For those who have dealt with web/graphic designer or printer before, you would probably get this request from them. “Give me the images in 72 dpi for web design,” or “Give me the images in 200 or 300 dpi for printing?” Is this mysterious DPI value an important factor for the quality of image used …
Make sure that your effort will not be wasted – An experience to share from a past project
In order to manage the collections efficiently, an institution took the initiative to catalogue its collections digitally a few years ago. Software was purchased for recording the collections that has a size of two thousand items. Many hard works and effort were put into data entry of the two thousand items. At the same time, …
DAM! It is far more about ‘workflow’ than ‘software’!
As more and more digital files are created, an increasing number of organisations are reaching a critical pain threshold in needing to control and manage their vast amount of digital assets. Digital assets include everything from photos, PowerPoint presentations, text documents, graphic designs, PDF to audio and video. These are proving to be valuable assets …
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Coming Soon – A Digital Dark Age?
You probably have heard about the scary stories of losing digital files in a crashed computer, but you might not know of another danger which is taking place gradually. It is called technology obsolescence. For examples, the change of file format, the dropout of less popular software, the extinction of storage media, etc. For organisations …