[MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software
Hello, This sounds great I would love to participate. Thank you. Best, Joanna Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art, DC On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Gose, Denise gosed at ccp.library.arizona.edu wrote: I would also be interested in participating. Denise Gos? Head of Image Resources and Copyright Management Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona 1030 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ 85719 T: 520.307.2830 F: 520.621.9444 gosed at ccp.library.arizona.edu -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Krasnow Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:19 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software I would be interested in participating in a discussion of digital asset management.. Laura Krasnow Sent from my iPad On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Kwan, Billy Billy.Kwan at metmuseum.org wrote: For those who will be interested to participate in the group or discussions about the issues of digital asset management, you can send me your names. I can work with Diana/the MCN Board to see if a separate group should be formed, or we can work with the current Digital Media SIG to further our discussions. If you are interested to share your experiences, maybe we can form a panel discussion at the coming MCN conference. Best, Billy -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Folsom, Diana Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:59 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software Is this the beginnings of a SIG or a more loosely organized group? Perhaps the Digital Media SIG can be helpful. Let us know if the MCN organization can help support your needs beyond the listserv. Thanks! Diana Folsom LACMA Systems Manager 323-857-6594 Folsom at lacma.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Kwan, Billy Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:55 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software [bayes][heur] We are using MediaBin at the Met. In fact, I will be interested to form a group within MCN to discuss all the issues related to digital asset management in the museum communities, e.g., its relationship with the collection management system, metadata exchange/connection with the object records, non-object images, local collections, other media types, such as 3D files, video and audio files, etc. I think we may have a lot to learn from each other. Billy Billy Chi-hing Kwan | Associate Museum Librarian Systems Image Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 Tel: 212-650-2263 | Fax: 212-396-5050 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Heller Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:10 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] digital asset management tools/software Thank you! I will take a look at both of those. David- what collection management system are you using? _ _ Beth Heller Library Director The American Alpine Club (303) 384-0110 ext. 21 lbauer at americanalpineclub.org bheller at americanalpineclub.org http://americanalpineclub.org http://booksearch.americanalpineclub.org http://www.facebook.com/americanalpineclublibraryhttp://www.facebook.co m/pages/American-Alpine-Club-Library/123324141044052 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:50 PM, David Dwiggins david at dwiggins.net wrote: Hi, Beth, We now have somewhere north of 110,000 resources (more, really, since we treat verso images, DNGs, etc. as alternates of the primary resource) managed through ResourceSpace, an open source digital asset management system. We've been extremely happy with it. We have a separate collections management system that handles the primary data about museum objects, archival objects, etc. But we have integrated the two systems so that you can simply enter a resource ID into the cataloging record to pull in an image from the DAMs. We also sync the files stored in ResourceSpace out to Amazon S3 for backup, and then re-purpose these backup copies to serve the images for our online collections database. ResourceSpace is not primarily geared for providing public access, although it does have a guest user mode and I suppose you could use this to provide some level of access to materials. And it's also not quite as rigorous in terms of metadata standards as some other systems might be. But it works extremely well, is very flexible, and, as a PHP/MySQL application, is very easy to modify if needed. It also has a plugin architecture, so customizations can often be
[MCN-L] AIC Mobile App
Congratulations! That is an impressive milestone! I can't wait to try it out in DC and Chicago. Best, Joanna On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Sam Quigley squigley at artic.edu wrote: It is a great pleasure to announce that the Art Institute of Chicago has released it's first mobile app, created with our mobile technology partner, Toura, to showcase our renowned permanent collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The app is available on multiple platforms, namely, iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and an HD version for the iPad. Follow this link to read the full press release: http://www.artic.edu/aic/aboutus/press/French_Impressionism.pdf Enjoy! = Sam Quigley VP for Collections Management, Imaging Information Technology / Museum CIO Art Institute of Chicago 111 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603 312-443-4772 www.artic.edu ?Nothing could be more magical.? ? The Boston Globe Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century July 25?October 3 Members see more. Join today! www.artinstituteofchicago.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] Content Management systems
Hello, Certainly they are still racking up. If you have not taken the survey on CMSs please do: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OgMvXFDRIj79fl_2fusPFRTQ_3d_3d Best, Joanna On 5/13/09 6:35 PM, Christina DePaolo Christinad at SeattleArtMuseum.org wrote: Hi there, Joanna can you please post your findings to the list serve? Thanks. Christina -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Champagne, Joanna Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:52 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Content Management systems Hello, I was hoping to take a poll of CMS Systems Museums are using: Would you mind taking a moment to fill out this one page anonymous survey monkey page http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OgMvXFDRIj79fl_2fusPFRTQ_3d_3d I will publish results Thanks Joanna . Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV ___ 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.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Endeca
Hello, Is anyone using the search tool Endeca, or Endeca with TMS. I would love to speak with you? Best, Joanna . Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV
[MCN-L] Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
