Autor: Tim Strehle

Ralph Windsor discusses my previous blog post on DAM News – Applying Linked Data Concepts To Derive A Global Image Search Protocol. He finds better words than I did, rephrasing my suggestion as “a universal protocol where images get described like web pages (HTML) so you can crawl them using search engine techniques”. Ralph points…

“ImageSnippets™ is a system for creating structured, transportable metadata for your images. It can be used as a digital asset management tool as well as an image/metadata publishing platform.” Take a look at the help pages, and read Margaret Warren’s post introducing ImageSnippets to the iptc-photometadata Yahoo! Group – a new system which can help…

Richard Wallis – Putting Linked Data on the Map: “Linked Data is just there – without the need for an API the raw data (described in RDF) is ‘just there to consume’. With only standard [http] web protocols, you can get the data for an entity in their dataset by just doing a http GET…

Today, searching the Web for an image that you’re allowed to use in public (either at no cost or after paying a license fee) is a suboptimal experience. Web search engines Google or Bing turn up images with unclear rights or in bad quality. Specialized “silos” like Getty Images or iStock Photos work well for…

David Diamond on CMSWire – Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop: “So what went wrong with the DAM industry? Where is the explosive growth? The IPOs? […] DAM vendors lack vision. Just as one could argue that PayPal should have been a product of Western Union, it’s easy to argue that DropBox and Google…