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Subject: Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Best
Practices in Digital Image Management, ISBN 978-157440-256-8
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:27:20 -0400
From: James Moses <[log in to unmask]>
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Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Best Practices in
Digital Image Management, ISBN 978-157440-256-8
The study presents the results of a survey of the image management policies
of 64 organizations: colleges, museums, government agencies and private
businesses, with data broken out separately for each. The exhaustive study
covers a myriad of issues including: cataloging and metadata, marketing and
distribution, use of image management software and services, revenues and
sales strategy, promotional uses of images, use of images on social media
sites such as Facebook and on image sharing sites such as Instagram and
Pinterest.
The study also looks at the type of images maintained and how these images
were acquired, through, for example, in-house scanning, outsourced scanning,
digital creation at the outset, or purchased from a commercial vendor or
other means. The report describes the type of digitization standards used,
the use of crowdsourcing, spending on rights and licensing, methods of image
retrieval available to end users, permissions protocols, discovery and
access tools, digital preservation policies and more.
Just a few of the reportâs many findings are that:
97% of higher education institutions in the sample considered in-house
scanning to be their most popular means of image acquisition.
Only 9.52 percent of survey participants, or 6 out of 63, provide
screen
shots for retrieval.
57.14 percent of all survey participants provide high resolution images
for retrieval. This is more popular among museums/government agencies, where
75 percent provide such high resolution images.
26.98 percent of all survey participants provide collection access
through Flickr,
Among the 27 participants that use standardized content descriptions,
44.44 percent use CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects), 29.63 percent use DACS
(Describing Archives Content Standards), and the remaining 25.93 percent use
MARC.
Trudy Levy assisted Primary Research Group with the questionnaire
development for this report. Trudy Levy is a founding member of the Image
Consultant Cooperative and a consultant on image management for numerous
museums and libraries including the San Francisco Public Library, CALIFA and
others. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Trudy has written on digital
asset management for Information Week, SPECTRA, Professional Photographer,
the Seybold Report, MacWeek and other publications.
For further information about this 275-page study view our website at
www.PrimaryResearch.com.
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