Hi Kate - Without cataloging reasons of all sorts, I can tell you
that Macs will access a Windows server easily enough, but PCs will
"complain" when hitting on a Mac server. Microsoft wants you to use
Microsoft up and down the line. But they are lousy at handling large
image files (despi
My questions is why do you feel you need a 24" MAC?
More importantly you need a well spec'ed and fast machine, if you feel
you need to evaluate the image on screen then you need a colour
corrected monitor such as www.eizo.com . The colour management and using
a Gretag Macbeth color chart with ever
So everyone is chiming in so I figured I'd give you our experience at the
Columbus Museum of Art. We have 92 PC's and 6 Macs. The macs are used in
Education and the Design Department. When I first got here I found that they
were slow (unusually slow) and there were problems with them integrating
We use EmbARK from Gallery Systems and find it works well for us.
Lu Harper
Librarian/Webmaster
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
lharper at mag.rochester.edu
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I am just going to chime in here. At the Maine Historical Society we have
been using Macs in our digital department since 1999 because the director
of that department preferred Macs. He has since left and we are all
converts. We have a network in the organization that is mostly PC but the
Maine Mem
At least once a week I get email from Convio suggesting that we want
to use their services to do more with our e-communications. They are
absolutely correct that managing e-communications with Constant
Contact doesn't do much for us--there are no tools to easily segment
users or to maintain good in
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) recently completed a study
that addresses new competencies in museums, and especially the impact that
technology has had on the museum worker and Museum Studies Programs in
Canada and in the US. The study was undertaken by faculty members in the
F
Thanks Travis. As you can imagine, budget is a major concern for us as
we are a small, private, non-profit. Budget concerns for state entities
such as VMFA is a whole different ball game.
Ann Drury Wellford
Photo Services Manager
The Museum of the Confederacy
1201 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 2
Hello Drury,
We use an Epson 1XL for our digitization work. The images are
scanned into a Mac and are saved as TIFF files (with a file extension of
.tif) with a Windows Byte Order. The images are transferred from the Mac
to one of our network servers. We do QA from our PCs. Typically, the
image
I don't want to feed the "tastes great - less filling" debate, but if you
decide to go with a Mac then I agree a tower is the way to go. The iMac
monitors are glossy, which can be troublesome for critical image work. We
are using both Eizo and Mac Cinema Display monitors, and after careful
profilin
We have never had problems with having a mixed environment of macs and pcs
and connecting them to a Windows server. I also run VMWare [Windows
emulation software] on the mac, and it runs windows faster than on a windows
machine. We use the Macs primarily for design work, as most of the printing
h
actually a better monitor for color critical work on a mac is the eizo, the
color edge cg19 is what im using here.
Quoting "Jeff L. La Clair" :
> I Agree, I would go with a larger MAC power horse, this way you can upgrade
> the memory, HD space, and even replace the video card when needed.
> If
A question for the forum then - would any of you working in the realm of
copyright and licensing, image archives/management or visual resources, be
willing to share your job descriptions? I am thinking of positions like rights
and reproductions, copyright administrators, image
librarians/archiv
I Agree, I would go with a larger MAC power horse, this way you can upgrade the
memory, HD space, and even replace the video card when needed.
If you are a small institution I would recommend saving your images to a DROBO
or LACIE type unit with raid level 5. I would also recommend if possible
Greetings all,
I am happy to have found the MCN list serve! On the point regarding
Mac vs. PC, I had a few thoughts based from our experiences at the
Cincinnati Art Museum. If your institution is PC based, as most are,
you might want to consider sticking with the PC at least for the first
Definitely go with a Mac. They will become even more compatible with
PCs with the upcoming release of OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)which will
feature long overdue Microsoft Exchange Server integration with all it's
major apps, i.e. Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.
Chris Alexander | Manager of Interactive T
Thank you all so much for your input. Your comments have been a
tremendous help to us!
Mark - The 24" Mac was recommended because of the color quality on the
monitor. We do always use a color chart on our scans, and we may be
following your recommendations if our IT department is too resistant t
Hello all, I'm interested if anyone has experience with mixing in Mac
servers in a primarily Windows-based network architecture.
I agree with all the perspectives shared in this thread as related to
workstations, computing-culture and end-user satisfaction. The question
of servers does not affect
Mark-
While it's true that an uncalibrated Mac defaults to 1.8 gamma-If the
24" Mac is calibrated and profiled to 2.2 Gamma- then it doesn't have
a different gamma than PC.
Richard Anderson, ASMP Digital Standards Chair
On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Mark Evely wrote:
> My questions is why
Kate:
One thing to consider with running a DAMS on a Mac server vs. something
else, is that if you have any future plans for integrating your DAMS
with, say, your CIS or CMS, and those are on a Windows server, it may
add an extra layer of complexity to have two different server
environments. I exp
We are a small university art gallery with a collection of
approximately 3500 objects and a few small archives. We show
approximately 6 exhibitions a year, half of which we produce, and half
are usually collaborations or traveling exhibitions. We travel 1 or 2
of our own exhibitions a year.
Interesting reading all the responses that this post generated. Some emotional
and very thoughtful.
One point not made is that Apple does not provide the same type of support and
advance look on products to enterprises that Microsoft does, it seems to ignore
the business market in favor or pr
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