Dear Sarah,

 

Thank you so much for the information!  We agree that having an image is better than having none, but hadn’t really thought of documenting them as well as you are.  We have a committee meeting this afternoon and I will definitely include your response in our discussion.

 

Best,

 

Marty

 

 

Dear Marty,

 

Great question!  We recently addressed this with our photography working group and came to the decision that we would, with the following specs:

 

1.       They receive a specific file name that acknowledges that they are snapshots: e.g. CUR149

a.       ‘CUR’ for curatorial

2.       In the Public Caption section of TMS, for internal users, we specify that this is a study image:

3.       Within the Copyright tab of the Media Record, we populate this specific copyright, which is then published through to eMuseum so the public see it:

4.       Images are not run through zoomify

 

So when you pull up the record in eMuseum you see this:

 

We do allow for the images to be enlarged if they are not protected under copyright.

 

When you enlarge them you see the copyright statement:

 

We are of the stance that any image is better than no image as we are trying to outreach as much as possible to users with objects that are rarely on display, but cannot get professional photography at the time.  Researchers have loved this change and it’s helped develop our collection cataloguing further because outside researchers can see objects, rather than guessing based on the provided metadata.

 

Does this help?

 

Best Regards,

 

Sarah Lynn Gillis

Assistant Registrar, Image Management

VRA-NE Chapter, Communications Officer

 

WORCESTER ART MUSEUM 

55 Salisbury St. / Worcester, MA 01609

508.793.4373 / worcesterart.org

 

 

 

                  

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July 15 - November 29, 2015

 

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Subject: Registrar's snapshots and your museums website

 

Dear TMS Users,

 

We're just about to launch a new collections area on our website and a question keeps coming up during planning meetings.  Should we show our the snapshots from TMS at full size on the web?  Our committee is sort of split right down the middle on the question and we'd like to hear what other museums are doing.  If you have a collections area on your site, do your TMS snapshots automatically appear?  If they do, are they zoomable?  Has there been any negative reaction to their inclusion?

 

I would be grateful for any answers or suggestions that you can send my way.

 

Thanks!

 

Marty

 

Marcia (Marty) Stein

Photographic and Imaging Services Manager The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston PO Box 6826 Houston, Texas 77265-6826

 

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