n. (abbr. DAM)the practice of providing centralized management of digital objectsGilliland-Swetland 2000a, 26Knowledge management activities can include data and metadata mining as well as digital asset management.Ross, Donnelly, and Dobreva 2003, 42Digital Asset Management is the practice of using software applications and hardware (servers) to index, catalogue and store marketing tools and media assets in a centrally located, digital format. A DAM repository can be searched, shared, distributed and re-purposed to create a growing digital workflow environment, saving time and money, and achieving increased efficiency in communications.Besser 2003, 71DAM (Digital Asset Management) ¶ A system that enables the management of digital objects, such as image files, from ingest to archiving and supports continued retrieval.Conrad 2012, 31The Academy has identified a number of technological threats associated with digital assets management, including data integrity, monoculture vulnerabilities, obsolescence, limited or no data compression, and risk of encryption key loss.Gilliland 2014a, 183A related area is digital asset management, which promotes consciousness of the organizational value of diverse types of digital knowledge, information, or media assets, and structures local or enterprise-wide asset management and workflow in support of, for example, new product or concept development; or for optimization, collaboration, sharing, and integration.McCarty Smith et al. 2019, 8The library is now in the process of migrating all digital collections from CONTENTdm to a new digital asset management platform, and the metadata standardization completed for the earlier migration has streamlined this process considerably.Michalak and Rysavy 2022, 949The Digital Asset Management tool is a centralized system for institutions to organize, manipulate, display, and access digital assets.Fox 2023, 1In the decade since the publication of the first edition, digital collections and digital asset management have undergone many changes, most significantly the heightened attention to linked open data initiative.
