Hi again: Hmm, thinking about it more, what about using a free, web-based, self-hosted image gallery software like Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com/ )? Just install it on your servers within a password-protected sub-directory or on a subdomain. I personally haven't used it a lot, but I know lots of people who do, and they've been pretty pleased with it.
On a slightly different note, is there a reason why the staff wouldn't want the images public? If the image library is going to have to resize them anyway, then hopefully they'll be tracking in-house use. When I was at Magnes, we set up collections of all of the events ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/collections/72157617062521384/ ), exhibitions (in progress: http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/collections/72157604290884123/ ) as well as a separate press image folder ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/collections/72157619249161210/ ). Any proofs could simply be made private or visible to selected people. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Travis Fullerton < Tfullerton at vmfa.state.va.us> wrote: > David, thanks for the response. We currently use Drop Box and You Send It > for file transfers, but my goal here is not to actually transfer and allow > access to the files. What I am after is a simple method for museum staff to > simply browse the available event and publicity images. Once they found > what > they wanted, they would still need to contact the image library to obtain a > copy in the appropriate size for their use. > > As an example, if we photograph an event or program and generate 75-100 > images, we will send "contact sheets" of the images to the original > requestor. But, often the images could serve multiple purposes for other > users and we currently have no method for other staff to then see those > images without making an appointment with the image librarian or sending > contact sheets to everyone. Both of which are a little to laborious and > inconvenient. > > My hope is that one of the online photo sharing sites will provide the > browsing and cataloging we need, but be secure and private enough to > monitor > in house distribution and use. > > Based on Perian's experience it seems like it should work as a temporary > solution, although we do not intend to use it for collection images. > > -Travis > >
