Dear Bruce:
In your response to Chad Petrovay’s inquiry you stated: “TMS rendition numbers are also related to accession number with an extension added to identify type of media, ie digital photo or scanned original, scanned colour photo, scanned black and white, and so on.”
Can you give an example of the exact syntax used in the TMS rendition number name. Is it something like “2007-1-scanned-color-photo”?
It will also be interesting to know from TMS users any naming conventions used for the TMS screen image and thumbnail images. We also use object’s accession number in the filename of the image file and are considering adding “screen” and “thumb” at the end of the file name (e.g. 2007_1_screen; 2007_1_thumb).
At El Museo del Barrio we are also researching digital image management and the responses to Chad’s and other similar inquiries on this listserv have been very helpful.
Noel Valentin
Registrar
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
1230 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Tel: (212) 660 - 7120
Fax: (212) 831 7927
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Hi all,
The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, uses the following standards developed about 5 years ago in conjunction with a mega-partnership with the McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal.
master images:
300 dpi, 8 x 10 print size, tiff format, archived to DVD and indexed for easy retrieval
TMS images:
300 dpi, 768 pixels on the long side, jpg format
Both masters and database images have a filename related to the accession number, ie. artefact 2007.1 has an image filename of 2007-1.tif or .jpg depending upon its use. If more than one image of an item exists, the filename becomes 2007-1(1), 2007-1(2) etc. The number in brackets is not necessarily the best or primary image, it simply notes the order in which the image was taken.
Images are not loaded into the database unless there is a high quality tiff to the specs above.
TMS rendition numbers are also related to accession number with an extension added to identify type of media, ie digital photo or scanned original, scanned colour photo, scanned black and white, and so on.
If you have any other questions don't hesitate to contact me directly,
Bruce Thomson
Bruce Thomson
Humanities Registrar & Project Manager
New Brunswick Museum
277 Douglas Ave
Saint John, NB
E2K 1E5
(506)643-6293
www.nbm-mnb.ca
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Subject: Image Standards and Naming ConventionsThe Walters Art Museum is undertaking a digitization project to coincide with our transition to TMS. However, we are currently stalling in the area of policy making governing how information is entered, and in particular, how images are named.
Can anyone share the naming convention their institution has adopted for digital image assets, or the standards for image resolution that they are using?
Many Thanks! ~Chad
Chad M Petrovay
Collections Database Administrator
The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
P: 410.547.9000 x266
F: 410.837.4846
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Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt on view June 15 - August 26
Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs on view June 15 - September 2