Hello, This is so super smart and fun! Best, Joanna On 3/9/09 1:28 PM, Edson, Michael EDSONM at si.edu wrote: To my MCN colleagues I offer this animation: Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person. May it soothe your pain. http://smithsonian20.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/web-t.html Michael Edson Director, Web and New Media Strategy Smithsonian Institution, Office of the CIO edsonm at si.edu mailto:edsonm at si.edu | m: 202-445-9746 | o: 202-633-8447 ___ 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] Web vs. 'real world' visitors
Hello, This past fiscal year we had just over 4 million physical visitors (like the Web some may be repeat, but not as many as the online) to the National Gallery and 20,800,523 visits to the Web site. 50.8% of our 62 Podcasts were downloaded to iTunes this past FY year the rest from our site and widget. We have 559 installs of our Podcast widget. Hope that helps. Best, Joanna . Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV On 9/29/08 1:48 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote: Dear Nancy: Have you seen the IMLS Interconnections report? http://www.interconnectionsreport.org/ Lots of hard data about some of the questions you're asking. The slideshow provides a nice summary as well on the report. Perian Sully Collections Information and Web Programs Manager Judah L. Magnes Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy Proctor Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:33 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Web vs. 'real world' visitors Does anyone have any hard numbers on overall museum trends in numbers of online visitors versus footfall in the bricks mortar museums? My anecdotal sense from talking to various museum professionals is that online traffic is 3-10 times the in-person visitorship, but I'd like to be able to cite an actual study. It would also be great to know what percentage of museums' online traffic is to content that is not resident on their websites, e.g. Podcasts on iTunes/iTunes U, and videos on YouTube, if anyone has those stats for your own museum or others' ...And the next step is to show what great return on investment our digital initiatives provide, since we reach many more people online than in person, and buildings are relatively expensive to maintain. This is not to challenge the primacy and importance of the real world buildings and collections, but simply to underscore how much reach digital teams can achieve for comparatively little money. Many thanks! Nancy Nancy Proctor Head of New Media Initiatives Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) MRC 970 PO Box 37012 Washington DC 20013-7012 USA o: +1-202-633-8439 f: +1-202-633-8455 c: +1-301-642-6257 proctorn at si.edu http://www.americanart.si.edu http://eyelevel.si.edu/ ___ 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 ___ 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
[MCN-L] Website benchmarking
Hello, We also use visits, however page views, time on page and return visits are growing in importance. In the past I have used WebTrends and really enjoyed the interface and reports. Ideally I would like to find a Tier 2 version of WebTrends to use now but have not yet (if any one can suggest one that would be great). I have always looked for trend change for the most meaningful information and therefore it is good to watch the changes over time, and look for indicators as to why the changes are happening. It is never to late to start that data set and just compare month to month. If you are in a place that has been doing that for years you are lucky, take advantage! Also in terms of benchmarking it is good to follow your audio and video also. We track downloads from our site and through iTunes (Using a browser parameter) this helps us understand what percentage of people are finding us via iTunes (less and less). Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery or Art -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Morgan, Matt Sent: Tue 3/11/2008 5:36 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking Well, Nik and Rob just beat me to it, but this might be worth adding. I think you don't have to worry too much about accuracy, as long as you understand that accuracy is tough to define and harder to achieve. But, if you want to be most honest and fair, you can: 1) only compare like against like--this section of our site, using this version of this analysis software, did 10% better after we redesigned its index page (ie follow trends, like Nik said) b) be aware, to the extent possible, of when your analysis software changes. For an interesting write-up, see http://www.imediaconnection.com/printpage/printpage.aspx?id=16342 (we don't report time on site outside the website department--I don't want our stats going out with complicated disclaimers). c) use page views as your primary measure, since it's the most reliable of the primary measures (as long as you're careful to count them the same way). Don't use Time on Site, and don't use visits. On the other hand, lots of page views is not always a positive thing (think search, or your donation section--really you want them to find what they want and take care of it). For what it's worth, we use visits, even though I don't really trust the numbers, because it's just so effective at communicating how popular the site is. I'm happy to explain what it means, if people ask ... --Matt On 3/11/08 5:27 PM, Nik Honeysett NHoneysett at getty.edu wrote: Google Analytics is a page tagging service, its accuracy will depend on you and what you want. If you have comprehensively tagged all your pages, then it will comprehensively report on your traffic, but that traffic will include bots and spiders i.e. not real people. You can filter these out - up to a point - but are real-people numbers important to you? Its unlikely that you will ever get an accurate number of real people visiting your site, so its best to accept that. Assuming, you did have an accurate number and that number suddenly doubled or halved what would you do? What would happen? In either case you would want to know why, but you're not really interested in the number, only the change. You can figure that out whether you have real-people numbers or all-inclusive numbers. Your real concern should be trends and Google Analytics is fine for this, as long as you know what you're reporting and you don't change the filtering. -nik Jeff Tancil jtancil at tenement.org 3/11/2008 12:58 PM That seems to beg a question: what stats service is useful? As a fairly dinky Museum, we use the best free service, GoogleAnalytics. How badly do people think that skews? -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nik Honeysett Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:53 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking Like you say, these sites are ok for trends but do not give anything close to accurate figures for traffic your numbers. -nik Russ Brooks RBrooks at mus-nature.ca 3/11/2008 10:43 AM When we noticed a shift in our web statistics we wondered if it was just our site or was it something that was affecting all other museums. We found the two following sites very useful in providing us with an opportunity to compare our performance to that of other museums. http://www.alexa.com/ http://www.compete.com/ These two sites allowed us to see the exact same patterns in traffic affecting nearly all other museums. These sites can also be useful when trying to determine Internet usage trends. Is Facebook still hot? Type in their address and you can see the results. On 3/11/08 1:26 PM, Leonard Steinbach lensteinbach at gmail.com wrote: I was wondering whether anyone uses any
