Antnee's Blog - GEOCoding http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/ en-us Anthony Your Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:16:06 GMT newtelligence dasBlog 2.0.7226.0 ayour@itsallyours.com ayour@itsallyours.com http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/Trackback.aspx?guid=c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/pingback.aspx http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/PermaLink,guid,c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff.aspx Anthony http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/CommentView,guid,c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff.aspx http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/SyndicationService.asmx/GetEntryCommentsRss?guid=c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff

DAM as in Digital Asset Management.  One of my hobbies that I have had great interest in since high school has been photography.  I have always enjoyed the whole experience:  taking pictures, developing, printing and sharing.  In fact, I really wanted to create my own darkroom in my house just before digital photography became available.

I have been evaluating the following products for quite some time:

Others that I have researched but did not try were the following:

 

It is truly amazing how some of the products do a few things very nice but fall short in some other aspect that makes it very frustrating. 

Some of the key things that I looked at were:

  • Ease of use
  • UI--Is it clunky?  It is elegant and simple?  Is is overwhelming?
  • Speed--Do I need water cooling or a 486?
  • Extensibility--Can you script?  Does it support plugins? 
  • How well does it play with others?--Does it use standard IPTC or EXIF?  Does have a proprietary format or backend database?  Where does it store its data?
  • Tagging and Organization:  Does it support hierarchical tagging?  What about GEO Tagging? 
  • Offline Capabilities
  • Unwanted upselling?  Does "encourage" you to use their vendor for printing or web hosting of the pictures?
  • Does it support RAW?
  • Workflow:  Does it support multiuser?  how do you import the pictures?
  • Cost

Some of the things that were really low on my list were:

  • Photo editing
  • CD/DVD editing
  • Picture sharing

I will starting posting a writeup on these.

Every DAM thing sucks http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/PermaLink,guid,c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff.aspx http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/PermaLink,guid,c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff.aspx Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:16:06 GMT <p> DAM as in <strong><u>D</u></strong>igital <strong><u>A</u></strong>sset <strong><u>M</u></strong>anagement.&nbsp; One of my hobbies that I have had great interest in since high school has been photography.&nbsp; I have always enjoyed the whole experience:&nbsp; taking pictures, developing, printing and sharing.&nbsp; In fact, I really wanted to create my own darkroom in my house just before digital photography became available. </p> <p> I have been evaluating the following products for quite some time: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://picasa.google.com" target="_blank">Google's Picasa2</a> <li> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/" target="_blank">Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 2006</a> <li> <a href="http://www.photools.com/" target="_blank">iMatch Image Management</a> <li> <a href="http://www.iview-multimedia.com/" target="_blank">iView Media Pro3 (Microsoft Elements)</a> </li> </ul> <p> Others that I have researched but did not try were the following: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/" target="_blank">Adobe LightRoom (beta)</a> <li> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/">Adobe Photoshop Elements</a> </li> </ul> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> It is truly amazing how some of the products do a few things very nice but fall short in some other aspect that makes it very frustrating.&nbsp; </p> <p> Some of the key things that I looked at were: </p> <ul> <li> Ease of use <li> UI--Is it clunky?&nbsp; It is elegant and simple?&nbsp; Is is overwhelming? <li> Speed--Do I need water cooling or a 486? <li> Extensibility--Can you script?&nbsp; Does it support plugins?&nbsp; <li> How well does it play with&nbsp;others?--Does it use standard IPTC or EXIF?&nbsp; Does have a proprietary format or backend database?&nbsp; Where does it store its data? <li> Tagging and Organization:&nbsp; Does it support hierarchical tagging?&nbsp; What about GEO Tagging?&nbsp; <li> Offline Capabilities <li> Unwanted upselling?&nbsp; Does "encourage" you to use their vendor for printing or web hosting of the pictures? <li> Does it support RAW? <li> Workflow:&nbsp; Does it support multiuser?&nbsp; how do you import the pictures? <li> Cost</li> </ul> <p> Some of the things that were really low on my list were: </p> <ul> <li> Photo editing <li> CD/DVD editing <li> Picture sharing</li> </ul> <p> I will starting posting a writeup on these. </p> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/aggbug.ashx?id=c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff" /> http://www.itsallyours.com/blog/ayour/CommentView,guid,c8eb410a-3fdd-4d4e-a8ae-e0b29c7c32ff.aspx Computer Digital Assessment Management EXIF GEOCoding IPTC Photography