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COVID 19 created challenges for the GLAM sector; however, it also saw innovation. Online and other ways of sharing collections are now commonplace. Lookatme™ is the ideal future-proofing solution that helps Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums operate more effectively and efficiently in both virtual and physical environments.
#digitalasset #libraries #museums #archives #art #galleries #culture #heritage #history #arthistory #museum #lookatmeGalleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums are facing the same digital transformation and COVID challenges as other government and private organisations around the globe. They need to answer the question, 'do we place digital services at our core or continue to view them as a peripheral function?'. From a user and relevance perspective, this is no longer a question; online and digital access to collections and content is essential.
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Lookatme™ Digital Asset Management solutions were designed for the GLAM environment, allowing clients to use accepted industry metadata schemas and advanced collaboration, approval, and reporting features to breathe life and purpose into collections.
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How to manage access to your digital collections and archives
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums have unique needs and responsibilities in managing their digital collections. Some assets may need to be readily available. Yet others need controlled and secure access. Assets themselves need to be curated using accepted industry metadata schemas such as SPECTRUM, AGLS and RAD. Some collections may be freely available, whereas others need to be monetised with royalty-based reproduction or advertising revenue.
Lookatme™ can manage every aspect of this process with a specialised Digital Asset Management solution built in collaboration with the GLAM sector.
The role of Lookatme™ in the GLAM sector
Lookatme™ has worked closely with the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums for more than a decade, providing what is widely considered to be the Digital Asset Management solution with the highest user acceptance in the sector. Working with an organisation such as Museums Victoria, Copyright Agency Limited, Transport for NSW Historical Archive, Fred Williams Estate, Universal Images Group and other Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums around the globe, Lookatme™ has built an exceptional understanding of the needs and goals of the sector.
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Few forms of communication can elicit such emotional solid responses as quickly as visual storytelling. Lookatme™ was designed to empower your people to create more compelling and accurate visual narratives.
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Innovations that drive digital transformation
This knowledge has been a cornerstone in the evolution of the Lookatme™ DAM. It continues to drive innovations that allow clients to develop ecosystems that improve access across channels and touchpoints while providing more outstanding tracking and management capabilities. Recent developments now allow multiple opportunities to monetise collections directly through the Lookatme™ DAM.
Archive Collection Management Systems
Lookatme™ is a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) specified by RLG/OCLC that can be integrated with Archive Collection Management Systems (ACMS) such as Axiell, EMu and Vernon.
Customer and stakeholder management
One of the features of Lookatme™ is its ability to integrate seamlessly with CRM and many EDM solutions such as Salesforce, Mailchimp, Mail Monitor, and Zoho.
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Online resources make your collections accessible 24/7 from any location. As a productivity tool, Lookatme™ works the same. Establish your access and usage protocols. Include approval process. Create individual user and ‘big data’ reports. Make your digital assets available to the right people, at the right time, from anywhere with Lookatme™.
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Website integration
Lookatme™ also integrates seamlessly with website content management systems (CMS) such as Drupal, Sitecore and Kentico. This integration allows approved users to add images, videos, audio files and other digital assets to websites and online solutions, either directly or through embed codes. Lookatme™ embed codes allow content to be managed centrally through the DAM while providing additional user experience features.
Records management systems
Lookatme™ also allows Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums to integrate with a range of Records Management Systems (RMS) such as Micro Focus Content Manager (TRIM).
How Lookatme™ can help you achieve your digital transformation
Lookatme™ is more than just an innovative cloud-based digital asset management solution. It is also a team of passionate, experienced and knowledgeable people that have guided countless organisations like yours through this digital transformation process. Reach out to the Lookatme™ team and begin your journey to elevate your collection to the level of awareness and status it deserves.
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Transport for NSW historical archive
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Historical collections like that of Transport for NSW contain hidden gems that can drive contemporary narratives. By digitising their collection and managing it through Lookatme™, Transport for NSW has made the collection available for generations.
#history #culture #community #NSW #communication #digitalasset #image #pic #video #lookatmeNSW's transport system did not spring up overnight. It was a journey with twists, turns, tracks, tunnels, and open roads as far as the eye could see. It has been the work of visionaries, cooperation, brilliant engineers, social connection and, ultimately, the labour of those who made it all possible. It's a story best told in images, video, and audio records. It's a narrative that the Transport for NSW Historical Archive now allows storytellers to explain with the help of Lookatme™.
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File management systems fall flat when it comes to creating visual narratives. Detail and connections are obscured behind visual barriers and folder structures. Lookatme™ liberates historical collects while capturing accurate descriptions and attributions that help guide authentic narratives.
