Re: [MCN-L] email marketing software

[David Green]

Have a look at GetResponse.  We’re loving it at the Cultural Alliance of 
Fairfield County. We went through about four of these systems looking for one 
that handled images and texts flexibly and easily - and this handles lists 
nicely too. 24/7 chat help is very nice too.


> On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:23 PM, ChristinaDepaolo  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have been thinking about this posting on email marketing solutions. We are 
> looking to an alternative to MailChimp - we love it, so no knock on the 
> company. It doesn't quiet meet our needs right now. 
> 
> John and Heather - anything come out of your research that you can pass on? 
> 
> Thank you. Christina 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Heather Hart  wrote:
>> 
>> Mautic
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Re: [MCN-L] Happy 20th Birthday, MCN-L!

[David Green]

Congratulations everyone!

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> On Mar 9, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Rob Lancefield on lists <li...@lancefield.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just for fun, it's worth noting that today is MCN-L's 20th birthday. The list 
> launched on March 9, 1996: back when HTML 2.0 was the latest, greatest 
> version, as were Macintosh System 7.5.3 and Windows 95. 1996 also was the 
> year when the first significant number of museum websites launched in all 
> their initial glory,* some using what was then cutting-edge, table-based 
> layout.** Which is to say, it was a long time ago--so long ago that it still 
> made sense to have an MCN Internet SIG!
> 
> If you're curious about the inaugural MCN-L post, it's in the archive:
> 
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html>
> 
> It's pretty remarkable how much knowledge the MCN community has shared on 
> this list over the years, how many helpful leads so many people have 
> suggested and harvested here, and how useful the list continues to be as we 
> move forward--even as other information-sharing channels, spaces, apps, and 
> platforms flow and ebb, and often fade away. Imagine all the things thousands 
> of people have accomplished more effectively over two decades with 
> peer-to-peer, collegial help from this list.
> 
> Happy birthday, MCN-L, and many more.
> 
> cheers,
> Rob
> 
> * Several museum websites from 1996 are represented on this page: 
> <http://museumnerd.org/2014/03/13/10-vintage-museum-web-pages-from-the-1990s/>
> 
> ** This was so early in the history of the Web that the formal RFC for HTML 
> Tables actually wouldn't be published for another two months, but tables were 
> coming into use: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1942>
> 
> -- 
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> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
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> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
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[MCN-L] Permissions

[David Green]

Absolutely agree, of course. And see today's NYT article about the 
Rijksmuseum's contribution to the way forward: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=edit_th_20130529_r=0

?We?re a public institution, and so the art and objects we have are, in a way, 
everyone?s property,? said [Taco Dibbits, the director of collections at the 
Rijksmuseum,] in an interview. ??With the Internet, it?s so difficult to 
control your copyright or use of images that we decided we?d rather people use 
a very good high-resolution image of the ?Milkmaid? from the Rijksmuseum rather 
than using a very bad reproduction,? he said, referring to that Vermeer 
painting from around 1660.

David Green
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On May 27, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at me.com wrote:

 Thanks, Peter.
 
 It is dismaying that anyone could not imagine that  there's any way around 
 the wide variety of charges and procedures that collections  - perhaps 
 sometimes thoughtlessly? - interpose between themselves the public for whom 
 they are stewards.  For those, here are some starting points.
 
 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html
 
 http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/image-use
 
 http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_this_site/terms_of_use/free_image_service.aspx
 
 https://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use
 
 http://thewalters.org/rights-reproductions.aspx
 
 Knowing that it can be bothersome to visit websites and read, let me copy the 
 simple image rights/use statement from the Walters Art Museum:
 
 All photography on our website(s) is governed by Creative Commons Licensing 
 and can be used without cost or specific permission. Artworks in the 
 photographs are in the public domain due to age. The photographs of 
 two-dimensional objects have also been released into the public domain. 
 Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been 
 released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported 
 License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
 
 Cheers,
 
 ken
 
 Kenneth Hamma
 
 Yale Center for British Art
 kenneth.hamma at yale.edu
 
 
 
 On May 27, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Peter B. Hirtle pbh6 at cornell.edu wrote:
 
 For a different perspective from a different field, MCN-L readers might be 
 interested in a forthcoming paper from John Overholt addressing the future 
 of special collections in libraries.  It is called Five theses on the 
 future of special collections, and a preprint is found at 
 http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10601790/overholt.pdf.  
 
