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From Object to Access: Digitization at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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PRESENTATION TITLEPresentation Subtitle
From Object to Access: Digitization at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Tascha Mae Horowitz, Manager of Photography
Kyle Jaebker, Director of IMA Lab
Anne M. Young, Manager of Rights and Reproductions
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The need to find an efficient way to utilize and disseminate collection images and data via open access
The Access Quandry
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Hotel Lobby, 1943, Indianapolis Museum of Art, William Ray Adams Memorial Collection, 47.4© Edward Hopper
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What Wasn’t Working
• Photography department images lived in 4 places• Many images were not “ready” or “finished” and no way of
designating if they were• All image requests had to go through a member of
photography staff• No way of running reports or statistics related to collection
photography• No caption or rights information was retained with the images• Metadata and image syncing was prone to failure• Reliant on old technology and institutional memory
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MediaBin
Not all images for a piece are presented sequentially and there was no search function so relies on
institutional memory
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Nuxeo
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• Made it necessary for all image requests to go through photography
• No visual searching
• No keyword searching
• Did not support DNG format
• Could only display 1000 files per folder
• Process for linking an image to its collection data and assigning a primary image took about 20 steps
It’s about fit…• No ability to batch anything:
• Associations• Linking• Downloading• File Conversions
• Not intuitive for average user
• Tried to be both of these:• Document Management
System• Digital Asset Management
System
Why Nuxeo Didn’t Work for the IMA
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Old IMA Collection Pages
Copyright Notice
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Moving Forward
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• Created an IMA specific list of DAM requirements.
• Created an internship with an information science graduate student to work only on this project.
• Researched what systems existed and who was using them.
• Made the decision to separate document management and digital asset management.
• Commercial vs. open source.
• Once we narrowed the list, we reached out to known institutions using these systems and interviewed them about their experience.
• What do we have that we can leverage?
DAM Preparatory Work
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• Backend/Technical• Searching• Organization
• Uploading/downloading• Permissions• Vendor Support
IMA DAM Requirements
• Interdepartmental task force • Institution approved controlled vocabulary• Cleaning up collection images (still in progress)• Cleaning up hundreds of thousands of non-collection
images while adding keywords and metadata
DAM Preparatory Work
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The New DAM is…
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• “Cleaning up” over 90,000 collection images
– Evaluating for file size and quality, color balance, and contrast levels
– Standardizing file formats – every approved image has 3 versions (tif, jpeg, and dng)
– Working cross departmentally to standardizing file naming (PS_XXXX-XX_v01 and REG_XXXX-XX_v01)
– Ensuring that all approved imagery has a primary image assigned and designated through proper file naming
Piction - Preparatory Work
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Piction Preparatory Work
vs.
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IMA Licensing Agreement
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KE-EMu Rights Module
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Sharing & Tracking Rights in Excel
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KE-EMu to Piction Field Name Mapping
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KE-EMu to Piction Field Name Mapping
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Piction – Preparatory Work
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Piction – Preparatory Work
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Piction – Fine Tuning• Search functionality• Metadata ingestion & Imbedding• Thesaurus terms for collection imagery• Sorting order• Permission levels for staff – 4• Tombstone info on prints• Caption generation• Multiple collections require varied import
scripts
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Piction – Fine Tuning
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Piction – Fine Tuning
File downloads based on user group permissions.
Word document export includes thumbnail image with basic Tombstone data about the work.
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CMS-DAM Coordination Results
• Self sufficiency for museum staff for majority of image requests
• More time for photography staff to document the collection
• Relaunch of online collection pages with improved search functionality and image quality
• Ability to obtain accurate statistics of collection imagery
• Increased accessibility to collection has allowed us to apply for grant support for additional collection documentation
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American Art Collection Digitization Project funded by the Luce foundation
• Received a two year grant to digitize our American Art Collection
• IMA’s work with Piction and the potential dissemination of collection images through both our DAM and our new website was an integral part of the successful grant application
• Project includes both digitization as well as data research and clean up
• Goal is to have publication quality imagery of each piece plus complete and verified basic data sets
• Project includes about 2200 objects over 22 months• Hired 4 staff members
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Data Dagwood
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Mercury
Dagwood
EMuPiction
MediaBin
Tags (STEVE)
Extended Text
Color Detection
Related Media
Nuxeo
Data Dagwood
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Static Web Pages
A web page that is delivered to the user exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application.
Static web pages are suitable for content that never or rarely needs to be updated. However, maintaining large numbers of static pages as files can be impractical without automated tools.
Any personalization or interactivity has to be run client side.
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DESIGN: THE DATA
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DESIGN: MOBILE FIRST
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Increased OA at the IMA• Ability to obtain accurate statistics of collection images
• Benchmarked and amended fee schedule– Income is no longer the goal– Still want to know where & when the
IMA collection is reproduced– Instead seek to disseminate images
and foster scholarly endeavors
• Relaunch of online collection pages with improved search functionality and image quality– Collection page high resolution downloads
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Increased OA at the IMA
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New IMA Collection Pages
Jump to Object
Information
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New IMA Collection Pages
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New IMA Collection Pages
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New IMA Collection Pages
Link to the Image Resources section
of the IMA website
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THE NUMBERS
• 51,996 Total Objects• 23,998 Objects with Images• 33,430 Total Images• 15,177 Available Downloads
(21,785 Images)• 23,047 Hi-Res Zoomable Objects
(32,391 Images)• Approx 3,000 downloads over 3
months
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• Take the time to get it right:– Access data, staffing, workflows
• Don’t jump into OA without workflows set:– Ensure the coordinated delivery of object
metadata and rights information with high-res image files.
So much more!!!
Final Thoughts
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Thank you!
Tascha Mae Horowitz, Manager of Photography
Kyle Jaebker, Director of IMA Lab
Anne M. Young, Manager of Rights and Reproductions