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Digital Document Management

This is not directly related to photography, but I had the pleasure of offering a workshop on digital document management hosted by MIT Libraries. I started digitizing documents and managing them digitally 3 years ago, when computers became powerful enough and inexpensive document scanners became available. This work was also inspired by how photographers manage lots of images, both in physical negatives and digital image files. In fact, documents are quite a bit easier than images because you can perform full text search. 

 
The slides presented here are basically the same as what I used in the workshop, but some of the copyrighted materials are removed and a graphic cover page and "commercial links" added.
 

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Interesting Reading 10/29

Ray Ozzie: Reflections on Azure - Channel 9 Interview
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Ray-Ozzie-Reflections-on-Azure/

Microsoft CSA Ray Ozzie joins us for a quick chat (you can imagine how
busy he is...) about the complexities of designing and implementing the
Azure Services Platform, his key take-aways from the past two days at PDC
and his guiding architectural principles for Azure (for those who know
Ray, he is a staunch advocate for simplicity and adherence to protocols
that already exist and are widely used).

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What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10076765-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

In 2005, Ray Ozzie talked about the coming Live services push and what it
would mean. He sent a big memo and held an event in San Francisco. Then he
set to work and got pretty darn quiet.

Sure, we got some hints along the way, especially earlier this year when
Microsoft launched a preview of Live Mesh.

On Monday, Ozzie finally talked about what he's been up to. Microsoft
launched Windows Azure, essentially its long-rumored Cloud OS.
In an interview after his keynote on Monday, Ozzie talked about what Azure
means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman.
Here's an edited transcript...

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Map of Newspaper Endorsements in the 2008 US Presidential Election
http://infochimps.org/static/gallery/politics/endorsements_map/endorsements_map.html

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Idee
http://www.ideeinc.com/

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image
identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you
where and how that image appears all over the web - even if it has been
modified.

Just as you are familiar with entering text in a regular search engine
such as Google to find web pages that contain that text, TinEye lets you
submit an image to find web pages that contain that image.

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