 One of his five theses speaks precisely to the issue of permissions.  It 
 begins this way:
 
 The future of special collections is openness.
 
 We are not the creators of our collections; we are their stewards. They were 
 entrusted to us to preserve them, certainly, but preservation without use is 
 an empty victory. It ought to be our primary purpose at all times to 
 minimize barriers to use, so it is all the more shameful when we interpose 
 such barriers ourselves, not out of concern for the health of the 
 collections, but out of the misguided belief that we are entitled to 
 control, even to monetize, their use. When we claim copyright over our 
 digital collections, or impose permission fees or licensing terms on users, 
 we are arguably misrepresenting the law, and certainly violating one of the 
 central ethical tenets of the profession: to promote the free dissemination 
 of information.
 
 It would seem to me that image permissions would be much simplified if only 
 permission of the copyright owner had to be secured (and then only if the 
 use was not a fair use).
 
 Peter Hirtle
 
 -Original Message-
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf
 Of Deborah Wythe
 Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 3:59 PM
 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Permissions
 
 I don't think there's any way around the wide variety of charges and
 procedures, but I was struck by the frustration of the writer, who clearly 
 had
 never done image acquisition before. It's a skill, just like any other. 
 Filling in
 for our RR coordinator, I've learned just how many emails it can take to 
 get
 all the information we need to help them.
 
 I've often wondered if there was a way to connect museum staff with art
 history grad programs to get this topic on their curriculum. Shouldn't every
 budding writer have a brief tutorial on copyright, image acquisition, image
 quality, etc?
 
 Then again, when I was in grad school and suggested to my advisor that we
 put together a guide to doing primary source research, he put me off, saying
 that we should all be figuring it out ourselves and that was one way they
 sorted the wheat from the chaff.
 
 I won't address the differing policies and prices -- that's a different (and
 difficult topic) -- but putting chocolate on our fee

[MCN-L] Permissions

[David Green]

Not to take this down a completely different line (perhaps a subset of this 
terrific string) but, not mentioned in the Times article is the fact that the 
Rijksmuseum also has 140,000+ images, in very high resolution, available 
through the Europeana portal 
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=rijksmuseum. 

Are we getting close with the Digital Public *Library* of America 
http://dp.la?

David Green
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On May 29, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Peter B. Hirtle pbh6 at cornell.edu wrote:

 The Cornell University Library adopted an open access to public domain images 
 policy in 2009.  You can read our rationale in this article at 
 http://publications.arl.org/rli266/2.  To date, the museum at Cornell has not 
 elected to follow the Library's lead.
 
 Peter Hirtle
 
 -Original Message-
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
 Cathryn Goodwin
 Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:59 AM
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Permissions
 
 An addendum to this thread is the fact that many institutions, Princeton 
 among them, are more quietly adopting an open access to public domain images 
 policy - I'd be interested in a show of hands.
 
 Cathryn
 
 -Original Message-
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
 David Green
 Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:48 AM
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Permissions
 
 Absolutely agree, of course. And see today's NYT article about the 
 Rijksmuseum's contribution to the way forward: 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=edit_th_20130529_r=0
 
 We're a public institution, and so the art and objects we have are, in a 
 way, everyone's property, said [Taco Dibbits, the director of collections at 
 the Rijksmuseum,] in an interview. 'With the Internet, it's so difficult to 
 control your copyright or use of images that we decided we'd rather people 
 use a very good high-resolution image of the 'Milkmaid' from the Rijksmuseum 
 rather than using a very bad reproduction, he said, referring to that 
 Vermeer painting from around 1660.
 
 David Green
 redgen at mac.com
 @redgen
 203-520-9155 
 
 
 On May 27, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at me.com wrote:
 
 Thanks, Peter.
 
 It is dismaying that anyone could not imagine that  there's any way around 
 the wide variety of charges and procedures that collections  - perhaps 
 sometimes thoughtlessly? - interpose between themselves the public for whom 
 they are stewards.  For those, here are some starting points.
 
