[MCN-L] Lock Files from alteration

Yes, you can set the file system security to give read only rights to most of the users and edit rights to the one person that can modify the data. The rights are assigned at the root data folder, which will transfer the security to all of the sub-folders and files. You set the security at

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 89, Issue 9

I can't answer your question, but I would like to comment that my museum encourages the staff to use the searchable on-line collection rather than the collection management system (TMS), which is mainly used by the Registrar for inventory and loan purposes and by the catalogers. David Parsell

[MCN-L] Hosting hardware requirements

Ari, Your statement about using Amazon as a repository is very interesting. Can you discuss the size of the images you are sending to the repository and how many MBs or TBs you are storing each month? How is the speed on ingest and retrieval? I've been looking at Amazon as well, but have

[MCN-L] Asset storage, what is enough redundency??

Hi all, We are preparing to install a Digital Asset Management System, which has led to a debate regarding what is enough redundant storage to keep the digital assets safe from disaster. Initially we specified production and mirrored on-line storage at different physical locations on campus

[MCN-L] Razuna open source DAM

Dear all, I would like to expand Perian's question to include any open source DAM. I'm very interested in Razuna or any other open source system. We need to install a DAM to manage our growing digital assets, but are reluctant to purchase an expensive commercial solution without first

[MCN-L] TMS diacritics question

Hello all, I am looking for information on how others using TMS are entering diacritics and/or other alphabets into TMS fields such as object title and bibliography title/ name. I know there are a few Unicode fields available in TMS, but they deal with object context and the constituent name,