Hello Janice, There is a great site with lots of valuable information about image management systems at:
http://www.tasi.ac.uk. They also have a listing of what systems are available. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/ims-software.html As well at tutorials on what to look for in purchasing your own system. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/delivering.html The institution I work for uses several of the systems listed on the site, including: Extensis Portfolio in the Photography Department, Embark in our Visual Resources Department, Questor's Argus and KE Software's EMu for our museum wide system. The last two systems moved beyond images alone into collection management. The other respondants have sound suggestions as well. Dont forget when beginning an image management project to account for the storage capacity your server(s) will be maintaining. You'll fill up a server before you know it. If your going to be storing to DVD or CD, see if the system you decide on has the ability to catalogue those as well. On a storage note, there was an article in the latest PDN magazine discussing a new storage device by IOMEGA which can hold 35 GIGA bites of data per cartridge for $60/cartridge ($400 for the drive). The only down side is that IOMEGA has had less than favorable reviews dealing with data permanence. For any other questions feel free to contact me, Mike. --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
