Re: MCN2005 Session Proposal

[MarbleCity]

Amy,   Are you looking for participants in this discussion, or are you looking to see if there is an interest?  If you're looking for possible participants, I'm currently Digital Imaging Manager at the Brandywine River Museum and former Database Administrator at the University of Pennsylvania Mueum of Archaeology and Anthropology.   If I do attend the meeting, I'd probably attend this session, depending on what else was occurring at the same time.  Other examples I've encountered are 1) images culled from e-mails to curators from hopeful owners of paintings deemed not to be painted by the artist they are attributed to, 2) e-mailed of possible acquisitions not actually acquired but by artists collected by the museum 3) e-mailed images that don't match your digital collection policy standards.  Another relevant topic is the creation/revisitation of a digital imaging policy.  Ours at BRM hasn't been revisited since 1999, I think.  Back then I was capturing bigger images than I do at present and couldn't get a consensus on what the "right" thumbnail was.  If I had to go back, my images would be 1/4 smaller and my thumbnails might be 1/2 larger.  What do you do with your old standards and policies?  Do you stop where you are and start over?  Do you change the policy midstream?  How much data should we be capturing about our images?  Where?  I've been using our collection management database to record my digital imaging, but I see others asking advice on the best Digital Image Mangement database.  What do we need to capture?  What can other software offer us?   Just my thoughts, I'm curious to hear yours.   Ruth --- 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