Autor: Tim Strehle

I have spent years of my life making our software work with other software, and I think we have a problem: The “enterprise” is managing overlapping information in disparate systems that don’t interoperate well. There’s lots of system flavors: DAM (interesting stuff like photos, videos, articles). DM (boring stuff like forms, business letters, emails). CM…

Today, our company Digital Collections has moved from the office in Hamburg, Wendenstr. 130 into another part of Hamburg, Hindenburgstr. 49. Here’s some pictures I have taken in the old office during the last years. The new office is more modern and practical, but I’ll miss the lovely historical building, a former chocolate factory built…

Reusable user interface components for Web development are trending. I’ve been thinking about them for quite some time now (see JavaScript components from almost a year ago). Now that we’re building a new UI, we need to finally decide on something and start using it! While we’ve done single page Web apps in the past,…

Our DC-X DAM systems often are the central content hub at large publishers, with lots of data flowing in from photographers, news agencies, editorial systems, Web CMSes. These provide data (articles, photos, graphics, ads, pages) in a host of different formats, which means we’re building “importers” all the time to ingest content into the DAM…

Last Friday, a project I’ve been involved with was officially launched: filmothek.bundesarchiv.de. It’s a Web site showing contemporary history videos from the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), distributed by their partner Transit Film, implemented by our company Digital Collections (based on our Digital Asset Management system DC-X), with Web design by our partner Pier2Port. Content is…

Raph Koster – Self-promotion for game developers: “If you do not take your field seriously enough to study it, and try to know everything about it, and try to add new knowledge and understanding to the field, then you probably shouldn’t be self-promoting. […] You will earn respect for being honest enough to admit mistakes.…

Here’s an update to our thoughts on the main navigation for our new, simpler DAM UI: The filter column on the left has been removed in favor of Google-style dropdown lists between search box and results. This saves space, and I hope will encourage filter usage because they now appear where the user is actually…