 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html
 
 http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/image-use
 
 http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_this_site/terms_of_use/free_image_s
 ervice.aspx
 
 https://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use
 
 http://thewalters.org/rights-reproductions.aspx
 
 Knowing that it can be bothersome to visit websites and read, let me copy 
 the simple image rights/use statement from the Walters Art Museum:
 
 All photography on our website(s) is governed by Creative Commons Licensing 
 and can be used without cost or specific permission. Artworks in the 
 photographs are in the public domain due to age. The photographs of 
 two-dimensional objects have also been released into the public domain. 
 Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been 
 released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported 
 License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
 
 Cheers,
 
 ken
 
 Kenneth Hamma
 
 Yale Center for British Art
 kenneth.hamma at yale.edu
 
 
 
 On May 27, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Peter B. Hirtle pbh6 at cornell.edu wrote:
 
 For a different perspective from a different field, MCN-L readers might be 
 interested in a forthcoming paper from John Overholt addressing the future 
 of special collections in libraries.  It is called Five theses on the 
 future of special collections, and a preprint is found at 
 http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10601790/overholt.pdf.  
 
 One of his five theses speaks precisely to the issue of permissions.  It 
 begins this way:
 
 The future of special collections is openness.
 
 We are not the creators of our collections; we are their stewards. They 
 were entrusted to us to preserve them, certainly, but preservation without 
 use is an empty victory. It ought to be our primary purpose at all times to 
 minimize barriers to use, so it is all the more shameful when we interpose 
 such barriers ourselves, not out of concern for the health of the 
 collections, but out of the misguided belief that we are entitled to 
 control, even to monetize, their use. When we claim copyright over our 
 digital collections, or impose permission fees or licensing terms on users, 
 we are arguably misrepresenting the law, and certainly violating one

[MCN-L] Copyright Technology Session: all presentations now posted

[David Green]

Dear Colleagues,

Just a note that all 5 presentations in the COPYRIGHT  TECHNOLOGY panel 
session, sponsored by the Intellectual Property SIG, at MCN2010 are now on 
Slideshare.

The panel was organized around the recent publication online by the Canadian 
Heritage Information Network of A MUSEUM GUIDE TO DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT, 
available at 
http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/sommaire-summary/gestion_numerique_droits-digital_rights_management-eng.jsp
  [or, if you prefer, http://goo.gl/dvMp]. Further refinements will be added 
over the next week or so. I hope you will have time to peruse the document and 
to recommend it to your colleagues.

Slide presentations available on the Museum Events page of MCN2010 
http://www.slideshare.net/event/museum-computer-network-2010 include the 
following:

My presentation on the Guide, 
http://www.slideshare.net/redgen/museum-guide-to-digital-rights-management, 
together with a transcript at 
http://www.slideshare.net/redgen/museum-guide-to-digital-rights-management-talk-transcript.

Deborah Wythe's Rights Transparency: The Brooklyn Museum's Copyright Project, 
at 
http://www.slideshare.net/dwythe/mcn-2010-brooklynmuseumcopyrightprojectwythe-5634335

Alan Newman's Digital Asset Management + Image Intellectual Property 
Management, at http://www.slideshare.net/alannewman/newman-damip-mcn2010

Jeff Sedlik's PLUS, presented by Alan Newman, at 
http://www.slideshare.net/alannewman/plus-newman-mcn-2010, and 

Darci Vanderhoff's, The Phillips Collection, Watermarking using Digimarc, at 
http://www.slideshare.net/darcivan/the-phillips-collection-watermarking-using-digimarc
 

You may be interested in a two-page set of Summary Recommendations drawn from 
the Guide. This will shortly be available on the CHIN website and can be found, 
for the time being, at the Slideshare site: 
http://www.slideshare.net/redgen/recommendations-5636582.

Thanks for your attention,

David 


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[MCN-L] More Copyright Talk for its Public from the Brooklyn Museum

[David Green]

I trust everyone is following the continuing series on copyright from the 
Brooklyn Museum.  Part 3 today: 
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2010/01/14/little-images-big-art/

David


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[MCN-L] Handheld Device Theft?

[David Green]

Rob,

This looks like a great system. I know this is off-topic, but is the program 
itself available for download?

