[MCN-L] Barcoding Label Stock
The Musical Instrument Museum is interested in implementing a barcoding project using archival hangtags for objects and adhesive labels for crates and archival storage boxes. We currently own a Zebra ZM400 printer which we hoped to use for the purpose of printing these. I am currently working on sourcing the label stock, and am interested in the experiences of any other museums that have implemented (or are implementing) similar projects. 1. Are you using hangtags or adhesive labels? 2. What kind of label stock are you using? 3. Who is your vendor for this stock? 4. Did your conservation staff approve the label stock? 5. If you are using adhesive labels - how long do anticipate the adhesive binding the label to the crate/box/etc? Many thanks in advance for your responses, and my apologies for cross posting this. Chad Petrovay | Collections Database Administrator MIM-Musical Instrument Museum | 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard | Phoenix, AZ 85050 480.478.6000 main | 480.478.6058 direct | 480.471.8690 fax | www.themim.org
[MCN-L] The Big QR > City of New York Blankets Times Square With Giant QR Codes
To celebrate Internet Week 2010, the City of New York outfitted Times Square with giant QR codes earlier today. It?s called ?The City at Your Fingerprints? and eleven New York agencies participated in the interactive billboard initiative. Times Square denizens could use their smartphone barcode scanning app to scan the QR codes ? which were featured in an animated sequence on the Thomson Reuters building in Times Square from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET ? and pull up information relating to specific agencies being featured. [snip] These QR codes are certainly impressive to behold and are a nice first try from NYC Media, the agency behind the effort. [snip] !! Libraries > Wake Up And See The Future !!! BTW: If You Think I've Lost Patience W/ My Colleagues That Still Live In The 20th Century > You're Correct > Get A Clue !!! Full Story And Other Photos Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/2592sg6 ] !!! Thanks To Mashable Mobile For The Tweet !!! EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>
[MCN-L] Augmented Reality Explained by Common Craft
What it Teaches This video is an introduction to augmented reality - a new and growing way to use smartphones to learn about the world around you. This video introduces the technology and covers the basic applications. It includes: ?A high level introduction to the big idea ?Using it to find a restaurant ?Using it to compare products, be entertained ?A look at future possibilities of augmented reality << An Entertaining And Clear Explanation >>> Source and Link Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/29a6rth ] See You On The Radio [:-) /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>
[MCN-L] Barcoding Label Stock
On 6/10/10 4:40 PM, "Chad Petrovay" wrote: The Musical Instrument Museum is interested in implementing a barcoding project using archival hangtags for objects and adhesive labels for crates and archival storage boxes. We currently own a Zebra ZM400 printer which we hoped to use for the purpose of printing these. I am currently working on sourcing the label stock, and am interested in the experiences of any other museums that have implemented (or are implementing) similar projects. 1. Are you using hangtags or adhesive labels? 2. What kind of label stock are you using? 3. Who is your vendor for this stock? 4. Did your conservation staff approve the label stock? 5. If you are using adhesive labels - how long do anticipate the adhesive binding the label to the crate/box/etc? Many thanks in advance for your responses, and my apologies for cross posting this. Chad Petrovay | Collections Database Administrator MIM-Musical Instrument Museum | 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard | Phoenix, AZ 85050 480.478.6000 main | 480.478.6058 direct | 480.471.8690 fax | www.themim.org ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] St. Marys (Ohio) City Schools > Mobile Learning Technology
What are you doing today to prepare your students for the 21st Century? Are your students still using paper and pencil for all of their assignments? Watch this video to see what ?makes learning fun.? Links To > Video A Case Study Report A Must Listen > A recent radio interview with Kyle Menchhofer, Technology Coordinator at St. Marys City Schools, talk about Mobile Learning Devices in the classroom [Audio > ~ 00:21] A Most Impresssive Website > With A Great Quote > "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." / Albert Einstein Support For St. Marys (Ohio) City Schools > Mobile Learning Technology Provided (In Part ?) By Verizon !!! Exciting And Inspirational !!! Links Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/37bc7k8 ] EnJOY >>> /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>
[MCN-L] image file names
Here at the MMA we've also moved away from using accession numbers in image filenames. Instead, new images are assigned a unique integer value and then prefaced with some string to indicate the source / type (ex: DP = digital photography, DT = digital transparency etc). In our experience, using accession numbers as a naming convention, whether with periods or dashes, is problematic. For instance, when we implemented our DAM we ingested legacy image files which had been named using the accession number. But when we tried to do an exact match on these files to the appropriate TMS record, the success rate was around 60-70% (which given the amount of files you have may be acceptable -- in our case it was not). The most common reasons for this mismatch were extra or missing commas, dashes, periods, whitespace, etc in the filename -- in other words, standard parts of an accession number. Shyam Oberoi Sr. Website Technology Manager The Metropolitan Museum of Art -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Parsell, David Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:56 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] image file names - Yale University The Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery at Yale University have moved away from using the accession# and its inherent problems in favor of a naming convention derived from the objectID field in TMS, which is just the sequential number field assigned by the database each time a new object record is added to TMS. I'm sure all the other collection management systems use a sequential numbering system as well. This number is used by the collection management system to link the appropriate records from other tables to the object record since the number never changes. The beauty of this system is its structure, which allows you to automate file creation and retrieval by other programs other than TMS. Also, it allows you to retain a link to the TMS object even though the accession# may change over time. Besides needing a better image naming convention than the accession#, we developed this structured naming convention for use with a recently installed enterprise level