Sustainable Strategies for Web Integration
Major
criteria for DAM
►Allows
collaborative and distributed collection development/management
►Basic and advanced
searching across collections, across sites (federated searches, virtual collections, stored result sets)
►Web-based client
with easy-to-use interface
►Common client-side
players/viewers
►Client tools for
manipulation, comparison, per-user annotation
►Support for
multiple metadata standards
►Support for many
object formats, and developing formats (e.g.,
►Support for
high-resolution, zoom-in features
►Supports Unicode
text for display and searching
►URL access to
objects
►Customizable
display interface
►Based on open
standards (database, metadata, etc.)
►Flexible access
control list features
►Standards-based
export functions to avoid “lock-in” and promote remote indexing
►Platform
(hardware, operating system) agnostic – server and client