We invite you to join us for our first Spring 2015 talk of Adventures in Special Librarianship series.

High fashion? Haute cuisine? Cinema ephemera? All need the skills of a talented librarian! Come hear Ian Matzen’s talk on Digital Asset Management.

When: Thursday, February 12, 6:30 – 7:30 pm PST

Where: Click here to view recorded session

201206_irm_id_photo2Ian Matzen recently received a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the San Jose State University School of Information. He is currently the lead Digital Asset Management Specialist at America’s Test Kitchen, a publisher of cooking-related content in Boston, where he is designing an enterprise taxonomy. Prior to this he was the Digital Asset Junior Technician for NET-A-PORTER, a luxury clothing e-retailer based in London. He encoded nineteenth-century theater advertisements in XML as a research assistant on the University of Oxford digital humanities project The London Stage and catalogued cinema ephemera at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ian also consulted on workflow development for Oddball Film+Video, a film and video archive in San Francisco. Digital asset management, digital video metadata, and digital preservation are among the subjects he enjoys writing about on his blog www.tameyourassets.com. His professional experience producing commercials, episodic television, and corporate videos in Los Angeles and San Francisco informs his work.

 

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