The eBook is now available on Amazon Kindle. Most of the interviews and podcast episodes included are timeless with continued relevance in the field of Digital Asset Management (DAM) today.
Henrik de Gyor: [0:00] This is Another DAM Podcast, about Digital Asset
Management. I’m Henrik de Gyor. Today we’re talking about Kickstarter, launching the first Kickstarter project related to Digital Asset Management, transcribing Another DAM Podcast.
[0:14] In mid-April of 2013, I launched the first Kickstarter project related to Digital Asset Management. This was to fund the transcription of Another DAM Podcast. Over 120 episodes of this podcast have been recorded, including 80 interviews with different professionals from various organizations. The goal is to transcribe these podcast episodes from audio into searchable text.
[0:37] How do we do this? Using Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website for creative projects, individuals can back projects they believe in. In this case, the project involves transcribing audio podcasts into text. No, we’re not going to ask you to transcribe the audio for us. A transcription service will do all the transcribing of these podcasts for us, and they charge for every minute of audio. There are over 11 hours of audio to transcribe. The bulk of the funding raised through Kickstarter will pay for this transcription work. The rest of it will pay for the rewards that backers get for pledging towards this project.
[1:14] The rewards vary based on the amount of funding they pledge everything from an eBook, exclusive to Kickstarter, of all the transcriptions compiled together, which will only be available for backers of this project. At a higher level of funding, people can speak to me, as a DAM consultant, regarding Digital Asset Management related topics. At the highest level of funding, there’s a combination of either of these, including a limited-edition, printed version of Another DAM Podcast transcribed.
The funding goal for this project is $3,000. At the time of this recording, we
have 53 percent of that funding, from 35 backers, with seven days left to go.
Under the rules of Kickstarter, which is an all-or-nothing crowd funding model, if we don’t obtain that goal, none of the backers get charged anything and the project does not happen at all. The deadline for this project is May 17, 2013, at 6: 26 PM Eastern time. That is when all the funding needs to be in or the project doesn’t go forward.
[2:17] In order to track the progress of this project, either now or in the future, you can go to kickstarter.com, and in their search bar on that website, type in Another DAM Podcast and you will find what’s going on with that Kickstarter project, now through August 2013, when all the rewards are scheduled to be delivered, if this project is fully funded.
[2:44] I encourage you to take a look at the project, support it if you can, and
help spread the word throughout your network, your colleagues, and other professionals you know of who may be interested in this project.
[2:55] Why should you transcribe Another DAM Podcast from audio to searchable text? To make this resource easier to reference. Audio is inherently not easily referenced, nor indexed, nor searchable. Transcribing them would make this possible.
[3:13] People from over 64 countries listen to Another DAM Podcast to learn
more about Digital Asset Management and how DAM is used within various
organizations. Professionals working in the field of DAM listen to these podcasts and enrich their knowledge from the variety of perspectives. College students are assigned to listen to these podcasts as it relates to their coursework, in library science, information management and archival studies.
[3:39] The final transcriptions will be made available, per podcast, online, on Another DAM Podcast. If you make this project a reality, everyone will benefit from it because it will be fully searchable online.
[3:58] For more on this and other Digital Asset Management topics, log on to AnotherDAMblog.com.
Another DAM Podcast 