Whew! This year’s SLA 2015 conference was a doozy. There is too much to cover in a single blog post so I’ve boiled it down to a few observations I made during this four-day event geared towards information professionals. Knowledge/Content/Digital Asset Management are pretty much the same thing This was a significant realization for me. … [Read more…]
Users will steer clear of an interface that is confusing or inefficient to use (Thurow, 2009). Conducting usability tests are a great way to uncover areas that may stand in the way of user adoption. A heuristic evaluation measures an interface’s compliance with widely recognized principles (Kalbach, 2007). Currently, the two most popular sets of standards … [Read more…]
A friend and I chatted (over a cup of English tea) about a project he is involved with that involves analysing a large number of news articles to derive useful data about migration. The initiative’s specific goal is to demonstrate how immigrants have been represented in UK mass media and derive trends in public opinion … [Read more…]
On our journey to becoming more perfectly linked to available digital assets, we will create new methods to discover them. I believe that one way we will be able to find stills as well as digital videos will be based on exploiting computer generated metadata. This new method will support the creative process by better … [Read more…]
During the second day of the conference, participants continued to explore computer-driven and crowdsourced approaches to tag audiovisual assets. Although there exists a tension between these two methods, many participants argued for a combination of both. In spite of the challenges, solutions are already underway and were introduced as case studies at the conference. In … [Read more…]
Henrik de Gyor (2012) chides companies for ignoring to factor in the ability to scale when considering a DAM system. “Do not think short term unless you enjoy frequent database migrations.” A successful company should prepare for growth and that means choosing tools that will grow with them. Granted having a DAMS that scales is … [Read more…]