• image size: largest side between 1600-1800 pixels, ppi 72, jpeg quality 95%. Some exceptions are allowed. When you use various ppi's for your jpegs you wiil get in trouble when printing thumbs in Crystal reports.
• media type, public caption (here we also put the photographer), text entries and for special projects specific attributes groups
• we do not use the loader and the thumbnailer. I have been using AutoIt (freeware to simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands) some years ago when TMS got the possibility to store thumbs in the db.
• adding images to the db is limited to our TmsTeam (2 persons). it is not a good idea to allow many people to do this.
• in our image folder we have different subs for the different modules (with subs-subs fot the thumbs) or special project only using the Media module. This way we use images in Objects, Objects-conservation, (Historic) Events, Loans, Shipping. We paid special attention to imagefile-naming so that they contain direct information reffering to the subject and provide some usefull information when browsing images without being logged into TMS.
• archival storage information is not yet entered

André Straatman
Registrar
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
tel. +31-(0318)-596 168, fax +31-(0318)-592 209

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Van: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Namens Jeri Moxley
Verzonden: woensdag 26 januari 2005 19:16
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Onderwerp: 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

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Jeri L. Moxley
TMS Specialist
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
(212) 423-3509
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