Recollected: working with GLAM partners to implement a shared Digital Asset Management System at the University of Western Australia
VALA2024 CONCURRENT SESSION 02
Tuesday 9th July 2024, 11.30am-12.00pm
Lucy Cammell
- Coordinator, Acquisitions
- University of Western Australia Library
Presentation: (coming soon)
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Abstract
Digital Asset Management systems are complex pieces of technological infrastructure which perform a range of crucial functions within an organisation’s digital landscape. A recent project at UWA took this complexity one step further by purchasing a DAMS to manage digital collections on an enterprise-wide scale. Faced with the intricacies of the DAMS itself and the varying needs of a broad user group (which included galleries, museums, archives, research collections and libraries) the project team dialled back to focus on the fundamental objectives common to all collection owners and how the system could meet them: description, discovery and access, and preservation.
Biography
Lucy Cammell is Coordinator, Acquisitions at the UWA Library, where she leads bibliographic description and metadata initiatives, monographic acquisitions and digital resource management. Lucy’s interest in digital collections began back in 2005 when she worked on the pioneering ARC funded project ‘Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage’, which digitised and described rare Australian sound recordings. A champion for digital discovery and access, Lucy implemented UWA Library’s digital resource delivery solution, and was involved in establishing the Digitisation Centre of WA. She currently manages the UWA Collected service, which aims to preserve and provide access to UWA’s diverse collections, creating data-intensive discovery opportunities.
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