My unit here at the Center for Jewish History is called the Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory, named after the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation that provided the initial 2-year start-up funding.
In addition to myself, we also employ 6 staff across 3 full-time equivalent roles: - Quality Assurance & Metadata Librarian (1 x full-time) - Digital Camera Operator (3 x part-time) - Digital Asset Production Associate (2 x part-time) We primarily work on imaging, using the following equipment: - BetterLight Super 8K-HS on a AIAXAct 3040DV copystand - Mamiya 645 ZD on a Kaiser RS-1 copystand - Epson Expression 10000XL Photo flatbed scanner - Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi Pro AF-5000 film scanner - Various hardware-specific software, plus Adobe Photoshop CS2 We are also doing an increasing amount of audio digitization, using the following equipment (and recently got a METRO grant to digitize more audio materials): - Teac 860-R cassette deck - Otari MX5050 BII 2 reel-to-reel tape deck (recently purchased on eBay!) - Behringer UB502 mixer - M-Audio Audiophile 192 soundcard - Sony SoundForge 8 We haven't done any video digitization in-house yet, but are looking into acquiring the hardware to digitize video from Beta SP video tapes. You can find much of what we've digitized so far here: http://digital.cjh.org/ Cheers, T. -- Tony Gill Director, Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory Center for Jewish History http://www.cjh.org/ Telephone: +1 (917) 606-8212 > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:40:10 -0500 > From: Deborah Wythe <deborahwythe at hotmail.com> > Subject: [MCN-L] expansion of -- Re: Department name question > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> > Message-ID: <BLU126-W2520AA4EA306AB83F48707CF230 at phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > This has been an interesting thread (esp. the most recent posts...) > To expand the discussion: most of the responses seem to > indicate that digital photography and scanning are the > primary responsibilities. > > I'm curious about where digital video and audio recording > fall in other museums. Here it's more of a stepchild than > anything -- if a department needs these media (usually Design > or for the Web), they either contract out or borrow a video > cam or digital audio recorder from IS for less formal > projects. Digital Lab sometimes fields questions about > formats and long term storage, but we're not responsible for > creating AV materials. > > Others? > Deb Wythe > > > > > Deborah WytheHead, Digital Collections and ServicesBrooklyn > Museum200 Eastern ParkwayBrooklyn, NY 11238tel: 718 501 > 6311fax: 718 501 6145deborahwythe at hotmail.com
