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AIATSIS
Digital Asset Management Solution
Doug Moncur <doug.moncur@aiatsis.gov.au>
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
What’s digital asset management?• Basically it’s a database
– Database holds information about the assets – metadata
– Metadata describes object – can include provenance, ownership, description as well as technical information
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
What’s a digital asset management solution?• A database to tell you
where everything is and what it is
• A storage system to hold and preserve the objects
• A searchable front end to allow you to search and view the holdings.
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
What’s a digital asset?
• A digital asset is either– A digital copy of an existing
object, eg scanned photograph
– A born digital recording, eg a digital photograph
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
What’s AIATSIS doing?
• Already holds huge collection
• Busy digitising the existing sound recordings to preserve them
• Needs an asset management system to track and manage these assets– Something equivalent to a library
catalogue
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
State of play
• Currently in the middle of procurement– 2 candidate software
products selected and undergoing extensive trial
– Designing storage and backup solution to maintain integrity of digital collection
– System planned to be online Q3 2005
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
It’s digital, it’s a database…• Collection will also be
online and accessible over the web
• Not everything can be freely available– Some culturally sensitive– Some ownership unclear– Need access control to
objects
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
Access control
• It’s difficult– Need to be able to say who
people are and can access (Assertion)
– Need to be able to say what the access rights are on the object (Authorization)
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
Access Control …
• Got to be pragmatic– Can only automate simple
queries• 60% would be good enough
– Need to involve communities in process of saying who can get access
– Need to record access restrictions in metadata
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
Experience elsewhere
• ALLIA Central American database– Database of Mayan
language resources– Some sensitive material– As communities became
more used to idea of using the internet became more open to putting material online
NRPIPA Meeting, Darwin :: 30 & 31 March 2005
And?
• DAMS should help preserve material
• Online access should help communities regain access to the material
• Some material will always be restricted
• Access too complicated to ever completely automate
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