March 12, 2003

Digital Asset Management

From Baseline Magazine (via Phil Windley's weblog) comes an interesting article on Digital Asset Management (DAM): Divide & Conquer? AOL Time Warner Book Group Falls To Pieces. Although the article focuses on how AOL uses DAM, it really does a nice job of explaining what DAM is and how to use it.

I'm not sure yet how DAM would work in K-12, but it does seem to have some applications. Obviously, things like logos, presentations, and other "corporate"-type assets can be shared. But so can lesson plans, powerpoint presentations and other teaching-type assets.

In a similar vein, we met with some folks from Saltmine a few weeks back. They've got an interesting asset management "solution" that is geared towards web development work. They basically expand the definition of an "asset" to include code.