Thank you! I will take a look at both of those. David- what collection management system are you using?
_ _ Beth Heller Library Director The American Alpine Club (303) 384-0110 ext. 21 <lbauer at americanalpineclub.org> bheller at americanalpineclub.org http://americanalpineclub.org http://booksearch.americanalpineclub.org http://www.facebook.com/americanalpineclublibrary<http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Alpine-Club-Library/123324141044052> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:50 PM, David Dwiggins <david at dwiggins.net> wrote: > Hi, Beth, > > We now have somewhere north of 110,000 resources (more, really, since > we treat verso images, DNGs, etc. as "alternates" of the primary > resource) managed through ResourceSpace, an open source digital asset > management system. We've been extremely happy with it. > > We have a separate collections management system that handles the > primary data about museum objects, archival objects, etc. But we have > integrated the two systems so that you can simply enter a resource ID > into the cataloging record to pull in an image from the DAMs. > > We also sync the files stored in ResourceSpace out to Amazon S3 for > backup, and then re-purpose these backup copies to serve the images > for our online collections database. > > ResourceSpace is not primarily geared for providing public access, > although it does have a "guest user" mode and I suppose you could use > this to provide some level of access to materials. And it's also not > quite as rigorous in terms of metadata standards as some other systems > might be. But it works extremely well, is very flexible, and, as a > PHP/MySQL application, is very easy to modify if needed. It also has a > plugin architecture, so customizations can often be made without doing > much to the underlying code. Since we started using it a couple of > years ago, I've become an occasional developer on the project, so I > suppose I'm not entirely unbiased. But it's definitely worth a look -- > see http://www.resourcespace.org > > -David Dwiggins > Systems Librarian/Archivist > Historic New England > ddwiggins [at] historicnewengland [dot] org > 617-994-5948 > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Beth Heller > <bheller at americanalpineclub.org> wrote: > > I would like to hear what people are using to organize, identify, search, > > serve and push digital files of all formats, in-house and to the web. We > > are looking to implement a digital asset management system for our > > organization's working and historic documents, as well as more efficient > > work flows. > > > > > > We currently have nothing but a disorganized file and folder system. We > are > > a small non-profit institution with limited financial and human > resources. > > > > Thank you! > > Beth > > > > _ > > _ > > > > Beth Heller > > Library Director > > The American Alpine Club > > (303) 384-0110 ext. 21 <lbauer at americanalpineclub.org> > > bheller at americanalpineclub.org > > > > http://americanalpineclub.org > > http://booksearch.americanalpineclub.org > > http://www.facebook.com/americanalpineclublibrary< > http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Alpine-Club-Library/123324141044052 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > >
