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Digital images in museums: Doing the DAM: Digital asset management at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Oberoi, Shyam |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Shyam Oberoi is the manager of Met Images. Before joining the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he worked for a number of non-profit, corporate and governmental organizations, including the New York Bar Association, VA Hospital, MCI, Lehman Brothers and Accenture. He can be reached by email at shyam.oberoimetmuseum.org C omputer science has coined the term GIGO – garbage in, garbage out – which is another way of saying that a system is only as good as the information in it. A corollary to GIGO may be “a system is only as good as the people who advocate, develop and run it.” When implementing a digital asset management system (DAMS) – which allows for the storage of and access to a seemingly limitless quantity of image, sound and video files – the need for data integrity and development acumen can be particularly acute, especially if the intention is to provide museumwide access to the DAMS and if the DAMS must sync with other systems already in place. It is imperative that the digital asset repository and its rules be clearly defined, intelligently organized and understood by those who will manage and use the system. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) has a long history of producing, using and sharing images: from black and white negatives to color transparencies and, most recently, digital images. The Met Images project, which began officially in the fall of 2005, but which was discussed and planned long before, was formed so that the Museum could more systematically create, store, manage, catalogue and distribute digital images. The goals of the project were two-fold: |
| Starting Page | 17 |
| Ending Page | 22 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1002/bult.2008.1720340405 |
| Volume Number | 34 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-08/AprMay08_Oberoi.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2008.1720340405 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