David



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On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Robert Stein wrote:

 Hi Frances,
 
 We've recently launched an iPod based mobile tour here at the IMA in
 conjunction with our most recent exhibition (
 http://www.imamuseum.org/exhibitions/sacred-spain/tap)
 
 We currently rent the devices at the front desk for a $5 fee and do keep
 driver's licenses while the iPods are in use.  We do also ask for an email
 address or phone number so that we may contact them should they forget to
 return the device accidentally.
 
 In addition to the security of the devices with the public, it is also
 important to consider how the handhelds will be secured within your own
 building.  In our instance we keep all devices in a locked cabinet behind a
 locked door and have limited the physical access to this room to only a few
 key people.
 
 I think it is reasonable to plan for a certain percentage of loss when
 planning for long-term maintenance of a fleet of devices.  It's probably far
 more likely that you will loose a device because someone drops it down a
 stairwell, or spills a bottle of water on one... :)  I would think a 5%
 figure for replacement would be reasonable as would a 2-3 year replacement
 plan on the whole fleet.
 
 Hope this helps!
 
 Rob
 
 -- 
 *Robert Stein*
 Chief Information Officer
 
 *Indianapolis Museum of Art*
 4000 Michigan Road
 Indianapolis, IN  46208-3326
 T 317-923-1331 x244  F 317-931-1978
 rstein at imamuseum.org
 http://www.imamuseum.org
 
 
 
 On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Frances Narkiewicz fnarkiewicz at 
 cbl.iewrote:
 
 Hi everyone,
 
 The Chester Beatty Library is currently in the process of updating our
 handheld multimedia tour, and one of the most straightforward and practical
 options seems to be creating iPod Touch tours.  My main concern, however, is
 with theft of the devices themselves.  I am curious to know how other
 museums may be handling this:  are handing out iPods (or other fancy
 gadgets) to the public, what steps you have taken to control theft, and what
 sort of losses you may have incurred
 
 I know this may be a sensitive subject to discuss, but for all the online
 wikis and blogs which deal with multimedia content, I can't find anything
 which has mentioned this very practical issue!  Any advice would be
 appreciated, and please feel free to email me off-list about this.
 
 Many thanks,
 Frances
 Frances Narkiewicz
 Rights and Reproductions
 Chester Beatty Library
 Dublin Castle
 Dublin 2
 
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[MCN-L] Trends in Discoverability of Resources - U. Minnesota

[David Green]

Discoverability 
http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/48258/3/DiscoverabilityPhase1Report.pdf 
  is a report produced by the Digital Conservancy team at the  
University of Minnesota
http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/48258, charged with recommending  
ways to make relevant resources more visible and easier to find,  
particularly within the user?s workflow.

Even though they were formulated for librarians, I think there's some  
obvious relevance for the museum community...



Thanks to Lorcan Dempsey in his blog http://orweblog.oclc.org/ for  
pointing this out.


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[MCN-L] Open Access to Digital Images

[David Green]

A note on Humanist you all might find of interest, forwarded from Dot  
Porter on Humanist.

Many of us, of course, have been advocating for such a workable  
network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to  
facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media.

The emphasis here is not so  much on the technology but that network  
of mutual trust and cooperation.


David

Begin forwarded message:



 **

 From: Dr. Christine von Oertzen coertzen at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
 Date: 22 January 2009

 Call for Open Access to Digital Images

 The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a
 co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of
 best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual
 media. The recommendations aimed at facilitating the scholarly use and
 publication of historical digital images were drafted following
 consultations with scholars and representatives of leading museums,
 libraries, image archives and publishers. The aim of the document is
 to create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
 and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to
 facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media. The
 recommendations can be downloaded from the MIPWG website which
 currently features a detailed report on the initiative.

 The recommendations were prompted by the barriers encountered by those
 who wish to use and publish images of cultural heritage objects. High
 license fees and complicated access regulations make it increasingly
 difficult for scholars in the humanities to work with digital images.
 It is true that the digitization of image collections has acted as a
 catalyst for scholarly research. However, archives, collections and
 libraries differ greatly with respect to the question of how, where
 and on what basis images may be used for scholarly purposes. Moreover,
 their policies in this regard are becoming increasingly restrictive,
 especially when it comes to new forms of e-publishing.

 The MPIWG drew up its recommendations for facilitating the scholarly
 use of digital images following consultations with international
 experts which took place in January 2008. The recommendations call on
 curators and scholars to develop a mutually binding network of trust.

