Editing Digital asset management (section)

==Management==

===Creation===

Applications implement Digital Asset Management (DAM) by importing it from the [[analog recording|analog]] and/or [[digital data|digital]] domains (by [[encoding]], [[Image scanning|scanning]], [[optical character recognition]], etc.) or by authoring it as a new object.<ref>{{cite book |author=Blanke, Tobias |title=Digital Asset Ecosystems: Rethinking crowds and clouds |publisher=Elsevier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgWkAgAAQBAJ |year=2014|isbn=9781780633824 }}</ref>

===Indexing===
A primary function of a DAM system is to make assets easily available to its users by providing a searchable index that supports [[information retrieval|retrieval]] of assets by their content and/or [[metadata]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Digital asset management|url=https://www.ibm.com/topics/digital-asset-management|access-date=2021-10-06|website=www.ibm.com}}</ref> The [[cataloging]] function is usually part of the ingestion process for new assets.<ref>{{cite book |author=Krogh, Peter |title=The DAM Book, Second Edition |publisher=O'Reilly Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RX4KAQAAQBAJ |year=2009 |isbn= 978-0-596-52357-2}}</ref>

===Workflow===
Digital assets will typically have a [[Program lifecycle phase|lifecycle]], which may include various states such as creation, approval, live, archived, and deleted.

===Version control===
Often a DAM system will store earlier versions of a digital asset and allow those to be downloaded or reverted to. Therefore, a DAM system can operate as an advanced type of [[version control]] system.

===Access control===
Finally, a DAM system typically includes security controls ensuring relevant people have access to assets. This will often involve integration with existing directory services via a technology such as [[single sign-on]].