Call for Contributions: DAM within GLAM
This month’s editorial theme is DAM within GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). As a long running stalwart of Digital Asset Management use, these industries have helped to forge DAM into the multi-functional platforms that we use today. Many of the familiar terms and concepts we see in DAM can trace their lowly origins to the cultural, library and heritage sectors, including taxonomy, collections, lightbox, catalogue, annotation, index, and keyword to name but a few.
Digital Asset Management has become an essential tool in the GLAM space, enabling organisations to effectively organise, store, and share digital content whilst moving beyond the confines of traditional bricks and mortar repositories. In galleries and museums, DAM is usually responsible for facilitating the management of high-resolution images of artworks and exhibition materials, ensuring they are accessible for both internal use in the form of collections management, enterprise content management and brand portals, and also for public engagement operations such as marketing, educational and promotional campaigns.
In libraries and archives, DAM is used to handle digitised books, manuscripts, and research materials, making them available to a global audience through online platforms. In the last few years there has been an explosion in the number of once cloistered institutions that have made their collections publicly available online. Archivists often rely on DAM to safeguard historical documents and multimedia content, ensuring secure access, long-term preservation, and compliance with data standards.
The idea of museums as silent, sobering institutions is long outmoded, with cultural and heritage organisations often leading the way in innovation. Emerging technologies are increasingly being used to reinvent the GLAM space, with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) providing immersive sensory experiences for visitors, allowing them to personalise, view and interact with collections as never before. And as visitors browse the online gift shop, they may find themselves viewing product images that originate from a DAM/PIM integration.
To further explore the theme of DAM within GLAM, we are asking our readers, subscribers, vendors and experts to share their own stories, insights and knowledge on the topic. What skills have you successfully transferred from GLAM to DAM? Has your institution recently supercharged its operations with a new DAM implementation? Have you used DAM to build a gallery, library or museum exhibition that you’re particularly proud of?
Contributed articles must be exclusive to DAM News (i.e. not previously published elsewhere), non-promotional and adhere to our editorial guidelines.
You can send your contributions to russell.mcveigh@activo-consulting.com.
We reserve the right to modify submissions in order to comply with our editorial guidelines and will notify the author should we need to make any changes. We will also provide a link to either you or your company’s website and/or LinkedIn profile.
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