Yes, I did this first with the
Yale University Art Gallery and more recently with the Yale Center for British
Art. However, both collections are relatively small compared to yours.
At the Art Gallery and initially
at the YCBA, I grouped the images by decades, continuing to keep the screen and
thumbnail images separate.
At that time, our image names
included the accession# making it relatively easy to assign an image to a
decade.
Recently at the YCBA we changed
the image naming convention to include the ObjectID and other data and dropped
the accession#, so I set up another set of folders to accommodate the new
naming convention.
All of the folders now in use
are listed in the attached pdf.
The hard part is moving images
and pointing the TMS record to the new location. I used a combination of SQL
code and a little manual work to move some images, but most of the images at
both museums remain in the original large screen and 192x192 folders.
Moving the images are a low
priority item right now, but it wouldn’t be difficult to have someone
right a program to move the image and update the TMS image record with the new
path.
I hope this helps,
David
David Parsell
Systems Manager
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
PO Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
203 432-9603
203 432-9414 f
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Subject: Image subfolders
Does anyone out there have experience with breaking an
existing image folder into subfolders/paths? How daunting of a task is this?
Thanks to Jeri Moxley’s brief survey about Media
module standards back in 2005, there was some discussion of the use of
subfolders. Do most museums use subfolders now, and how are they broken down?
I’m most interested in knowing how those with 10s of 1000s of *object*
images are breaking those down.
Thanks in advance!
Sue
Susan Garton
Data Administrator
Center for Electronic
Research and Outreach Services
National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Phone: (202) 633-8554
/ Fax: (202) 633-8254
E-mail:
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