Digital Asset Management Part 15: Summary Presented by: Anthony D. Smith Prepared for: OceanTeacher Academy Training Course, 2 – 7 October 2009

Summary History of Digital Asset Management. Early beginnings in the mid-1990s. Which industries were the early implementers? Gaming and entertainment Around 2002, started to see education and research take an interest. Authoring Publishing Librarianship

Summary History of Digital Asset Management. Early beginnings in the mid-1990s. Which industries were the early implementers? Gaming and entertainment Around 2002, started to see education and research take an interest. Authoring Publishing Librarianship

Summary Why is this important? Remember the ETD example? We looked at workflows for text, images, video, and audio. What’s missing from this list? Standards for text processing (TEI, XML) What are the benefits of using XML? How is TEI used?

Summary Archiving and Preservation OAIS Reference Model What is it? Addresses core issues with digital preservation. How can it help you? Discussed the scenarios for when digital preservation is important When do we need it? Deteriorating physical Born digital Conversion to provide online access?

Summary Metadata Covered file naming conventions Descriptive, structural, preservation, and technical PREMIS standard What type of metadata does PREMIS address? Covered file naming conventions What are he benefis? Organizational mgt of large file libraries Automating procesing Discussed data redundancy techniques: Let’s make lists:

Summary Fixity? What does it do for us? E-Science Protection against unexpected changes E-Science Science that uses immense data sets that usually require grid computing Usually data requires VERY expensive processing environments and specialized expertise BOINC is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop Grid computing. Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2080 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity. How can libraries help?

Summary Institutional Assessment Exercise Help you think critically about the various resources needed to support the development and management of digital collections Meaning of digital collections Replication of Service exercise We searched the Internet to determine if your resources already exists in digital form. Why did we do this?

Summary Citation Analysis Exercise Collection Development Policy How are your resources impacting the forward progress of research and applied science. Collection Development Policy Why is this important in digital collection building? Reformatting Decision Analysis Tool How is this useful?

Summary Reformatting Collection Development Policy Talked about creating digital masters. Why do this? In addition to the digital master, what else should be included in the preservation package? Collection Development Policy Why is this important in digital collection building? Reformatting Decision Analysis Tool How is this useful?

Summary Access Is Oceandocs a preservation repository, access repository, or both? Typical information retrieval navigation (view) Let’s reconstruct! If a repository is defined as a storage location, is Avano considered a repository?

Questions / Discussion Part 11: Access Questions / Discussion