Digital Asset Management

Digital Asset Management Systems: Planning a Digital Content System is the perfect introduction to digital asset management (DAM) and the research, identification, and implementation of a DAM system for IT managers interested in solutions for; data overload; and organizing their ever-increasing inventory digital materials. The book is also written for strategic IT planners and new-to-topic IT professionals, including line-of-business stakeholders. §This book takes you step-by-step through the process of identifying user and technology needs to address the problem of data management; the focus is on all data types instead of just photographs and digital media. §The author, Elizabeth Ferguson Keathley, is a board member of the DAM Foundation and has chaired both the Human Resources and Education committees. Currently Elizabeth is working with the University of British Columbia and the DAM Foundation to establish the first official certificate program for Digital Asset Managers. She has written, taught, and been actively a part of conferences related to the arrangement, description, preservation and access of information for over ten years. Her ongoing exploration of digital asset management and its relationship to user needs can be followed at her homepage for Atlanta Metadata Authority : atlantametadata.com . §