Stock photo libraries: not always copyright-safe...

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The biggest challenge in the University of Arizona's efforts to consolidate its digital assets was getting organized.

It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians

N.b. link is an Ebsco "permalink" so will probably break. LJ considers this premium content, so can't read it on its website.

An overview of the tagging process at The New York Times. The Times uses a software tool for rules-based categorization to assign metadata to content. This is followed by human supervised review and tagging.

Blog posts and short videos on metadata, accessibility from an A/V perspective.

The New York Philharmonic orchestra is deploying content management and archiving technology to create harmony with the paying public.

Six platforms -- one, hopefully.

In this four-part feature article, Deborah Fanslow, one of the editors of The DAM Directory and an MLIS qualified librarian herself, answers David Diamond's call for librarians to be more vocal about the benefits they can bring to the Digital Asset Management field

Can Getty Images acquire images from the Library of Congress and sell them on its website? Uncover the details from this high profile court case.

Free stuff released under permissive licences is not in the public domain.

Since 2009, tens of thousands of rare and unique items have been made available online for research through the University of Houston Digital Library.  Six years later, the Libraries' new digital initiatives call for a more dynamic digital repository infrastructure that is extensible, scalable, and interoperable. The Libraries’ mission and the mandate of its strategic directions drives the pursuit of seamless access and expanded digital collections. To answer the calls for technological change, the Libraries Administration appointed a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Implementation Task Force to explore, evaluate, test, recommend, and implement a more robust digital asset management system. This article focuses on the task force’s DAMS selection activities: needs assessment, systems evaluation, and systems testing. The authors also describe the task force’s DAMS recommendation based on the evaluation and testing data analysis, a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and system cost. Finally, the authors outline their DAMS implementation strategy comprised of a phased rollout with the following stages: system installation, data migration, and interface development.

We live in an age where a digital copy of just about any piece of artwork is obtainable for free with a couple of clicks and taps on your computer…

Lovely Amazon S3 horror story near the end.

Programs The UW-Madison iSchool offers information-education programs from a global top-25 university for a wide variety of students. Programs include:   On-campus & online master’s 5 concentrations & a double-degree option. Accredited since 1924.   Continuing Education Online professional development classes, conferences, free webinars and more.   PhD program Small group of highly qualified students, fully…

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ResourceSpace is Open Source Digital Asset Management (DAM) software that offers considerable savings over proprietry systems.

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