DAM Los Angeles 2023

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a research and educational institution that shares its world-renowned collections with over a million onsite and online visitors each year. Items in The Huntington's vast and diverse collections create a unique opportunity for scholars, students, teachers, and visitors to deepen their understanding and inspire their creativity in art, history, literature, and botanical science.

So how is it possible to build a DAM which does justice to such a diverse collection with millions and millions of items?

Join Mario Einaudi, Head, Digital Collections and Imaging Services, Library Division and Yvonne Lee, Head of Integrated Systems at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens who’ll discuss the strategies – successful and not – in bringing together multiple data sources, a profusion of metadata profiles, and a slew of programmatic contexts into one cross-institutional and cross-functional system. This might sound straightforward but add into the mix a patchwork of data governance, workflows, permissions, and configurations, all of which require some standardization, if a successful DAM, open to all users, is the objective.