[MCN-L] Web Position at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Hello, We have a opening on our Web team and would appreciate you sharing this announcing with your colleagues! Best, Joanna . Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV . The National Gallery of Art, Washington (www.nga.gov) is seeking a Web Production Assistant to join its Web and New Media team. It's an entry-level position in a creative and engaging environment. The position entails updating our Web calendar of events, exhibition schedules, and our online listings, and aiding the designers with basic design preparation. Additional duties include tracking purchases, setting up meetings, and keeping the office running smoothly. The candidate should have experience with Dreamweaver, CSS, and Photoshop. We are looking for an organized person with Web production experience, a great aptitude for detail, and good communications skills. The calendar is generated from a content management system, but the candidate must know HTML basics. This is a government position, and to avoid adding to the response time, applicants should pay particular attention to the qualifications required and respond fully to each of them in their resume and cover letter. The job is listed at ?Visual Information Specialist? Announcement 08-15 at: http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/a9nga.asp To learn more about how to apply visit: http://www.usajobs.gov/infocenter/
[MCN-L] Full Scale Redesign Costs Examples
Hello, How are you? I hope all is well!. I have a question about some establishing the cost range for full scale museum redesigns. And am looking for example prices. Here at the National Gallery we have done some extensive market research but are also interested in some more examples of large scale museum redesign prices or recent past or near future. I have some examples, and I am pitching costs for a full gut-busting re-do including a CMS installation, content migration, search tool, visit planning tool, calendar tool, and kiosk /digital signage integration. Would you be willing to share some similar costs or ROM's? I will say off the record if requested and not mention the museum but I am trying to establish as much as possible what the going rate is, in terms of investing in a museum Web site. This need not be the cost paid to a vendor perhaps it is Museum funds used on tools and labor was done in house. I understand this is a tricky question, however any more examples I can get would be great. And I will be happy to share all costs received in a chart for us all to use! Thanks so much, Joanna . Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV
[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server
Hello, How are you? If anyone is currently using a Pan Zoom server or similar solutions opposed to Zoomify would you please let me know, we wanted to learn more about the option. Thanks so much. Best, Joanna ... Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV ... National Gallery of Art Videos Podcasts http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm National Gallery of Art Cell Phone Tour http://www.nga.gov//cell/
[MCN-L] Webby awards
Hello, The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum also won the people's choice award in the Art's Category! It was a good day for museums: ART category: Webby Award Winner Electrolux Design Lab http://www.electrolux.com/designlab/ People's Voice Winner People's Design Award http://peoplesdesignaward.org Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/fastspot Best, Joanna ... Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV On 5/1/07 3:14 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote: The 2007 Webby award winners have been announced: Winners for Cultural Institutions: Webby Choice - Smithsonian Photography Initiative: http://photography.si.edu/ People's Choice - Smithsonian Education: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/ Nominees: Museum of the Desert http://www.grupowprojects.com/museo Smithsonian Education http://www.SmithsonianEducation.org Smithsonian Photography Initiative http://www.photography.si.edu The Newseum http://www.newseum.org Turner / MoMA http://www.momaonline.org/ I'm going to have to go back to these later tonight to process them and think about them further, but a (very) brief glance at the Webby Award Winner, SPI, made my jaw drop. Congratulations to the winners and nominees!! Perian Sully Collection Database Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335 http://www.magnes.org Contributor, http://www.musematic.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
[MCN-L] Storage of Master Archival TIFFs
Hello, Would you mind sharing what DAMS you have looked at, besides custom build of course? Best, Joanna -- Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV On 4/17/07 1:08 PM, Friscia, Jeanne jfriscia at SFMOMA.org wrote: Hi Julie, We are in the throws of setting up our DAMS, and absolutely plan to store our master TIFFs, roped off in an area that would be managed and accessed only by our imaging staff. For us, I would say that there are no cons. Having the masters in the DAMS enables us to link metadata from our collections management system automatically, so the asset and the metadata are one happy package. Jeanne Friscia Visual Resources Associate SFMOMA -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Julie Grob Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:32 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Storage of Master Archival TIFFs Hi all, We are currently reviewing DAMS with an eye to purchasing one for our library. I was wondering if people normally store their master TIFFs on the DAM together with their derivative JPEGs, or if they store them on a separate server. If you can tell me the pros and cons of your preferred method I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Julie Julie Grob Digital Projects and Instruction Librarian Special Collections 114 University Libraries University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-2000 (713) 743-9744 jgrob at uh.edu UH Libraries' Poetry Prose Reading Series http://info.lib.uh.edu/dev/events/pandp.html ___ 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 information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you ___ 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
