Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

As you can see on Planet DAM, many DAM software vendors have a blog. Some of them use it to inform their customers about new product versions – software developers are calling this “release notes” or a “ChangeLog”. For existing customers, this is extremely important information. They need to know about the availability of a…

While preparing for our DAM and the Semantic Web webinar, I came across a spectacular (and very long) blog post on the pros and cons of Linked Data. It is well applicable outside of its library context. I wish we had such a deep discussion of all the technology we’re considering to use: Jonathan Rochkind:…

The whole point of meetings – unless it’s a public announcement by the big boss – is collaboration. Strangely, we seem to be lacking software tools to support this kind of synchronous collaboration. Our primary meeting tools are PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, whiteboard drawings, and the occasional shared Google Docs document. I see four problems…

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…