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How to Prepare for a DAM Good Presentation

May 15, 2015 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Education, Social Aspects, Users Tagged: presentation, professional development

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

How Do You Evaluate A DAM System’s User Interface?

January 25, 2015 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Best Practices, Human Machine Interaction, User Experience, User Interface Tagged: evaluation, heuristics, system, test, ui, ux

London DAM Meetup, Meet Lean Coffee

August 12, 2014 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

I am pleased to announce the next London DAM Meetup, which will take place on 20 August at 7pm. To join the group and find directions please go to the London DAM Meetup event page. We wanted to give this meeting some structure while allowing us the flexibility to create an agenda as a group. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Users Tagged: London, Meetup

Research Guide Update: Introduction to Describing Digital Video

March 24, 2014 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

I recently added three new resources to my research guide about descriptive metadata for video. These cover: shot-level cataloguing guide to creating an metadata application profile cataloguing rich media using AACR2 and RDA Direct links to the resources have been included where available. Happy reading! http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/content.php?pid=545588 (Link opens a new page or tab)

Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Digital Content Curation, Metadata, Schema, User Training Tagged: audiovisual, digital video, libguides, research

Research Guide: Introduction to Describing Digital Video

January 4, 2014 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

I have been gathering a list of resources about descriptive metadata for video during these past two years. Rather than keep it hidden, I want to share it with you. That’s why I’ve created a research guide, a curated record of my favorite reads. It is geared towards librarians, digital asset managers, and DAM consultants … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Controlled Vocabularies, Digital Content Curation, Metadata, Project Planning, User Training Tagged: audiovisual, digital video, libguides, research
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