David, thanks for the response. We currently use Drop Box and You Send It for file transfers, but my goal here is not to actually transfer and allow access to the files. What I am after is a simple method for museum staff to simply browse the available event and publicity images. Once they found what they wanted, they would still need to contact the image library to obtain a copy in the appropriate size for their use.
As an example, if we photograph an event or program and generate 75-100 images, we will send "contact sheets" of the images to the original requestor. But, often the images could serve multiple purposes for other users and we currently have no method for other staff to then see those images without making an appointment with the image librarian or sending contact sheets to everyone. Both of which are a little to laborious and inconvenient. My hope is that one of the online photo sharing sites will provide the browsing and cataloging we need, but be secure and private enough to monitor in house distribution and use. Based on Perian's experience it seems like it should work as a temporary solution, although we do not intend to use it for collection images. -Travis On 8/17/10 9:56 PM, "dlewisarfm at aol.com" <dlewisarfm at aol.com> wrote: > Travis, For what you want to do - why not consider some sorta file-sharing > website? There are many out there. The one we use is "Drop Box" -- > https://www.dropbox.com They allow 2GB free storage, easy file transfers, > and even create "thumbnails" and gallery views for photos uploaded into your > special "Photos" folder. - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional > Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -----Original > Message----- From: Travis Fullerton <tfuller...@vmfa.state.va.us> To: Museum > Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Sent: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 12:07 > pm Subject: [MCN-L] Online Photo Sharing Sorry for the cross-posting (but, > we should all be used to it by now...) Hi all. I was wondering if anyone > has had any experience with using online photo sharing websites such > Shutterfly, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, or the like to share and distribute > publicity and event images internally. We don?t have a DAMs set up that can be > accessed by multiple users (yet) and we are looking for a simple and cheap > solution for allowing image users to browse publicity images that are ?fresh? > and available. We would have about a dozen people that would need private > access. People like publications, marketing, education, and web would be the > primary users. Any comments, advise, or anecdotes are > welcome... -Travis -- Travis Fullerton Assistant Photographer, Virginia > Museum of Fine Arts 200 N Boulevard, Richmond, VA > 23220 804.340.1538 _______________________________________________ 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/
