ImageMuse: Museum Guidelines for Submitting Digital Files for Reproduction Friday, 10.45am - 12.15pm
Chair: Alan Newman, Chief, Division of Imaging & Visual Services, National Gallery of Art Panelists: Christopher Gallagher, Art Institute of Chicago; Stanley Smith, J. Paul Getty Museum; Richard Anderson, UPDIG-Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines ImageMuse is a discussion group of museum imaging and publishing professionals dedicated to defining common language and specifications concerning the use of digital files for reproduction. Our premise is that catalog reproduction is problematic using digital files received from unfamiliar sources without embedded profiles and/or guide prints. ImageMuse participants from twelve museums worked together to choose common digital file submission formats for adoption by museum publishers and printers. Our hope is that these guidelines will reduce the level of effort in publication proofing and serve to elevate image quality. ImageMuse developed the Fine Art Reproduction section of the 2007 Guidelines of UPDIG (www.updig.org). The membership of ImageMuse now includes 21 museums in the U.S., Canada and the UK. See www.imagemuse.org for the 2008-09 research, communications and implementation agenda.
