Please excuse the cross-post but I thought some of you might like to
know about this.
Cheers, Mia
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From: Perian Sully <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 19 September 2011 20:35
Subject: [MCN-L] New Flickr uploader for museums, Sammu, available for
pre-release
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <[log in to unmask]>
Hi everyone:
As many of you know, Balboa Park Online Collaborative has helped seven
organizations in Balboa Park upload close to 110,000 images to Flickr.
Because of the diversity of information and images that these
organizations represent, we needed an easy-to-use way of marrying
database records with their images, ensuring that the information is
displayed properly within Flickr's Description, Tags, and Title
fields. As a result, we've been hard at work on a new image uploader
for the museum community that will greatly facilitate online access to
collections on Flickr. Called Sammu (for Synchronized Automated Media
Metadata Uploader), it ingests museum database exports and merges the
records with their images and uploads them together.
To see an example of an account uploaded using Sammu, check out the
Museum of Photographic Arts' Flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mopa1 Since this account launched in May,
it has enjoyed over 160,000 views, and there's an active community of
commenters and discussions about the collection.
We're just about ready to release Sammu to the museum community at
large, but we'd like a few dedicated volunteers to check out the
software and help us kick the wheels. Sammu does require Mac OS 10.6
or higher to run. Sorry, PC folks.
If you're interested, please drop me a line at [log in to unmask] I look
forward to hearing from you!
~Perian
Perian Sully
Project Manager: Online Access and Digital Asset Management
Balboa Park Online Collaborative
http://www.bpoc.org
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