sacred object records
Hi, I was wondering how institutions are dealing with records of sacred objects in their collections databases, and who has access to the records? Thanks, Jovanna _ Jovanna Scorsone Digital Asset Coordinator New Media Resources, ROM Digital Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA Phone: 416.586.5598 Fax.: 416.586.5642 www.rom.on.ca --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: sacred object records
Thanks Diane. Shall do! Jovanna dzor...@mindspring.com 02/01/06 2:24 PM Jovanna, Check with Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian (Jane Sledge, their Information Resource Manager, might be the best contact - jsle...@ic.si.edu). Last I heard, they were working on some very interesting database access features for just this situation. Diane Hi, I was wondering how institutions are dealing with records of sacred objects in their collections databases, and who has access to the records? Thanks, Jovanna _ Jovanna Scorsone Digital Asset Coordinator New Media Resources, ROM Digital Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA Phone: 416.586.5598 Fax.: 416.586.5642 www.rom.on.ca --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: dzor...@mindspring.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- Diane M. Zorich 113 Gallup Road Princeton, NJ 08542 USA Voice: 609-252-1606 Fax: 609-252-1607 Email: dzor...@mindspring.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jovan...@rom.on.ca To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Taxonomies, metadata cataloguing - Wow!
Please excuse cross posting: Who would have thought that taxonomies, metadata cataloguing would be the topic of 2005? PLC at the University of Toronto offers courses resources for all levels. Classroom courses: Taxonomies Metadata, a classroom course, back by popular demand beginning Nov 25/05; check it out at http://www.plc.fis.utoronto.ca/coursedescription.asp?courseid=165 It was entertaining and refreshing to see two instructors that are so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the topic. While I have been doing this work for a long time, it was very good to get caught up with the terminology used so that I can better explain to people what I do. Basic Library Cataloguing for the Non-Cataloguer, Nov 25 - 26/05; http://www.plc.fis.utoronto.ca/coursedescription.asp?courseid=180 Learn from Grant Campbell, an incredibly engaging professor from Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Online Resource Learning Tool: The Taxonomy Guide, always current linked to Taxonomy Watch blog. Check out the demo http://plc.fis.utoronto.ca/tgdemo/ subscribe, or combine this with the Taxonomies Metadata course. New courses are added weekly at plc.fis.utoronto.ca. PLC: Professional Learning Competencies. --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Digital Imaging Procedures
Out of curiosity, do you have any standards for initial record shots such as background colour, Accession Number in photos and size/colour scales? Also, are your publication quality shots taken on any specific background colours? Thanks, Jovanna _ Jovanna Scorsone Information Designer New Media Resources, ROM Digital Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA jovan...@rom.on.ca Phone: 416.586.5598 Fax.: 416.586.5519 mri...@ima-art.org 07/12/05 3:46 PM We have a process here at the Indianapolis Museum of Art that falls into that exact description. When a piece comes into the museum it is photographed (low quality) for condition by a registrar during condition reporting. These shots are then put into our collection management system as reference. After the objects have went through our acquisition commitee any additional pieces are photographed and also placed in the collection management system. At the request of the curator (and sometimes Marketing department) these objects are photographed at publication quality. These images are then used to replace the reference images in the collection management system. We are working on a procedure now where the piece comes directly into the studio for publication quality photography after the acquistion committee makes their selections. Its good to have an image in the system (low or high quality) quickly for security purposes. Thats it in a nutshell. Michael Rippy Assistant Photographer Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN, USA 46208-3326 (317)920-2662 ext.191 www.ima-art.org mri...@ima-art.org www.museumphotographers.org m...@museumphotographers.org to...@umich.edu 7/12/2005 2:02 PM 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, _ Toni Kramer Database Manager University of Michigan Museum of Art Email: to...@umich.edu Phone: 734-763-0256 _ I am in the Museum Mondays, Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays. --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: mri...@ima-art.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jovan...@rom.on.ca To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Parent Child Relationships
Hello All, We at the ROM are looking at introducing parent child relationships into our collections databases. I would be interested in hearing of other institutions' experiences. Thanks, Jovanna --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
