#LearnDAM

A live collection of digital asset management educational resources from Deb Fanslow and the DAM community team at   

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This is a wonderful new resource for DAM people, from Deb Fanslow. See it!

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The IPTC photo metadata standard has been updated.

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It might not be the metadata dictionary you use, but it's a nice example of how such a thing can be defined.

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DAM News article discusses a staffing issue: If everyone's a DAM manager, then who are the DAM workers?

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Deborah Fanslow, has provided us with the eagerly anticipated (and very well received) second part of her DAM News feature article: Who Needs a DAM Librarian?  In Part II: Information Professionals: A Field Guide she continues her detailed analysis by describing the disciplines and fields that information management is composed of and where is DAM is placed within them.

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Nice description of the value of controlled vocabularies. 

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Self-paced Digital Asset Management Education from DAM Foundation

Self-paced digital asset management training is now available online from the DAM Foundation.

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5 Things Thursday: Minimal Metadata, PBCore, DAM Education

Here are five things:

What is Minimal Viable Metadata (MVM)?

Check out a PBCore metadata how to webinar recording here.

Self-paced Digital Asset Management education from the DAM Foundation.

Really big report on Stanford Linked Data workshop.

Free repository of WPA posters!

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The Curation and Management of Digital Assets (CMDA) Certificate is a post-master's program that focuses on instruction about and research into the creation, management, and use; the long-term preservation; and the current and future access to digital assets in a variety of disciplines and sectors of the economy.

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Nice collection of metadata-related tips from a Singapore-based consultancy.

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Nice overview of the advantages of each type of taxonomy.

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"The value that metadata, or little data, brings to big data is in the structure and meaning it provides," says John Horodyski.

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I’ve learned that it is impossible to account for all the various silos that people use instead of a DAM solution because they find the solution inadequate, don’t know it exists, or prefer to do things the way they've always done them.

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“Digital preservation is much more difficult than preserving paper or physical artifacts. You can’t just keep hard drives in a climate-controlled box and expect them to stay readable.”

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"It always amazes me that sites don’t use related links to help users find content. While it may take another minute to add a related link, the usefulness to the user can be extraordinary."