Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Libraries

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dc.contributor.authorWu, Annie
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Santi
dc.contributor.authorVacek, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorWatkins, Sean
dc.contributor.authorWeidner, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-15T22:10:19Z
dc.date.available2016-09-15T22:10:19Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractSince 2009, tens of thousands of rare and unique items have been made available online for research through the University of Houston Digital Library. Six years later, the Libraries' new digital initiatives call for a more dynamic digital repository infrastructure that is extensible, scalable, and interoperable. The Libraries’ mission and the mandate of its strategic directions drives the pursuit of seamless access and expanded digital collections. To answer the calls for technological change, the Libraries Administration appointed a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Implementation Task Force to explore, evaluate, test, recommend, and implement a more robust digital asset management system. This article focuses on the task force’s DAMS selection activities: needs assessment, systems evaluation, and systems testing. The authors also describe the task force’s DAMS recommendation based on the evaluation and testing data analysis, a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and system cost. Finally, the authors outline their DAMS implementation strategy comprised of a phased rollout with the following stages: system installation, data migration, and interface development.en_US
dc.description.departmentLibraries
dc.identifier.citationVol 35, No 2 (2016)en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.6017/ital.v35i2.9152
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-8209-8472
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/1575
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherInformation Technology and Librariesen_US
dc.subjectdigital asset management systemsen_US
dc.subjectdigital librariesen_US
dc.subjectevaluationen_US
dc.subjectassessmenten_US
dc.subjectDigital asset management systems
dc.subjectDigital libraries
dc.subjectEvaluations
dc.subjectAssessments
dc.titleHitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Librariesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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