Medium
Digital Assets
The State Media Library is a partnership among agencies to centrally store and share thousands of digital assets (photos, videos, audio clips) for use internally and publicly.
Features
- Unlimited user accounts
- Granular permissions to control by individual or group who can view, download, and share assets
- Single sign on with NDGOV accounts
- Embed assets and slideshows in external websites
- Resize, crop, and change file format during download
- Advanced metadata tagging to manage large asset collections
- Create asset collections to be shared internally or externally, via a link or email attachment
- Crowdsourcing through citizen or employee submitted assets
Participants
- Department of Health
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Transportation
- Information Technology Department
- Parks and Recreation
Rate
- All agencies and the public can view and download assets, or submit one-off assets to the library, for free.
- Agencies that wish to have their own storage space and user groups pay $255/mo.
Other Resources
- Regulations for use of state emblems, symbols, and awards
- “Can I Use that Picture” infographic
- Copyright Pertaining to U.S. Government Works
Creating and enabling useful digital services for everyone
We do this through
- Best Practices and standards
- Common platforms, services, and tools
- Training and thought leadership
- A statewide community of practice
In 2021, we're focusing on
- Migrating websites to a common statewide website platform
- Launching an enterprise website quality service to ensure sites are free from accessible issues, spelling errors, broken links, and outdated content
- Writing helpful standards and guidelines to elevate all state sites to a consistent and high bar
- Creating in-depth training and certification programs for website content authors