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Digital Asset Management
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06.21.07Installation of ColdFusion 8 Beta on RedHat/CentOS 5Today we installed ColdFusion 8 Beta (get it now on labs.adobe.com) on RedHat/CentOS 5 (within VMWare Fusion 4 Beta) and run into some troubles. The problem was that the installer did not configure the connector to Apache 2.2.x correctly and when you tried to log on to the CF Administration you did not get the expected welcome screen. The solution to this is to run the Apache Connector again, but with some modification. Go into the ColdFusion installation directory (/opt/coldfusion8) and then to the "connectors" directory. Open up the file "apache_connector.sh" and set the paths to your apache installation correct. Install the httpd-devel ...
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06.15.07Short informative video about Digital Signage executionThis 3 minutes video is a good overview of Digital Signage execution.
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06.11.06Good times at CEPIC and see you next time in FlorenceAfter a full schedule of meetings for 4 days we are save and exhausted back home. It was a intensive time and we wish to thank all parties who made the event a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, if it wouldn't have been for the good company of the people we have meet the event would not be that good. Why? Those would had a table experienced very bad Internet Connections. For those who relied on the connection for a presentation were more then frustrated. Somehow vegetarians do not exist for some people in ...
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03.30.06The case for a digital asset management systemA Digital Asset Management application is simply a tool for organizing digital media assets for storage and retrieval. When searching for a digital asset management system, the first thing to identify is your objective. What solutions should it provide to what problems? Do you simply want to find media content on demand? Create collaborative creative environments? Systematize efficient workflow? Manage rights and permissions complete with automated tracking and accounting? Implement full-blown electronic commerce? Let the priority of one or more of these goals be your guiding principle in sorting through the facts and marketing hype.
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02.16.06Part one: Storing images in Oracle with ColdFusionThis is the first part of a "how-to" of storing images with Oracle's Intermedia feature from ColdFusion. To start of we already explained in an earlier post that Oracle has a feature called "Intermedia" which allows for advanced image manipulation trough PL/SQL. Thus with Intermedia we can manipulate images directly within the database without retrieving them first. Also, we can stream images to ColdFusion directly from Oracle without downloading them first. Ok, so off we go with an explanation of how to store images in the database.
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02.03.06The advantages of storing Assets within a databaseThe problem with File Systems and Digital Assets File system based media specialty servers continue to be in use in managing media such as digital images. The use of file systems to manage digital media such as images and video has led to specialty servers for different kinds of data. This results in data isolation and high systems admin and management costs. It also leads to scalability problems, high training costs, and complex support problems. File systems with their limited name space and indexing mechanisms notoriously perform poorly under high load. They are also not noted for running with high availability. They ...
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01.31.06Digital Asset Management for EnterprisesIn our previous post we mentioned the different "versions" of Digital Asset Systems. Some systems vendors are offering workstations systems with upgrades to a server edition, but then still having a client. Other vendors offer included solutions with their other offerings, like a CMS. Then again, some vendors offer systems that store the assets on the filesystem and manage links to those assets in a database. But to be truly platform independent and 100% secure and safe the only solution to receive the name of a "Enterprise Digital Asset Management System" is to store all assets within a database and also have ...
