Omeka as a Digital Asset Management System

[jco...@kent.edu]

Hello,

Here at Kent State University Libraries we are exploring options for a Digital Asset Management system.

The system would need to allow ingesting university records from different colleges/departments/units at the university. Basically allow the different units to send their digital records to our University Archives, and allow the unit ingesting to add some basic metadata about the files. We'd then likely send the files AWS, or another storage solution, for backups/fixity/etc.

Since we already are using Omeka for some of our Special Collections Digital Content, we thought maybe with some dedicated development time we could utilize Omeka to serve this DAM need as well. Has anyone out there tried doing anything along these lines?

Thanks!

Joe

[Allison Brown]

Hi Joe,

We are also using Omeka for our Special Collections and it is great for online content.  However, we did not select it for our DAMS.  Mostly because you need to put in place rules around how you will manage each digital object and report on technical information about the files.  This is not what Omeka does.  We are implementing the Islandora/Fedora Commons application instead for the DAMS.  We also use DSpace as an institutional repository and if you were looking for our easier to install option for managing files I think DSpace is closer to a DAMS than Omeka. Feel free to contact me directly if you want to see some of our DAMS requirements.

Saying all of this I know Omeka has a plugin that works with Fedora, and maybe that combination might get it a little closer as a potential DAMS, but I have not looked into this very closely (yet).

Kind regards,

Allison

 

 

ALLISON BROWN | BA(Grif), GradDipLib&InfSt, MIT(QUT), RLIANZA

DIGITAL SERVICES COORDINATOR

University of Otago Library

Tel: +64 3 479 3961 | Email: alliso...@otago.ac.nz | @Initiatives_lib | LinkedIn

Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo - University of Otago

DUNEDIN | NEW ZEALAND

http://www.otago.ac.nz/library