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Continue reading →: Online Presentation About DAM
Earlier this year, I gave a talk about digital asset management for the San Jose State University iSchool SLA Student Group.
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Continue reading →: Digital Asset Management is a Service-Oriented Profession
Service is one of the central values of a digital asset management. The goal of a DAM professional should be to connect people with the assets they need to do their job. Ranganathan once wrote, a library is “an instrument of universal education, and assembles together and freely distributes all…
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Continue reading →: How Do You Evaluate A DAM System’s User Interface?
Users will steer clear of an interface that is confusing or inefficient to use (Thurow, 2009). Conducting usability tests are a great way to uncover areas that may stand in the way of user adoption. A heuristic evaluation measures an interface’s compliance with widely recognized principles (Kalbach, 2007). Currently, the two…
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Continue reading →: Reflections of a First-Year DAM Professional
December 2014 marks the end of my first twelve months as a DAM professional and the beginning of my career with a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. I wanted to commemorate these milestones with a blog post that describes some of my experiences. Readers have asked me…
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Continue reading →: London DAM Meetup, Meet Lean Coffee
I am pleased to announce the next London DAM Meetup, which will take place on 20 August at 7pm. To join the group and find directions please go to the London DAM Meetup event page. We wanted to give this meeting some structure while allowing us the flexibility to create…
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Continue reading →: MLIS graduates, the world needs you!
Although libraries can be excellent and worthwhile places to work, I recommend that MLIS grads consider seeking work beyond the library’s doors because there is a strong need for their skills. Do Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) graduates belong in libraries? SOME WOULD ANSWER ‘YES’ Perhaps this misconception…
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Continue reading →: Plussing Your Video Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Going Supersize
On the heels of Romney Whitehead’s call to adopt a ‘curate before create’ attitude, I make the case for video producers to think before they shoot in the latest high resolution format. Yes, I’m looking at you 4K (I see 5K nodding its head in the wings). When will the race…