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Philip Spiegel

PHILIP SPIEGEL, DIRECTOR, DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT PROJECTS

Philip Spiegel, Director, Digital Asset Management Projects, LAC Group is a media archive and asset manager with over 20 years of stock library, post production and media archive operations experience. He has managed large commercial and broadcast film and video archives in their efforts to digitize, catalog, preserve and monetize content.

Phil has managed projects to transition from a physical to digital archive in order to create transparency, access and opportunity. He is fluent in the technical, operational and sales challenges that converge to create an effective strategy. Most recently, he was the Director, Video Product Operations at National Geographic Digital Motion, an archive management and content licensing group within National Geographic Television based in Washington, DC. Prior to that he was the Director, Archives & Cataloguing at the National Geographic Film Library and led efforts to digitize, catalog and make accessible the vast video asset holding to internal and external clients via web-based DAM (Digital Asset Management) tools.

Prior to National Geographic, Philip was the Manager, Post Production at Corbis Motion in New York City and provided management services for post production, mastering, archive vault services and order fulfillment for multiple sales offices. Before Corbis, Philip was the Film Operations Manager at Getty Images in New York City where he managed day-to-day operations supporting archive, post production and mastering operations. Highlights from his tenure with Getty Images include the consolidation of Image Bank, Archive Films, and Energy Films archive operations into one facility and being an early adapter of HD mastering processes.

Philip is active in the professional community and has participated as a panelist and presenter at various DAM and Archive events. Philip is also active blogger on DAM and media archive issues. His blog “DAM Ideas” covers the challenges of DAM, metadata, rights and other issues around the business challenges of successfully transitioning from a physical to digital archive.

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