Teaching digital asset management in a higher education setting
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According to a recent IDC report (Gantz, J and Reinsek, D. The digital universe decade – Are you ready? IDC Iview, May 2010) between now and 2020, the amount of digital information created and replicated in the world will grow to an almost inconceivable 35 trillion gigabytes as all major forms of media – voice, TV, radio, print – complete the journey from analog to digital’. This means that in 2020 the digital universe will be 44 times as large as it was in 2009. Public, for-profit and cultural heritage organizations are being deluged with rich media digital resources, while facing fiscal challenges. Digital asset management (DAM) professionals provide the skills needed to find efficient solutions for storage, retrieval and dissemination of these files. Most learn the profession on the job and through informal education such as webinars, podcasts, blogs, white papers and conferences. There are programs and courses emerging in schools of higher education. This article discusses the development and teaching of a course in DAM offered through the Columbia University Information and Digital Resource Management program of the School of Continuing Education. The author describes how the syllabus was developed, content of the course, assignments, readings and the use of collaborative tools to simulate the way that professionals learn from each other.
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Web page for the Information and Digital Resource Management (IDRM) program at Columbia University School of Continuing Education, http://ce.columbia.edu/Information-and-Digital-Resource-Management.
Curriculum page for the IDRM program, http://ce.columbia.edu/Information-and-Digital-Resource-Management/Curriculum.
The class followed this blog: http://anotherdamblog.com/
Listing of higher education courses from Henrik de Gyor's Another DAM Blog, http://anotherdamblog.com/2010/01/20/higher-ed-courses/
Web page for the Birmingham City University Media Asset Management course, http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/media-asset-management.
Web page for the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science Archives & Preservation of Digital Media Course, http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/academics/courses/electives/detail/?courseID=1110.
Web page for the King's College of London Masters of Arts in Digital Asset Management program, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/madam/
http://anotherdamblog.com/
The class followed this blog:, http://digitalassetmanagement.org.uk/
The class followed this blog: http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/
Web site for Widen, a DAM SaaS vendor, http://www.widen.com/
Syllabus for the Columbia DAM course, https://courseworks.columbia.edu/public/IDRMK4340_001_2010_3.
Web site for the Dublin Core metadata standard, http://dublincore.org/
Dublin Core Usage Guide, http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml.
Auterberry, D. (2006) Digital Asset Management, 2nd edn. Burlington, VT: Focal Press.
Krogh, P. (2009) The DAM Book. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
Jacobsen, J., Schlenker, T. and Edwards, L. (2005) Implementing a Digital Asset Management System for Animation, Computer Games, and Web Development. Burlington, VT: Focal Press.
Web page about the Digital and Media Asset Management report from the Real Story Group, http://www.eiwatch.com/Research/Channel/DAM/
Lee, S.D. (2001) Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. New York: Neal Schuman Publishers.
JASIST, http://www.asis.org/jasist.html.
D-Lib Magazine. Corporation for National Research Initiatives, http://www.dlib.org/
Journal of Digital Asset Management. Henry Stewart Publications, London. Many articles from past years available free online at, http://www.palgrave-journals.com/dam/index.html Note that the ‘Journal of Digital Asset Management’ is available through the ABI Inform, Proquest Central, and Business & Company resource center library databases up to one year ago. The library doesn’t subscribe to the print version, so the most recent articles aren’t available for class use.
Broadcast Engineering, http://broadcastengineering.com/
KM World, http://www.kmworld.com/
Media Beacon webinars and informational videos available at, http://www.mediabeacon.com/btweb/index.jsp.
Earley & Associates Digital Asset Management free jumpstart webinar series, http://www.earley.com/webinars/jumpstarts.
Web page for Syracuse University School of Information Studies certificate program for Digital Libraries, http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/mls/digitallibraries/curriculum.aspx.
DAM Internships page at Another DAM Blog, http://daminternships.com/