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Park Museum Management Program

Both the Cold Storage Project and Digital Imaging Project are geared toward parks that lack the resources to implement projects of this kind on their own.

  

Harpers Ferry Center, Media Assets Work Group is managing two large projects for the Park Museum Management Program. The parks have received some information outlining these two PMIS projects. The first is PMIS #107851, “The Cold Storage Project”, which involves preservation of existing film-based museum collections, and the second project is PMIS # 73139, “The Digital Imaging Project”, that will increase access to cataloged museum collections through the capture of high quality, digital images. The projects are funded through the National Parks Pass 30% Program.

Cold Storage Project

The Cold Storage Project will preserve film-based photographic collections primarily focusing on cellulose acetate and color films. The film will be placed in cold storage, which will greatly improve its longevity. The project will result in consistent use of storage materials and methods throughout the service and make the NPS a model for other institutions to follow. Each park will complete a Web-based mini-survey to determine the location and number of images. Park participation in the project will benefit from funding to purchase cold storage units and provide training in packaging and monitoring the film placed in these units.

  • Cold Storage Project Presentation (PowerPoint - 2 MB)
  • Cold Storage Project Presentation (PDF - 2 MB). To run a PDF document as a slide show, open the file in Adobe Acrobat, press Ctl + L to view full-screen, then proceed through each slide by pressing the spacebar or Page Down key. Press the Esc key when done.
  • Contact information for the Cold Storage Project: Theresa Voellinger (phone: 304-535-2914; email: theresa_voellinger@nps.gov).

Digital Imaging Project

The Digital Imaging Project will capture 7,500 high quality, digital images per year of significant cataloged collection objects over a five-year period. The project will allow parks to expand the public knowledge about the diversity and depth of their museum collections. Parks will be able to reduce the risk to the museum collection by providing collection access through high quality images for researcher and reproduction use. Three different resolutions of the digital image will be provided to parks that can be associated with the catalog records, downloaded to meet the needs of public users and be available upon request from a central repository.
Both projects are geared toward parks that lack the resources to implement projects of this kind on their own. Targeted are the 20% fee demo parks and those that are on the 100% fee retention list. The 80% retention parks can also benefit from these projects through application to the PMIS system.

  
Author: Harpers Ferry Center
Last Updated: Monday, 19-Nov-2007 09:48:18 Eastern Standard Time
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