[MCN-L] iPRES 2018: detailed schedule & conference updates
Dear all, We are excited to share the detailed schedule <https://osf.io/u5w3q/wiki/home/> - with information about every session - for iPRES2018 <https://ipres2018.org/schedule>, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. We are using the Open Science Framework (OSF) platform to make the full conference proceedings available - including slides, papers, poster images, workshop materials, panel questions, session notes, and supplementary materials. We are pleased to see many people registering for iPRES 2018. There is still time to register if you haven’t: https://ipres2018.org/registration. If a full registration doesn’t work for you, you can select a workshop-only registration for Monday or register for select days or activities. If you have any questions, please contact our Registration Team . Some tuition support is still available for underrepresented students and first-time attendees - see the registration page <https://ipres2018.org/registration> for details. Thank you again, Portico, for your making tuition support possible! There are rolling submissions and acceptances for ad hoc programming, including the first digital preservation game room, original digital preservation graphics, lightning sessions, and other programming – spots are filling up and additional information is available here <https://ipres2018.org/ad-hoc-programming>. Our iPRES 2018 Code of Conduct <https://ipres2018.org/code-of-conduct> with our response framework is posted and we welcome your feedback. Looking forward to seeing you in September, With warm regards, the iPRES 2018 Organizing Team <https://ipres2018.org/organizing-committee> email: ipres2018contributi...@gmail.com -- Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl ᐧ ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] iPRES 2018: Online registration open - Early bird registration until Jun 30th
Dear all, iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004, annual iPRES conferences have taken place in rotation around the globe on four continents. We are pleased to announce that iPRES2018's online registration is now open: https://ipres2018.org/registration. The conference brings together 300-400 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, service providers, and other experts to share recent developments, innovative projects and to collaboratively solve problems. Come celebrate the 15th conference with us at iPRES 2018 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. There are workshops and tutorials to sign up for, papers and panels, posters and demonstrations, and more. Watch for updates about the first digital preservation game room, original graphics, lightning sessions, and other programming. Do note that early bird registration ends June 30. Please contact the registration team if you require any further information regarding your participation in this conference. Looking forward to seeing you in September, With regards from the iPRES 2018 organizing team. -- Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl ᐧ ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] iPres 2018 Final Call for Contributions
Dear list members, this is a kind reminder to say that the iPRES full papers for peer review are due by 15 April. There will be no deadline extension. We look forward to receiving your thoughts, practices, experiences, and innovations. *See iPres2018.org <http://ipres2018.org/> for the full text of the Call for Contributions <https://ipres2018.org/call-for-contributions> and submission instructions <https://ipres2018.org/submission-instructions>.Looking forward, with kind regards from the iPRES 2018 Organizing Team <https://ipres2018.org/organizing-committee>,* Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 Skype: erwinverbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Erwin Verbruggen < everbrug...@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote: > Dear all, > > > Come help us celebrate the first 15 Years of iPRES, the premier > international conference on digital preservation! The theme for iPRES 2018: > where > art and science meet: the art in science and the science in art - aims to > broaden the voices and approaches participating in the conference. iPRES > brings together a broad array of practitioners, researchers, educators, > providers, students, and others to share lessons learned from engaging in > digital preservation, including recent research, developments, and > innovations. MIT Libraries and Harvard Library are co-hosting the > conference is in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 24-27, > 2018. > > The iPRES 2018 Organizing Team seeks contributions that tell stories about > bridging knowledge gaps in teams, implementing technologies, and overcoming > barriers towards proper digital stewarding of digital items, assets, works > and collections. Be creative. Be inspiring. Be inclusive. In keeping with > the theme, we will embrace creative proposals that demonstrate how research > and theory directly impact and influence practice at all levels. > > Important Dates > >- > >Optional Abstracts: We encourage authors to submit papers abstracts to >receive feedback on your proposal prior to submitting your paper. The iPRES >2018 Organizing Team will provide feedback to submitters for abstracts >received between 15 February and 20 March. >- > >Papers: Full papers for peer review are due by 15 April. >- > > Submitters will receive review comments by 15 May. > - > > Revised papers with revisions