Workshop

Free DAM Workshop with AVP Optimizing DAM for User Success” April 12

Join AVP for a free, interactive workshop designed to help you improve your users’ digital asset management experience at 1 PM EST on April 12, 2022. During the workshop, AVP Director of Consulting Kara Van Malssen will lead participants through user-centered exercises that DAM program leaders can utilize to create a more useful search, browse, discovery, and usability experience. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

1. Understand users’ mental model of assets so that they can be organized and presented in meaningful ways
2. Identify common search and browse terminology so that assets can be made findable in ways that match users’ search behavior
3. Identify what users want to know about assets so that they can be effectively used

The workshop activities will take one hour, and represent an abbreviated version of similar AVP DAM workshops. Following the workshop, there will be 30 minutes for Q&A with the AVP team and for networking with your DAM peers from different industries. This workshop will be (virtually) hands-on and interactive, so come prepared to participate. Space is limited to 20 participants and registration is not guaranteed but we will do our best to accommodate interest. Limit 2 people per organization, please register separately. 

Click here to apply for the April 12, 2022 “”Optimizing DAM for User Success”” workshop! 

Here are some takeaways shared by past participants of this workshop:

“”A simple but impactful phrase stood out: “”Everyone searches alone.””

“I thought the exercises were really smart in terms of gathering useful input in a way that’s actually fun for the user.”

“”Always keep the user perspective in mind when applying keywords.”

“There needs to be a balance between tags and metadata. They need to be useful for searching (descriptive) but also provide necessary information related to usage (technical, rights).””

“Search and access are separate kinds of DAM functions and have different metadata.”

“A good understanding of how to facilitate the exercises for our team.”

“That we need work with our users to understand tagging possibilities for our event images. At the moment the metadata is more focused on classification.”

Check out these other helpful digital asset management resources from AVP:

• To Build A Successful DAM Program, Adopt A Service Mindset
• Designing a User-driven DAM Experience, Part 1
• Getting to Success: A Scenario-driven Approach for Selecting, Implementing, and Deploying Digital Asset Management Systems
• AVP Tips to Manage Your DAM Expectations (Video)
• Change is hard. Rally around your vision.

We know what it takes to implement and launch a successful DAM. Our experts are always two steps ahead to ensure that surprises and oversights are eliminated, your DAM implementation meets your needs, your launch is smooth, and your users are delighted. We offer implementation packages or can create a tailored service based on your needs. Ready to talk about your project? Get in touch!

New from AVP: AVP’s Best DAM Workshop Series

Let AVP’s expert facilitators help transform your data or digital asset management program, in just a few hours. Our workshops have proven results and are designed to breakthrough tough challenges quickly. Read more about our workshop offerings below and reach out to us at [email protected] to learn more.

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Sign Up For Free DAM Workshop With AVP 08/17/21 @ 1PM ET

Join AVP for a free, interactive, one-hour workshop on August 17 (@ 1 pm ET) designed to help you improve your users’ digital asset management experience. During the workshop, AVP Director of Consulting Kara Van Malssen will lead participants through user-centered exercises that DAM program leaders can utilize to create a more useful search, browse, discovery, and usability experience. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

1. Understand users’ mental model of assets so that they can be organized and presented in meaningful ways
2. Identify common search and browse terminology so that assets can be made findable in ways that match users’ search behavior
3. Identify what users want to know about assets so that they can be effectively used

These exercises have proven results and are the same we use when engaging with our clients in diverse industries and organizational sizes. 

Click here to apply for the workshop.   

This workshop will be (virtually) hands-on and interactive, so come prepared to participate. Space is limited and registration is not guaranteed but we will do our best to accommodate interest. Limit 2 people per organization, please register separately. 

Feel free to check out other helpful AVP resources for digital asset management. 

• Designing a User-driven DAM Experience, Part 1
• Getting to Success: A Scenario-driven Approach for Selecting, Implementing, and Deploying Digital Asset Management Systems
• AVP Tips to Manage Your DAM Expectations Video
• Change is hard. Rally around your vision.

We know what it takes to implement and launch a successful DAM. Our experts are always two steps ahead to ensure that surprises and oversights are eliminated, your DAM implementation meets your needs, your launch is smooth, and your users are delighted. We offer implementation packages or can create a tailored service based on your needs. Ready to talk about your project? Get in touch!

