[MCN-L] expansion of -- Re: Department name question

[Tony Gill]

My unit here at the Center for Jewish History is called the Gruss Lipper
Digital Laboratory, named after the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation that
provided the initial 2-year start-up funding.

In addition to myself, we also employ 6 staff across 3 full-time
equivalent roles:

 - Quality Assurance & Metadata Librarian (1 x full-time)
 - Digital Camera Operator (3 x part-time)
 - Digital Asset Production Associate (2 x part-time)

We primarily work on imaging, using the following equipment:

 - BetterLight Super 8K-HS on a AIAXAct 3040DV copystand
 - Mamiya 645 ZD on a Kaiser RS-1 copystand
 - Epson Expression 10000XL Photo flatbed scanner
 - Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi Pro AF-5000 film scanner
 - Various hardware-specific software, plus Adobe Photoshop CS2

We are also doing an increasing amount of audio digitization, using the
following equipment (and recently got a METRO grant to digitize more
audio materials):

 - Teac 860-R cassette deck
 - Otari MX5050 BII 2 reel-to-reel tape deck (recently purchased on
eBay!)
 - Behringer UB502 mixer
 - M-Audio Audiophile 192 soundcard
 - Sony SoundForge 8

We haven't done any video digitization in-house yet, but are looking
into acquiring the hardware to digitize video from Beta SP video tapes.

You can find much of what we've digitized so far here:
http://digital.cjh.org/

Cheers,

T.
--
Tony Gill
Director, Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory
Center for Jewish History  http://www.cjh.org/
Telephone: +1 (917) 606-8212


> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:40:10 -0500
> From: Deborah Wythe <deborahwythe at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [MCN-L] expansion of -- Re:  Department name question
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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> 
> This has been an interesting thread (esp. the most recent posts...)
> To expand the discussion: most of the responses seem to 
> indicate that digital photography and scanning are the 
> primary responsibilities. 
> 
> I'm curious about where digital video and audio recording 
> fall in other museums. Here it's more of a stepchild than 
> anything -- if a department needs these media (usually Design 
> or for the Web), they either contract out or borrow a video 
> cam or digital audio recorder from IS for less formal 
> projects. Digital Lab sometimes fields questions about 
> formats and long term storage, but we're not responsible for 
> creating AV materials.
> 
> Others?
> Deb Wythe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Deborah WytheHead, Digital Collections and ServicesBrooklyn 
> Museum200 Eastern ParkwayBrooklyn, NY 11238tel: 718 501 
> 6311fax: 718 501 6145deborahwythe at hotmail.com