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SLA2015: It is Time for Us to Rock

June 17, 2015 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

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 a significant realization for me. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Associations, Controlled Vocabularies, Copyright, Digital Rights Management, Human Machine Interaction, Taxonomies, Users Tagged: #SLA2015, conference, continuing education, information professionals

DAM for Museums: Recap

November 29, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Case Studies, Digital Preservation, Project Planning Tagged: conference, digital strategies, museums

DAM for Museums: Observations

November 27, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

I attended the Digital Asset Management for Museums conference today at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. In some ways, it was like returning home after a long trip abroad. I have experience working for cultural heritage institutions from several years ago (BAVC, San Francisco and KCET, Los Angeles). Much has changed during … [Read more…]

Posted in: Workflows Tagged: conference, digital strategies, museums, observations

Trending at DAM EU 2013

June 30, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

#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…]

Posted in: Associations, Case Studies, Controlled Vocabularies, Digital Content Curation, Metadata, Workflows Tagged: conference

“Metadata as the Cornerstone of Digital Archiving” Seminar Report, Day 1

May 21, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

“The future isn’t either traditional or digital: it’s a feedback loop between the two. Television fans want to get involved and be counted. It’s how creative we are in engaging those fans – and keeping them connected even as they may move away from the traditional network – that will determine how potent and profitable … [Read more…]

Posted in: Associations, Case Studies, Cataloging, Digital Content Curation, Folksonomies, Linked Data, Media Asset Management (MAM), Metadata, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Semantic Web, Workflows Tagged: audiovisual, conference

“Metadata as the Cornerstone of Digital Archiving” Seminar Report, Day 2

May 21, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

During the second day of the conference, participants continued to explore computer-driven and crowdsourced approaches to tag audiovisual assets. Although there exists a tension between these two methods, many participants argued for a combination of both. In spite of the challenges, solutions are already underway and were introduced as case studies at the conference. In … [Read more…]

Posted in: Associations, Automatic Media Analysis, Case Studies, Cataloging, Computer, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content Curation, Human Machine Interaction, Media Asset Management (MAM), Metadata, Semantic Web, Social Aspects, Users, Workflows Tagged: audiovisual, conference
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