[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?
At JWA, we have a page on our website giving people basic preservation advice (http://jwa.org/stories/how-to/preservation ) and links for them to learn more. We recently added a paragraph on digital preservation (which reflects advice I, personally, would not give, and will be modified soon). But I want to be able to provide resources for people to learn more about what is involved and what they should think of with their camera images, old word docs, etc. Anyone have good suggestions? Thanks, Ari
[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?
Hi Ari, home digital preservation has over the last few years received a trendy term: Personal Archiving. Searching for it online should give you a good overview of sources currently out there - for instance: * on the Library of Congress's website: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/ * on the conference which was last held in 2010: http://www.personalarchiving.com/ A booklet I particularly cherish is in Dutch, alas, but Google Translate might help your understanding a long way, and is called Bewaar als... or Save as... in English: http://bewaarals.nl/ Looking forward to your overview when it's done! Best regards, erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project Employee, Research Development Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision P.O. Box 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum, Netherlands www.beeldengeluid.nl/research http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA Ari Davidow mailto:aridavidow at gmail.com December 6, 2012 4:01 PM At JWA, we have a page on our website giving people basic preservation advice (http://jwa.org/stories/how-to/preservation ) and links for them to learn more. We recently added a paragraph on digital preservation (which reflects advice I, personally, would not give, and will be modified soon). But I want to be able to provide resources for people to learn more about what is involved and what they should think of with their camera images, old word docs, etc. Anyone have good suggestions? Thanks, Ari ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?
Actually, the Personal Digital Archiving conference has been held every year since 2010. The next conference in 2013 will be jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the University of Maryland MITH: http://mith.umd.edu/pda2013/ And thanks for mentioning our LC personal digital archiving site (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/) - it's one of our most viewed resources, and we add to it often. We've had challenges including any specific references to service or products, because it can be seen as a Library of Congress endorsement for something, which, as a federal agency, we are expressly forbidden from doing. Personally, I'd love to see some great lists of trusted services out there. Leslie -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Erwin Verbruggen Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:48 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation? Hi Ari, home digital preservation has over the last few years received a trendy term: Personal Archiving. Searching for it online should give you a good overview of sources currently out there - for instance: * on the Library of Congress's website: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/ * on the conference which was last held in 2010: http://www.personalarchiving.com/ A booklet I particularly cherish is in Dutch, alas, but Google Translate might help your understanding a long way, and is called Bewaar als... or Save as... in English: http://bewaarals.nl/ Looking forward to your overview when it's done! Best regards, erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project Employee, Research Development Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision P.O. Box 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum, Netherlands www.beeldengeluid.nl/research http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=D; sntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA Ari Davidow mailto:aridavidow at gmail.com December 6, 2012 4:01 PM At JWA, we have a page on our website giving people basic preservation advice (http://jwa.org/stories/how-to/preservation ) and links for them to learn more. We recently added a paragraph on digital preservation (which reflects advice I, personally, would not give, and will be modified soon). But I want to be able to provide resources for people to learn more about what is involved and what they should think of with their camera images, old word docs, etc. Anyone have good suggestions? Thanks, Ari ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?
