Out of curiosity, do you have any standards for initial record shots such as background colour, Accession Number in photos and size/colour scales? Also, are your publication quality shots taken on any specific background colours?
Thanks, Jovanna _________________________________________________________ Jovanna Scorsone Information Designer New Media Resources, ROM Digital Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA [email protected] Phone: 416.586.5598 Fax.: 416.586.5519 >>> [email protected] 07/12/05 3:46 PM >>> We have a process here at the Indianapolis Museum of Art that falls into that exact description. When a piece comes into the museum it is photographed (low quality) for condition by a registrar during condition reporting. These shots are then put into our collection management system as reference. After the objects have went through our acquisition commitee any additional pieces are photographed and also placed in the collection management system. At the request of the curator (and sometimes Marketing department) these objects are photographed at publication quality. These images are then used to replace the reference images in the collection management system. We are working on a procedure now where the piece comes directly into the studio for publication quality photography after the acquistion committee makes their selections. Its good to have an image in the system (low or high quality) quickly for security purposes. Thats it in a nutshell. Michael Rippy Assistant Photographer Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN, USA 46208-3326 (317)920-2662 ext.191 www.ima-art.org [email protected] www.museumphotographers.org [email protected] >>> [email protected] 7/12/2005 2:02 PM >>> I could use some feedback on how other museums are dealing with this issue: Back in the 90s we had a major project digitizing basically our whole collection in as high a quality as possible, with a goal of scholarly as well as public web access. Of course, the idea was to keep up the process for new objects entering the collection. Somewhere along the way, funding, workload and huge groups of acquisitions interfered, and getting high quality images as we received objects didn't always happen. We're currently debating the merits of a quick, low quality picture as objects are accessioned, with the idea of trying to get high quality images later. There is suspicion that the day for high quality will never come, yet at least we'll have a digital image record of what things look like. How are others wrestling with this issue? Thanks, _________________________________________ Toni Kramer Database Manager University of Michigan Museum of Art Email: [email protected] Phone: 734-763-0256 _________________ I am in the Museum Mondays, Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays. --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
