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Photo Metadata Conference

The second annual Photo Metadata Conference was held in Malta. Many of the presentations can be downloaded including a paper by Michael Steidl on the proposed IPTC Extension schemas. (Care of ControlledVocabulary.com.)

PMA Australia DAM seminars

PMA Australia will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, May 30 -June 1, 2008. Robert Edwards will be presenting free talks at the Canon AIPP Workshops (stand 120). Learn the truth about Expression Media 2 and Adobe Lightroom 2 from the source! PMA Australia is the southern hemisphere’s largest, annual photographic trade … Read more

PMA Australia 2008

PMA Australia 2008 PMA Australia will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, May 30 -June 1, 2008. Robert Edwards will be presenting free talks at the Canon AIPP Workshops (stand 120). PMA Australia is the southern hemisphere’s largest, annual photographic trade show. It encompasses equipment exhibitions, conferences and workshops, the Australian Professional … Read more

DAM Workflow Newsletter 3

File Naming A Dark Science? One area many creative professionals get stuck is file and folder naming. Filenames are the most vulnerable metadata because clients typically will rename images for their own purpose. That does relieve some pressure on coming up with your own protocol because it only needs to work for you in your environment. … Read more

Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard released

Apple release OS X 10.5 Leopard – followed very quickly by 10.5.1. It’s best to wait for the first update with any major operating system upgrade rather than be bleeding edge. [Edit: OS X 10.5.2 is expected at MacWorld in February 2008]

Metadata migration tool released

John Beardsworth has released xlTransformer. It will allow you to migrate your data from one DAM application to another via Excel.

DAM Workflow Newsletter

This Newsletter is a special report from the Pro Photo Summit in Redmond, USA. Orphan Works panel. Photo: © Chris Greene/Microsoft Databases Everywhere It seemed like every second application at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit was adding a database. These events are opportunities to have a sneak peek at where developers are taking the next … Read more

Robert Edwards at Microsoft Pro Photo Summit

I’ve been invited to attend the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit in Redmond from 10-11 July 2007. According to Microsoft the “Summit will provide a forum for professional photographers and digital imaging industry leaders to talk about the key issues, products, and technologies affecting the present and future state of the business“.