Thanks Brenda. We haven't entered our physical media records yet, but
your method seems logical, but I can see where the media to media
relationships would be ideal.
Thanks again for your help.
Sincerely,
Lucille Stiger
Registrar
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Tel: 440.775.8668
Fax: 440.775.8799
----- Original Message -----
From: Brenda Podemski <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:48 am
Subject: Re: Media Module
To: [log in to unmask]
> Hi Lucille,
>
> We enter media records for the physical records, then relate
> digital surrogates as child renditions (those "born digital" are
> simply entered without a physical parent get an attribute entry
> "Direct digital capture"). The physical media records note medium
> type (like Transparency) and size (like 4 x 5"), etc. This is
> handy as we can then track our physical media as we do our digital
> assets.
> That said, I don't necessarily recommend the parent-child links
> like this because they are very limited. If we have a
> transparency that was used for multiple digital surrogates (like
> one overall view and one detail view of a signature), only one of
> the images can be used as the thumbnail in the media record and
> it's easy to miss these other digital images when outside the
> Media module. We also cannot represent a digital composite image
> from two parent physical sources in this manner (in which case we
> also use Remarks to note the source images).
>
> What I would REALLY love is a way to create media-to-media
> associations, just as we do in object relationships. This would
> not only permit the kinds of physical-to-digital relationships as
> indicated above but would also be especially helpful when entering
> media records such as audioguide files, which might in turn be
> related to a narration audio track, several interview audio
> tracks, musical tracks, and sound effects.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Brenda Podemski
> Business Applications Administrator
> Collection Information & Access
> The J. Paul Getty Museum
> www.getty.edu
>
> v. 310-440-7087 | f. 310-440-7752 | e. [log in to unmask]
>
> >>> Emily Poulsen <[log in to unmask]> 8/7/2008 7:53 AM >>>
> Lucille,
>
> We put the information under Remarks.
>
> Emily
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:TMSUSERS@SI-
> LISTSERV.SI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucille Stiger
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Media Module
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a basic question and am hoping you can give me some guidance.
> Where in the media module are you storing the information about the
> source for the digital file i.e. 35mm color slide, 4x5"CT, born
> digital etc? I was thinking about putting this information into Text
> Entries, but I'm curious about what others are doing.
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Lucille Stiger
> Registrar
> Allen Memorial Art Museum
> Oberlin College
> 87 North Main Street
> Oberlin, OH 44074
> Tel: 440.775.8668
> Fax: 440.775.8799
>
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