Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

    10 Digital Asset Management

James E.P. Currall and Michael S. Moss

CONTENTS

Introduction

Where to Start? 135

Managing Assets

A Suggested Approach

Challenges

Digital Objects

Characteristics

Collections

Management

Logistics

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

INTRODUCTION

There is a tendency to suggest that managing digital assets is radically different from the management of traditional stock in archives and libraries and therefore requires the establishment of separate units with specialist technical staff. While it is true that there are technical challenges and that digital assets behave differently from their analogue equivalents, stock ...