Digital Asset Management

Digital asset management is a set of tasks concerning formation of catalogs, storage, annotating, and renewal of digital assets. Digital video, music, photos are examples of digital assets. Digital asset management can be realized by means of computer digital asset management software and hardware systems. Such computer programs and hardware systems help us to manage all that digital funds (assets) we have.

Digital asset management also deals with downloading protocols, archiving, expanding files, renaming, grouping and many other operations and procedures we apply to our digital assets. Digital asset management has a sun category often called media asset management. This sub-category includes video and audio content. Almost every digital asset has its own description, that is usually called metadata. In most cases the main aspects of digital asset management are collection and storage of digital data.

Metadata can be very detailed or general, it depends upon the specific requirements of a certain user, system or any other owner of digital assets. If the assets are very big they usually have so called "proxy copies", that don't have the same high quality as original files, but their quality is enough for reference. Actually, it is considered to be more reasonable to form large digital asset management system with smaller systems of the same kind. Today there are lots of special IT systems, tools and techniques that allow to optimize any possible digital assets and make  management of digital assets easy and comfortable for users. Even a non-professional user can arrange a great digital asset management on his computer without the assistance of a private digital asset management company or manager.

Some basic information concerning management of digital assets is included into most of ordinary reference books and guidance about computers. The Internet can also offer you lots of useful materials on this topic. And of course there are special articles and books than describe the smallest details of digital asset management in a very understandable way.

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