I would too! ----------------------------------------------- Janet Sullivan Digital Media Coordinator Visual Resources Department Yale University Art Gallery
Phone: 203.436.4666 Fax: 203.432.9369 http://artgallery.yale.edu On 4/9/11 5:24 PM, "Pittsley, Christine" <Christine.Pittsley at ct.gov> wrote: >I would love to participate. > >Christine Pittsley >Digital Collections Technician >Connecticut State Library >231 Capitol Ave. >Hartford Ct. 06106 >860-757-6517 >New email - Christine.Pittsley at ct.gov >Old email - cpittsley at cslib.org >Check out our Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/CtStateLibrary >Follow us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/LibraryofCt >________________________________________ >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Kwan, >Billy [Billy.Kwan at metmuseum.org] >Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:16 >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software > >For those who will be interested to participate in the group or >discussions about the issues of digital asset management, you can send me >your names. I can work with Diana/the MCN Board to see if a separate >group should be formed, or we can work with the current Digital Media SIG >to further our discussions. If you are interested to share your >experiences, maybe we can form a panel discussion at the coming MCN >conference. > >Best, >Billy > >-----Original Message----- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >Folsom, Diana >Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:59 AM >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software > >Is this the beginnings of a SIG or a more loosely organized group? >Perhaps the Digital Media SIG can be helpful. > >Let us know if the MCN organization can help support your needs beyond >the listserv. > >Thanks! > >Diana Folsom >LACMA >Systems Manager >323-857-6594 >Folsom at lacma.org > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >Kwan, Billy >Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:55 AM >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software [bayes][heur] > >We are using MediaBin at the Met. In fact, I will be interested to form a >group within MCN to discuss all the issues related to digital asset >management in the museum communities, e.g., its relationship with the >collection management system, metadata exchange/connection with the >object records, non-object images, local collections, other media types, >such as 3D files, video and audio files, etc. I think we may have a lot >to learn from each other. > >Billy > >Billy Chi-hing Kwan | Associate Museum Librarian Systems Image Library, >The Metropolitan Museum of Art >1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 >Tel: 212-650-2263 | Fax: 212-396-5050 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >Beth Heller >Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:10 AM >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software > >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.co >m/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/12332414104 >> 4052 >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 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 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 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 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/
