Simple vs. complex assets
Simple assets are assets that does not have constituent parts or "child" assets. Examples are individual photographs, audio files, movies, or single-page print material. In comparison, a complex asset contains constituent parts which will have individual PIDs in the DAMS, e. g. the issues of a journal or the pages of a book.
Simple asset content models
In order to appropriately store, manage and disseminate digitized physical assets, the DAMS uses content models for different classes of media. The following content models are available for processing simple assets:
- AUDIO
- LARGE IMAGE
- VIDEO
- BINARY
See the documentation page on content models for details on each model and the file types supported.
Ways to ingest assets into the DAMS
One asset at a time, adding descriptive metadata via online form: Manually ingest simple asset
- Many assets and/or metadata files at a time: Batch ingest simple assets
- Many assets with additional, non-standard datastreams: Batch ingest multiple datastreams per asset (Tiered ingest)