I think there are lots of folks on this list who'd love to know how you
managed to make this work!
Mary Ellen Guerra
Smithsonian American Art Museum
>>> [log in to unmask] 02/07/03 04:05PM >>>
We just used the batch media plugin at Emory today in order to link
about 10,000 images, and it worked very well. It needed a little
massaging to function properly, so I definitely recommend consulting an
IT person to configure things correctly, but once operational it is a
very handy tool. We plan to only link images using this tool, since it
gets laborious to manually link every image.
I'd be happy to talk with you about our experience with this tool if you
want to know what we've done, although we found Dimitry in Gallery
Support to be a helpful guide on this as well.
David Lower
Educational Analyst, Emory University ITD
404-727-5115
-----Original Message-----
From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Mary Ellen Guerra
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:29 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Linking Images
Hi Suzanne,
I'd love to see your manual on linking images to TMS. Has your
brilliant
Larry Giacoletti figuered out how to use the batch upload plug in?
Thanks,
Mary Ellen Guerra
Smithsonian American Art Museum
>>> [log in to unmask] 02/07/03 01:57PM >>>
The brilliant Larry Giacoletti at the Whitney has written a manual on
how
to
link images to objects in TMS and now curatorial assistants do it
themselves. I'm sure we can share it with you. I do not like to attach
such things to a list serve as it has a lot of screenshots in it. But I
will email it to you individually if you wish. Let me know if you want
it
and I'll email it the week of the 17th.
Suzanne
BYTW, We don't care much whether poor images are added to the database
if
it
is the only image we have. The database is used for ID purposes only.
Larger image files are stored on CD's, etc., and bitmapped for TMS.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephanie Leverock [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Linking Images
Hi All,
We have only started using the Media Module during the past year or so.
Over the next several months are hoping to begin linking all permanent
collection images as a project executed by our Photography Dept. but
managed by me. I wanted to ask whether any museums have centralized the
project like this and limited access to creating records in the media
module to only a small group. Particularly for larger museum's, if you
have allowed curatorial and other dept's such as Design, Conservation to
link images, how has this been coordinated to ensure that poor images
are
not added to the database, and how has it gone?
Many Thanks for your advice.
Stephanie Leverock
Records Manager/Collections Review Coordinator
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238
Tel: 718-501-6483/Fax: 718-501-6135
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