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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
#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…]
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…]