Event call for 2-3 archivists with digital asset management experience specific to photography

[Beatrice Thornton]

Hello Everyone,

I am reaching out today to put out a call for speakers at a workshop I am co-organizing on digital asset management for photography archives. I would love to know if any of you out there with experience in digital asset management specific to photography would be interested in sharing some of your knowledge as part of a small panel discussion during the workshop. 

I am working with the American Photography Archives Group (APAG) West Coast chapter to organize the event, which will be held at SF Camerawork the afternoon of May 2nd.

While we do not have all the details available yet, I'd like to invite a small group of archivists with experience in DAM to discuss what it has been like managing digital photography assets--including born digital and digital surrogates. Participants can talk informally about their experiences or give a short presentation, followed by questions. 

The purpose of the event is mainly to expose the workshop participants to new ways of thinking about and organizing photographs, in addition to taking advantage of new tools for doing so. The audience the workshop aims to reach includes photographers at the beginning of their careers, to those planning their estates, estate managers/archivists, archivists from small private collections, and collectors.

I am leading this workshop as an extension of a talk I gave for APAG West's annual meeting held last October. My involvement with APAG is fueled mainly by my love of photography, photography history, and archives. As a digital asset manager with experience working across a variety of archives from artists' studios to corporate archives, I am seeing how DAM can prove instrumental on smaller scales, and the benefits it could have especially for photography archives and collections. 

If this interests any of you, please contact me directly for more details! 

Thank you,

Beatrice Thornton