Below are highlights to using a 'walled garden'.
- Lease the amount of space you need to protect and store your assets. Contracts start at 1 terabyte but can scale to accommodate your growing collections.
- Assets can include photos, videos, 3-dimensional renderings, maps, artwork, even portable document formats (PDFs). Create your collection based on what your unit needs access to.
- You decide what assets can be shared beyond your unit's use.
- Walled Gardens require a unit to assign a primary asset owner. This person manages the collection and assigns access rights to the rest of their unit. Asset Owners also join the DAM community to build and improve DAM collections for all of Ohio State.
- Asset Owners work to train their asset contributors. These are usually photographers, videographers or designers who understand how to upload and tag assets for the good of the searching community. You can have unlimited contributors to your walled garden, but all contributors my be trained on Ohio State tagging taxonomy and guidelines.
- Your walled garden can be made available to your entire unit for searching and access to assets. This helps your unit become a self-serve community, using search to find assets of donors, deans, faculty and students for marketing, donor relations, or management materials. Training is available for all.
- Search within the DAM becomes more robust, because not only does search find Ohio State signature gallery assets, but a collection of shared assets and your units walled garden. Search once to find assets from all the collections you access.