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Entries from June 2010

Content Technologies: DAM, CMS and Collections Management Systems – What’s the big dif?

June 15th, 2010 1 Comment

Every time I exchange some educational dialog with someone, it necessitates in me the need to blog. It’s clear there is a TON of confusion out there regarding different tools involved in management of digital/physical collections (i.e. content technologies). Dear museums and archives at the end of the day you’re not that much different than [...]

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Professional Silos: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!

June 7th, 2010 4 Comments

Call it a rant, I call it a blog “posting”. Lately, I have become acutely aware that there exists a major hurdle to digital project success (specifically digital asset management) that we who work in institutions need to be aware of.
I recently had a colleague return from an Archives Conference abroad that focused on [...]

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