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Image Alt Tags: A Resolution for 2020

Improve Your Web Collection’s Accessibility and Optimize Its Discoverability on the Internet Never heard of Image Alt Tags? Based on Gallery Systems’ experience working with museums, it is fair to say that a good number of web collection pages don’t yet include this important data. 2020 may be the year that will change. What [...]

Image Alt Tags: A Resolution for 20202020-01-27T09:42:04-05:00

How to Select the Right Digital Asset Management System for Your Museum

As museums continue to generate more and more digital assets, it becomes increasingly clear how important it is to find the right Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for your institution. New digital assets are constantly added through existing Museum Collections Management Software: new additions to collections come with accompanying digital media and current collections [...]

How to Select the Right Digital Asset Management System for Your Museum2019-11-20T11:16:02-05:00

The imai Foundation

Cataloguing Time Based Media The City of Düsseldorf established the inter media art institute (imai Foundation) in 2006 as an archive to care for an acquired video collection. The archive contains around 3,000 works of Time Based Media art, and provides context to the history of Time Based Media from the 1970s through today. [...]

The imai Foundation2020-03-19T09:40:34-04:00

Implementing a Digital Strategy Integration with an Already Existing Strategy

Museums are embracing the digital age, and are developing digital strategy integrations to meet audience members where they already are. From Facebook, to online galleries, to Medium posts and everything in between, museums are putting their content online and in front of audiences so they can engage on a deeper level. As users are engaging with these [...]

Implementing a Digital Strategy Integration with an Already Existing Strategy2019-06-03T11:51:44-04:00

Creating a Digital Strategy for Your Institution

As museums move further into the age of digital, museum visitors have a stronger expectation to engage with institutions and their collections through digital portals. Museum Professionals are developing and strengthening their outreach through experimentation, and recording their findings in their digital strategies. Creating a strong digital strategy for museums helps ensure that collection access [...]

Creating a Digital Strategy for Your Institution2019-06-11T10:16:20-04:00

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

How a new DAMS Software Upgrade is helping to Streamline Workflows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, (MFAH) was founded in 1900 and opened to the public in 1924 with a mandate to bring “art into the everyday life” of the Houston community. Today, the museum boasts the [...]

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston2019-06-11T10:31:30-04:00

Content Strategy: Is it all About Digital?

Digital Content Strategies have become a popular topic among institutions, with many museums developing and even posting these strategies, aiming to stay accountable to their audiences. Open publishing allows museums to share details with their public, serving them and the museum mission simultaneously, while establishing trusted and sustainable audience relationships. How to Start a Museum [...]

Content Strategy: Is it all About Digital?2019-09-05T15:33:20-04:00

High Volume Digitization: How a conveyer-belt imaging system is improving access to the Smithsonian’s collections

Less than 1% of the 138 million objects housed by the Smithsonian’s 19 different museums are on public display, with most of the collections hidden away in storage.  One increasingly common way to improve access is digitization: photographing, scanning, and web publishing to bring these hidden collections to light. For very large collections, digitization can be [...]

High Volume Digitization: How a conveyer-belt imaging system is improving access to the Smithsonian’s collections2020-01-27T09:27:06-05:00

Crafting Your Digital Strategy? The Warhol Puts Theirs Online

When museums are able to embrace new technologies, they can bring sweeping changes to the institution that supports the museum, their staff, and their public on a higher level than ever before. In order to take full advantage of these opportunities, museum staff are including their digital initiatives in their museum’s strategic plan. Evolving to [...]

Crafting Your Digital Strategy? The Warhol Puts Theirs Online2019-10-07T14:50:27-04:00

Best Practices for Cataloguing Photographic Archives

As galleries, libraries, archives and museums bring their physical objects into the digital realm, new methods of organization need to be designed to support the accessibility and sustainability of the digital media. Sarah Gillis, Assistant Registrar for Image Management at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, specializes in cataloguing photographic archives. At our [...]

Best Practices for Cataloguing Photographic Archives2020-01-30T10:59:53-05:00