Hi Gunter, In addition to all the advice you already received from several colleagues I like to give you some information on the rapid capture workflow in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Since the beginning of 2007 we reorganized the workflow in our studios and have achieved a production of an average of 35.000 images a year. These objects range from works on paper, paintings, ceramics, sculptures, accessories, glass, silverware, furniture etc. etc. The majority is however works on paper ca. 20.000 images a year. As James and others wrote in their email the key is in the planning and organization before you start. Fixed protocols are essential and need to be studied for every type of object. Before starting make some trials to check your planning and goals. With the objects we include the curators to create a new standard for each type of object. With the cooperation of curators (when possible) the dependency on art handlers becomes smaller and in some cases it increases the speed in the process considerably. As I understood at the congress in Rochester last June, the art handling is an issue with all of us. These departments are as a rule understaffed and have their hands full with other priorities. If you have the possibility to set up a new project, I would recommend to include a dedicated art handler for studio purposes. In the photography of the works on paper and the paintings we work according the guidelines of Metamorfoze (www.metamorfoze.nl). These guidelines were presented in The Hague with the IS&T in June and in the same month in Rochester. These guidelines give you the opportunity to create a standard protocol, regardless the camera, setting and lightning situation. The captures are high end and ready for publication so there is no need to make a separate rapid, low end, workflow. As James in the V&A, the Rijksmuseum faces a huge challenge digitizing large quantities of the collection (1,1 million objects) before the scheduled opening of our new building in 2013.
Regards, Cecile van der Harten Hoofd Afdeling Beeld / Head Image Department Rijksmuseum Amsterdam T +31 (0)20 674 7153 F. van Mierisstraat 92 1071 RZ? Amsterdam Nederland c.vander.harten at rijksmuseum.nl -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] Namens Stanley Smith Verzonden: donderdag 22 juli 2010 22:04 Aan: mcn-l at mcn.edu Onderwerp: Re: [MCN-L] Rapid Digitization workflows Hi Gunter-- At MCN 2009 I organized a panel called "Speed the Plow: Rapid Capture Digital Workflow". On the panel was Alan Newman from the National Gallery, Chris Edwards and John ffrench from Yale, Chris Edwards from ARTIC, and myself (Getty). I compiled the notes from all institutions into a single PDF, and I am attaching it here. At the Getty our Rapid Capture project was put into place to address the backlog of our Photography collection. We encountered a lot of unexpected institutional resistance, mostly centered around questions of quality. Some felt that if it is done faster it necessarily must result in an inferior product. Really the only difference between our normal workflow and the rapid capture is that we do not do a comparative color correction at the time of capture. It is surprising how much more you can get done if you eliminate this step-- we are doing up to 100 per day with a single operator-- easily five times the productivity. Critical color correction is done as needed. Cheers, Stanley Message: 5 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:42:11 -0400 From: "Waibel,Guenter" <waib...@oclc.org> Subject: [MCN-L] rapid digitization workflows To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <AA3DCFAA4E87BD40BBAA507B1C36CC3D04576F04 at OAEXCH4SERVER.oa.oclc.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everybody, I've recently had the good fortune of seeing the rapid digitization process the National Gallery has set up for its works-on-paper. (I know Alan and Peter are on this list, so rather than bungling the details, I'll leave it to them to describe what they're doing - needless to say, it's impressive.) At MCN, I've overheard that various other folks are working on rapid imaging workflows, or already have them in place - the Art Institute, Harvard U Art Museum, Yale U Art Gallery, MoMA come to mind. I'd be curious to hear who has an established workflow, what you are imaging, and what your throughput is as compared to your high-end workflow. Cheers, G?nter ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:54:53 +0100 From: "James Stevenson" <j.steven...@vam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rapid digitization workflows To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <4C48838F020000EA0002C490 at vammail.vam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Guenter, I feel that everything we do now at the V&A can be classed as a rapid image project. Not least because of the likely changes to funding which we will soon be faced with, and the consequence of having to justify productivity. With a large collection and a lot of gallery developments we have been rapidly capturing entire galleries and stores for at least ten years. These have ranged from smallish groups of objects of up to 100 until our recent photography of our ceramics collections for a suite of ten galleries which resulted in 38000 images of 29000 objects. This took there and half years but the last six months saw up to six sets making 18000 images. Next we are faced with digitising up 90000 textile objects of all shapes and sizes over three years. In the V&A we have a large range of object types so these projects can be on anything from furniture and jewellery to works on paper. It is our intention to have an image of 80% of the collection in the next eight years so this will mean massive production rates. As for workflow it is a constantly changing approach. Different object types mean different approaches, but as I think previous emails on this subject have suggested then they need to be planned in advance. And trials undertaken to check them out. Regards james James Stevenson Photographic Manager Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington London UK tel +44 (0) 207 942 2545 fax +44 (0) 207 942 2746 www.vam.ac.uk Stanley Smith Manager, Imaging Services J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687 (310) 440-7286 >>> "Waibel,Guenter" <waibelg at oclc.org> 22/07/10 4:44 PM >>> Hi everybody, I've recently had the good fortune of seeing the rapid digitization process the National Gallery has set up for its works-on-paper. (I know Alan and Peter are on this list, so rather than bungling the details, I'll leave it to them to describe what they're doing - needless to say, it's impressive.) At MCN, I've overheard that various other folks are working on rapid imaging workflows, or already have them in place - the Art Institute, Harvard U Art Museum, Yale U Art Gallery, MoMA come to mind. I'd be curious to hear who has an established workflow, what you are imaging, and what your throughput is as compared to your high-end workflow. Cheers, G?nter _______________________________________________ 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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We are using it to digitize books, letters, photographs, prints and other "flat" works, we also will be venturing into large scale digitization of transparencies soon. From July of 2008 to July of 2010 we created just over 100,000 scans, all of which are available in our digital library. As a point of comparison, we have created 150,000 high res images in the 8.5 years the studio has been in operation. The key, for us, to rapid imaging is a high level pre photography organization, cataloging and automation in our post processing workflow. The Beinecke has lots of documentation on our internal processes as many others on this list do for their respective processes as well. Im sure we would all be happy to share them with you if you were interested. Chris. -- Chris Edwards Digital Studio Production Manager Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Tel: 203.436.4690 chris.edwards at yale.edu On 7/22/10 11:42 AM, "Waibel,Guenter" <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote: Hi everybody, I've recently had the good fortune of seeing the rapid digitization process the National Gallery has set up for its works-on-paper. (I know Alan and Peter are on this list, so rather than bungling the details, I'll leave it to them to describe what they're doing - needless to say, it's impressive.) At MCN, I've overheard that various other folks are working on rapid imaging workflows, or already have them in place - the Art Institute, Harvard U Art Museum, Yale U Art Gallery, MoMA come to mind. I'd be curious to hear who has an established workflow, what you are imaging, and what your throughput is as compared to your high-end workflow. Cheers, G?nter _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mcn-l mailing list mcn-l at mcn.edu http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 59, Issue 18 *************************************