that address reviewer comments are > due 15 June. > - > >Other peer-reviewed contributions: proposals for posters and >demonstrations, workshops and tutorials, and panels are due 15 April. >- > >Non-peer reviewed contributions: digital preservation games, original >graphics, and lightning talks will not be submitted through EasyChair. >These contributions will be due beginning in May – watch for details. >- > >Post-conference revisions: Authors are encouraged to update their >papers based on discussions during the conference. These will be due by >October 31. > > > See iPres2018.org <http://ipres2018.org/> for the full text of the Call > for Contributions <https://ipres2018.org/call-for-contributions> and > submission > instructions <https://ipres2018.org/submission-instructions>. > > Look forward to seeing you! > > iPRES 2018 Organizing Team <https://ipres2018.org/organizing-committee> > > > Erwin Verbruggen > Project lead R > > T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 > Skype: erwinverbruggen > > Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision > Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB > Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl > > ᐧ > ᐧ ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] iPres 2018 Final Call for Contributions
Dear all, Come help us celebrate the first 15 Years of iPRES, the premier international conference on digital preservation! The theme for iPRES 2018: where art and science meet: the art in science and the science in art - aims to broaden the voices and approaches participating in the conference. iPRES brings together a broad array of practitioners, researchers, educators, providers, students, and others to share lessons learned from engaging in digital preservation, including recent research, developments, and innovations. MIT Libraries and Harvard Library are co-hosting the conference is in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 24-27, 2018. The iPRES 2018 Organizing Team seeks contributions that tell stories about bridging knowledge gaps in teams, implementing technologies, and overcoming barriers towards proper digital stewarding of digital items, assets, works and collections. Be creative. Be inspiring. Be inclusive. In keeping with the theme, we will embrace creative proposals that demonstrate how research and theory directly impact and influence practice at all levels. Important Dates - Optional Abstracts: We encourage authors to submit papers abstracts to receive feedback on your proposal prior to submitting your paper. The iPRES 2018 Organizing Team will provide feedback to submitters for abstracts received between 15 February and 20 March. - Papers: Full papers for peer review are due by 15 April. - Submitters will receive review comments by 15 May. - Revised papers with revisions that address reviewer comments are due 15 June. - Other peer-reviewed contributions: proposals for posters and demonstrations, workshops and tutorials, and panels are due 15 April. - Non-peer reviewed contributions: digital preservation games, original graphics, and lightning talks will not be submitted through EasyChair. These contributions will be due beginning in May – watch for details. - Post-conference revisions: Authors are encouraged to update their papers based on discussions during the conference. These will be due by October 31. See iPres2018.org <http://ipres2018.org/> for the full text of the Call for Contributions <https://ipres2018.org/call-for-contributions> and submission instructions <https://ipres2018.org/submission-instructions>. Look forward to seeing you! iPRES 2018 Organizing Team <https://ipres2018.org/organizing-committee> Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 Skype: erwinverbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl ᐧ ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] software search
Hello Matt, For an overview of possibilities, take a look at Ashley Blewer's crowd-sourced Collection Management System Collection, here: http://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2017/08/09/collection-management-system-collection/ . Kind regards, Erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:52 PM, <serdm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi Matt, > What collection management system have you been using for the past 8 > years? You can answer me back channel if you want. > ---steve > > > -Original Message- > >From: Matt Wheeler <mwhee...@pmm-maine.org> > >Sent: Jan 22, 2018 5:27 PM > >To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> > >Subject: [MCN-L] software search > > > >Dear Colleagues-- > > > >We've been using the same collections mgmt system for around 8 years now. > >It's a local installation, and the product includes an option to upload > >data and associated image derivatives to an SQL database which is open to > >the public; it's hosted on a server maintained by the software company. > > > >While the on-prem database suits us well, we want to migrate away from > this > >public web portal they offer to something more sophisticated and > >customizable. I'm looking for suggestions--this would be something easy to > >update/sync to our on-prem database, preferably out of the box so we have > a > >support team to turn to, with robust querying capabilities, native > >ecommerce or the ability to integrate with 3rd-party software, tools for > >building online exhibits, and a visitor-friendly interface which would > >allow people to create user accounts, save favorites, etc. > > > >Is this pie-in-the-sky? We're writing this into a grant and so counting on > >having some capital to throw at it. Thanks very much for any insight. > > > >Best, Matt > >-- > >Matt Wheeler, > >Photography Archives, > >Penobscot Marine Museum > >Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211 > >5 Church Street, PO Box 498 > >Searsport, Maine 04974 > >___ > >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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] iPres 2018 Preliminary Call for Contributions
