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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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:

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. Questions / Discussion
Part 11: Access
Questions / Discussion