Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

James Rourke – DAM for Beginners: User Interface & experience: “A note to vendors: don’t underestimate the value of how your system looks; you want to wow your client in a demo. A well-functioning system that looks dated or too technical might miss out to a less well-functioning system that looks nicer and easier to…

Stephen Moss – Pete Seeger: five great performances: “The manner in which he calls on the audience to participate is telling, too. He wasn’t the star; the audience was. Music was a vehicle for mass expression. That helps to explain his opposition to Dylan’s new course. Confronted with a rock band, the audience were reduced…