From: Ed Earle <eea...@ammi.org>
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Subject: RE: Digital Images for Registration
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:35:30 -0400
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Our original scans are saved as TIFF files. We use the tiff header to
store text associated with the image (title, maker, accession number,
date, publisher, etc). This is a mini Dublin core as part of the data
structure of the image itself. We use the "file info" feature in Adobe
Photoshop to embed this information in the file.
* Ed
Edward W. Earle
American Museum of the Moving Image
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From: Leslie Johnston <lesl...@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Digital Images for Registration
>
>1)What kind of file name or number do you integrate into the
image file so
>that
>it can be coordinated with the paper log? Or do you include in
each shot
>a slip of paper with the registration no. written on it, next
to the
>object? Or
>shoot each item with its marked registration no. showing?
The paper log has the name of the shot as recorded on the camera
(this is
set in stone by the camera and cannot be changed at the time of
recording)
and the accession number. When the image is pulled from the
diskette for
color correction and resizing it is renamed with the accession
number.
>
>We actually have a law (the Museums Law 198... well, I forget
the year) which
>stipulates these requirements for registration documentation
photographs. In
>fact, as the law stipulates the neccessity of a "negative" and
"negative no."
>we're not sure if a digital file and file name will be
acceptable. (A
>special
>committee is advising the Israeli Justice Dept. on changes in
legislation
>needed
>for the acceptance of digital documents as evidence in court --
which
>might lead
>to an eventual solution.)
>
>Do any list members have similar legal or procedural
requirements?
We do not have such a law.
>
>Has anyone run into an insurance company which would not accept
a digital
>image
>in the case of a damage or theft claim (due to ease of
manipulation)?
>
>2) Do you automatically create, in addition to the digital
image for
>registration, a conventional photograph?
>
This is a major issue for us as we have visual documentation of
maybe 20%
of our collections. Unfortunately, we do not have a
photographer on staff.
Our head preparator was doing photography on an as-needed basis
(he is a
pro, by the way), but that had to stop as we near the
reinstallation of
collections into the galleries. A policy was set by our head
registrar
that we _must_ shoot a digital image of every incoming object
because of
this lack of standard photography. We will also shoot objects
with the
digital camera as they go into the galleries if they are
completely lacking
visual documentation.
Leslie
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Leslie Johnston
Academic Technology Specialist
Stanford University Museum of Art / Art Department
lesl...@leland.stanford.edu
