Author: Ian Matzen, MLIS
How to Prepare for a DAM Good Presentation
In the time I have worked as a DAM professional, I have given dozens of presentations. They have been a fun way to interact with stakeholders and system users while communicating what I am doing and drumming up support. Below I have outlined my process. Perhaps my method will help you develop your own or … [Read more…]
Digital Asset Management is a Service-Oriented Profession
Service is one of the central values of a digital asset management. The goal of a DAM professional should be to connect people with the assets they need to do their job. Ranganathan once wrote, a library is “an instrument of universal education, and assembles together and freely distributes all the tools of education and … [Read more…]
How Do You Evaluate A DAM System’s User Interface?
Users will steer clear of an interface that is confusing or inefficient to use (Thurow, 2009). Conducting usability tests are a great way to uncover areas that may stand in the way of user adoption. A heuristic evaluation measures an interface’s compliance with widely recognized principles (Kalbach, 2007). Currently, the two most popular sets of standards … [Read more…]
Reflections of a First-Year DAM Professional
December 2014 marks the end of my first twelve months as a DAM professional and the beginning of my career with a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. I wanted to commemorate these milestones with a blog post that describes some of my experiences. Readers have asked me what it is like working … [Read more…]
What is the Semantic Web?
At no other time in human history has so much content been available so conveniently to so many of us. Information is truly at our fingertips. You like cats? Find images of kittens, videos of cats, scholarly articles about felines – and much more — online. To ‘go online’ is quickly becoming an old expression: we … [Read more…]