Dear all, iPRES 2018 BOSTON - *Where Art and Science Meet - The Art In the Science & The Science In the Art of Digital Preservation* - will be co-hosted by MIT Libraries and Harvard Library on September 24-27, 2018. Help us celebrate the first *15 Years of iPRES*, the premier international conference on the preservation and long-term management of digital materials. This preliminary call for contributions seeks abstracts for papers that tell stories about bridging knowledge gaps in teams, implementing technologies, and overcoming barriers towards proper digital stewarding of digital items, assets, works and collections. Be creative. Be inspiring. Be inclusive. The theme of the call - *where art and science meet* - aims to broaden the variety of voices and approaches that fall under the nomenclature of digital preservation. In keeping with the theme, the program committee will embrace creative proposals that demonstrate how research and theory directly impact and influence practice at all levels. *Important Dates* - Detailed submission information will be made available in January 2018. - Paper abstracts are due February 15, 2018. - All other submissions are due April 2018. See iPres2018.org for the full text of the Preliminary Call for Contributions <https://ipres2018.org/call-for-contributions>. With kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Program Co-Chair **this announcement will be cross-posted** Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl ᐧ ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Exit Strategy / Termination Policies
Apologies, one of those links was a dupe - corrected version: At the 2016 PASIG and iPRES conferences, Matthew Addis gave a shot talk on this topic: - Here’s someone’s blog summary: https://preservationmatters.blogspot.nl/2016/10/exit-strategies-and-techniques-for.html <https://preservationmatters.blogspot.nl/2016/10/exit-strategies-and-techniques-for.html> - Here’s his PASIG slides: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4029189 <https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4029189> - Here’s his iPRES paper abstract: https://ipr16.organizers-congress.org/frontend/organizers/media/iPRES2016/_PDF/IPR16.Proceedings_4_Web_Broschuere_Link.pdf <https://ipr16.organizers-congress.org/frontend/organizers/media/iPRES2016/_PDF/IPR16.Proceedings_4_Web_Broschuere_Link.pdf> Related literature from the iPRES proceedings: - Schaffer, H. Will You Ever Need an Exit Strategy? In IT Pro. 4-6. March/April 2014 https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/it/2014/02/mit2014020004.pdf <https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/it/2014/02/mit2014020004.pdf> Warm regards, Erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 Skype: erwinverbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl <http://beeldengeluid.nl/> > > > > >> On 17 Jan 2017, at 15:15, Beaudet, David <d-beau...@nga.gov >> <mailto:d-beau...@nga.gov>> wrote: >> >> Kate, I saw your question last week and happened to be in AWS training so I >> asked a gentleman who works for AWS sales to get his perspective. Not too >> surprisingly, he suggests engaging professional services to assist in an >> exit from AWS. >> >> >> >> "Professional services or a partner would be the fastest way to recover data >> when exiting AWS. A cloud provider going out of business is a real concern >> when you're dealing with smaller providers. As you know the cloud industry >> is simultaneously growing and consolidating on a few major providers at a >> very fast rate. Having worked for a smaller IaaS provider, I've seen the >> difficulty for smaller providers to compete via product and financially >> (very thin margins if your platform is not fully automated, which most >> "cloud providers" are not). With Azure and AWS, going out of business is a >> small risk. Google you could be a little more leery of them pulling the plug >> since they have a history of stopping major initiatives (Google Glass, >> Google Fiber). >> >> >> >> With AWS, we have a standard term agreement with 30 days guaranteed that AWS >> will not touch your environment (https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ >> <https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/>). This can be negotiated when you >> establish an Enterprise Agreement with AWS. As a self-service platform, AWS >> does not offer support migrating clients out." >> >> >> >> >> >> Regarding recoverability of cloud-based data, I asked him whether he thought >> it would make sense to push backups to another cloud provider. >> >> >> >> >> >> "Certainly pushing backups to another provider is an option. My thought is, >> does the risk justify the cost in this scenario. If you're with the major 3 >> cloud players, I see very little risk of the provider going under, and >> you'll have to pay storage and data transfer fees to the duration of this >> strategy. Based on the size of your environment, it may be worth saving the >> money and being prepared to pay for professional services to help you exit >> efficiently in the off chance you need to make a quick exit." >> >> >> >> >> >> Happy to put you in touch with him directly if it would be useful. >> >> >> >> Dave Beaudet >> >> National Gallery of Art >> >> ___ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu <http://www.mcn.edu/>) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu <mailto:mcn-l@mcn.edu> >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l <http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l> >> >> The MCN-L archives can be found at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > > Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 Skype: erwinverbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> ___ 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Exit Strategy / Termination Policies
