Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Laurence Hart – Chaos Reigns at Content Management Vendors: “Cloud had been dismissed before, as clients hadn’t been asking for the cloud. Customers hadn’t asked because they determined that the legacy vendors were the wrong people to ask. […] It wasn’t until last year that they started to realize that a SaaS service was what…

1988: As a teen, I wanted to learn to code but couldn’t afford to buy Turbo Pascal for my Atari ST. Most programming languages (interpreters / compilers) were distributed commercially. There was no Web to download from, someone had to ship floppy disks. 1994: As a student, I loved to have Pascal (commercial but cheap)…

Our DC-X DAM software is one of those DAM systems that (while offering general-purpose DAM functionality) focus on the news/publishing industry. For our newspaper- or magazine-publishing customers, publication metadata is among the most important: Name of the publication, publication date, page number, section name etc. (see DC-X publication data, based on the PRISM standard). This…

A big question at the recent IPTC Machine Readable Rights Workshop was how to get people to adopt a standard for rights metadata. A “business case” would certainly help: There will often be no budget if machine readable rights don’t save money (or even earn it). Below is a short list of possible business cases.…

I had the honor to attend the “Machine Readable Rights Workshop” at the IPTC Autumn 2014 meeting in Frankfurt, Germany today. And to hold a short presentation [PDF] on “Rights Management in the DC-X DAM”. Here’s what I intended to say (the actual talk was a bit shorter): “I’ve been following the IPTC’s work for…

Deborah Fanslow – Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part I: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: “After reading David’s article, I was inspired to do a little informal research. I was curious…when did the topic of librarians enter the DAM conversation? Have any vendors other than Picturepark published any advocacy on behalf of librarians…

(Sorry for this unusually non-professional blog post. I’ll get back to business with my next post!) I was born in 1972, and my taste in music shows that I’m living in the past already: Though I love many current songs, only few albums feel magical and coherent from the first to the last song. For…

Dave Winer has been blogging for almost 20 years now. His blog is on my reading list for programmers. I love the way he writes, making software development feel simple and personal. (Much appreciated especially when I’m building “enterprise software” that often seems to be the opposite.) Two of his pieces that I can’t get…