December 2009 Archives

I found this fascinating quote today:

There are not enough mentors today (in most fields for that matter), so I have made it one of my goals to start this DAM mentor program and remain vendor agnostic.Henrik de Gyor, Digital Asset Management, Dec 2009

You should read the whole article.

Article written by Henrik de Gyor on Digitalassetmanagement.org.uk

Before I mention DAM jobs descriptions themselves, many of these positions require experience, but what are the levels of experience in Digital Asset Management? How do you qualify the experience or even rank experience with DAM?

There are several levels of DAM experience from basic (1) to increasing in complexity (7). These levels include:

1. Simple DAM user (this is often the majority of DAM users)

• Searching
• Collaborating
• Downloading

2. Power user (aka Super user)

• Applying metadata to assets
• Uploading (Import)
• Downloading (Export)

3. Practitioner in DAM Operations

• Establishing and evolving workflow
• Training
• Create documentation to be openly shared
• Support

4. DAM Administrator

• Possibly network maintenance
• Possibly maintaining servers
• Maintaining database(s)
• Working with  API
• Running reports from DAM