DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
PART 15: SUMMARY
Presented by: Anthony D. Smith
Prepared for: OceanTeacher Academy Training Course, 2 – 7
October 2009
SUMMARY
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History of Digital Asset Management.
Early beginnings in the mid-1990s.
 Which industries were the early implementers?
 Gaming and entertainment
 Around 2002, started to see education and research
take an interest.
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Authoring
Librarianship
Publishing
SUMMARY
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History of Digital Asset Management.
Early beginnings in the mid-1990s.
 Which industries were the early implementers?
 Gaming and entertainment
 Around 2002, started to see education and research
take an interest.
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Authoring
Librarianship
Publishing
SUMMARY
 Why
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Remember the ETD example?
We looked at workflows for text,
images, video, and audio.
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is this important?
What’s missing from this list?
Standards for text processing (TEI,
XML)
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What are the benefits of using XML?
How is TEI used?
SUMMARY
 Archiving
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OAIS Reference Model
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and Preservation
What is it?
 Addresses core issues with digital preservation.
How can it help you?
Discussed the scenarios for when digital
preservation is important
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When do we need it?
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Deteriorating physical
Born digital
Conversion to provide online access?
SUMMARY
 Metadata
Descriptive, structural, preservation, and
technical
 PREMIS standard
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Covered file naming conventions
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What are he benefis?
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What type of metadata does PREMIS address?
Organizational mgt of large file libraries
Automating procesing
Discussed data redundancy techniques:
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Let’s make lists:
SUMMARY
 Fixity?
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What does it do for us?
Protection against unexpected changes
E-Science
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Science that uses immense data sets that
usually require grid computing
Usually data requires VERY expensive
processing environments and specialized
expertise
BOINC is a software platform for volunteer
computing and desktop Grid computing.
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Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce
predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2080 and to test the accuracy of
climate models. To do this, we need people around the world to give us
time on their computers - time when they have their computers
switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.
How can libraries help?
SUMMARY
 Institutional
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Help you think critically about the various
resources needed to support the
development and management of digital
collections
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Assessment Exercise
Meaning of digital collections
Replication of Service exercise
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We searched the Internet to determine if
your resources already exists in digital form.
 Why did we do this?
SUMMARY
 Citation
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How are your resources impacting the
forward progress of research and applied
science.
Collection Development Policy
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Analysis Exercise
Why is this important in digital collection
building?
Reformatting Decision Analysis Tool
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How is this useful?
SUMMARY
 Reformatting
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Talked about creating digital masters.
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Collection Development Policy
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Why do this?
In addition to the digital master, what else should
be included in the preservation package?
Why is this important in digital collection
building?
Reformatting Decision Analysis Tool
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How is this useful?
SUMMARY
 Access
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Is Oceandocs a preservation repository,
access repository, or both?
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Typical information retrieval navigation (view)
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Let’s reconstruct!
If a repository is defined as a storage
location, is Avano considered a
repository?
PART 11: ACCESS
Questions / Discussion