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The Library of Utopia

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 30, 2012 / Leave a comment

Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? BY NICHOLAS CARR In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he...

Posted in Digital Assets

Tagged Libraries, World Brain
A “Library of Congress” Worth of Data: It’s All In How You Define It

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Leslie Johnston When I wrote my post on the “Library of Congress” as a unit of measure, I expected to receive some feedback. And boy, did I. As expected, I received some new examples: “In less than two years the app has already hosted more than 500 million images — more...

Posted in Big Data, Digital Assets

Tagged Data
Why You Should Care About Marketing Attribution

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

Marketing attribution tracks user behavior before an online sale, allowing each channel that played a role in influencing the consumer to get credit for the purchase. by Casey Szulc If you could better measure user behavior and improve ROI, would you? Of course you would! That’s why many marketers are taking...

Posted in Content Marketing, Digital Assets

Tagged Internet Marketing, Marketing Attribution, Return on investment
Google Drive will allow you to collaborate in real time with analytics on any digital asset! (perhaps)

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 24, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Mark Davey Speculation about the launch of Google Drive is immanent, so what could we expect to see by scanning the rumour mills? Google Drive will allow you to live, work and play in the Cloud on any device. 5GB free 20GB for $ 4 per month to 16TB Synchronous replication of...

Posted in Cloud Computing, Digital Assets, Document Management

Tagged Cloud, DAM, Google Doc, Google Drive
Web-Scale Discovery

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 24, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Jason Vaughan Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of our profession. Web-scale discovery services for libraries are those services capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote preharvested and indexed content, providing relevancy-ranked results in an...

Posted in Digital Assets, KM, Linked Data

Tagged faceted navigation, Libraries, Web search engine
How the iPad Is Changing Education

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 23, 2012 / Leave a comment

By John Paul Titlow The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people you know own a tablet. The market for this type of device...

Posted in Digital Assets, Knowledge Wealth, Trends

Tagged Education, iPad
Connected: Love, death and technology

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment

Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Or become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? In this funny, eye-opening, and inspiring film, Director Tiffany Shlain takes audiences on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be...

Posted in Digital Assets, Trends

Tagged Connected, Information overload, interdependence
Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 19, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Sabina Idler Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational...

Posted in Digital Assets, Trends

Tagged Emotional Design, Social Sciences
Changes in Media Storage and Infrastructure

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment

By KARL PAULSEN Broadcasters have been shifting from a hybrid file-server/videotape environment to an all file-based dependency for over a decade. Fundamental to this transition is embedding the appropriate media content storage and management capabilities to meet the needs of the entire organization. Historically, audio and video recording based its operations...

Posted in DAM, Digital Assets, MAM

Tagged Data storage device, Media Asset Management, Storage area network