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Continue reading →: Does My Museum Need a DAM?
Giuseppe Arcimboldo [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons “A DAM is an important ingredient to what constitutes a successful digital initiative.” If your museum collection management system (CMS) offers DAM-like functions, do you still need a separate DAM system? Every museum seeks to encourage learning while preserving their…
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Continue reading →: Keep Calm and Ask a LibrarianRecently, a customer experience record was posted to the web. In this light-hearted conversation, a client contacted Netflix customer service about a playback problem with one of their videos. The experience was positive because the user’s concern was acknowledged, inquired about, and responded to… with a bit of humor thrown…
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Continue reading →: Empathetic Design
There are four main approaches to interaction design: user-centered design (UCD), activity-centered design, systems design, and genius design (Saffer, 2010). Although each strategy has different roots, they all seek to design products and services for the end user(s). I would like to argue for a fifth perspective on design: empathetic…
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Continue reading →: An Introduction to XML“XML is widely used for the definition of device-independent, system-independent methods of storing and processing texts in electronic form. It is now also the interchange and communication format used by many applications on the World Wide Web.” (A Gentle Introduction to XML, n.d.) Do you need to learn XML basics…
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Continue reading →: Advertising Agencies and DAM
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…
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Continue reading →: Trending at DAM EU 2013#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…
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Continue reading →: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and HumanitiesOn 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…
Hello,
I’m Ian Matzen
Welcome to Tame Your Assets: a blog about digital asset management. I am a Senior Manager (Automation Programs) with a Master of Library and Information Science degree and experience working in higher education, marketing, and publishing. Before working in DAM I post-produced commercials, episodic television, and corporate videos. Recently I wrapped up an automation project for Coca-Cola.
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