[MCN-L] Museum IP Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs
It's great to see all the material that has already been digitized. I can understand not clearing non-collections illustrations, but what about works that are still protected by copyright? Were these reproductions re-cleared for the digital version or have some considered this an extension of the printed? It seems like the majority of books released online contain only out of copyright art work, but for those with more contemporary focused publications, I'd be interested to hear how you've dealt with this issue. Thank you Danielle Vancouver Art Gallery On 7/16/13 4:38 PM, Deborah Wythe deborahwythe at hotmail.com wrote: (With apologies to the ImageMuse members for the cross posting): When we started looking into digitizing our exhibition catalogs, we discovered that a large number of them had already been digitized as part of the Google Books project and were up on the Hathi Trust website. We released most of them under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license so that the full-text versions would be available. Depending on which collection provided them to Google Books to digitize, the illustrations may be of better of lesser quality. All are in b/w, and the covers generally weren't scanned. For art books, it's not ideal, but at least the texts are out there. Following in LACMA's Reading Room project footsteps, we decided not to try to clear all of the non-collections illustrations. So far, no repercussions there, and a non-pain, minimal effort way to get the stuff out there. A more recent joint project with the Frick digitized a few hundred small catalogs from the Gilded Age, Those will be sent to the Internet Archive and will be on our website as well. As soon as I get around to finishing the metadata and loading! Deb Deborah Wythe Head, Digital Collections and Services Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 718 501 6311 deborahwythe at hotmail.com To: musip at yahoogroups.com From: spatre...@uchicago.edu Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:54:43 + Subject: Museum IP Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs Hi Everyone, An idea of digitizing all of our exhibition catalogs has been thrown on the table. Has anyone done this before? What were the copyright/logistical challenges? The ideal would be to put the catalogs online eventually. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Sara Patrello Assistant Registrar Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 spatrello at uchicago.edu mailto:spatrello at uchicago.edumailto:spatrello at uchicago.edu 773.702.9549 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/ The Land Beneath Our Feet: American Art at the Smart Museum June 27-August 25, 2013 Other Modernisms: Serge Charchoune (1889-1975) May 7-August 25, 2013 __._,_.___ Reply via web post http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwNWhnYnRlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BG1zZ0lkAzI1NTQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMzc0MDE3OTEz?act=replymessageNum=2554http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwNWhnYnRlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BG1zZ0lkAzI1NTQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMzc0MDE3OTEz?act=replymessageNum=2554 Reply to sender mailto:deborahwythe at hotmail.com?subject=RE%3A%20Museum%20IP%20Digitizing%20Exhibition%20Catalogsmailto:deborahwythe at hotmail.com?subject=RE%3A%20Museum%20IP%20Digitizing%20Exhibition%20Catalogs Reply to group mailto:musip at yahoogroups.com?subject=RE%3A%20Museum%20IP%20Digitizing%20Exhibition%20Catalogsmailto:musip at yahoogroups.com?subject=RE%3A%20Museum%20IP%20Digitizing%20Exhibition%20Catalogs Start a New Topic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOWRzM2IxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTM3NDAxNzkxMw--http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOWRzM2IxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTM3NDAxNzkxMw-- Messages in this topic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/message/2535;_ylc=X3oDMTM0ZWdnbzZsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BG1zZ0lkAzI1NTQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMzc0MDE3OTEzBHRwY0lkAzI1MzU-http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musip/message/2535;_ylc=X3oDMTM0ZWdnbzZsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzMyMTYzNTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1NTIwMjg3BG1zZ0lkAzI1NTQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMzc0MDE3OTEzBHRwY0lkAzI1MzU- (3) Recent Activity: * New Members
[MCN-L] LA contract photographer
Does anyone in the LA area have any fine art photographer recommendations? We're looking for someone to shoot a small three-dimensional mask/frontlet in a private collection. I'd be grateful for any leads. with thanks, Danielle Vancouver Art Gallery
[MCN-L] London photographer
Hi - We're looking for a photographer to shoot a first nations argillite platter in a private collection in London, England. Any recommendations or contacts would be appreciated. with thanks, Danielle Vancouver Art Gallery
[MCN-L] image file names
Thank you to everyone else on the list who provided such helpful responses. One last question which would strengthen our case for adopting a new naming system - what are the inherent problems with using decimals in a file name? On 6/9/10 9:56 AM, Parsell, David david.parsell at yale.edu wrote: The Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery at Yale University have moved away from using the accession# and its inherent problems in favor of a naming convention derived from the objectID field in TMS, which is just the sequential number field assigned by the database each time a new object record is added to TMS. I'm sure all the other collection management systems use a sequential numbering system as well. This number is used by the collection management system to link the appropriate records from other tables to the object record since the number never changes. The beauty of this system is its structure, which allows you to automate file creation and retrieval by other programs other than TMS. Also, it allows you to retain a link to the TMS object even though the accession# may change over time. Besides needing a better image naming convention than the accession#, we developed this structured naming convention for use with a recently installed enterprise level DAM at Yale University. The structured image# allowed us to develop software that