This are great! Thanks, Erwin. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Erwin Verbruggen everbruggen at beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Hi Ari, home digital preservation has over the last few years received a trendy term: Personal Archiving. Searching for it online should give you a good overview of sources currently out there - for instance: * on the Library of Congress's website: http://www.**digitalpreservation.gov/**personalarchiving/http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/ * on the conference which was last held in 2010: http://www.personalarchiving.**com/ http://www.personalarchiving.com/ A booklet I particularly cherish is in Dutch, alas, but Google Translate might help your understanding a long way, and is called Bewaar als... or Save as... in English: http://bewaarals.nl/ Looking forward to your overview when it's done! Best regards, erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project Employee, Research Development Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision P.O. Box 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum, Netherlands www.beeldengeluid.nl/research http://www.google.com/url?q=** http%3A%2F%2Fwww.**beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=**1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_* *kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA Ari Davidow mailto:aridavidow at gmail.com December 6, 2012 4:01 PM At JWA, we have a page on our website giving people basic preservation advice (http://jwa.org/stories/how-**to/preservationhttp://jwa.org/stories/how-to/preservation) and links for them to learn more. We recently added a paragraph on digital preservation (which reflects advice I, personally, would not give, and will be modified soon). But I want to be able to provide resources for people to learn more about what is involved and what they should think of with their camera images, old word docs, etc. Anyone have good suggestions? Thanks, Ari __**_ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/**listinfo/mcn-lhttp://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/**pipermail/mcn-l/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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Server advice requested
Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly appreciate recommendations for what to buy. It seems unnecessary to buy a Dell and pay for Windows when we won't be using it. But, maybe I'm wrong about that. Any advice based on your experiences would be helpful. Thank you, in advance, Robin Robin White Owen M: 917/407-7641 T: 646/472-5145 robin at mediacombo.net www.mediacombo.net http://mediacombo.net/blog twitter.com/rocombo
[MCN-L] Server advice requested
Robin ? Are cloud-based servers from Amazon / Rackspace / Linode an option or do you need a physical server on site? I'd lobby pretty hard for the former if you're not sure. -bw. On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Robin White Owen robin at mediacombo.net wrote: Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly appreciate recommendations for what to buy. It seems unnecessary to buy a Dell and pay for Windows when we won't be using it. But, maybe I'm wrong about that. Any advice based on your experiences would be helpful. Thank you, in advance, Robin Robin White Owen M: 917/407-7641 T: 646/472-5145 robin at mediacombo.net www.mediacombo.net http://mediacombo.net/blog twitter.com/rocombo ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ Bruce Wyman bwyman at teufelkind.net
[MCN-L] Server advice requested
hey Robin Meant to jump on the last post. We do a ton of work with Drupal work. Drupal and Expression Engine are both really fantastic CMS solutions; we usually lean towards Drupal 7, since its open source, has a large dev community, etc. I would definitely try and host this on a MediaTemple (Dreamhost we've been really unhappy with) or a similar hosting platform. Cloud hosting via Amazon S3 is great, but does involve some real heavy lifting on the server side to install and maintain the codebase. You might also consider hosting with Acquia: http://www.acquia.com This is a great cloud hosted solution that also provides robust support, will keep your modules and security patches up to date, etc. It's not super cheap but it probably the best long-term hosting solution for Drupal. Feel free to hit me up for more info. We've hosted Drupal on a range of hosts and definitely have our favorites. As a general rule don't cheap out on hosting, since migrating a Drupal site is none too easy once its up and running. Hope this helps Josh Josh Goldblum Founding Principal Bluecadet Interactive www.bluecadet.com w. 267 639 9956 c. 267 226 3521 twitter :joshgoldblum On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Robin White Owen robin at mediacombo.net wrote: Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly appreciate recommendations for what to buy. It seems unnecessary to buy a Dell and pay for Windows when we won't be using it. But, maybe I'm wrong about that. Any advice based on your experiences would be helpful. Thank you, in advance, Robin Robin White Owen M: 917/407-7641 T: 646/472-5145 robin at mediacombo.net www.mediacombo.net http://mediacombo.net/blog twitter.com/rocombo ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Server advice requested
Hi All - Robin - it's not clear to me what kind of servers you're looking for. That said, I wanted to make sure people knew about Pantheon for Drupal hosting. They provide you with great setups for dev, staging, and production. They also make migration code VERY easy. Their servers are running on Rackspace so their service is more of a managed dashboard for solid architecture. Regardless, they are just as reliable as Acquia. You can try a free plan here - http://getpantheon.com On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Josh Goldblum wrote: hey Robin Meant to jump on the last post. We do a ton of work with Drupal work. Drupal and Expression Engine are both really fantastic CMS solutions; we usually lean towards Drupal 7, since its open source, has a large dev community, etc. I would definitely try and host this on a MediaTemple (Dreamhost we've been really unhappy with) or a similar hosting platform. Cloud hosting via Amazon S3 is great, but does involve some real heavy lifting on the server side to install and maintain the codebase. You might also consider hosting with Acquia: http://www.acquia.com This is a great cloud hosted solution that also provides robust support, will keep your modules and security patches up to date, etc. It's not super cheap but it probably the best long-term hosting solution for Drupal. Feel free to hit me up for more info. We've hosted Drupal on a range of hosts and definitely have our favorites. As a general rule don't cheap out on hosting, since migrating a Drupal site is none too easy once its up and running. Hope this helps Josh Josh Goldblum Founding Principal Bluecadet Interactive www.bluecadet.com w. 267 639 9956 c. 267 226 3521 twitter :joshgoldblum On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Robin White Owen robin at mediacombo.netjavascript:; wrote: Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly appreciate recommendations for what to buy. It seems unnecessary to buy a Dell and pay for Windows when we won't be using it. But, maybe I'm wrong about that. Any advice based on your experiences would be helpful. Thank you, in advance, Robin Robin White Owen M: 917/407-7641 T: 646/472-5145 robin at mediacombo.net javascript:; www.mediacombo.net http://mediacombo.net/blog twitter.com/rocombo ___ 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 javascript:; To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ -- web: http://arrowrootmedia.com cell: 646-339-9410
[MCN-L] Server advice requested
Dell makes some nice smaller servers and you don't have to buy an OS from them, you can install your own. Frank Thomson, Curator Asheville Art Museum PO Box 1717 Asheville, NC 28802 2 South Pack Square 828.253.3227 tel 828.257.4503 fax www.ashevilleart.org fthomson at ashevilleart.org Engaging, enlightening and inspiring individuals and enriching community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries since 1948. -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Robin White Owen Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:50 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Server advice requested Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly appreciate recommendations for what to buy. It seems unnecessary to buy a Dell and pay for Windows when we won't be using it. But, maybe I'm wrong about that. Any advice based on your experiences would be helpful. Thank you, in advance, Robin Robin White Owen M: 917/407-7641 T: 646/472-5145 robin at mediacombo.net www.mediacombo.net http://mediacombo.net/blog twitter.com/rocombo
[MCN-L] MCN Pro Workshop: still time to sign up!
It's not too late: there are still 5 days left to sign up for the first *MCN Pro Workshop* coming up *Tuesday, December 11, 2012 *from *11:30 am to 2:00 pm EST.* ** ** REGISTER NOW: http://mcnpro.org/registrations/ WORKSHOP 1: *Creating a Video Channel for Your Museumhttp://mcnpro.org/sessions/workshop-1/ * Whether you?re thinking about putting content on YouTube, iTunes U, Vimeo or ArtBabble, this introductory session will show you how to get your videos out there. The workshop is a primer on the different platforms and what you need to consider when developing and publishing video content on them, including resolution, framerate, compression, as well as other less technical topics like organization, branding and analytics. *What you will learn:* 1. Video as expression in digital culture 2. Content strategy 3. Equipment and technical specifications 4. Mobile 5. Distribution 6. Digital asset management and preservation 7. Rights Introduction by MCN President, Allegra Burnettehttp://mcnpro.org/presenters/allegra-burnette/, The Museum of Modern Art Workshop led by Neal Stimler http://mcnpro.org/presenters/neal-stimler/, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presenters: Emily Lytle-Painter http://mcnpro.org/presenters/emily-lytle-painter/, Indianapolis Museum of Art David Hart http://mcnpro.org/presenters/david-hartt/, The Museum of Modern Art - Eric Longo Executive Manager Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu/ +1-888-211-1477 x708 eric at mcn.edu
