Shannon, I think you'll find a lot of ideas and inspiration in the articles of a special RLG DigiNews issue on "Managing Digital Assets in US Museums" I edited about 6 months ago.
Here's a list of the feature articles from this issue:
Feature Article 1: Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study (Susan Chun & Michael Jenkins - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Feature Article 2: Digital Image Asset Management at the National Gallery of Art (US) (Alan Newman & Peter Dueker - National Gallery of Art)
Feature Article 3: In Pursuit of Efficiency: Traversing the Boundaries of a Collection Information System (Dianne Nilsen - Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona)
All of them available at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20999
I'll also make a pitch for connecting up with colleagues who have similar issues at the Museum Computer Network (MCN) annual meeting - managing digital images has been a topic with more than one dedicated panel session at the last two conferences!
http://www.mcn.edu/
Cheers,
Günter
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From: Shannon Lindridge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:23 AM
Subject: Digital images
I am looking for suggestions and examples of how to organize digital images.
Our institution over the past few years has accumulated, in no systemactic
order, a large number of digital images of objects, photographs, and archival
materials. The files are currently housed on the server, in an assortment of
folders. I would like to remove these images from the server and burn them on
to CD's/DVD's with a system set in place to to be able search and determine if
a digital image has been made and retrieve it rather easily. I want this system
to also help organize future digital images which are created.
In addition to setting up a system, are digital images saved as Tiff, jpeg, or
another file type? What DPI? Are several sizes of the image saved or just
one?
We currently PastPerfect 4 and can attach images, and maybe that is the
easiest method. But, I know we are not the only institution who has
accumulated digital images, and I'm interested to hear how other institutions
have delt with this.
Thank-you,
Shannon Lindridge, Collections Manager
Tha History Center in Tompkins County
Ithaca, NY 14850
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