TWC301: Multimedia Writing

These slides are about digital asset manaement the this company helps commpanys have a strong digital storge and data collection. They are a good way to keep large sums of documentation clear and organized.

This site is of interest as it seeks to compile and make available a complete collection of historical documents, sorted and organized by area of academic or topical interest. Such a project is a prime example of the utility of a networked information age - students and teachers alike have direct access to primary source materials rather than depending on the analyses of others. Being physically distant from an important work is no longer a barrier to access. While not purely a link dedicated to the process of documentation, I think this is a valuable inclusion as an example of the power of digital documentation as an assistant to our own documentation.

This is a link to a short slideshow by John Berga covering some of the basic and best practice suggestions for creating good documentation. The slideshow is aimed at a corporate audience and therefore especially relevant to technical communicators working in such environments. Although there is little in-depth material in this link, it appears to offer sound advice that relates to general documentation procedure.

This site I was most fond of, Yes it is a bit how to but it has other qualities as well.

This page was very interesting, as I have never heard of a document camera before this. It is pretty interesting, you are able to project it onto a screen, as well as save it as a file (documentation) on your computer.

Here is a website from UMUC. There are twol links, "Digital Milenium Copyright Act," and "Digital Rights Management and Emerging Technologies" that provide multiple links to outside resources on topics regarding documentation/copyright issues. 

Although this article is older, it gives relevent information on documentation and copyright for digital media. It outlines difficulties created by digital media such as P2P and file sharing. I found Chapters 2 and 5 helpful.

I mentioned in my discussion board post about metadata editing. This is just one application, not free unfortunately, that will allow you an easy way to edit it. I would be surprised if there is not a GNU application or an Avaiay addon in development for this.

This site provides basic information on metadata, what it is and how it works. It also explains about the different types of metadata, which I didn't know before!

This website defines what documentation is and how there are many forms and has additional resources you can read on to learn about it.

This is a company that can do your documentation for online media. They specialize in documentation resources for your company.

This was a really interesting article that goes over the reason for digital documentation and the advantages it brings. It mostly deals with photography documentation but I think it is relevant with my project #1 using picnik.

This article does a good job at highlighting Microsoft's Word processor to use online documentation. The beginning seems more like an advertisement for Word but after digging in a little deeper you'll find some value.

There is a lot of good info on this site pointing to documentation of material as well as some of the problems presented in the digital age.

I think this website is a good tool because it teaches you how to cite a website. I may need to cite a website in my Glog or blog or anywhere else so this is very helpful.

This is a great resource for copyright information in the digital age. It tells u about the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). It even lets you know what you can do if someone doesn't document a citation in different countries.

And if you want to play with more screencasting tools...

This site has an archive of a bunch of handouts talking about how to do digital documentation. It ranges from a variety of topics such as outlook, mircosoft office, adobe, and others. It's a very resourceful page to able to refer to.

This is a paper talking about the issues in conserving documentation and how it's important to taking down and being able to access this information. It's also discusses about turning all written documentation into a digital format so it can the same with everything else. They mainly focus on art museums and each chapter is about the way they each handled their documentation.

This website has a couple really cool videos that details how Creative Commons started and some more on some of the features they implement. Definitely worth checking out.