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"When you start out as an entrepreneur, it's just you and your idea, or you and your co-founder's and your idea. Then you add customers, and they shape and mold you and that idea until you achieve the fabled "product-market fit." If you are lucky and diligent, you achieve that fit more than once, reinventing yourself with multiple products and multiple customer segments. But if you are to succeed in building an enduring company, it has to be about far more than that: it has to be about the team and the institution you create together. As a management team, you aren't just working for the company; you have to work on the company, shaping it, tuning it, setting the rules that it will live by. And it's way too easy to give that latter work short shrift."

"Expert en Gestion des Connaissances (Knowledge Management ou "KM") et Technologies Collaboratives, Pascal Bernardon est l'auteur du blog Gestion des connaissances, où il aborde les différents aspects de cette discipline, notamment à travers un usage très intéressant du mind mapping.  En consultant son profil en ligne, j'ai eu l'agréable surprise de découvrir comment il avait su « mapper » ou cartographier son parcours professionnel.  Une telle carte présente plus d'un avantage pour ceux qui veulent à la fois mettre en valeur et faciliter la lecture synoptique de leur expérience professionnelle. "

Embedded metadata is a key component of managing digital files, providing information on correct presentation, source of the file, rights, and other information which supports findability, access, authentication, preservation, and more. This paper discusses the concept and uses of embedded metadata in general, and then looks more specifically at its use in WAVE audio files, focusing on the efforts of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) to develop recommendations on embedding metadata in audio files created by government agencies. This project resulted in the development of BWF MetaEdit, a tool which allows users to view, edit, and create embedded metadata in WAVE files.

"Guidelines: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials Still Image Working Group The Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials that can be reproduced by still images represents shared best practices followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).  This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials (such as textual content, maps, and photographic prints and negatives) found in cultural heritage institutions. This document draws substantially on the National Archives and Records Administration's Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Records for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images (June 2004), but has been revised and updated in several areas to reflect the current recommendations of the working group and to reflect changes that have occurred in the digitization field since 2004. These Guidelines were prepared by members of the working group during the winter of 2009-2010. Readers will find updated sections covering equipment and image performance metrics, quality management, and metadata in this revision. "

"I was recently contacted by one of my alma maters about my masters thesis. The school required deposit (in duplicate) with the Library as part of the application for graduation, but luckily by this time they were accepting (perhaps enforcing - who wants to manage all those bound theses?) submission of an electronic copy on CD-R. This was the second time in 10 years that someone had written to me about my thesis. Pretty awesome for a Humanities masters thesis, so I was starting to feel awfully big-headed."