Hello Julie,
As someone who is working toward implementing a DAMS, I would say that
having a system that handles the master TIF files is very important. It's
the difference between having a repository and simply having an access tool.
Once you are managing more than a few thousand files,
Hi everyone,
I am helping to start a new museum and am looking at computer software
for several functions. I would like to pose a general question. Our IS
staff will be small, and we are interested in having our data between
systems integrated as much as possible. We will be a global
Hi Amanda:
Congratulations! I am rather quite envious that you won't have a bunch of
cleanup and nasty legacy data to deal with!
How large do you think your museum will ultimately end up? Scale can be a
determining factor in which software you choose. For instance - I love how
well KE Software's
Amanda,
Software for Collections Management:
Here in the UK MDA is often asked the question Which collections
management system should I buy?. What we generally say that is not
possible to give a simple answer and advise them to make their
decision based on a number of different factors:
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Another flash memory based player, not as robust as Scott's suggestion,
but might meet your needs at $170:
http://www.medeawiz.com/products/Dv68.htm
Resold by Impart Media Group:
http://www.impartinc.com/
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Matthew Stevens, Technology Officer
Adventure Science Center
800 Fort Negley Blvd
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Other obvious solution is to get a 3 (or more) way VGA distribution
amplifier and/or VGA over Cat5 extenders. This would undoubtedly work,
although you can get colour separation issues.
I don't like this as it ties our display devices to the fixed locations
where the dedicated cat5
In addition to Gordon's excellent advice, I would recommend that
(although I'm sure you dread the idea of doing this) you consider
writing a Request For Proposal and shopping it to the CMS vendors.
Even if you imagine that your institution is too small to warrant this
effort, it is enormously
