Deze presentatie werd gegeven tijdens de najaarsbijeenkomst van de Adlib gebruikersgroep op 26 oktober 2017 in het Centraal Museum Utrecht.

1. AXIELL DAMS
* and a quick overview of the Axiell Integrated Knowledge Platform
1
Ben Sullivan
Head of
EMEA Axiell
ALM

2. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
PROGRAM
Web
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Responsive
APIsEducation
Schools
MEDIA
MANAGEMENT
Exhibitions
INTERPRETATION
EventsDiscoverable Location
Aware
BeaconsVisuali-
sation
Libraries
RESEARCH
COLLECTIONS
MANAGEMENT
Social Media
An Integrated Knowledge Platform
AUDIENCE & PATRON
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

3. Digital preservation
Acquisition of digital stuff
The size of digital stuff
The importance of digital stuff
Different user needs & interfaces
The DAMS middleware problem

4. DIGITAL PRESERVATION
“HOW WILL WE USE OUR STUFF IN 50 YEARS?”
Digital preservation
– Fixity / bit-rot; format obsolescence
– Transcoding / format conversion
– Esoteric formats
Abstraction of Storage
– Separation of storage from rest of system
– Allows separate management & access control
– Backups & retention
– Increase with time / change storage formats

5. ACQUISITION OF DIGITAL STUFF
RATE OF ACQUISITION
Digitisation projects
– Generate large volume of assets
– Time / ease of ingestion
– Offline / timed ingests
– Automated consumption of metadata
Ease of ingest for individual users
– Used to network drives
– Simple user interface
– Need balance between ease of discoverability / ingest

6. THE SIZE OF DIGITAL STUFF
ASYNCHRONOUS MICROSERVICES

7. THE SIZE OF DIGITAL STUFF
ASYNCHRONOUS MICROSERVICES
• High volume, offline, ingest
• Supports enterprise networks
• Implements predefined machine
workflows
• Video, image, audio transcode
– Dedicated / shared hardware
• Format conversion
– At ingest
– In future
• Supporting digital preservation policies
– Bit-rot / fixity checks
• Ensure integrity of assets long
term
– Storage abstraction
• Future migration of storage
• Leave storage management
to experts (IT)
• High availability
• Resilient to faults
• Extremely high performance

8. • In development - coming soon
– Format validation (JHOVE,
Certify, PREFORMA)
– Integration with S3 storage
– Email notifications
– Fixity / checksum audits
(enhancements)
– Machine workflow
enhancements
THE SIZE OF DIGITAL STUFF
ASYNCHRONOUS MICROSERVICES

9. THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL STUFF
SOME STUFF IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER STUFF
“Digital materials created or owned by your institution.
Digital assets exist in a variety of formats, and can
include text, web, audio, video and image files. Digital
images of objects in your collection are digital assets, as
are logo image files, corporate Powerpoint
presentations and any other digital resources created
by your institution that generate revenue or that provide
valuable content to employees or clients."
- CHIN

10. Born digital collection items
(photo albums, videos, etc)
Images of collection items
Event / internal photography
Internal documents
Marketing material
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL STUFF
SOME STUFF IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER STUFF

11. DIFFERENT USER NEEDS & INTERFACES
DISCONNECT BETWEEN COLLECTIONS &
MARKETING DEPARTMENTS

13. BUY A DAMS
Digital Asset
Management
The DAMS middleware problem

14. Digital Asset
Management
DEFINE DATA EXCHANGE
The DAMS middleware problem

15. Digital Asset
ManagementSmall
NEED FOR MIDDLEWARE
The DAMS middleware problem

16. Digital Asset
ManagementSmall
INTEGRATE MIDDLEWARE
The DAMS middleware problem

17. Digital Asset
ManagementMedium
REFINE REQUIREMENTS
The DAMS middleware problem

18. Bespoke
Support?
SLA?
Digital Asset
ManagementLARGE!
A NEW SYSTEM
The DAMS middleware problem

19. Single system
Single supplier
Single SLA
Tailored interfaces
High volume
Enterprise networks

20. Addresses problems unique to your needs
Digital preservation - keep stuff forever - OAIS policies
• Storage abstraction
• Fixity / checksum / bit-rot validation
• Single supplier - single SLA - single support desk
Acquisition of digital stuff
• Outsourced digitisation
• Digitisation programmes
• Ease of capture
The size of digital stuff
• Moving files across networks
• Transcoding large files
The importance of digital stuff
• Collections view is different to Marketing / Comms
Different user needs and interfaces
• Assets represented in CMS
• Assets searchable within web interface
DAMS middleware problem
• Over engineered
• Expensive to maintain
• Replication of CMS data is difficult