Digital Asset Management consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage, and retrieval of digital assets, such as digital photographs, animations, videos, and music.

Digital Asset Management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems that aid in the process of Digital Asset Management. The term “Digital Asset Management” (DAM) also refers to the protocol for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining, thinning, and exporting files.

In this two day class some of the subjects covered will be:

• Information Structure
• Folder and subfolder naming
• Directory Structure
• File Types
• Metadata
• Ratings, Keywords, and Groupings
• Rating and Labeling
• First Edits and Ratings
• Browsers versus cataloging software
• Database Software
• Hardware and Storage
• Backing Up Your Photos
• Archival image formats
• Choosing Backup Media
• Adobe Bridge
• Get Photos from your Camera
• Image Processor
• Create a contact sheet
• Batch Renaming

The location will be determined by the interests of the students.

For more information contact Bob at bob@ScubaPhotos.org

The cost for the course is $179.00 per student . There will be limited number of laptop computers available to share. Minimum of 6 students.