Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) house an extensive and growing botanical library and archive, and a collection of botanical art. 12 years ago RBGV had enlisted the help and support of databasics in implementing a digital asset management solution at the Gardens to manage and share their large collections of images of living and dried plants. Recently, with the numbers of digital assets growing and more people getting involved in processing digital content the need arose for more defined procedures and workflows.

After initial consultation, it was decided that databasics’ DAAS (Digital Asset Automation Solution) solution would be a perfect fit for the challenges at RBGV. Developed by databasics, DAAS is based on Canto Cumulus and Roboflow technologies, it comprises catalogue structure, metadata sets and automated channel distribution workflows (approval, publishing, conversion, and archiving). The solution is expected to make content management more efficient and user experience vastly improved.

“The biggest benefit for us is that, with implementation of DAAS, staff can work on their own images in their own staging catalogues and, when the metadata is complete, these images can be brought into the RBGV system (the production catalogues) using the DAAS workflow,” said Niels Klazenga, Cumulus DAMS Administrator and Biodiversity Informatics Developer at RBGV.

About databasics

The Australian DAM consultant databasics has been the leading digital asset management solution and services provider in the Asia Pacific region for the past 34 years with accumulated experience and knowledge far in excess of any other provider in the region.

databasics’ expertise extends from consulting through to supply, installation and support of digital asset management solutions from the leader and pioneer of DAMS – Canto. Over the last 30+ years databasics has helped many public and private organisations to manage their digital media, having worked with organisations like Panasonic, The a2 Milk Co, Lonely Planet, Luna Park Sydney, National Archives of Australia, as well as City Councils, Government departments, Schools, Universities, and Museums among others. Visit databasics.com.au.