5 Things Thursday: DAM, Fanzines and St. Marks Place

And now, five things: Another DAM Podcast interview with Jennifer Veiga and Theresa Honig of American Media. Clean up your DAM. The strange history of the East Village's most famous street. What is metadata-driven design and how does it apply to mobile apps? How a collection of sci fi fanzines helps us understand life before…

5 Things Thursday: DAM Workflow, Beautiful Libraries, Radical Posters

Here are five more things for you: "Workflow. It's like a buzzword without any buzz." - from Jim Kidwell's article Digital Asset Management Workflow: The Unsung Hero of DAM. Check out this archive of posters documenting radical history from the University of Michigan Library. Another list of the world's most beautiful libraries and The Seattle…

5 Things Thursday: Coca-Cola Archives, DAM, Metadata

Here are five interesting things: Why librarians make perfect digital asset managers Cool DAM infographic Ted Ryan shows us around the Coca-Cola archives Erin Leach lobbies on behalf of library metadata Taxonomy versus controlled vocabulary

5 Things Thursday: DAM, Find a Taxonomist, Seattle ID History in Photos

Here are five amazing things: The Accidental Taxonomist, Heather Hedden on How to Find a Taxonomist. A learning course also by Heather Hedden - Practical Taxonomy Creation. The LAC Group reports LIS alternative career paths are expanding, including everything you always wanted to know about digital asset management. Wendy Ackland on Metadata, Controlled Vocabulary and…

5 Things Thursday: DAMNY, Hulton Archive, Linked Data

Here are five more exciting things: Agenda announced for DAMNY. Super early bird discount ends tomorrow! Really cool video about the photos in the Hulton Archive. See a real card catalog and learn about wacky research requests. And the Hulton Archive landing page on Getty Images. Trying to understand Linked Data like I am? These…

5 Things Thursday: Librarians, Seed Catalogs, Archival Resources

Here are five things to expand your library minds: Five things that people don't realize librarians do. Because they just read books all day... Fabulous resource page from The National Archives in the UK. The section on Practical Guidance is particularly compelling. Lovely collection of seed catalogs in a digital archive from the USDA. Take…

5 Things Thursday: Local History, EAD, Web Archives

Here are five more things... A little local history find for Seattle folks - "Lost Eddie Sato World's Fair Photos Now Found." The slides were at a discount store in Chicago. Pretty mod stuff! Why archive websites? This article from LOC tells you about the why and what of web archiving. I've been looking for…

5 Things Thursday: Metadata, Finding Aids, Archives, Digitization

Here are five super things to peruse: How will the Vatican digitize millions of documents? Start with 50 experts, five scanners and a lot of time... Take part in the Librarian Design Challenge over on theanalogdivide. Metadata is a GAAS - granularity, automation, authority, and structure are all key players in creation. Great article on…

5 Things Thursday: Cataloging, Rare Books, Future

Here are five things and a question: Should you take a cataloging course in grad school? Hack Lib School says yes and I say heck yeah! Want to learn more about rare books and go to California? California Rare Book School has some fabulous offerings. I hope to attend someday. Really nice job on CONTENTdm…

5 Things Thursday: Archivists, RDA Express, DAM Infographic

Here are five plus things to ponder: Where do archivists belong? Figure that out, then look at this link to DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) to get inspired and finally, take this survey on preservation of social media. Check out this nifty infographic on the business case for digital asset management (DAM). This sounds…