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