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Hello Fellow TMSers,

Our rights and reproduction department here at The Baltimore Museum of Art
(BMA) is making the move from a film library to a digital library.  I was
curious if anybody uses TMS as their digital management system for their
digital images?  Or, do you store certain images in TMS (i.e., a thumbnail
and a large jpeg image for the web) and other, larger images (i.e., TIFF
files) in another database/digital management system.  I'm trying to figure
out if TMS is a viable option to store large TIFF files, in addition to JPEG
images for the web.

I'd hate to manage another database/digital management system to organize
these large TIFF files.  I can imagine I'd end up exporting large amounts of
TMS object data to this other database, which seems silly.  I'm just not
sure if TMS is set-up to handle thousands of large TIFF files - I guess it
may depend on the size of the server for the images.

If you do have a separate digital management system, that is not TMS, what
do you use?

Thanks for answering my questions.

- Rob

Rob Morgan
Collections Database Administrator
The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD  21218
Tel:  443-573-1730
Fax:  443-573-1581
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