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Whether to address ‘governance’ is no longer an option. You need good governance to manage risk and sustain the ongoing value of your business. Good governance provides the framework that ensures program goals are met. Applying an effective layer of metadata governance is the best way to ensure plans for change in the DAM system deliver the intended outcome.

However, there is more to maintaining the metadata than just maintaining the taxonomy and the specification. Change must be actively managed and for that good governance is essential.

Museums need to publish and widely share their data sets and images to remain relevant in today’s digital age. What does it take to provide the widest possible access to digital collections? This case study will reveal insights into the need for interoperability between Collections Information Systems, DAM, and the greater semantic web. Christina and Jessica will address challenges, risk analysis, and outcomes as they facilitate building a bigger and stronger foundation through implementing a new DAM system as well as an API.

The decision to implement a DAM system is the right step in the right direction to gain operational and intellectual control of your digital assets and is to be taken very seriously. DAM bestows great responsibility for how the organization’s assets will be managed efficiently and effectively in its daily operations and is essential for growth. All successful DAM implementations require more than just new technology. Success requires a firm digital strategy foundation that begins with the business, and then extends to the technology.