automated the TMS and DAM ingest of new images. Here is a breakdown of our image naming convention. I will supply further details on request. Museum - TMS module - objectID - index - image type . suffix ba-obj-60395-0003-pub.tif YCBA example (we like the idea of a 4 digit index) ag-obj-4487-001-mas.tif YUAG example (Art Gallery is happy with a 3 digit index) Museum is ba for YCBA and ag for Art Gallery. TMS module can be obj for object or exb for exhibition module. ObjectID is the sequential record# in the object table. The exhibitionID sequential# is used for exb images. Index allows us to have more than one image for an object using the naming convention. The name is always the same, just the index and image type changes. Image type; we make 3 versions of each image, master (mas), bar (color corrected with bars), pub (color corrected and cropped). Suffix is whatever the file type is. The switch to the structured naming convention has tremendously increased our productivity. Identifying an image is as simple as querying TMS on the objectID carried in the image name. My only regret is that we didn't do this sooner. David Parsell Systems Manager Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT 06520-8280 203 432-9603 david.parsell at yale.edu -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Light Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:42 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] image file names In message AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B850A1D at jlm-net.jlm.local, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org writes Funnily enough, I was just about to draft up a file naming standards document and post it online. Other than some of the inherent difficulties with trying to align the digital filenames with the accession number (particularly when you don't have an accession number yet), what are some other arguments in favor of using a unique identifier instead of the accession number? One obvious argument is that it allows a single image to feature more than one object. Richard Light -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Images Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:03 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] image file names We're reviewing how we name our image files and I'm hoping that some of you may have worked through this same issue. Currently, we use our accession number, however as this contains periods it has been identified as potentially problematic. For example, accession # 42.3.11 = VAG-42.3.11.jpg. One suggestion is to change the decimals to zeros but we are concerned that this makes the image file name difficult to read. Have any of you found a good solution to a problem like this? Any thoughts or samples of your naming structure would be most appreciated! thanks very much Danielle ___ 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
[MCN-L] Has your museum changed it's policy due to social networking?
Christina - I'm curious about your new policy allowing photography in the exhibition spaces. It is something we would like to do as well, but are often restricted by clauses in the exhibition contracts and loan forms we sign. Have you been successful in negotiating the removal of these clauses or do you consider photographs for personal use outside of these restrictions? Thanks, Danielle On 5/7/10 1:33 PM, Christina DePaolo Christinad at SeattleArtMuseum.org wrote: Hi, SAM recently updated our photography policy to allow visitor to take pictures in the collection galleries for personal use. This is a big shift for us and a good one, to acknowledge that sharing images through social networking is an integral part of the visitor experience. I know many museums have gone through similar changes recently. If you have, can you contact me at christinad at seattleartmuseum.orgmailto:christinad at seattleartmuseum.orgmailto:christinad at seattleartmuseum.org? I'd like to know more about your experience. Thank you. Christina DePaolo | New Media Manager Seattle Art Museum | 1300 1st Avenue | Seattle WA 98101 christinad at seattleartmuseum.orgmailto:christinad at seattleartmuseum.orgmailto:christinad at seattleartmuseum.org | 206.654.3165 Find SAM at: http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org http://facebook.com/seattleartmuseum http://twitter.com/iheartSAM ___ 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] visual resources job descriptions
A question for the forum then - would any of you working in the realm of copyright and licensing, image archives/management or visual resources, be willing to share your job descriptions? I am thinking of positions like rights and reproductions, copyright administrators, image librarians/archivists/cataloguers, photo services etc. Core responsibilities or tasks (formalized or not) would also be helpful. Given the discussion yesterday I think there are others who would be interested in this information too, however, I would be more than happy to keep any documents confidential, so please feel free to respond to me off-list as well. A very big thanks in advance, Danielle Danielle Currie | Rights and Reproductions | Vancouver Art Gallery T 604 662 4700 x 220 | F 604 682 1086 750 Hornby Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 CANADA
[MCN-L] image sizes
I'm wondering what size(s) of images people are using in their internal databases? 1024 pixels on the long side plus a thumbnail view? What size do you use for online purposes? Many thanks! Danielle
Posting Provenance Information Online
Dear colleagues, We are working on an extensive archival project of Emily Carr's work, a well known Canadian artist (1871-1945). Part of this project is a detailed online resource of Carr's work, including exhibition and publication history and provenance. As many of you know, throughout Canada and individually in each of the provinces, new strict privacy legislation has been passed. I am concerned about posting privacy protected information online, such as donor's names and previous owners. It is valuable information to include in our project, however, we would also like to be in line with the legislation. Has anyone had experience with this or researched what the limitations are on posting provenance? Thanks in advance, Danielle Currie Rights and Reproductions, Vancouver Art Gallery ima...@vanartgallery.bc.ca 750 Hornby St., Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 t: 604 662 4700 x 614 f: 604 682 1086 www.vanartgallery.bc.ca --- 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
