[MCN-L] Invite to join my copyright email list

[Lesley Ellen Harris]

2016 brings new opportunities to manage copyright-protected works. Are you 
thinking about your copyright-protected content as an asset and something that 
can be monetized? And are you doing the most you can to ensure that others’ 
content is legally used? This is a good time to reflect upon your practices and 
refine them as necessary. I invite you to join my free office email list for 
copyright and licensing tips and information. Sign up at 
http://www.copyrightlaws.com/newsletter-letter-copyright-new-media-law-ecommerce/
 
.

Some copyright tips for today...

1. Protecting Content

What are you doing to protect your own content? Some reminders:

- Use the universal copyright symbol, ©, on works that belong to you; this 
reminds potential users that copyright exists in those works.
- Include contact information and a hyperlinked URL for permissions, to 
increase the likelihood that potential users will seek permissions before using 
a work.
- Audit your content. What content do you own? Include content created by 
employees as well as content in which the copyright has been assigned to you.
- Once you have an inventory of content that you own, consider how you can 
adapt that content and who might be interested in that content. Are there 
organizations that may want to license your content?
-Your content is a valuable asset. Set up a mechanism and timetable to conduct 
periodic online searches to ensure all uses are in fact authorized by you.

2. Using Content of Others

We all use copyright-protected content that belongs to others. Below are some 
tips on legally using third party content:

- Check expiration dates on licensed content to ensure none have lapsed. Review 
automatic renewals, notify vendors or content owners of your intention to renew 
needed licenses or cancel any that have become unnecessary to your business.
- Audit all content you have licensed, from images and text to software, and 
collect that information in an easily accessible, searchable database. This 
allows you to quickly locate, and fully and legally utilize, content.
- Identify any works you want to use that may enter the public domain in on 1 
January 2016. You no longer need permission to use these works.
- Ensure that you have written a copyright compliance policy or guidelines and 
that your policy or guidelines reflects recent changes in the law that affect 
your use of content and your changing use of digital content. This allows you 
to answer any copyright questions as they arise and address them consistently 
and effectively.
- Advertise your copyright compliance policy or guidelines so that everyone in 
your organization is aware and compliant. In other words, educate about 
copyright law. Think of innovative ways to spread the copyright message.

Have a great day!

Lesley
Lesley Ellen Harris
lesleyellenhar...@me.com 

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[MCN-L] Omeka Workshop at Hunter College, City University of New York

[Ian McDermott]

Please excuse any cross-postings

The Visual Resources Association Foundation is pleased to announce that 
Exhibit, Instruct, Promote: An Introduction to Omeka for Digital Scholarship, 
will be held at Hunter College, City 
University of New York, on February 19, 2016, one of two workshops being 
offered in the first year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program.  This workshop 
will be hosted by the Judith and Stanley Zabar Art Library, and is open to 
image management professionals, image users, and the broader information and 
educational community. The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 
for their generous support of this new opportunity.

Omeka is a rich, open-source web publishing tool with a 
diverse array of functions for digital scholarship projects. For information 
professionals, faculty and students, Omeka can provide an easy way to publish 
and share digital content, as well as serve as a platform for building online 
exhibitions as academic and/or student projects.  In this full-day workshop, 
participants will be provided with a comprehensive overview of both Omeka.net 
(hosted) and Omeka.org (installed on a server) and case studies that 
demonstrate the use of Omeka in a variety of contexts, ranging from providing 
access to digital collections to projects that engage students in the learning 
process. While focused on Omeka, this workshop also will touch on other similar 
tools used for digital scholarship (such as Scalar) and 
offer practical information for planning digital projects.

Exhibit, Instruct, Promote will be taught by Meghan Musolff, Special Projects 
Librarian for Library IT at the University of Michigan Library. As part of her 
role, Meghan coordinates the U-M Library’s implementation of Omeka for the 
creation and presentation of online exhibits. To learn more about Meghan and 
the workshop, please visit: 
http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/projects/omeka_for_digital_scholarship_regional_workshop/

Registration for Exhibit, Instruct, Promote: An Introduction to Omeka for 
Digital Scholarship will open in early December, 2015. The fee for the workshop 
is $125. If you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha 
Whitlow, VRAF Director, bwhit...@wustl.edu. For 
questions about the Hunter College venue, please contact Steven Kowalik, Art 
Librarian, Judith and Stanley Zabar Art Library, 
skowa...@hunter.cuny.edu

--
Ian McDermott
VRAF Director

Collection Development Manager
Artstor
6 E. 32nd Street, 10th floor
New York, NY 10016
ian.mcderm...@artstor.org
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[MCN-L] "easy" file duplication cleanup

[Perian Sully]

Hi everyone:

I know this is possibly something of a fool's errand, but I'm hoping
someone has come up with some magic tool or process for more-easily
cleaning up file storage than going through 12 years of files one-by-one.

As part of our DAMS project, I've run some TreeSize Pro scans on three of
the 20-25 or so network storage directories. Just in those three, there are
approximately 66,467 duplicate files. We initially thought about creating
hardlinks for the duplicates, which will at least help the server access
files more efficiently, but it won't solve the problem of actually having
files all over the place that the DAMS will ultimately ingest.

Another thought was to do symlinks, but as far as I know, there aren't easy
tools to automagically create these for Windows desktops or servers. Plus,
it might create havoc for all of the file permissions.

So does anyone have any other ideas that I might try? Or are we really just
stuck with all of this junk until someone manually goes in and cleans it up?

Thanks,

~Perian
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Re: [MCN-L] "easy" file duplication cleanup

[Matt Morgan]

You could do this with a shell script. One way: write a `find -exec ...` 
that runs through all the files, outputting the md5sums in some usable 
way. Sort the list and look for multiples (double-checking with diff on 
matches, if you're worried), and replace duplicates with symlinks 
if/where you need them, chmodding as necessary. But if multiple versions 
of the same file have different perms, that's a problem in the first 
place, most likely.


Good luck!

On 12/07/2015 06:32 PM, Perian Sully wrote:

Hi everyone:

I know this is possibly something of a fool's errand, but I'm hoping
someone has come up with some magic tool or process for more-easily
cleaning up file storage than going through 12 years of files one-by-one.

As part of our DAMS project, I've run some TreeSize Pro scans on three of
the 20-25 or so network storage directories. Just in those three, there are
approximately 66,467 duplicate files. We initially thought about creating
hardlinks for the duplicates, which will at least help the server access
files more efficiently, but it won't solve the problem of actually having
files all over the place that the DAMS will ultimately ingest.

Another thought was to do symlinks, but as far as I know, there aren't easy
tools to automagically create these for Windows desktops or servers. Plus,
it might create havoc for all of the file permissions.

So does anyone have any other ideas that I might try? Or are we really just
stuck with all of this junk until someone manually goes in and cleans it up?

Thanks,

~Perian



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