You have audited your digital content, established appropriate metadata schema, and vetted your new taxonomy. The DAM system is installed, customized, and tested. All you have to do is catalog assets. Right? Well, if digital preservation is high on your list of priorities, and it should be, you will also want to ensure assets remain … [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…]
Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content over Time (InSPECT), a JISC funded project that ended in 2009, defines the concept as, “the characteristics of an Information Object that must be maintained over time to ensure its continued access, use, and meaning, and its capacity to be accepted as evidence of what it purports to … [Read more…]
I just read an interesting journal article in which the author, Uhrich (2012), explored the life and work of Hollis Frampton, a digital video pioneer who taught at the Digital Arts Lab at the State University of New York Buffalo in the late seventies and early eighties. After his sudden death in the mid-eighties, a … [Read more…]