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Our cultural heritage institutions live today in a world that persistently blends the alternating currents of the known and "touchable" world with an immediate and intimate digital unfolding with shapes and intentions beyond what we can know.

These digital twins may start as just that – twins – but often quickly become different. A scan of a sculpture can be used for research, to deepen a visitor's sight of what's underneath, become a model for a licensed derivative destined for the gift shop, or help curators plan an exhibition. Our museum holdings throughout the world require careful management – from access, to storage, to conservation, and they create the wonder we experience in the hands of gifted museum staff. Our museums' digital assets demand the same level of attention, concern, legacy preservation as they embrace our minds and infuse experience from the invisible reach of "ones and zeroes" made manifest and all around us.

This is the realization at the core of <i>Digital Asset Management for Museums</i>. The chapters in this book will guide readers through strategies for unlocking an asset's potential, implementing digital assets into cultural institutions successfully, managing potential failures in implementation, and training museum staff to utilize digital assets effectively. Digital asset management strategies consider the ever-evolving nature of technology, which makes this book's approach relevant to the needs of cultural institutions today as well as to institutions' needs for the future.<b></b>

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1.Preface
2.Chapter 1: Welcome to Digital Asset Management for Museums
3.Chapter 2: Getting Started: Putting DAM Principles into Practice with or without a Digital Asset Management System
4.Chapter 3: Navigating Digital Asset Management Software Procurement
5.Chapter 4: Metadata Is Magical. .. If You Put in the Work
6.Chapter 5: Implementing a Digital Asset Management System
7.Chapter 6: Digital Asset Management Doesn't Work Without People
8.Chapter 7: What's Next?
9.Bibliography
10.Appendices
11.Index
12.Editor and Contributor Biographies

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Sep 18 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781538184530
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 17 bw images; 8 tables; 13 textboxes
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Margaret C. McKee

Margaret C. McKee is the Digital Asset Manager at…

Anthology Editor

Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Jessica Herczeg-Konecny is the Lead Technical Anal…

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