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Here’s the last month’s Digital Asset Management articles which had a lasting impression on me – picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links and Tracy Wolfe’s 10 things on the 10th. Theresa Regli states…

To help me remember what I’ve been doing all these years at work, here’s some stories from my almost two decades of Digital Asset Management and Web development at vendor Digital Collections which are ending this month. Sorry for the lengthy post… Before Digital Collections 1994 As part of my Library and Information Sciences (LIS)…

Dieser Artikel wurde am 11. Juli 2017 auf dem Blog meines ehemaligen Arbeitgebers Digital Collections veröffentlicht, unter der URL www.digicol.de/bye-bye-tistre/. Geschrieben wurde er von Nina Drewes anlässlich meines Wechsels zum SPIEGEL-Verlag. Weil das DC-Blog irgendwann nach der Übernahme der Firma durch Stibo DX komplett abgeschaltet wurde, veröffentliche ich hier eine Kopie des Artikels. Es ist…

Despite my claim that Topic Maps (as a standard) are dead, I’m a huge fan and continue to work with Topic Maps (with the goal of building Knowledge Graphs). That’s why I love Michel Biezunski’s excellent blog post Topic Maps Now. Some quotes: “In this paper, I will […] advocate that the notions of topic…

Here’s the last month’s Digital Asset Management articles which had a lasting impression on me – picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links and Tracy Wolfe’s 10 things on the 10th. “The realisation of…

The problem: We want to display a large number of search results (from our DAM system) on a Web page. Gathering the results on the server and transferring them to the browser takes a while. To improve the user experience and show the first results as soon as possible, we want to “stream” the results.…

A decade ago, I switched from Windows to the Apple Mac. Fortunately, my employer knows that developers need good hardware, and was happy to buy us top-of-the-line MacBook Pros. Not everything is perfect on the Mac, but it’s still a joy to use such excellent hardware and software (fast, beautiful, high quality). And I love…

Here’s the Digital Asset Management articles from April which had a lasting impression on me – picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links. If you’re attending the DAM New York conference this week, I’m…

Despite my almost 20 years of professional software development, I haven’t learnt a lot of programming languages (see my honest résumé). So far, it’s just been PHP and JavaScript (plus SQL, XSLT, and – back in the day – Object Pascal and Visual Basic). Now I’m trying to teach myself some Java. This blog post…

Here’s the Digital Asset Management articles from March which had a lasting impression on me – picked from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links. I highly recommend reading Ralph Windsor’s article Finding signs of life…