MARA 283-10
Enterprise Content Management and Digital Preservation

Spring 2020

MARA 283 supports the following core competencies:
D – Have expertise in the basic concepts and principles used to identify, evaluate, select, organize, maintain, and provide access to records of current and enduring value.
E – Understand the system of standards and structures endorsed and utilized by the record-keeping professions, particularly in the areas of electronic records and digital assets management.
H – Be conversant with current information technologies and best practices relating to records preservation and security.
J – Identify ways in which archivists and records managers can contribute to the cultural, economic, educational, and social well being of our global communities.

Class Overview:
Mara 283-10 is a hands-on course designed to familiarize students with enterprise-level tools and skill sets such as Preservica, Sharepoint, and WordPress.

Midterm Project:
The midterm project for this class was to develop a Sharepoint site that acts as an intranet site for an organization.  Using a myriad of features, the site should be functional and serve as a records repository.

  • Sharepoint Homepage

  • Asset Release Calendar

  • Bug and Issue Tracker

  • Discussion Board

  • Blog

 

For my Sharepoint site I made a digital asset management system intranet and alert hub for Clinique.  The homepage has a calendar of previous and upcoming releases, a DAM news feed, as well as a quick links bar to a number of useful pages, and a link to the DAM blog.

The site hosted features such as previews of our seasonal ads, a bug tracker, discussion boards, and governance meeting minutes as well.

Takeaways:
Creating a completely functional intranet site around promoting digital asset management has provided me with a translatable hard skill that I can take with me in my career.  Advocating for the use of DAMs within an organization is one of the most important pillars of a successful program.  User adoption occurs best when we set people up with easy and abundant tools and knowledge to succeed.  A part of the learning outcomes from this certificate is to apply principles of advocacy and organization to physical and digital information items, and that is a key takeaway for me from this project.