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.…