Frankly My Dear, I Need a DAM

An Introduction to Digital Asset Management
Learn how to determine your DAM needs, requirements, and budget, analyze a range of software solutions and explore the world of “meta-data,” which is how we make non-textual files searchable.
The first in a series of three digital media workshops offered by the UW Dept of Communication.

Notes:

• Importance of Structure
  • How many bytes for … ?
    • A typewritten page – 2 kB
    • A short novel – 1 MB
    • A pickup truck filled with books – 1 GB
    • A collection of the works of Beethoven – 20 GB
    • A library floor of academic journals – 100 GB
• MetaData
  • Definition
  • Introduction to Metadata – The Getty
  • Flickr – Katie
  • Flickr – Lee, NY
  • Webshots – Venice
  • Dublin Core
    • It provides a standardised set of
      conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easier
      to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such
      as video, sound, image, text, and composite media like web pages. (cite)
    • Web Page Metadata (demo url)
• Taxonomy/Folksonomy
  • Example: Del.icio.us
  • Pew
  • Does a controlled vocabulary fit into your information management
    plan? If there is more than one person searching the data and more than
    one person inputting the data … then the answer is clearly yes!

Links:

• Controlled Vocabulary (handout from this website)
• Corbis
• DAM Useful (Peter has a new workshop on DAM for photographers at Lynda.com)
• Flickr
• iView
• PhotoMechanic
• Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (handout from this website)

Additional Reading:

• Amapeida by Amazon (see TagCloud at the bottom of the page)
• The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
• Folksonomy, Clay Shirky
• Managing Semi-Structured Data
• Succeeding at Information Architecture In The Enterprise
• Tagging ‘takes off for web users’