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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Rob Morgan
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:46 PM
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Subject: Organizing Digital ImagesHello 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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