At the Yale University Art Gallery, we have a department set up to produce
high-quality digital images of the collection. They are grant driven, so
the high-quality images in the collection can be skewed by donor interests.
As producing high-quality digital images is slow work, we take an ID photo
of every new object entering the Art Gallery and link the photo in TMS
until a high-quality image can replace it.
A few years ago we inventoried and moved the collection, taking ID photos
of every object moved. All of the ID photos were linked in TMS.
An ID photo is invaluable to the curatorial and art handling staff. We
don't expect to ever have high-quality images of the entire collection,
just the important objects that time and money will allow us to photograph.
David Parsell
At 03:02 PM 7/12/2005, Toni Kramer wrote:
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,
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Toni Kramer
Database Manager
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Email: [email protected] Phone: 734-763-0256
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