March 12, 2010

Taxonomy vs. Metadata

An important step in defining a Digital Asset Management system or a Web Content Management System strategy is to define the metadata and taxonomy needs that will support an organization's goals for categorizing and relating both assets and content. 
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Posted at 06:01 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

September 30, 2009

What is EPUB?

Just as the music industry went through a major change with the rise of digital music and MP3s, the publishing industry is undergoing a paradigm shift away from traditional print models. more

Posted at 03:22 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

September 03, 2009

All-in-One Enterprise Content Management Software or Best-of-Breed Enterprise Application Integration?

Is it recommended to to have an all-in-one solution that encompasses Digital Asset Management and Web Content Management, or is it better to have two top notch systems that integrate together? We hear this question quite often during conference panel sessions and during enterprise content management strategy sessions with our clients. The short answer is...it depends!  more

Posted at 05:12 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

August 06, 2009

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Posted at 08:21 am by Ivan Mironchuk

May 08, 2009

Usability vs. Functionality

When a client is faced with the decision to select a Digital Asset Management system or Content Management System I often see a battle play out in the decision making process between user experience (user interface) and system functionality. more

Posted at 09:57 am by Ivan Mironchuk

April 28, 2009

Versions, Variations, Renditions Oh My!

On a couple of recent Digital Asset Management consulting projects a few clients asked me how they would distinguish different uses of the same image in a DAM system.

How do I relate my Camera RAW image asset to my Hi-res RGB JPG? How do I relate my main image to another image that is of the same subject but at a slightly different angle? more

Posted at 10:34 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

March 27, 2009

FileMaker-Blessing or Curse?

First off let me say that FileMaker is a great database system that has proven to be extremely flexible and easy to manage. more

Posted at 12:48 am by Ivan Mironchuk

February 03, 2009

Multi-Channel Pre-Flight

Ask any print designer what pre-flighting is and that person will most likely describe a quality assurance process that they follow to prepare their spreads and layouts for printing. Before going to press, designers must be sure that they have included all the necessary document fonts, and that all graphics have been properly resized and are the correct resolution and color space. more

Posted at 02:34 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

January 29, 2009

Tool Tips: InCopy Galley & Layout View at the same time

I'm using the image below to show two things. First, we see how awesome it is that InCopy CS4 finally shows tables in Galley view and second, we see how I am able to view both the galley and layout view of this single document at the same time. more

Posted at 11:12 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

December 09, 2008

Turning the Page of Publishing: Launching E-Books into the Mainstream

This Op-Ed: How to Publish Without Perishing from New York Times contributor James Gleick and the army of Sony Reader ambassadors in Grand Central Station that greet me on my way to work every morning have me thinking a lot about E-Books lately. more

Posted at 11:13 am by Ivan Mironchuk

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DPCI In The News

Article by Jill Ambroz of Folio Magazine on the rise of the open-source Web Content Management System as a way for publishers to deliver content to their sites. > more

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