Digital Preservation Conundrum
I just read an interesting journal article in which the author, Uhrich (2012), explored the life and work of Hollis Frampton, a digital video pioneer who taught at the Digital Arts Lab at the State...
View ArticleWhat are Significant Properties?
Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content over Time (InSPECT), a JISC funded project that ended in 2009, defines the concept as, “the characteristics of an Information...
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DAM for Museums: Recap
Skokloster Castle / Jens Mohr / CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAs a result of the many digitization initiatives and an...
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SLA2015: It is Time for Us to Rock
©SDRandCo 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...
View ArticleFile 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....
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A Gentle Introduction to Digital Rights Management
Most companies leverage their existing content, re-purposing it in publications, websites, social media, marketing collateral, television, etc. They will similarly rely on this material in whatever new...
View ArticlePlan for the Risk Hiding in your DAM System
SUMMARY DAM system vendors often employ open-source third-party apps and code to meet important business requirements but their decision introduces risks to a system’s security and roadmap. Why are we...
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