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Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
Models for pottery collection from Smithsonian.
useCaseJWA - Solution Communities - DuraSpace Wiki
Entry in Durspace wiki about a museum using Fedora, Drupal, and Amazon Web services to provide a Digital Asset Management system. Could be useful for Bethel's purposes.
Advocating for Visual Resources Management white_paper
From the Visual Resources Association. Discusses how educational and cultural institutions can manage their visual resources better with the growth of online education and quantity of materials.
Digital Asset Management Systems RLG DigiNews December 15, 2006, Volume 10, Number 6
Article discussing the use of DAMS in museums in three parts. Edited by Gunter Waibel.
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Add Sticky NoteMet’s commitment to asking and answering a series of questions not always built into the development process for digital asset management activities in the not-for-profit world. Our questions included quantitative ones such as: “How big is the collection of assets?” and “How much storage will be required?” We asked questions about proprietorship and access: “Who uses the assets?” and “Who will manage them?” We wondered about the quality and value of the assets: “Should images that are made available to the public be color corrected?” and “If the object’s descriptive record has not been reviewed, may it be distributed along with the asset?” and finally, “Are existing descriptions adequate to support successful searching at all?” We also asked a number of questions that forced the Met’s staff and executives to think through fundamental intellectual property policy positions: “Who decides who may use the assets, both inside and outside of the museum?” and “Is the Met’s goal to profit from the licensing of images, or to support an educational mandate for broad distribution?” All of these questions needed to be considered in light of a process that would, inevitably, seek to automate the answers. Processes and policies that had heretofore been entrusted to individuals within the organization would need to be formalized so that a system might manage them; decisions that had been made on an ad hoc basis now needed to be seen as patterns that formed policies. And as we found answers to our questions, the scope of the project inevitably grew.
- Make sure we ask these questions that non-profits don't always ask in development. Last couple of sentences is crucial to understand because an automated process is hard to overcome once it is established. - on 2009-11-04
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Despite the shift from a return-on-investment to a mission-driven rationale, the project retained its inventory and cataloguing elements, building into each phase activities intended to develop additional inventory and enhance cataloguing. The decision to maintain this emphasis on content development has helped the project to achieve widespread support throughout the institution.
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Roman de la Rose: Page turner: Walters Art Museum, W. 143
Cool page-turning interface to this medieval manuscript held at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
New Media Initiatives » Behind-the-scenes of ArtsConnectEd: Art Finder
Describes the making of this service that provides access to the digital holdings of the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Yakima Memory : Search Results
Museum that uses CONTENTdm for video. Small frame presentation where video is embedded into the page.
Bibliographies of the United States Holocaust Museum
The Research library of the Holocaust museum has almost 50 topic lists that include a link to WorldCat
ArtsConnectEd - Help
Great list of open source software that makes this website of the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Art possible.
Smithsonian Web & New Media Strategy Concept Map
Excellent concept map on the mission of a knowledge diffusing organization such as a library or museum.
SI Web and New Media Strategy - home
Wiki for the planning of using the Web and New Media to further the Smithsonian's mission.
Special Collections - Virtual Museum & Digital Collections
Includes Buffalo Creek Flood which incorporates text, images, audio and video for a virtual museum of the event. Hosted by Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009)
Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.
Museum Pipes
Blog from an employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that uses Yahoo Pipes to create cool feeds to augment websites. Also has links to API's of many popular sites like delicious, NPR, Flickr, and Twitter.
Browse Institutions with Digital Collections - IMLS Digital Collection Registry
National aggregation of digital collections from Libraries, Archives and Museums funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Can browse by geography, subject or type of object (sound, video, text).
WebWise 2009: Washington D.C.
Conference agenda includes leading authorities from the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and other library and museum leaders. David Lankes. Digital Initiatives Librarians.
Smithsonian 2.0: Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
Depicts reservations people have about sharing collections online and allowing "the masses" to contribute.
The Museum of Modern Art Enhances Its Web Site - NYTimes.com
Digitizing and using social media on their Websites, museums have captured the interest and admiration of their patrons. Specifically mentions Walker Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum as leaders of this movement.
Intranet Survey - Museum Computer Network
Intranet systems used and important features of them. Initiated by member of Museum Computer Network listserv.
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