Next week Bruce Fraser will join me at the National Gallery to present the UPDIG guidelines to all Gallery staff who are involved in image capture for museum documentation, scanners and cameras, including those who work outside of my Digital Imaging division.
There are more than 150 cameras & scanners in use, so perhaps 200 people are involved in image capture without enterprise policies regarding file formats, non-destructive image editing, digital preservation and other workflow issues. The idea is to embrace decentralized image capture--a central service cannot possibly fulfill all the imaging needs of a museum--while providing ongoing education and direction about best practices. This will be a good test to see how UPDIG maps to "official and un-official" museum imaging. We will then have practical experience which we can use to broaden the UPDIG guidelines and to influence their growth in areas which serve museum practice (e.g. digital preservation and fine art reproduction). I'll report back to MCN-L at the annual meeting in Pasadena and also through periodic updates to this list. Alan Newman You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to [email protected] with "SET mcn-l DIGEST" in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to [email protected] with "SET mcn-l MAIL"
