[Web4lib] CMS/DAMS - EAD

[Leo Robert Klein]

Acronym language is fun!

CMS - Content Management System (your website comes out of a database)
DAM - Digital Asset Management (solves the problem of what to do if 
someone drops 50k scans of some publication on your doorstep)
EAD - Encoded Archival Description - (markup language for encoding 
finding aids.

LEO

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Margaret Gross wrote:
> Dear colleagues
> 
> It seems that we like talking in acronym language. 
> I would love to understand the following 2, about which there are current threads on web4lib.
> CMS/DAMS  
> EAD
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance.
> 
> thanks