Jahr: 2015

As you can see on Planet DAM, many DAM software vendors have a blog. Some of them use it to inform their customers about new product versions – software developers are calling this “release notes” or a “ChangeLog”. For existing customers, this is extremely important information. They need to know about the availability of a…

While preparing for our DAM and the Semantic Web webinar, I came across a spectacular (and very long) blog post on the pros and cons of Linked Data. It is well applicable outside of its library context. I wish we had such a deep discussion of all the technology we’re considering to use: Jonathan Rochkind:…

The whole point of meetings – unless it’s a public announcement by the big boss – is collaboration. Strangely, we seem to be lacking software tools to support this kind of synchronous collaboration. Our primary meeting tools are PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, whiteboard drawings, and the occasional shared Google Docs document. I see four problems…

I’ve been talking about RDF and schema.org for DAM interoperability in a previous blog post. What’s been missing was an example. Here’s what the actual schema.org markup for a random photograph could look like (in RDF/XML notation): Not so bad. Looks like something your Digital Asset Management system could produce (and maybe even consume), doesn’t…

On December 9th, 2015, Margaret Warren, Demian Hess and I will be doing a webinar hosted by the DAM Guru Program: How the Semantic Web Will Affect Digital Asset Management. You’re welcome to join us, or watch the recording later if you cannot attend live. If you’re already using Linked Data in a DAM context,…

If you store files on Amazon AWS S3 and want to restrict access to them, you can do so by setting up an AWS CloudFront distribution with either Signed URLs or Signed Cookies. Signed Cookies are interesting if you want to use static file URLs and just make sure only people logged into your application…

Todd A at good.simple.open – When you have too many to-dos for an employee, you need to hire another employee: “In these cases, managers don’t do anything about the underlying causes of too many to-dos. They don’t say “no” to clients. They don’t manage projects well. They don’t set priorities. […] If you have that…

Laurel Norris kindly interviewed me for the Digital Asset Management.com “DAM Champ” series: DAM Champ: Tim Strehle, and a follow-up DAM Champ: Tim Strehle, Part 2. In the interview, I’m talking about the internship that started my DAM career. For more on that story, and how I turned from a librarian into a software developer,…

This article was written by Laurel Norris and published on the Digital Asset Management.com site (owned by DAM vendor Widen) on October 15, 2015, under the URL http://digitalassetmanagement.com/blog/dam-champ-tim-strehle-part-2/. Because that site’s blog posts are not available anymore, I’m publishing a copy on my blog. Welcome to part two of Tim Strehle’s DAM Champ interview. In…

Mike Hadlow – Heisenberg Developers (from 2014): “Software development […] is a creative and experimental process. […] Numerous studies have shown that effective creative work is best done by motivated autonomous experts. As developers we need to be free to try things out, see how they evolve, back away from bad decisions, maybe try several…