Editing Digital asset management (section)

== Media asset issues ==

An asset can exist in several formats and in a sequence of versions. The digital version of the original asset is generally captured in as high resolution, colour depth, and (if applicable) frame rate as needed to ensure that results are of acceptable quality for the end-use. There can also be [[thumbnail]] copies of lower quality for use in visual indexing.

[[Metadata]] for an asset can include its packaging, encoding, provenance, ownership and access rights, and location of original creation. It is used to provide hints to the tools and systems used to work on, or with, the asset about how it should be handled and displayed.<ref>{{cite book |author=Austerberry, David |title=Digital Asset Management, Second Edition |publisher=Focal Press |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5ncAwAAQBAJ |isbn=0-240-80868-1}}</ref>