Mary Ellen,
 
We figured it out at Emory. Perhaps David Lower and I can write up a bit of a
how-to.
The big thing is consistency and having the INI file just about everywhere
<Grin>.
 
The guys at support helped us quite a bit with the tech stuff.
 
Evan Ehrenhalt
 
Mary Ellen Guerra wrote:
 
> 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