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The Remote DAM Manager

April 1, 2017 by Ian Matzen, MLIS 1 Comment
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It’s possible for digital asset managers to work from home but it requires a plan that they can stick to. For over two years I have successfully worked from home. During that time I created and deployed: an enterprise taxonomy, a digital content metadata model, and a method to auto-classify digital assets. I maintain our … [Read more…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Case Studies Tagged: telecommuting, telworking, virtual worker, work from home

DAM for Museums: Recap

November 29, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

As a result of the many digitization initiatives and an increasing penchant for born-digital files, Museum collections are rich with digital cultural heritage. In short, digital collections are blooming. Realizing the need to efficiently manage these digital assets, many of the national museums in the United Kingdom have been the first to adopt systems that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Case Studies, Digital Preservation, Project Planning Tagged: conference, digital strategies, museums

Advertising Agencies and DAM

September 4, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

In my previous line of work, as a post-producer, I managed commercials and corporate video editorial for various agencies and marketing firms in San Francisco. The need for DAM was apparent: I found myself spending more and more time wrangling digital assets. While I transition into this new line of work, I wanted to share … [Read more…]

Posted in: Case Studies, Project Planning, Workflows Tagged: agencies, automation, brand management, creatives, findability

How do Taxonomies Underpin Big Data Analysis?

July 14, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

A friend and I chatted (over a cup of English tea) about a project he is involved with that involves analysing a large number of news articles to derive useful data about migration. The initiative’s specific goal is to demonstrate how immigrants have been represented in UK mass media and derive trends in public opinion … [Read more…]

Posted in: Case Studies, Controlled Vocabularies, Human Machine Interaction, Metadata Tagged: big data, taxonomies, textual analysis

Trending at DAM EU 2013

June 30, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

#DAMEU I recently attended a two-day Digital Asset Management (DAM) conference in London and was pleased with the experience. Many topics were covered including taxonomy, managing non-traditional resources (such as 3D files), workflow, change management, and preservation. In the following blog post, I will summarize some of the key talking points, mostly related to the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Associations, Case Studies, Controlled Vocabularies, Digital Content Curation, Metadata, Workflows Tagged: conference

Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities

June 6, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

On 9th April, 2013, the University of Oxford Internet Institute held a one-day workshop on Arts and Humanities crowdsourcing projects paying close attention to how they affected users, digital curation, public engagement, and knowledge sharing. According to Dunn and Hedges (2012), crowdsourcing is “the process of leveraging public participation in or contributions to projects and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Case Studies, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content Curation, Folksonomies, Metadata, Users Tagged: digital humanities, social tagging
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