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Continue reading →: Are You a Digital Asset Hoarder or a Digital Curator?
Some digital asset managers are having an identity crisis: should we be completists or discerning collectors? Can we be both? Why this should matter to us As storage costs continue to drop we are encouraged to store everything. To keep up, companies will need to invest more and more money…
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Continue reading →: Evaluating Your DAM Program
Introduction DAM professionals design and implement technology, standards, and workflows to support clientele. As part of this process, we must evaluate the results of our work using pre-established criteria. Setting acceptable benchmarks will help us judge whether an endeavor is (or was) successful. For example, comparing the outcome or impact…
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Continue reading →: How to Build A User-Centric Taxonomy
Most information professionals would agree that the actual building of a thesaurus (sometimes known as a taxonomy in DAM circles) is pretty straight forward: choose and follow one of several standards (ANSI/NISO, ISO or BS) and ensure your work reflects the given content. From relating concepts to building out hierarchical…
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Continue reading →: Teaching is a Leadership Skill
Great librarians, DAM managers included, are great teachers. We show patrons how to find the material they need to complete their projects. We openly share our search strategies and explain the concepts on which they are based. If you haven’t yet heard of Bate’s berrypicking model or Kulthau’s Information Search…
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Continue reading →: Invite Governance to the DAM Party
At its core, a DAM system supports content findability and discoverability (for more see the ten core characteristics of a DAM system). Most folks want to get in, find what they need, and go on with their business. So why is this goal so hard to achieve for many companies?…
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Continue reading →: How Do Your Users Search?
Digital asset-seeking behavior is the process of searching and retrieving assets toward some goal within a given context. Examining the overall process as well as analyzing its individual components is of the utmost importance to DAM professionals. Knowing how our constituents think, feel, and act when looking for digital material…
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Continue reading →: File Fixity and Data Integrity
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…
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Continue reading →: SLA2015: It is Time for Us to Rock
Whew! This year’s SLA 2015 conference was a doozy. There is too much to cover in a single blog post so I’ve boiled it down to a few observations I made during this four-day event geared towards information professionals. Knowledge/Content/Digital Asset Management are pretty much the same thing This was…