 The aim of the initiative is to encourage stakeholders jointly to
 address the current and future challenges raised by the digital age.

 The document urges curators to refrain from restricting the public
 domain arbitrarily and calls on them to accommodate the needs of
 scholars for reasonably-priced or freely-accessible high-resolution
 digital images - both for print publications and new Web-based forms
 of scholarly publishing. It exhorts scholars to recognise museums,
 libraries and collections as owners and custodians of physical objects
 of cultural heritage and to acknowledge their efforts in making
 digital images available. Moreover, it urges them to take their role
 as guarantors of authenticity and accurate attribution extremely
 seriously.

 Website:
 http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/

 -- 
 Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)  Metadata Manager
 Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper
 Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
 -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy --
 Phone: +353 1 234 2444Fax: +353 1 234 2400
 http://dho.ie  Email: dot.porter at gmail.com

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Art Bulletin use of In the Public Domain in its captions

[David Green]

 In
 the Public Domain for the work, and then
 copyright for the photographer?  Art Bulletin
 seems to be doing this, but I'm not sure how
 widespread it is.

 Eileen Fry
 Indiana University


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IP Research Fellowships at Rutgers University 2005-6

[David Green]

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.criticalanalysis.rutgers.edu/fellowships/index.htm

The Rutgers University interdisciplinary Center for the Critical 
Analysis of Contemporary  Culture (CCACC) announces a competition for 
visiting fellowships for 2005-2006 on the  topic, Intellectual 
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Lost in Gallery Space: Usability Flaws of Museum Websites in First Monday September 2004

[David Green]

Readers may be interested in an article in September's FIRST MONDAY 
that reports on a study of 36 museum websites, used to build a 
conceptual framework to analyze the usability flaws of museum sites. 
The study used results from 119 scenario-based evaluations and comes up 
with 15 insights that the authors characterize as dimensions (eg too 
much content and too many choices may lead users to focus on only one 
area at the expense of others) grouped under five characteristics 
(e.g. Museum Web sites have large amounts of rich content).


See Paul M. Marty  Michael Twidale, Lost in Gallery Space: A 
Conceptual Framework for analyzing the Usability Flaws of Museum 
Websites, FIRST MONDAY, September 6, 2004 
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/marty/


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ACLS Commission: Agenda for Berkeley public session

[David Green]

For information on the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, see http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm

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ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure 
for the Humanities and Social Sciences

PUBLIC INFORMATION-GATHERING SESSION

Morrison Library
101 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley CA

Saturday, August 21, 2004
10AM-3PM


10:00-10:30	Welcome from John Unsworth and Abby Smith

10:30-11:00	Suzanne Calpestri, John H. Rowe Librarian and Director, George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, UC Berkeley and American Anthropological Association

11:00-11:30	Henry Brady, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, Survey Research Center and UC Data, UC Berkeley

11:30-12:00	Michael Buckland, Professor, School of Information Management  Systems, UC Berkeley and Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)

12:00-12:30	Richard Rinehart, Director of Digital Media, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and Digital Media Instructor, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley

12:30-1:00	Lunch Break (box lunches provided)

1:00-1:30	Geoffrey Nunberg, Senior Researcher, Center of the Study of Language and Information, Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University

1:30-2:00	Gregory Niemeyer, Assistant Professor for Art, Technology and Culture, Departments of Art Practice and Film Studies, UC Berkeley

2:00-2:30	Daniel Greenstein, University Librarian and Director, California Digital Library, Office of the President, UC

2:30-3:00	Marc Levoy, Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University




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ACLS Commission at UC Berkeley

[David Green]

ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social 
Sciences: Public Meeting

University of California, Berkeley
August 21, 10am to 3pm
Morrison Library (101 Main Library - Doe)

Those on the list in the San Francisco area may be interested in a 
public hearing to be held at UC, Berkeley, by the ACLS Commission on 
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which I 
mentioned a month or so ago.


This is the fifth in the series and there will be invited speakers 
talking about what they see as the fundamental needs of humanities and  
social science researchers and scholars in the building out of 
cyberinfrastructure. Reports of meetings so far are at the ACLS 
website.


A good chance for everyone to put in their five cents.

