Smartlogic Semaphore Semaphore OM (Ontology Manager) is the taxonomy and ontology authoring component of the Semaphore Semantic Middleware platform. Semaphore OM is designed to allow multiple users to create, enhance and browse all types of semantic model, be they: Lists Controlled vocabularies Taxonomies Thesauri Ontologies The Semaphore Ontology server is used to capture specific taxonomies […]
Month: March 2008
ISKO – International Society for Knowledge Organization
ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines, through the following means: development of liaisons between communities of researchers and practitioners in the domains, sectors and scientific disciplines of the field of […]
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Vertical Curve Digital Asset Management
Vertical Curve Managing your workflow without some form of digital asset management (DAM) is a lot like a library where all the books are scattered on the floor. If you’ve felt this kind of pain in your enterprise, you’re not alone – consider these findings: * An average of $8,200 per person per year is […]
On Artbeats.com: Article on Color Management in After Effects
Every month, we write a Tips N Tricks article for our friends at Artbeats.com. This month we’ve written an introduction to using Color Management in After Effects CS3, covering input, output, monitoring, and the Project Working Space. It was written in the context of how to handle Artbeats stock footage in a job, but the […]
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The Last Ten Feet
People in the cable and telephone industries talk a lot about “the last mile problem”. This term refers to the fact that between their central and local offices they have massive bandwidth, yet that bandwidth-spewing fire hose narrows down to a tiny soda straw in the last mile (or couple miles) between the nearest local […]
Can’t Give It Away; Can’t Throw It Away
It’s ironic that Giles Baker of Adobe just wrote about going tapeless, as we’re currently in the middle of a major spring cleaning of our studio where we are getting rid of our tape decks, among other things. Some are being sold on eBay (here’s our DVCPRO, BetaSP, and SVHS decks, in case you’re curious; […]
Getting Started in Web Video
At last night’s Digital CONNtent Creators meeting the topic was new media distribution models. Half way through the meeting I realized that few people in the room realized just how easy it is to get started in web video. I don’t mean slapping something together for YouTube, but creating some content, getting it online under […]
The importance of Taxonomy and Metadata
How many readers realise the absolute importance of getting the taxonomy, ontology and metadata correct for all the future developments in digital media? Having spent yesterday at the Henry Stewart conference on the Essentials of Metadata & Taxonomy, I am in no doubt as we grow in complexity and move towards semantic web applications, that […]
Teletrax VAM watermarking
How Teletrax works Teletrax video watermarking stores information in a broadcast picture. It does this by subtly manipulating the noise that naturally occurs in moving images. This means that Teletrax embedding is imperceptible and does not impair picture quality. The process is simple. A digital embedder can be placed anywhere in the video chain, either […]
Anti Social website behaviour
CMS Watch prediction 2008 No 7 Facebook backlash in the enterprise Facebook is growing at stratospheric rates, with substantial momentum among professionals in general and media and technology companies in particular, the latter in some cases looking to supplement or replace their Intranets with this exciting (and free) new collaboration and social networking platform. Other […]
