Events Digital Preservation Summit 2026 - Securing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Centralizing Digital Assets at the National Geographic Society

Achievement and context:

The National Geographic Society’s Special Collections team reached a significant milestone in its DAM centralization efforts by successfully migrating 1.5 million media assets – including imagery from the full run of National Geographic magazine – from a decommissioned legacy system into its enterprise DAM.

Our focus for the Society’s digital archives is now firmly on the cross-divisional “Systems Unification Project”.

The goals:

  • Consolidation.
  • Long term preservation.
  • Accessibility.
Display Date and Time
February 5, 1:35 PM EST
Track
1
Course
Events Digital Preservation Summit 2026: Securing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
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Speaker Groups
Speakers
Individual Course Speaker
Events Event Speaker Julie McVey
Events Event Speaker Adrianna Slaughter
Events Event Speaker Matt Zimmerman
Programmatic Date Range
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Session Title
Centralizing Digital Assets at the National Geographic Society