Autor: Tim Strehle

Last week I wrote on Twitter: “Testing my theory that structured data exchange between apps/parties is best done in #XHTML+#RDFa. Human browseable & usable w/ XSLT, XPath.” This is the long version of that tweet: As a developer in the enterprise DAM software business, I’ve been doing a lot of integration work – with news…

Laurence Hart – Box Isn’t Disrupting Because of the Cloud: “Box is disrupting because they focus on the people using the application. SaaS is the the disruptive delivery mechanism that enables the spread of their solution. All IT vendors are being disrupted in this fashion, not just Content Management. Ease-of-use is driving adoption in a…

In Web application development, I’m seeing a trend towards reusable components for building the user interface. The idea isn’t new (see Mashups, Portlets, Web Parts or jQuery Plugins): Make it easy to reuse ready-made UI elements built by different developers (e.g. a form field with autocomplete functionality, a date picker, a tree view, a dialog)…

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…