This has been a productive week. I sent a reminder to the curators about the survey and went from a 1 in 9 response to 6 in 9. This is enough for me to begin writing up this section of my final.
I met with the person in the registrar’s office who is in charge of photo services. We discussed the content management system (ARGUS) which they use for the art collection and her wish that they also had a Digital Asset Management system. And I found that the frontrunner in my software search is from a different division of the same company that produces the ARGUS platform. I have contacted Cuadra for a free trial download of their content management system, and cost information.
It goes beyond the scope of my proposal but if they decide to purchase a content management system it could be used for more than just the Brundage Archive. AAM has inactive records and photos from events scattered in different departments and in off-site storage. They have provided only rudimentary retention guidelines for departments. If they are going to get the most use out of the system they should create a central archive and have all of these records accessioned into it.
Congratulations on receiving additional responses to the survey. I left a note in your status report, ignore it. Although a search for a content management system is outside the scope of your project, it is a very good way to add value to the services you are providing. They will appreciate it.
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