INF STD 486Digital Asset Management
Information Studies · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Focus on technologies and workflows in managing digital moving image and audio assets throughout asset lifecycle. Under umbrella of digital asset management, students learn how to apply concepts of digital curation and preservation to actual systems and storage environments. Topics include file formats and transcoding, technical and preservation metadata, metadata modeling to encompass more than one media type, storage options, estimating costs, creation and preservation workflows, and developing functional requirements for researching software solutions. Review of national and international digital preservation initiatives. Leaders in digital asset management field are guest speakers.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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