Re: Digital Asset Management

From: Guenter Waibel (guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 13:26:11 CDT

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Date:         Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:26:11 -0700
From: Guenter Waibel <mailto:guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Digital Asset Management
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    <pre> Hi Christine & all,

    at BAM/PFA, we've developed our own digital asset management database in FileMakerPro, and it's currently being used by various museums in California who are members of MOAC (Museums and the Online Archive of California) . The reason why we developed our own instead of going ahead with an off-the-shelf product was that we needed a system which could (1) marry descriptive metadata and metadata about digital surrogates, (2) support very specific data standards (REACH element set & CDWA for descriptive md, CDL Imaging Specs for technical md) and (3) export to community specific xml file exchange formats such as EAD (Encoded Archival Description) for collections access and MOA2
    (Making of America 2) for complex item browsing. I use a very simple shareware program (iViewMedia) that functions in some sense like Cumulus to extract the technical metadata from the fileheaders, and then import that data into our custom-built database.

    I know a lot of the background of this db may not be applicable to your setting since it is very specific to a museum / archive / library community, but if you'd care to learn more about the db, check out http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/imaging/index.html for more details.

    Guenter

    At 1:53 PM -0400 6/7/01, Christine Fontaine wrote:
    >Hello,
    >
    >I was wondering if any of you have experience with digital asset
    >management/media asset management products. I am currently evaluating several
    >products (Canto Cumulus, Extensis Potfolio, Artesia Teams, Centillion Destiny,
    >among others) and I am looking for sample RFIs or RFPs for these types of
    >digital asset management products. If any of you have sample RFIs
    >or RFPs that
    >you could share, or know of any resources, I would greatly appreciate the
    >assistance.
    >
    >Thanks!
    >
    >Chris Fontaine
    >Internet Technology Specialist
    >Parks Canada Agency
    >Tel: (819) 997-9889
    >Fax: (819) 997-0900
    mailto:>chris_fontaine@pch.gc.ca 

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Guenter Waibel
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN http://www.mcn.edu/visig_subscribe.taf
mailto:guenter@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Phone   510-643-8655
Fax     510-642-4889
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