Is this the beginnings of a SIG or a more loosely organized group? Perhaps the Digital Media SIG can be helpful.
Let us know if the MCN organization can help support your needs beyond the listserv. Thanks! Diana Folsom LACMA Systems Manager 323-857-6594 Folsom at lacma.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Kwan, Billy Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:55 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software [bayes][heur] We are using MediaBin at the Met. In fact, I will be interested to form a group within MCN to discuss all the issues related to digital asset management in the museum communities, e.g., its relationship with the collection management system, metadata exchange/connection with the object records, non-object images, local collections, other media types, such as 3D files, video and audio files, etc. I think we may have a lot to learn from each other. Billy Billy Chi-hing Kwan | Associate Museum Librarian Systems Image Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 Tel: 212-650-2263 | Fax: 212-396-5050 -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Heller Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:10 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software Thank you! I will take a look at both of those. David- what collection management system are you using? _ _ Beth Heller Library Director The American Alpine Club (303) 384-0110 ext. 21 <lbauer at americanalpineclub.org> bheller at americanalpineclub.org http://americanalpineclub.org http://booksearch.americanalpineclub.org http://www.facebook.com/americanalpineclublibrary<http://www.facebook.co m/pages/American-Alpine-Club-Library/123324141044052> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:50 PM, David Dwiggins <david at dwiggins.net> wrote: > Hi, Beth, > > We now have somewhere north of 110,000 resources (more, really, since > we treat verso images, DNGs, etc. as "alternates" of the primary > resource) managed through ResourceSpace, an open source digital asset > management system. We've been extremely happy with it. > > We have a separate collections management system that handles the > primary data about museum objects, archival objects, etc. But we have > integrated the two systems so that you can simply enter a resource ID > into the cataloging record to pull in an image from the DAMs. > > We also sync the files stored in ResourceSpace out to Amazon S3 for > backup, and then re-purpose these backup copies to serve the images > for our online collections database. > > ResourceSpace is not primarily geared for providing public access, > although it does have a "guest user" mode and I suppose you could use > this to provide some level of access to materials. And it's also not > quite as rigorous in terms of metadata standards as some other systems > might be. But it works extremely well, is very flexible, and, as a > PHP/MySQL application, is very easy to modify if needed. It also has a > plugin architecture, so customizations can often be made without doing > much to the underlying code. Since we started using it a couple of > years ago, I've become an occasional developer on the project, so I > suppose I'm not entirely unbiased. But it's definitely worth a look -- > see http://www.resourcespace.org > > -David Dwiggins > Systems Librarian/Archivist > Historic New England > ddwiggins [at] historicnewengland [dot] org > 617-994-5948 > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Beth Heller > <bheller at americanalpineclub.org> wrote: > > I would like to hear what people are using to organize, identify, > > search, serve and push digital files of all formats, in-house and to > > the web. We are looking to implement a digital asset management > > system for our organization's working and historic documents, as > > well as more efficient work flows. > > > > > > We currently have nothing but a disorganized file and folder system. > > We > are > > a small non-profit institution with limited financial and human > resources. > > > > Thank you! > > Beth > > > > _ > > _ > > > > Beth Heller > > Library Director > > The American Alpine Club > > (303) 384-0110 ext. 21 <lbauer at americanalpineclub.org> > > bheller at americanalpineclub.org > > > > http://americanalpineclub.org > > http://booksearch.americanalpineclub.org > > http://www.facebook.com/americanalpineclublibrary< > http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Alpine-Club-Library/12332414104 > 4052 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > > > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
