Comments on: Professional Silos: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel! http://lealaabbott.com/wp/archives/156 Wed, 01 May 2013 23:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kristy Alexander http://lealaabbott.com/wp/archives/156/comment-page-1#comment-140 Kristy Alexander Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:59:10 +0000 http://lealaabbott.com/wp/?p=156#comment-140 As a digital asset manager that once worked in a cultural institution, this is perhaps the most refreshing post I've ever seen! There is an enormous gap between professional digital asset managers managers and cultural institutions, when really both should be working in tandem. Thank you for laying out the truth of the situation; that these two worlds are not really as different as one many think, and that they really can (and should) work together and learn from each other. As a digital asset manager that once worked in a cultural institution, this is perhaps the most refreshing post I’ve ever seen! There is an enormous gap between professional digital asset managers managers and cultural institutions, when really both should be working in tandem. Thank you for laying out the truth of the situation; that these two worlds are not really as different as one many think, and that they really can (and should) work together and learn from each other.

]]> By: Stijn Debrouwere http://lealaabbott.com/wp/archives/156/comment-page-1#comment-138 Stijn Debrouwere Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:09:56 +0000 http://lealaabbott.com/wp/?p=156#comment-138 These silos are all over the place, but I think you do need to grasp the amount of savvy it takes even just to be able to get a rough view of the terrain out there. If you're in an organization and need something asset-management-maybe-content-management-central-information-storage-uhm-whatever where should you look first? Should you talk to a software architect? A digital asset management professional? An MLIS grad? An information architect? It's really not that obvious, so at that point, who do you hire if you don't know exactly what you need? Most of the time it won't even be an information professional (whatever the specialization) who makes such hiring decisions anyway. The word "silos" seems to indicate that the situation we're in is to some extent self-imposed. I think you should give your colleagues a bit more cred. Instead of focusing on purported ignorance, let's just focus on getting better at what we do and let's learn to know more about fields of study that touch upon our own. Cheers! These silos are all over the place, but I think you do need to grasp the amount of savvy it takes even just to be able to get a rough view of the terrain out there. If you’re in an organization and need something asset-management-maybe-content-management-central-information-storage-uhm-whatever where should you look first? Should you talk to a software architect? A digital asset management professional? An MLIS grad? An information architect? It’s really not that obvious, so at that point, who do you hire if you don’t know exactly what you need? Most of the time it won’t even be an information professional (whatever the specialization) who makes such hiring decisions anyway.

The word “silos” seems to indicate that the situation we’re in is to some extent self-imposed. I think you should give your colleagues a bit more cred. Instead of focusing on purported ignorance, let’s just focus on getting better at what we do and let’s learn to know more about fields of study that touch upon our own.

Cheers!

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