Marty - TMS supports what you are trying to accomplish. You need to add
a new path to the paths authority, which is the http://server[etc] path
to the image and point to the hi-res rendition of the image with another
rendition in the media record. One thing to note: as with any web-based
content, the images are cached for the configured period on the user's
local hard disk and deleted when the configured period expires.

I will ask [log in to unmask] to respond to this question in
detail to the TMS ListServ.

Best,

Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Stein, Marty
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:11 AM
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Subject: Does anyone know a way to incorporate external links to media
records in TMS?

Hi,

 

I'm trying to figure out if something is possible in TMS and I'm hoping
that maybe someone has figured this out.   We are trying to use TMS as a
way to let our curatorial staff know that high-resolution digital images
are available on our internal network servers.  Right now, we enter a
media rendition for the TMS thumbnail and only allow staff to download
this file to an external viewer.  We don't really want to add our
high-res files to the TMS image server, but I would like to at least
have a way of "pointing" the way to the images that are kept on other
servers.  I was wondering if there was a way to include a network
address hyperlink to the media rendition record.  I tried typing in a
link to the remarks field in the media rendition form, but it didn't
work.  Has anyone else tried adding hyperlinks and would be willing to
share how they did it?  Or has anyone else devised a way of making
really large files available through TMS.

 

Does this make any sense?  I don't know if I'm trying to find a hard way
to do something easy.  If I am, please let me know.

 

Thanks so much!

 

Marty

 

Marcia (Marty) Stein

Photographic & Imaging Services Manager

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

PO Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

Telephone: (713) 639-7525

Fax: (713) 639-7557

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