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What Marie Kondo Can Teach Us About Managing Digital Assets

January 12, 2019 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

According to Netflix, its online video series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” will help homeowners declutter their mess and “choose” joy. Despite its dubious promise and the ire some librarians have shown towards some of its methods, I like Kondo’s approach: it can be adapted and used as a sort of DAM philosophy. I’ve reworked … [Read more…]

Posted in: Digital Content Curation, Principles Tagged: collection management, Philosophy

Digital Asset Management is a Service-Oriented Profession

April 10, 2015 by Ian Matzen, MLIS 3 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Principles, User Experience, Users, Values Tagged: profession, service

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