See my website for a concise news item on this series of meetings: 
http://www.knowledgeculture.com/news.html


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Re: Museums and Humanities Cyberinfrastructure

[David Green]

Jennifer:

You're right, the fragment I forwarded did represent museums as victim rather than as active agent with much to offer in partnership.

Although there was no testimony from museums reps at the New York meeting this past Saturday, there was some interest and, from the audience, some powerful remarks by Len and from CAA's Eve Sinaiko about aspects of museums' experiences especially around engagement with the public.  (Len perhaps you could best represent your own comments)

This prompted what appeared to be a much deeper interest on the commission to hear more substantially from members of the community - so we should perhaps offer suggestions for speakers at the next meetings: August 21st, Berkeley; September 18th, Los Angeles; October 9th, Houston; October 26th, Baltimore.

Suggestions can be sent to John Unsworth at cyberch...@acls.org>.

David


On Jun 17, 2004, at 10:12 AM, J. Trant wrote:

David and Len (and others),

I also found it a bit disconcerting how little the state of the art in museum information standards and practices in the museum field was reflected in the testimony that was forwarded. Off the top of my head:

In terms of standards ...

The CIDOC Relational Data Model was accepted by the international museum community 10 years ago, and has since been expressed as an Object Oriented Model.

The Canadian Heritage Information Network has published museum data standards (implemented in their systems used by 100s of museums with millions of records) for over 30 years.

Art Museum participation ensured that the Categories for the Description of Works of Art - CDWA (prepared by the Art Information Task Force, a joint NEH-funded project of the Getty and the College Art Association, now maintained by the Getty) represented information museums managed.  Cross-over between the two committees ensured they were compatible

CIMI built on this work, and took it experimentally into areas of SGML and then XML, the Dublin core and Hand-held delivery (among other projects).

AMICO has implemented a specification based on these standards and The AMICO Library contains 100,000+ museum records from over 25 museums that HAVE BEEN interchanged among 100s of organizations and are accommodated in dozens of information management systems.

The Museums and the Online Archive of California project has also assembled a significant body of museum records from multiple institutions and made it available through multiple channels.

The community is full of experience, and the problems we face are not insurmountable: The Tate  has digitized its collection. At Museums and the Web the discussion was turning from 'how do we do it' to 'what do we do now we're almost done' ...


In terms of innovation ...

Far from being behind the curve, museums are a hot-bed of creativity. Look at the work of the Walker Art Center (Minnesota Artists http://mnartists.org), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (http://www.sfmoma.org) and The Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.org),  Conservation Central (Smithsonian's National Zoo)
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral, The American Museum of Natural History including the OLogy - Projects area http://ology.amnh.org.
 I could go on ...


In terms of participation ...

Far from coming to the table as supplicants, museums need to step forward as equal participants with real experience in developing significant collections of lasting scholarly value  -- both digital and PHYSICAL. Moving knowledge forward digitally should not involve a severing of the relationship between the physical object and the digital surrogate. (Increased knowledge about the physical artefacts should pass into the digital realm as a matter of course, supported by institutional policy and procedure).

Museums have a long history of developing knowledge based on these resources and communicating it to multiple audiences in many different modes and modalities. What we're missing is an ability to speak as a group about these experiences. This is one case where the heterogeneous nature of our interdisciplinary museum community works against us.

With my best from Grindstone Island,

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Museums and Humanities Cyberinfrastructure

[David Green]

r activities. Without this foundation, we cannot take any next steps.

Second, we need investments in data architecture and information management to assist us in developing sustainable models for managing and providing access to our collections information. Museums contain unique information resources that are used broadly by many constituencies. We have found that structures built for other scholarly purposes do not work for our collections or serve these broad and rapidly changing constituencies. Simply data sharing among museum collections and across other data sets has the opportunity to revolutionize our ability to ask and answer questions.

Third, we need to participate in the development of new applications such as digital libraries, collaboratories, and grid computing. The potential contributions of a real cyberinfrastructure are to provide rich and much needed content to the research community to enable learning and teaching by museum and other scholars. Dynamic collaboration is a powerful enabler of new scholarship and museum scholars and collections should be a part of that process. New applications would also provide venues for public enlightenment that create relevancy for the American public, support for formal education, and inspire the next generation of scholars.

