Our video about Smart Keywording just crossed the 500 viewers line. The video is online for 3 months which means that every day we have 6 new people interested in our approach for making digital assets findable! The graph below also indicates that there is a rather linear growth rate of viewers since the beginning. We are curious about the future performance of the video and further videos on the Kreuzverweis channel.
The learning feature of Smart Keywording helps to make your digital assets findable. Smart keywording improves tagging quality and efficiency in digital asset management by learning customer-specific keywords. These are offered as customized keyword proposals and custom keywords. We have produced a video that is available on YouTube to show how you benefit from this feature.
Today we will release an update of the Smart Keywording service that is currently used by the following applications and plugins:
The most important new features and improvements include:
During the update process, Smart Keywording may be unavailable for a short time. We apologize any inconveniences due to the update process.
We have released version 0.2 (20120322) of our photo tagging plugin for the Mac, Smart Keywording for Aperture. The new version implements many improvements, see below for a list of the most important features added and bugs we have fixed. Thank you for your feedback!
You can download the update at the product page or at several software distribution sites. We are looking forward to your feedback to make Smart Keywording better and better.
A book on "Semantic Media Management: Process Innovation along the Process Chain of Media Companies using Semantic Technologies" by Ansgar Scherp is now available. It can be ordered online from Amazon and is available in German. A summary of the book is given below:
Summary: Media companies such as publishing houses, television broadcasters, radio stations, media archives, and libraries are facing a couple of challenges regarding the creation, indexing, and usage of media content. These challenges are a poor indexing of the media content, low visibility of media stocks in the Internet, limited search within the media stocks, and lack of process integration. Today's media management solutions cannot sufficiently address these challenges. The core reason for these problems is the solely use of textual metadata for indexing and using the media content. Annotations based on textual metadata are prone to, e.g., typographical errors, variant forms of spelling, and ambiguities.
To address these challenges and to alleviate the problems of the media companies, a semantic media management has been developed over the last years. Semantic media management is the management of media content by technologies of the Semantic Web. Such a formal metadata model provides support for a comprehensive and precise description of the semantics of digital media content. The use of this metadata model allows for technical innovations in the different processes of media management. In addition, it enables better integration of the processes.
Over the last couple of month we have been working hard to develop our product and business. To demonstrate our keywording technology we have build several demos. Doing so we came up with many labels:
Our core technology, a restful webservice that enables the integration of advanced keywording features to any kind of software, has been labeled Keyword Service, Keywording Webservice or Keywording as a Service.
To show how easy it is to integrate our keywording features into existing applications we have made two exemplary integrations. The first one, a keywording and photo tagging plugin for Aperture, has been named Annotator for Aperture (shortname tag).
Our browser based keywording tool has been labeled Webtag. Read on to learn about our new product name.
Thank you for your excellent feedback and ideas on our first Webtag release. We have considered your feedback and just released an update for Webtag that shows significant changes. The most compelling of your comments has been to use Bootstrap, from Twitter. Thus Webtag now wears Bootstrap! Please feel free to check out all the improvements we built in … and don't hesitate to send us more of your ideas and thoughts about it.
Webtag Screenshot. Click to see it live.
Webtag shows how to integrate the Kreuzverweis Keyword Service and what it can do.
Proper funding is one of the corner stones for a successful startup company. Thus, we have been glad when we received the EXIST Forschungstransfer, a startup funding by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
We are now very happy to announce that Kreuzverweis has been accepted for the second stage (phase II) funding of this excellent program. Phase II funding enables us to efficiently continue with the development of our business and to focus on our main goal: Useful software services that make digital media assets findable!
Next to tag, our keywording tool for Aperture® users, we now also offer webtag, for free. webtag Screenshot
As its name implies, webtag stands for our latest web-based keywording app that builds on our Keyword Service. Feel free to try it out and to tell us what you like or dislike, e.g. about the user interface, the keyword suggestions, the name, … as we make it better every week – no kidding, weekly release cycles.
