Jeanne,

MOCA LA followed in the footsteps of MOMA NY and adopted Image Portal as our DAMS.  There were two reasons for going with Image Portal.  The first was cost and the second was the ability to follow the roadmap that MOMA laid out.  It has been up and running for a little over a year now.  The TMS integration was handled by making some slight modifications to a couple of stored procedures that Steven Moore at MOMA developed.  The changes had to be made to reflect the slight differences in table structure between our databases, and also to adjust the fields synchronized between the two systems.

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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:TMSUSERS@SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne Noonan
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:54 AM
To: TMSUSERS@SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU
Subject: TMS and DAMS

Hello all,

Once again I’m wondering about media and TMS! At this point in time, we’re looking into acquiring a DAMs, and I was hoping some of you may be able to answer the following questions:

1. What DAMs do you use?

2. Why did you choose it?

3. When did you make this decision?

4. How was the integration with TMS (in other words, how much work did your IT department have to do to get it running)?

5. If you could go back and change anything, what would you do?

If this is too off topic, please feel free to respond off list. I’ve posted over here because our main concern is having our DAMs work well with the database, and you all have been a wonderful resource thus far. I promise too that one day I’ll stop asking media related questions!

Thank you!!!

-Jeanne

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Jeanne Noonan

Associate Registrar

Chrysler Museum of Art

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