I gratefully acknowledge the leadership role organizations like the IMLS and CNI have played in beginning to build bridges amongst a wide range of organizations. It has helped lay the groundwork for next steps in a humanities and social sciences cyberinfrastructure. In order for free-standing museums to play a vital role, we need resources to:
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger	*  enhance our physical infrastructure
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger *  produce digital content
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger	*  develop information architectures and management strategies
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger *  	engage in partnerships with the universities, libraries, the broadcast industry, public schools, local communities, and others
*  explore new applications that can revolutionize how we undertake the enterprise of scholarly research
*   train our staffs to effectively utilize these technologies
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger	*  develop and test measures of success
/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger *  	change internal reward structures so our scholars will be good partners
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/x-tad-biggerx-tad-biggerThank you for taking the time to listen to me./x-tad-bigger


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Re: Museums and Humanities Cyberinfrastructure

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x-tad-biggerIt is also noteworthy, but not necessarily significant, that there are Museum leaders among the Commission members and Advisors; /x-tad-bigger

x-tad-biggerLen: Did you mean to say that there are NO museum leaders as I can't see any on the list. I don't think one should necessarily have expected any, although it would have been prescient of them to have included one cross-over - an academic, a scholar who was active in museums (as Bill Barnett would appear to be).

/x-tad-biggerCommission Members:

Paul Courant 
Provost and Professor of Economics 
University of Michigan

Sarah Fraser 
Associate Professor and Chair 
Art History, Northwestern University

Mike Goodchild 
Director, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Professor, Geography 
University of California, Santa Barbara

Margaret Hedstrom 
Associate Professor, School of Information 
University of Michigan

Charles Henry 
Vice President and Chief Information Officer 
Rice University

Peter B. Kaufman 
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Innodata Isogen 
President, Intelligent Television

Jerome McGann 
John Stewart Bryan Professor 
English, University of Virginia

Roy Rosenzweig 
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor 
History, George Mason University

John Unsworth (Chair) 
Dean and Professor 
Grad School of Library and Information Science 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bruce Zuckerman 
Professor, School of Religion 
Director, Archaeological Research Collection 
University of Southern California

Advisors to the Commission:

Dan Atkins 
Professor, School of Information 
Director, Alliance for Community Technology 
University of Michigan

James Herbert 
Senior NSF/NEH Advisor 
National Science Foundation

Clifford Lynch, Director 
Coalition for Networked Information

Deanna Marcum 
Associate Librarian for Library Services 
Library of Congress

Harold Short 
Director, Center for Computing in the Humanities 
King's College, London

Donald J. Waters 
Program Officer for Scholarly Communication 
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Steve Wheatley 
Vice-President, American Council of Learned Societies

Senior Editor:

Abby Smith 
Director of Programs 
Council on Library and Information Resources 
Washington, DC

David



On Jun 16, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Leonard Steinbach wrote:

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x-tad-biggerThank you for raising promulgating this... I was (truly) about to do so myself./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerI will be attending the Commission meeting in New York on Saturday, but not ostensibly to testify.  I am looking forward to seeing how Museums are portrayed, and as you noted, the Chicago notes are not posted yet, so your summation is most helpful./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerIt may be (again, I was awaiting my experience on Saturday to decide my view) that both AAM and MCN should provide more formal representational testimony to the Commission, both as written documents and verbal testimony./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerIt is also noteworthy, but not necessarily significant, that there are Museum leaders among the Commission members and Advisors; however, given the sponsorship of the Mellon foundation, it seems hardly likely that museums will be forgotten on all this./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerI will just reiterate that the website for this project is /x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger and one can find more information there, including meeting notes, and sign up there for email notifications about its progress./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerI am glad you have stimulated this discussion./x-tad-bigger

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x-tad-biggerFrom:/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger David Green [mailto:red...@mac.com]/x-tad-bigger
x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerx-tad-biggerSent:/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:28 AM/x-tad-bigger
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Readers might be interested in the progress of the Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm>.

  

The Commission is a humanities response to the influential NSF Commission on Cyberinfrastructure that made recommendations for improving national cyberinfrastructure for scientific research and teaching ( See Revolutioning Science  Engineering Through Cyber-infrastructure, http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/>).

  

The ACLS has been holding a series of public meetings (so far in DC and Chicago). The next is this coming Sa