Digital Asset Ecosystems
Rethinking crowds and clouds

Digital Asset Ecosystems will reflect on the developments in the management, use and publication of digital assets and their future implications.

Tobias Blanke (Author)

9781843347163, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2014

192 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.28 kg

"...a must read for all interested in how digital media and digital ecosystems have transformed the web and fostered collaboration as well as the development of digital communities." --Online Information Review

Digital asset management is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Near universal availability of high-quality web-based assets makes it important to pay attention to the new world of digital ecosystems and what it means for managing, using and publishing digital assets. The Ecosystem of Digital Assets reflects on these developments and what the emerging ‘web of things’ could mean for digital assets. The book is structured into three parts, each covering an important aspect of digital assets. Part one introduces the emerging ecosystems of digital assets. Part two examines digital asset management in a networked environment. The third part covers media ecosystems.

• List of figures
• About the author
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Background
  • Abstract:
  • The new world of digital assets
  • Crowds and clouds, and how they work together
  • Digital ecosystems
  • The practice of digital ecosystems in media and publishing
• Chapter 3: Methodologies and technologies
  • Abstract:
  • A web for machines and humans alike
  • Adding intelligence: crowds and clouds
  • Working the crowd
• Chapter 4: Open and closed digital asset ecosystems
  • Abstract:
  • Open content and its effective use
  • Closed environments and walled gardens
  • Open environments
• Chapter 5: Big data collecting
  • Abstract:
  • Big data and digital ecosystems: theories and models
  • A brief history of big data
  • Applications in the big data ‘gold rush’
  • Critiques and limitations of big data
• Chapter 6: Economy and society of crowds and clouds
  • Abstract:
  • The new division of labour between humans and computers
  • Free and collective labour
  • Network value
• Chapter 7: Conclusion
• References
• Index

Subject Areas: Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]