Kreuzverweis

More than 500 unique viewers!

thomas — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:06:47 +0000

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.

See the learning feature of Smart Keywording in action

thomas — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:36:12 +0000

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.

Short Interruptions in Backoffice Api

Carsten Saathoff — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:54:40 +0000

We are currently moving our infrastructure to new hardware, and you might encounter some problems with the backoffice API. These should be over in a couple of minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

New Smart Keywording Release with Improved Keyword Proposals

thomas — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:52:05 +0000

Today we will release an update of the Smart Keywording service that is currently used by the following applications and plugins:

Smart Keywording for the Web (SK4Web)
Smart Keywording for Aperture (SK4A)
Smart Keywording for ResourceSpace (SK4RS)

The most important new features and improvements include:

Intelligent autocompletions for keywords, i.e. keywords that are used more often appear first.
Improved learning of keyword proposals based on all users keywording behavior.
Improved keyword proposal algorithms.

During the update process, Smart Keywording may be unavailable for a short time. We apologize any inconveniences due to the update process.

Efficient Photo Tagging for Aperture with the new release of Smart Keywording

thomas — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:23:47 +0000

Download it

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.

New Features

User-specific keyword proposals to improve your overall tagging performance. Smart Keywording now learns about your preferred keywords and forgets about keywords you don’t use.
Improved scalability with large Aperture Libraries
Registration of a user is no longer needed
Faster response times due to improved HTTP Connection Handling
Do not move Aperture to the foreground after startup

Bugs Fixed

Fixed issues related to special characters in Aperture library that caused a malfunction of Smart Keywording

Book on Semantic Media Management available!

ansgar — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:32:18 +0000

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.

Product renaming to keep things simple

rafael — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:31:50 +0000

Why things started to be confusing

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.

New product name

Sometimes all those labels have been confusing even for us. But we want things to be clear and simple and so it was obvious that it was time to rethink the names! The new names were supposed to be simple and informative. We also wanted to point out that all the demos and exemplary integrations utilize the same core technology that is our webservice. This core webservice sends autocompletions and keyword proposals enabling developers to integrate easy and efficient tagging features to their applications.

The quality of the keyword proposals is getting better and better so we thought it's time to call our core product Smart Keywording with all demos and exemplary integrations of Smart Keywording into existing Applications beeing named Smart Keywording for "Name of the Application". So our new names are:

Smart Keywording
Smart Keywording for Aperture
Smart Keywording for the Web (short for webbrowser)

And our latest integration that we have just released:
Smart Keywording for ResourceSpace

Webtag Update: Webtag wears Bootstrap

thomas — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:22:35 +0000

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.

Kreuzverweis moves on with EXIST II

thomas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:20:40 +0000

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!

Webtag: Keywording for everyone

thomas — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:59:02 +0000

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.