A recent question was posted: "I am involved in creating a DAM solution for my company. The asset ranges from video, arts, images and photographs etc. I can say that the assets would be similar to what CORBIS, Getty Images have in place today. I would like to know is there any best practices for building Metadata and Taxonomy; What kind of architecture that I should follow etc. Please provide me some links and resources."
Seth Earley's Answer: Here are a couple of links to start with:Taxonomy Community of Practice: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/
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A question was recently posted: "I am looking for metadata harvesting and data mining services to gather and organize metadata from years of spreadsheet data plus information from external image vendors' WebPages to input into a DAM with legacy assets. Can you recommend some resources for these service providers?"
Seth Earley's Answer: Interesting that you ask. About two years ago, I had asked one of my consultants to go through a web site and harvest terms from the pages. I was interested in metadata on pages themselves but also in extracting the terms from various kinds of files for inclusion in a taxonomy. We poked around on the web and found some shareware but it did not exactly meet our needs. So, like any good developer, he rolled his own.
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