DAM

oh agony of automatic processes
oh dreams in metadata ecstasies.

Today the process by which the files loaded into the Digital Archive Management system (heretofore known as the DAM) are resized, compressed, and generated as an image folder, csv, and Access database for use with the medialoader plugin in the Objects module of The Museum System -

did not work.

There is a manual system for handling this, of course, though not so manual as to forgo the medialoader, of course. Everyone involved in reconstructing this manual process felt nervous, nostalgic, or nothing, and, of course, it all worked out and everyone got their images even though one person complained for a second but of course there was another set of images that we received later for which we had to perform two processes one of which inexplicably involves the terms "neuner" and "jetstream" but that also worked out, of course, though I myself have not yet learned to neuner (shall I ever?)

Later the database administrator solved the problem but this will create a set of 500 or so error messages that will surely grate upon the nerves tomorrow.

oh digital humanity, the darkness of my boring heart.