Hi Rob,
 
We've been tackling the same issue at MoMA. There is a museum-wide need to access publication-resolution files and generate smaller renditions for both collection and non-collection images. After extensive research by our IT department, a program called Image Portal SE by NetXposure was selected. Price and flexibility were two big factors in this selection and we are still working with NetX to customize certain features. 
 
We are currently working on a link between TMS and Image Portal to add TMS metadata for reference purposes. It is still a work in progress and has not been rolled out to any of our users yet. TMS will continue to manage reference jpegs for the collection, but Image Portal will ultimately provide the images for public access projects such as the kiosk and website, as well as for publications and any other projects where high-resolution images are required.
 
Best regards,
 
Eliza Sparacino 
Manager, Collection and Exhibition Technologies 
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The Museum of Modern Art 
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Subject: Organizing Digital Images



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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