Recollected: working with GLAM partners to implement a shared Digital Asset Management system at the University of Western Australia

Digital Asset Management systems are complex pieces of technological infrastructure which perform a range of crucial functions within an organisation’s digital landscape. A recent project at UWA took this complexity one step further by purchasing a DAMS to manage digital collections on an enterprise-wide scale. Faced with the intricacies of the DAMS itself and the varying needs of a broad user group (which included galleries, museums, archives, research collections and libraries) the project team dialled back to focus on the fundamental objectives common to all collection owners and how the system could meet them: description, discovery and access, and preservation.