I hope this will help. Some of the questions issued below come to us after reading some of the articles already mentioned.
In the Photographic Documentation Division of the Portuguese Board of Museums, working for the last 4 years in a imaging information system, we think no one can say there are reference standards for digitizing photographic material. Surely you are aware that digitizing is a process so hungry of specialized resouces, so it hardly can be duplicated. There a number of questions that, in our point of view, are crucial to the whole project and preceed the definition of standards: What is the volume of suports to digitize? What are the actual retrieval necessities? What will be the retrieval necessities of the Institution in 5-10 years? What are the human, material and storage resources involved? What human, material and storage resources will be available in medium-long term? Does the IIS manager have the answers to this questions? Does the board of directors of your Museum are aware of this issues? After finding the answer to this and other questions that specifically will pose to your museum, the number of bytes, pixels, layers, etc. i.e. standards will became easier to figure. >From our experience in trial and error we think there must be a full commitement of the whole institution in the project. In our case it was the only way to deal with the digitization of almost 50 thousands 4X5inch transparencies of artworks of the portuguese museums over the last 4 years. Paulo Baptista --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