DPN Digital Preservation Curriculum

In response to DPN members’ concerns around the issues of workflow for digital preservation, DPN engaged AVPreserve to develop a digital preservation workflow curriculum to share with DPN members and others in the digital preservation community. The curriculum is being released with a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. (License details here.)

This workshop curriculum will equip participants with a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to enact programmatic digital preservation within their organization and is focused on equipping organizations with the capability to implement and manage a digital preservation program. The workshop modules present the requirements of a digital preservation ecosystem from two parallel viewpoints:  governance and program management as well as asset management.

Each of the six modules is estimated to require approximately two hours and it is suggested that the workshop take place over two full days. The modules are:

• Enabling Programmatic Digital Preservation
• Selection
• Preparing for Submission
• Submission & Ingest
• Post-Submission
• Sustainability

DPN is pleased to make this valuable curriculum available and only asks that terms of the CC-BY-SA license be observed. (Details here.) You may download the files below. We trust it will be an effective asset as organizations continue in the critical work of preserving the scholarly, historical, and cultural record for this and future generations.

• FULL CURRICULUM (ZIP)
• WORKSHOP OUTLINE (PDF)
• WORKSHOP CURRICULUM (PDF)
• MODULE 1 (PPT)
• MODULE 2 (PPT)
• MODULE 3 (PPT)
• MODULE 4 (PPT)
• MODULE 5 (PPT)
• MODULE 6 (PPT)

Chris Lacinak Instructing NEDCC Preservation Workshop

AVPreserve President Chris Lacinak will be in Boston this week to conduct an audiovisual preservation workshop on Friday, April 18th. Sponsored by the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Audiovisual Digitization: Preparing for a Successful Preservation Project will walk participants through the various decision points of developing the specifications for a statement of work (SOW) for a video digitization project. The combination of lecture and hands-on activities will help attendees understand the importance of those specifications, the impact and reasoning behind selecting different specifications, and how a well thought out SOW can help make a preservation project run more smoothly and help an organization achieve their preservation goals. A copy of Chris’ white paper Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Video (and More) can be downloaded for free from the avpreserve.com Papers and Presentations page.

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METRO And Archivists Roundtable Co-Host “Born Digital AV” Workshop With Chris Lacinak

Continuing the AVPS commitment to education and community participation, Chris Lacinak will be conducting the workshop “Born Digital AV: A Primer for Archivists and Caretakers of Moving Image and Sound Collections” on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. The event is co-hosted by METRO and the New York Archivists Roundtable and will take place at the METRO training center at 57 East 11th Street in Manhattan.

The deluge of born digital audiovisual materials will be hitting archives soon if it hasn’t started already, presenting new challenges to asset management and preservation combined with accelerated obsolescence and degradation factors which will not allow a passive approach to archiving. From the description:

“This hands-on primer will introduce archivists and caretakers of digital file-based moving image and sound collections to utilities and processes that will help them perform routine archival tasks in the file-based domain. Activities will include creating and validating checksums; entering, editing, reviewing, parsing and using embedded metadata; identifying file characteristics and attributes; discussion of wrappers and codecs; and discussion of obsolescence monitoring and normalization.

By the end of this program, participants will:
• Know how to perform routine archival tasks in the digital file-based domain
• Gain a basic working knowledge of digital files to enable better communication with other stakeholders in the digital object’s lifecycle”

So come learn the basics of what you need to know to be prepared for the changing media landscape and to be a leader in the preservation and integration of digital materials within your organization. More registration information is available on the METRO website at http://bit.ly/azoc4n or in their September Digitech Newsletter. While you’re there, also check out the information on Gawain Weaver’s upcoming Care and Identification of Photographic Materials workshop as well as METRO’s great new book Digitization in the Real World.

Digital Asset Management With Free And Open Tools

David Rice and Mike Castleman represented Democracy Now! at the 2008 AMIA Digital Asset Symposium presenting on the integration of open source technology and Free Software in efforts to record, disseminate, and archive moving image media.

The presentation included references to:

• Tools for Recording: dvgrab, cron, vidi
• Tools for Transcoding and Wrapping: ffmpeg, mplayer, MP4Box, ffmpegX, x246 for Quicktime
• Tools for Online Media Accessibility: The Internet Archive, blip.tv, Miro
• Tools for Migrating AudioVisual Data from Tape-Based Digital Media: DATXtract and Live Capture Plus
• Tools for Backup and LTO Management: Bacula
• Metadata Extraction Tools: MediaInfo, getid3, qt_tools
• Metadata Standard: PBCore
• DAS (PDF)