Git is a great tool for tracking software code, and versions of various projects. It's critical to keeping various versions of our media resources as we move forward. However, git doesn't handle large files like video, graphics, and binary code very well. So I've been doing some initial experiments with git-annex as an add-on to this tool: http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Git is a technical tool, that takes some learning to use, but it's very flexible and broadly used across many environment unlike some other solutions we've looked at. Git obviously doesn't cover all the ground of a full DAM system, but it's meeting many of our needs as we move forward with new media interactives. bk ---------------------------------------------------- bryan kennedy director, exhibit media science museum of minnesota bkennedy at smm.org 651.221.2522 ---------------------------------------------------- On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Perian <perian at emphatic.org> wrote: > Something I've been trying to wrap my head around lately is what happens > with all of the mobile tours, old exhibition websites, PSD and InDesign > projects, Final Cut Project files, gallery kiosk displays, touchtable, etc. > once we're done with them. It seems to me that we're the one industry, with > the exception, perhaps, of theme parks and space programs, that has such a > wide variety of outputs and use so many different technologies. > > So how do you all manage this stuff? Images, audio, video, and documents > are easy, but everything else seems a lot harder. Is there software out > there that allows you to keep track of all of it? Does it just get linked > into a project management software, with the hope we'll be able to open it > in 5 years? I know we can link them into our DAMS, and maybe that's the > best solution, but I'm wondering if there are other dedicated types of > software that can help us manage these many different filetypes, and maybe > allow us to link in emulators. > > Any ideas or experiences of your own workflows would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > ~Perian > ______________________________**_________________ > 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://mcn.edu/mailman/**listinfo/mcn-l<http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l> > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/**pipermail/mcn-l/<http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/> >
