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Do you have a standard image size
that you use with TMS?
-Yes.
All of our images in TMS are jpegs and are sized to fit within an area
of 1600x1600 pixels. The baseline was to keep the jpegs around 5mb when
uncompressed.
How
much metadata do you include with your TMS Media records?
-We include caption info, camera/scanner model,
view info (ie: portrait, 3/4, left profile, detail inscription, etc...),
remarks (which includes project info), the file size of the
archived image.
Do you use the TMS media loader and/or thumbnailer?
-No. We built our own tool several years
ago.
Which staff is responsible for adding images to your
database?
-It is a mix of staff. The images and metadata is prepared
by the Visual Archives staff. I'm the one that actually loads the images and
data in to the database.
Do you have a centralized TMS image folder, or do you have
multiple image folder paths in TMS?
-We have one root folder for screen sized images (the
1600x1600 images) and one root folder for the thumbnail images. Within the root
folders there are many subfolders (but there are never subfolders in
subfolders). Each subfolder contains approximately 5000 images. Having one
folder is definitely unwieldy if you have a large number of images. Currently we
have around 200,000 images.
The folder structure looks something like
this:
screen (root folder)
->vol0001
---->imagefile1.jpg
->vol0002
---->imagefile4.jpg
---->imagefile5.jpg
---->imagefile6.jpg
---->etc...
->etc...
thumbnails (root folder)
->vol0001
---->imagefile1.jpg
->vol0002
---->imagefile4.jpg
---->imagefile5.jpg
---->imagefile6.jpg
---->etc...
->etc...
Do you enter archival storage information in the Media
module?
-Yes. All of the original hi-res image files are
stored off-line on DVD, so we track the disc number and file
size.
Jeff Steward
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
Collections Information
Database Programmer/Analyst
Dept. of
Collections Management
phone:
617-369-3450
fax: 617-247-9063
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From: The Museum System
(TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeri
Moxley
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:16 PM
To:
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Subject: TMS Media
Module
Greetings TMS Users
-
I am gathering information about
museum standards for the management of digital
images,
and also - more specifically -
developing standards for our use of the TMS
Media module here at the Guggenheim. I would like to present some information to my staff in our next meeting about what other
museums are doing. I'd be interested in both
TMS-specific standards and procedures, as well as in more general practices
for managing digital media. I'll compile and post any information I gather
(unless you ask me not to include your response).
Some questions would
be:
- Do you have a standard image
size that you use with TMS?
- How much metadata do you
include with your TMS Media records?
- Do you use the TMS media loader
and/or thumbnailer?
- Which staff is responsible for
adding images to your database?
- Do you have a centralized TMS
image folder, or do you have multiple image folder paths in
TMS?
- Do you enter archival storage
information in the Media module?
Thanks for any and all insight you
may be able to offer --
All the best,
Jeri
****
Jeri L. Moxley
TMS Specialist
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
(212) 423-3509
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