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The journey from analogue to digital
Digitisation of archives is an essential function of historians and Archivists today. Once digitalised, the next task is how to protect the integrity of the collection while enabling the types of access that will help others play a key role in telling your story. This is where Lookatme™ can help.
What is Lookatme™?
Lookatme™ is an Australian Made™ Digital Asset Management solution used the world over by Galleries, Libraries, Museums and, of course, Archives. Lookatme™ delivers a secure, cloud-based digital asset management solution that allows Archives to create a single source of truth for their digital asset collections.
The technical reasons why Lookatme™ is ideal for Archivists
Lookatme™ is a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) specified by RLG/OCLC and can be integrated with Archive Collection Management Systems (ACMS) such as Axiell, Emu and Vernon. Lookatme™ also allows Archives to integrate with a range of Records Management Systems (RMS), such as Micro Focus Content Manager (TRIM).
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Managing your historical collections through Lookatme™ is a chance to bring them to life for researchers, teams, and other key stakeholders. It allows you to demonstrate historical roles and connections with the community in ways words alone fail.
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The human reasons why Lookatme™ is ideal for Archives
Lookatme™ is much more than just a digital archival system. It's a solution designed to bring collections to life. Lookatme™ provides:
- Options for integrating images and videos into websites and other online solutions.
- Increasing access while protecting the story's accuracy.
- Crediting the creator and controlling asset lifecycles.
Website and other integrations
Lookatme™ integrates seamlessly with website content management systems (CMS) such as Drupal, Sitecore and Kentico. This integration allows approved users to publish images, videos, audio files and other digital assets on websites and online solutions. Another feature of Lookatme™ is its ability to integrate seamlessly with CRM and email solutions such as Salesforce, Mailchimp, Mail Monitor, Zoho, etc.
Breathing new life into our past
The Transport for NSW Historical Archive is no longer a collection stored away and unable to be accessed and enjoyed. Lookatme™ has allowed the Transport for NSW historical archive team to bring this history back to life and the opportunity for all of us to learn from our successes and failures. Archives don't have to be nostalgic journeys. They can be journeys of discovery that remind us of who we once were and who we are today. At Lookatme™, we are proud to play our small part in telling the stories that matter to all of us.
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Lookatme™ is one of the world’s most advanced image and video management solutions. One of its strengths is managing the details that ensure digital assets are only used by the right people, at the right time, and in the right ways.
#digitalasset #libraries #education #libararylife #museums #archives #art #galleries #culture #heritage #history #arthistory #mueseum #lookatmeYou need more than a storehouse for your digital assets; you need an online solution that makes it practical and even enjoyable for your people to access the right digital assets, at the right time, in the right place. That’s the promise of Lookatme™.
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Lookatme™ liberates digital assets collections, empower teams to create more compelling and accurate visual narratives.
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Let’s take for example one single feature of Lookatme™ Digital Asset Management software, OAI-PMH, or the OAI Protocol.
The OAI Protocol is a ‘low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability’. It is widely used in library environments and is often incorporated into integrated library systems and personal bibliographic reference software for Museums and Libraries.
If you are in the market for a Digital Asset Management solution, OAI-PMH support may not be on your radar, however this may change once you understand its role.
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The amazing thing about how the OAI-PMH works within the context of the Lookatme™ Digital Asset Management solution is how it empowers curators to quickly build and share ideas, bringing accurate narratives to life faster. Lookatme™ allows people to look at collections from a different perspective.
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What is the OAI Protocol?
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so services can be built using metadata from many archives.
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Lookatme is recognised internationally for its application of the OAI Protocol, making it the solution of choice for many galleries, museums, libraries, and historical archives.
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Who uses the OAI Protocol?
The OAI Protocol has been adopted by more than three thousand libraries, institutional repositories, and digital archives around the world.
Commercial search engines have employed OAI-PMH to acquire resources. For example Google uses the OAI Protocol to harvest information from the National Library of Australia Digital Object Repository.
Lookatme™ uses the OAI Protocol to share specific assets and metadata from several libraries, to the National Library of Australia (NLA). The assets of Lookatme™ clients are then discoverable via a search at NLA.
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In additional to the risk mitigation features of Lookatme™, OAI Protocol bring sunlight to collections that have never seen the light of day, or have been underutilised.
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How would I benefit from a DAM with OAI Protocol support?
One of the key reasons for employing a Digital Asset Management solution is to make sizeable digital asset libraries discoverable. A Digital Asset Management library that does not support the OAI Protocol may constrain your ability to share or aggregate data with your industry partners.
OAI Protocol support is just one of the countless features that differentiate Lookatme™ DAM solutions from many better known, but less capable brands.
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