DAM at Yale University. The structured image# allowed us to develop software that automated the TMS and DAM ingest of new images. Here is a breakdown of our image naming convention. I will supply further details on request. Museum - TMS module - objectID - index - image type . suffix ba-obj-60395-0003-pub.tif YCBA example (we like the idea of a 4 digit index) ag-obj-4487-001-mas.tif YUAG example (Art Gallery is happy with a 3 digit index) Museum is ba for YCBA and ag for Art Gallery. TMS module can be obj for object or exb for exhibition module. ObjectID is the sequential record# in the object table. The exhibitionID sequential# is used for exb images. Index allows us to have more than one image for an object using the naming convention. The name is always the same, just the index and image type changes. Image type; we make 3 versions of each image, master (mas), bar (color corrected with bars), pub (color corrected and cropped). Suffix is whatever the file type is. The switch to the structured naming convention has tremendously increased our productivity. Identifying an image is as simple as querying TMS on the objectID carried in the image name. My only regret is that we didn't do this sooner. David Parsell Systems Manager Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT? 06520-8280 ? 203 432-9603 david.parsell at yale.edu -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Light Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:42 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] image file names In message , Perian Sully writes > >Funnily enough, I was just about to draft up a file naming standards >document and post it online. Other than some of the inherent >difficulties with trying to align the digital filenames with the >accession number (particularly when you don't have an accession number >yet), what are some other arguments in favor of using a unique >identifier instead of the accession number? One obvious argument is that it allows a single image to feature more than one object. Richard Light >-Original Message- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >Images >Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:03 PM >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: [MCN-L] image file names > >We're reviewing how we name our image files and I'm hoping that some of >you may have worked through this same issue. Currently, we use our >accession number, however as this contains periods it has been >identified as potentially problematic. For example, accession # 42.3.11 >= VAG-42.3.11.jpg. One suggestion is to change the decimal
[MCN-L] image file names
Thank you to everyone else on the list who provided such helpful responses. One last question which would strengthen our case for adopting a new naming system - what are the inherent problems with using decimals in a file name? On 6/9/10 9:56 AM, "Parsell, David" wrote: The Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery at Yale University have moved away from using the accession# and its inherent problems in favor of a naming convention derived from the objectID field in TMS, which is just the sequential number field assigned by the database each time a new object record is added to TMS. I'm sure all the other collection management systems use a sequential numbering system as well. This number is used by the collection management system to link the appropriate records from other tables to the object record since the number never changes. The beauty of this system is its structure, which allows you to automate file creation and retrieval by other programs other than TMS. Also, it allows you to retain a link to the TMS object even though the accession# may change over time. Besides needing a better image naming convention than the accession#, we developed this structured naming convention for use with a recently installed enterprise level DAM at Yale University. The structured image# allowed us to develop software that automated the TMS and DAM ingest of new images. Here is a breakdown of our image naming convention. I will supply further details on request. Museum - TMS module - objectID - index - image type . suffix ba-obj-60395-0003-pub.tif YCBA example (we like the idea of a 4 digit index) ag-obj-4487-001-mas.tif YUAG example (Art Gallery is happy with a 3 digit index) Museum is ba for YCBA and ag for Art Gallery. TMS module can be obj for object or exb for exhibition module. ObjectID is the sequential record# in the object table. The exhibitionID sequential# is used for exb images. Index allows us to have more than one image for an object using the naming convention. The name is always the same, just the index and image type changes. Image type; we make 3 versions of each image, master (mas), bar (color corrected with bars), pub (color corrected and cropped). Suffix is whatever the file type is. The switch to the structured naming convention has tremendously increased our productivity. Identifying an image is as simple as querying TMS on the objectID carried in the image name. My only regret is that we didn't do this sooner. David Parsell Systems Manager Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT 06520-8280 203 432-9603 david.parsell at yale.edu -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Light Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:42 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] image file names In message , Perian Sully writes > >Funnily enough, I was just about to draft up a file naming standards >document and post it online. Other than some of the inherent >difficulties with trying to align the digital filenames with the >accession number (particularly when you don't have an accession number >yet), what are some other arguments in favor of using a unique >identifier instead of the accession number? One obvious argument is that it allows a single image to feature more than one object. Richard Light >-Original Message- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >Images >Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:03 PM >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv >Subject: [MCN-L] image file names > >We're reviewing how we name our image files and I'm hoping that some of >you may have worked through this same issue. Currently, we use our >accession number, however as this contains periods it has been >identified as potentially problematic. For example, accession # 42.3.11 >= VAG-42.3.11.jpg. One suggestion is to change the decimals to zeros but >we are concerned that this makes the image file name difficult to read. >Have any of you found a good solution to a problem like this? Any >thoughts or samples of your naming structure would be most appreciated! > >thanks very much >Danielle > > >___ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > >The MCN-L archives can be found at: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >___ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrop
[MCN-L] job opening: Assistant Dir for Technology & Digital Initiatives @ East Carolina University
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