Preservapedia: Contributors Requested
Preservapedia, a recently launched wiki based site about preservation and related topics is looking for contributors to help expand the range of topics and subject depth: “Because Preservapedia is...
View ArticleThe Digitisation Dilemma: Retain Or Dump Analogue Assets?
Philip Spiegel writing on DAM Ideas proposes that we may now be coming to the stage where it is appropriate to no longer retain or preserve physical or analogue assets after they have been digitised:...
View ArticleHow Analogue Thinking Can Impact The Scalability Of Your DAM
In this article, Leala Abbot writing in the Off The Shelf blog discusses how applying analogue methods to asset cataloguing (where every detail about an asset will attempt to be recorded) can...
View ArticleDigital Film Preservation “12 Times Cost Of Analogue”
Dominic Case writing on the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) Blog discusses an increasing concern shared by several commentators that digital preservation is turning out to be more...
View ArticleLearning Digital Preservation: 15 Web Resources
If you are interested finding out more about Digital Preservation, Bill LeFurgy writing on Agogified.com has compiled 15 sources of information which he has used to train library school students: “I...
View ArticleEU Warns About Digital “Dark Age” Risks From Private Sector Management Of...
As reported last week on Read Write Web, the European Union (EU) has warned that cultural and heritage archives at a risk of being lost with the result being a digital “dark age”: “We are of the...
View ArticleDigitization in the Real World: Oregon State University Libraries
In this chapter excerpt from the book ‘Digitization In The Real World’, Sue Kunda looks at some of the key steps involved in running a medium to smaller sized digitisation project for Oregon State...
View ArticleDigital Heritage: Is It Worth Preserving?
This techdirt.com by Jeroen van Rijn article discusses whether on-line digital content is worth preserving as an archival activity in its own right. As well as the question about the significance of...
View ArticleDemystifying Digital Preservation Systems: ALA Annual Conference, New...
The American Libraries Association (ALA) are hosting a presentation on “Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems” as part of the ALA 2011 Annual Conference on Sunday 26th June (the conference runs...
View ArticlePersonal Digital Archives – The Biggest Risk Is You
This article was discussed on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group (which anyone involved in the nuts and bolts of Digital Asset Management should be a member of). Bill Lefurgy from the Library...
View ArticleDigital Media Collections: Archivists Need To “Take Control” Back From IT
Joshua Ranger writing on the AudioVisual Preservation Solutions blog discusses how “Digital Media Collections Are an IT Problem But Not an IT Solution”. The essence of Joshua’s post is that while...
View ArticleDAM And Collections Management Convergence
DAM News contributor, Ralph Windsor has written this special feature on DAM and Collections Management Convergence. He has referenced an article written by Theresa Regli from Real Story Group and...
View ArticleExtensis Integrate With Museum CMS Vendor zetcom
One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis, announced yesterday that they have integrated their Portfolio Server DAM system with Swiss based Collection Management System (CMS) vendor, zetcom. This...
View ArticleThe Value Of Digital Assets From A Collections Management Perspective
Ricky Patten, of Australian DAM resellers and consulting group, DataBasics has written an in-depth article about digital assets and their relationship with museum Collections Management, with specific...
View ArticleAnalysing The Intrinsic And Extrinsic Value Of Preservation Digital Assets
Annella Mendoza has contributed another feature article for DAM News: High Value Digital Assets And Migration. This item applies the definition of digital assets that I offered on Digital Asset News...
View ArticlePreservapedia: Contributors Requested
Preservapedia, a recently launched wiki based site about preservation and related topics is looking for contributors to help expand the range of topics and subject depth: “Because Preservapedia is...
View ArticleThe Digitisation Dilemma: Retain Or Dump Analogue Assets?
Philip Spiegel writing on DAM Ideas proposes that we may now be coming to the stage where it is appropriate to no longer retain or preserve physical or analogue assets after they have been digitised:...
View ArticleHow Analogue Thinking Can Impact The Scalability Of Your DAM
In this article, Leala Abbot writing in the Off The Shelf blog discusses how applying analogue methods to asset cataloguing (where every detail about an asset will attempt to be recorded) can...
View ArticleDigital Film Preservation “12 Times Cost Of Analogue”
Dominic Case writing on the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) Blog discusses an increasing concern shared by several commentators that digital preservation is turning out to be more...
View ArticleLearning Digital Preservation: 15 Web Resources
If you are interested finding out more about Digital Preservation, Bill LeFurgy writing on Agogified.com has compiled 15 sources of information which he has used to train library school students: “I...
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