Henry Stewart: DAM NY2011
We are pleased to be, once again, sponsoring the Henry Stewart DAM conferences in NY, Chicago, and LA.
Seth Earley will be moderating this year's panel on Metadata, Taxonomy and Search.
New developments in Metadata Taxonomy and Search
Social Media has continued its explosive growth over the past year and one challenge has been how to manage and organize user generated content and collaboration sites. Due to their emergent and unstructured nature, trends in topics need to be identified on the fly and integrated into the enterprise vocabulary. In many cases, this content contains rich media which means metadata needs to be derived through association with textual content or through processing of audio tracks of video.
Fortunately, the market has continued to evolve with new tools being introduced to leverage taxonomy and metadata for video assets. Tools can now identify terms using speech to text processing and then perform entity extraction and indexing on the text of audio tracks. The index allows immediate access to sections of video where terms occur. This solves a huge problem of video asset management – the need for time based indexing of video assets.
There are also new ways of leveraging facets and conceptual relationships in search by making use of ontologies (the network of multiple taxonomies with associations between them). Searching on related concepts has also become more practical in the past year as tools have matured and become more widely deployed. This allows metadata to help search deliver what a user wants versus what they are asking for and assists in refining search queries when users search on very broad terms.
Dynamic content and personalization have also become more widely deployed with Digital Asset Management systems being tightly integrated into Web Content Management applications.
We have also seen greater use of SharePoint 2010 as a content repository for finished digital assets and as a front end to digital asset management systems. This means that metadata is now being managed in the term store of SharePoint – a development which has advantages and disadvantages when considering enterprise metadata management.
We’ll discuss these and other developments in our track overview and case studies on metadata taxonomy and search.
