Lu,

I am currently the Digital Imaging Project Manager at the Smith College
Museum of Art.  We received a grant from the college to fund the
digitization of 5,000 images in the course of a year and a half.  Since I
am dedicated solely to the project, I supervise a contract photographer,
log in all slides and transparencies into our collections management
database (Multi-MIMSY 2000)and work with a scanning vendor.  In less than a
year we have scanned over 5,400 images!  We have a hi-res archival scan
(tiff) as well as several derivative images (jpegs)for each object. The
project took a while to get off the ground but once we had established a
routine we scanned 200 images per week.  If you would like to discuss this
off-list, please contact me.

Good luck!

Stefne Lynch

At 03:21 PM 10/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Lu,
>
>I performed research and evaluations on the different types of scanners
>available on the market and have worked extensively with a software package
>that deals with the manipulation of .TIFF images.  Once done with the
>images, the application I worked on stored the images in Documentum (a
>document management system).  Please contact me off the list if you would
>like more details.
>
>Good luck!
>Elizabeth
>
>
>Elizabeth Bennett
>Technology Services Group
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>Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 2:25 PM
>Subject: Imaging services
>
>
>>Art Museums: The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester plans
>>to start digitizing images from our collection by outsourcing digitization
>>of 4x5 transparencies onto cd-rom, most likely as tiffs.  If you have
>>followed this or a similar route for digitization, and would be willing to
>>reflect on your experience, suggestions for vendors, etc. we would
>>appreciate your feedback.
>>
>>Vendors: we will be issuing an rfp for this project.  If you wish to be
>sent
>>a copy when it's developed, please reply directly (not to the list).
>>
>>Lu Harper
>>Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
>>500 University Ave.
>>Rochester, NY 14607
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Stefne A. Lynch
Assistant Registrar / Digital Imaging Project Manager
Smith College Museum of Art
Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01060
phone: 413.585.2890
fax:   413.585.2782

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