Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

This article was written by Laurel Norris and published on the Digital Asset Management.com site (owned by DAM vendor Widen) on September 19, 2015, under the URL http://digitalassetmanagement.com/blog/dam-champ-tim-strehle/. Because that site’s blog posts are not available anymore, I’m publishing a copy on my blog. If you are active in the DAM community on Twitter, you’ve…

Today I watched Erik Dörnenburg’s excellent talk Architecture without Architects (recorded in December 2014). Some takeaways: Erik explains how software “architect” is, in several ways, not a good metaphor. “Town planner” or even “gardener” might be better metaphors, considering that software architecture constantly needs to be adapted and reshaped. He encourages vertical slicing with room…

I don’t travel much, so I’m extra happy that the publishing industry (where most of our customers are from) is going to meet in our home town this year: The WAN-IFRA World Publishing Expo 2015 (Twitter: #WPE15) takes place in Hamburg, Germany from October 5-7. Our company Digital Collections is exhibiting (booth 1.415), but I…