Without going into detail, we found these to be helpful:
a. Digital object has value to the institution
b. Digital object must be managed for access and rights.
c. Digital object is a master - not work in progress or derivative
d. Digital object must be searchable and found in many ways - good metadata
e. Digital object can only be accessed by authorized users
f. Digital object should be protected preserved with the best practices
available
g. Institution has defined use and access rights to the digital object
-nik
Nik Honeysett
Head of Administration
J. Paul Getty Museum
tel: 310-440-7346
fax: 310-440-7751
nhoneysett at getty.edu
Real, Will RealW at CarnegieMuseums.Org 3/5/2008 2:58 PM
Have any of the institutions who have gone down the DAMS road also
succeeded in developing policies for deciding which assets to retain?
The discussions we have had here leave our heads spinning wondering who
would make these decisions and with what criteria. Like everyone else,
we have thousands of images depicting multiple views of an event or
gallery, multiple bracketed exposures of conservation treatment or
collections documentation, multiple images specific to a particular
initiative or campaign long past, alternate crops or edits, and so on.
We realized quickly that these decisions would have to be made in many
cases by a knowledgeable and broad-minded staff person rather than a
student intern or volunteer. But who has the time?
And then there is the perhaps even more complex world of audio and
video. Archive the raw footage, the outtakes, the clips, the final
edits, etc.?
We have a task force that is developing a proposal for an
enterprise-wide DAMS and the task force wants to include information
about the impact a DAMS would have on process and staffing.
If anyone has been through this and come up with solutions for their
institutions, we would very much appreciate it if you could share them
with us. It would also be interesting to know whether the permissions
and policies that can be set by a DAMS administrator might also enforce
conformity to established standards for content selection.
Will Real
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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