A digital asset management system (DAMS) is software for storing, describing, and managing digital content such as images, audio, and video files. The UCLDC DAMS will enable campus libraries to add metadata to digital assets, publish them in the access interface, designate them for preservation, and perform many other stewardship functions. The DAMS will offer the major benefit of allowing for “collections-in-process,” meaning librarians will be able to work on assets and metadata as they have the time, in a closed virtual environment, until they are ready to open the content for public viewing. The DAMS we are configuring and deploying is a commercially supported, open-source product called Nuxeo. The UCLDC DAMS will also have a mechanism for selecting digital assets for preservation and pushing them into Merritt for long-term preservation. |  |