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Cumulus
Leaders Workshop Training
Jonathon Martin
Student Director
Friday
27 August 2010
What is it??
Cumulus is a centrally based digital asset management
system. It enables a large number of people to access,
modify, and manage a group of digital assets (computer
files) from a central location.
• Or, simply stated…
Cumulus stores digital photos in a central location,
allowing users to access and modify them while
maintaining a single central library.
Why do we use it??
1). Organization
• One stop shop for all Collaboratory images. In
short…helps to keep things neat.
2). Redundancy
• With only one local database, it decreases likelihood
of having multiple copies.
3). Accessibility
• The web client is available anywhere and the software
is installed in computer labs.
3). Marketing
• Messiah Publications has access to our photos to use
in Messiah College editorials, web site, etc.
Two Faces…
Web Client
Software Client
•View/Retrieve Photos
•View/Retrieve Photos
•Accessible from anywhere
•Accessible from campus
•Add/Modify Photos
Today’s Cumulus
• Over 16,000 digital photos organized
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Project
Group
People
Site Team
Event
• Two Catalogs
• Collaboratory Internal – Contains all photos that are put on
Cumulus
• Collaboratory Marketing – Contains the best photos that are
chosen to be used for marketing purposes.
Access the Web Client
Prerequisites
•You must have a recent web browser
•You must have the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
installed.
•http://www.java.com/
Browsing
•http://ciweb.messiah.edu/collaboratory/standard/
•Or, link to Cumulus through Information Management
on the Wiki
•http://collaboratory.messiah.edu/wiki
Logging In
•Group’s Novell Account
•Faculty Novell Account access available upon request
•No Student Novell Accounts
Access the Web Client
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
View/Retrieve Images
Adding Photos
• Use Desktop Client
• Go to “Collection” tab > “New” > “Empty”
• Drag and drop photo
• Add categories by dragging and dropping photo in correct
category on left
• Add keywords by right-clicking the image and then
selecting “Information”
• Full names, 2010-2011, specific content, etc…