1. Digital Asset Management Sam Barkley Jacob Powell June 4 th, 2007

2. What is DAM?  Technology Why is it important? RedundancyWhy is it important? Redundancy How much money is being wasted?How much money is being wasted?  Essentially digital libraries of documents Any sort of electronic dataAny sort of electronic data Equipped with powerful search enginesEquipped with powerful search engines Why is Google not DAM?Why is Google not DAM?

3. Metadata  Metadata: Specific information about the document Ex. URL, publish date, or authorsEx. URL, publish date, or authors  Dublin Core - Standarized format - 15 components - Why needed?  Type  Format  Identifier  Source  Language  Relation  Coverage  Rights  Title  Creator  Subject  Description  Publisher  Contributor  Date Comparable to Dewey Decimal system

4. Information exchange  Harvesting metadata  Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for metadata harvesting

5. How to harvest?  How to do it and when? 1.Periodic harvesting - On a schedule - Always behind - Winning but not ideal 2.On-the-fly harvesting (Federation) - Taxing on computer system traffic - eBay example - Ideal with better technology

6. National Science Digital Library  What is it? Library of librariesLibrary of libraries Organized access to resources & toolsOrganized access to resources & tools Collects metadataCollects metadata Quality controlQuality control www.nsdl.org www.nsdl.orgwww.nsdl.org

7. DAM Software Products  D Space Open sourceOpen source Developed by MIT & HPDeveloped by MIT & HP  Fedora Open sourceOpen source Not to be confuse with Fedora Linix distributionNot to be confuse with Fedora Linix distribution Developed by Columbia & Virginia TechDeveloped by Columbia & Virginia Tech  Documentum - For profit

8. The Big Problem  Who supplies the metadata? Little incentive to create & release metadataLittle incentive to create & release metadata Human engineering aspectHuman engineering aspect Library doesn’t work without metadataLibrary doesn’t work without metadata Need incentives structure!Need incentives structure!  DAM doomed with no incentives - Nike/OSU example - Nike/OSU example

9. Questions?  Jeremy Frumkin In charge of OSU DAMIn charge of OSU DAM Can be contacted in the libraryCan be contacted in the library