At the AWM, we have a large number of images taken by our staff photographers of all kinds of events here. We also, like the Met, have a large number of images in analogue formats and there is a program to convert these to digital formats. We also have Mediabin and at present we have a folder where what we call "public event" or "corporate" images live. We actually also catalogue these on our CMS (Selago's XG) as we found that we are building quite a substantial pictorial (plus sound and film) history of our institution and we wanted to be able to capture as much metadata as we could about these assets. Some have now been deemed to be part of our actual photographs collection, as they provide a unique perspective on the history of museum development in Australia.
I would be happy to share information on the standards we impose for the cataloguing of these assets, plus the decisions we have made in regard to what metadata should be stored in which system (CMS, DAMS etc) and what we plan to do with these images in the future. We have been cataloguing "corporate" assets on our CMS for years and have quite established standards and procedures. Emma -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2011 5:00 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: mcn-l Digest, Vol 69, Issue 3 Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mcn-l-request at mcn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at mcn-l-owner at mcn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of mcn-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: institutional image database (Kwan, Billy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 22:34:59 -0400 From: "Kwan, Billy" <billy.k...@metmuseum.org> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] institutional image database To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <3E5A9B377729884CAB52AFA762BC9BB301894E6BF7 at SMAILPRODBE.metmuseum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At the Met, we keep them in our DAM system, MediaBin, together with the object photography of the Museum. However, these images of non-object are kept in a separate directory/folder structure in our system. In fact, many of our non-object images are in analog formats, e.g., negatives and 35mm slides. We scan them on an as-needed or thematic basis, and upload the scanned images into MediaBin. I just got back from my vacation this Sunday. I think this kind of questions will be suitable for our proposed panel discussion at the coming annual MCN conference. Related questions to this issues are their metadata and cataloguing standards, and the copyrights issues related to this kind of images. I hope through discussion and sharing ideas, we will be able to develop some common standards and best practices for handing this kind of materials in the museum community. Best, Billy ________________________________________ From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of SARAH PUCKITT [visionary62...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:57 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] institutional image database Does anyone currently use a database for keeping track of the various photos a museum takes/saves of its events, volunteers, programs, etc. If so, what do you use? Sarah Puckitt ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mcn-l mailing list mcn-l at mcn.edu http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 69, Issue 3 ************************************ ********************************************************************************************* AWM DISCLAIMER: This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, please delete this e-mail from your system and notify the sender immediately. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. E-mail information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, be incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message. *********************************************************************************************
