Happy New Year to all,

The Center for Creative Photography began using TMS this past year and we are about to initiate a project to digitize at least part of our archive, which holds approximately 5 million items. We are wondering how other institutions are using TMS to import and organize these kinds of projects.

As far as moving large numbers of records into TMS, we have looked into using the TMS Media Importer Tool as one option, which would seem to allow us greater control over some of the metadata collected during the imaging process. On the other hand, it may be more efficient to create Objects to represent certain levels of containers (e.g. box or folder) and then drag and drop the media assets into those Object records and not worry about detailed metadata.

Thank you in advance for any experience or insight you may be able to provide about working with large imaging projects and TMS.

Edward
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(George) Edward McCain
Library Assistant, Senior
Center for Creative Photography
M.A., School of Information Resources and Library Science
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