Organization Project (which is still proceeding although I haven’t updated the sidebar in a little while). Here are his excellent responses to my questions (and you can read [...]

Bravo to Evan Williams CEO of twitter, this video clearly demonstrates that the man is a deep thinker when it comes to the value of real-time information flows, never before have we had a tool that can be used to tap into collective consciousness of humanity and an ecosystem of sharing those memes as they occur. Sure [...]

Metadata & the Future of Mobile Web Access « The Documentalist. As we move forward with the electronic evidence study at CRL, one challenge keeps rising to the surface in all of our conversations, literature reviews, and reviews of internet resources.  In a word: Metadata.  Collecting metadata and context information seems to be particularly challenging [...]

Say goodbye to your controlled web presence and say hello to Picasa 3.5. Google released Picasa 3.5 with a slew of new features including facial recognition and name-based batch tagging, faster geo-tagging and better web uploading functionality. The service is so good at finding your mug and tagging it that wild photos from yesteryear can [...]

The Metadata Working Group (MWG) was formed in 2006 as a consortium of leading companies in the digital media industry, focused on the following goals: Preservation and seamless interoperability of digital image metadata Interoperability and availability to all applications, devices, and services The intent of the MWG is to publish technical specifications that describe how [...]