Streamline the cataloguing of time-based media collections and film archives with TMS Collections

Time-Based Media Collections and Film Archives

With many moving parts at play, time-based media collections and film archives require a flexible, sophisticated collections management system to better manage their cataloguing and organization. Our software ensures every collection object, its display equipment, and documentation is flawlessly managed, from the pre-acquisition stages to your gallery floor.

Easily manage both physical and digital assets with the numerous customization features available in the user-friendly interface

Benefit from versatile modules and features, designed to simplify the unique challenges of time-based media collections

Get the most from your data with endless configurability and automated metadata extraction from digital assets

Stay organized and have a clear view of accessioned works, thanks to unlimited object linking for easy future reporting and digital delivery

Overcome the hurdles of TBMA documentation, care, and obsolescence with a centralized, searchable database

Host and play time-based media video files directly in the database, and publish them online with eMuseum to promote public engagement

Features to manage your time-based media collections and film archives

Object records

Keep detailed object records with custom input fields and an unlimited number of linked photos.

Linked media

Enrich your object records by uploading video and audio files, and play them directly in the interface.

Tombstone view

Easily manage the many different versions and formats of your time-based media art (TBMA) with our components feature.

Hierarchy view

Document each component according to its specific location for superior object management.


	Before [TMS], if we wanted to catalogue all of the details about the multiple tapes and copies for our time-based media collection, it would become very complicated.

	Hiroko Kimura-Myokam, Research Fellow, The imai Foundation

Read the latest articles for time-based media collections

Collective Conversations with Bryan Miller
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Collective Conversations with Bryan Miller
Collective Conversations, General, Time Based Media

Collective Conversations with Bryan Miller

Media Cataloger, National Museum of African American History & Culture
Catch up with Bryan Miller, Media Cataloger at the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), in the first interview of our new series, CI 2023: Collective Conversations. Get to know their CI 2023 speakers attending their sessions in Washington, D.C. [...]

The imai Foundation
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The imai Foundation
Case Studies, Collections Managers, Registrars, Time Based Media

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 [...]

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