Hi Kate, At the 2016 PASIG and iPRES conferences, Matthew Addis gave a shot talk on this topic: - Here’s someone’s blog summary: https://preservationmatters.blogspot.nl/2016/10/exit-strategies-and-techniques-for.html - Here’s his PASIG slides: https://ipr16.organizers-congress.org/frontend/organizers/media/iPRES2016/_PDF/IPR16.Proceedings_4_Web_Broschuere_Link.pdf - Here’s his iPRES paper abstract: https://ipr16.organizers-congress.org/frontend/organizers/media/iPRES2016/_PDF/IPR16.Proceedings_4_Web_Broschuere_Link.pdf Related literature from the iPRES proceedings: - Schaffer, H. Will You Ever Need an Exit Strategy? In IT Pro. 4-6. March/April 2014 https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/it/2014/02/mit2014020004.pdf Warm regards, Erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R T +31 35 677 16 91 | M +31 6 153 603 71 Skype: erwinverbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl > On 17 Jan 2017, at 15:15, Beaudet, David <d-beau...@nga.gov> wrote: > > Kate, I saw your question last week and happened to be in AWS training so I > asked a gentleman who works for AWS sales to get his perspective. Not too > surprisingly, he suggests engaging professional services to assist in an exit > from AWS. > > > > "Professional services or a partner would be the fastest way to recover data > when exiting AWS. A cloud provider going out of business is a real concern > when you're dealing with smaller providers. As you know the cloud industry is > simultaneously growing and consolidating on a few major providers at a very > fast rate. Having worked for a smaller IaaS provider, I've seen the > difficulty for smaller providers to compete via product and financially (very > thin margins if your platform is not fully automated, which most "cloud > providers" are not). With Azure and AWS, going out of business is a small > risk. Google you could be a little more leery of them pulling the plug since > they have a history of stopping major initiatives (Google Glass, Google > Fiber). > > > > With AWS, we have a standard term agreement with 30 days guaranteed that AWS > will not touch your environment (https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/). This can > be negotiated when you establish an Enterprise Agreement with AWS. As a > self-service platform, AWS does not offer support migrating clients out." > > > > > > Regarding recoverability of cloud-based data, I asked him whether he thought > it would make sense to push backups to another cloud provider. > > > > > > "Certainly pushing backups to another provider is an option. My thought is, > does the risk justify the cost in this scenario. If you're with the major 3 > cloud players, I see very little risk of the provider going under, and you'll > have to pay storage and data transfer fees to the duration of this strategy. > Based on the size of your environment, it may be worth saving the money and > being prepared to pay for professional services to help you exit efficiently > in the off chance you need to make a quick exit." > > > > > > Happy to put you in touch with him directly if it would be useful. > > > > Dave Beaudet > > National Gallery of Art > > ___ > 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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] AV Asset Management
Hi Patrick, Had to read your message twice to discern your need for tracking AV Assets (physical) vs AV Assets (as in DAM systems). But think I got the hang of it. We use off-the-shelf (and 'closed') software called TopDesk for this - not sure whether it supports the range you describe, but perhaps worth to investigate. http://www.topdesk.com/software/modules-and-features/modules/asset-management Kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Bryan Kennedy <bkenn...@smm.org> wrote: > We're been tracking materials like this for several years now in the > Science Museum of Minnesota's exhibit design/production group. We use a > custom built database to track all exhibit components and each of their > constituent parts (graphics, objects, media assets, media hardware). This > database has evolved over the years from a series of custom Filemaker > templates to a standardized online web tool. The current web tool was built > in PHP and MySQL (Drupal), but we are currently working on a new system > built in JS/Node/Mongo (Meteor). > > When we first built these systems we looked for off the shelf software that > would meet our needs. And each time we look at improving the system, we ask > ourselves whether we should be spending internal resources to build and > maintain this custom piece of software. However, we've never been able to > find any tool that meets our custom needs. While we develop this system in > the open on GitHub and are happy to share the code ( > https://github.com/scimusmn/agora), I suspect that our system would have > limited use even for another museum in the same exhibit business. A tool > like this is just so linked to your internal business process, which will > differ across institutions. That being said, I'd be interested in hearing > from anyone who feels like a collaboration on a tool like this might be > fruitful. > > Standardizing processes across groups is one of the biggest challenges and > pay-offs in building a tool like this. Each group has to get together and > define the precarious balance between tracking too much information and > making a tool that people will actually use. It's useless to have the > verbose system that tracks every detail, if no one updates the database > when you move a monitor from one floor to another, or resize the graphic to > fit a change in the furniture. We also found that spending time on visual > design and performance was especially important. It probably is obvious, > but was saw better engagement and use when we spent time to make the system > more attractive looking and shaved a second off the page load time. > > If you're limiting your inventory needs to computer hardware assets you > might be able to find some useful tools in the IT sector. Unfortunately, > I've found these tools a bit restricted to network discovery which doesn't > help much for non-networked hardware like old projectors, cameras, > monitors, etc.: > >- https://www.spiceworks.com/ >- http://www.solarwinds.com/ >- >http://www.open-source-guide.com/en/Solutions/ > Infrastructure/It-asset-and-inventory-management >- http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ > > I'm super curious to hear how other institutions (large and small) are > tracking assets like these. > > Best, > bk > > bryan kennedy > director, exhibit media > science museum of minnesota > bkenn...@smm.org 651.221.2522 > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Patrick Davis <pda...@fieldmuseum.org> > wrote: > > > We are starting to look at asset management needs to keep track of all of > > our AV inventory throughout the building as it has gotten out of hand. I > > was wondering what other institutions, specifically large institutions, > > like ours, are doing. > > > > As a educated guess off the top of my head we are in the 1000-1500 items > > range, when you get down to the level of each speaker, monitor, > projector, > > computer, media player, ect > > --- > > Patrick Davis | Exhibitions AV Specialist | The Field Museum > > 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 > > 312-665-7968 > > > > <https://www.fieldmuseum.org/email-signature> > > > > ___ > > 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@mcn.edu > > > > T
[MCN-L] PREFORMA Starts Prototyping Phase
Dear colleagues, The PREFORMA Project has recently entered its prototyping phase by awarding contracts to the suppliers veraPDF consortium, Easy Innova and MediaArea. See the message below or feel free to get in touch for more info. Kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision *PREFORMA Starts Prototyping Phase * *veraPDF consortium, Easy Innova and MediaArea start development on open source file compliance checkers for documents, still images and moving image materials.* The prototyping phase of the public pre-commercial procurement project PREFORMA started on April 14th 2015, with the announcement of the three winners. The aim of PREFORMA (http://www.preforma-project.eu/) is to develop an open-source toolset for the conformance checking of digital files intended for long-term preservation in memory institutions. After analysing the technical and functional specifications submitted by the six groups that completed the design phase in March 2015 , PREFORMA chose the three consortia awarded with contracts for the prototyping phase. This phase will last until December 2016. The three awardees are the veraPDF Consortium (led by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association), who will work on the compliance checker for the PDF/A standard for documents; Easy Innova, who will work on the TIFF standard for digital still images; and MediaArea, who will work on a set of open source standards for moving images, namely: the Matroska wrapper, the FFv1 video codec and LPCM for audio streams. Börje Justrell, coordinator of the PREFORMA project, said: “*For archives and libraries it is imperative that they understand what’s in the digital objects they are preserving for generations. The open source PREFORMA toolset, which brings together the three solutions from the awardees, helps cover the currently existing knowledge gap. The openness of the solution will allow extension of the software with checkers for other file formats, should new requirements emerge.*” Antonella Fresa, technical coordinator of the project, said: “*We are lucky to work with these strong organisations on the PREFORMA challenge - and would like to express our thanks to the three other consortia who also did valuable work during the design phase: Preservica, KU Leuven – Libis Library IT Services and Université Catholique de Louvain.*” Suppliers and memory institutions interested in participating in and contributing to the prototyping phase are invited to follow the progress on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal ( http://www.preforma-project.eu/open-source-portal.html) and to join the PREFORMA community (http://www.preforma-project.eu/community.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] press site for cultural institutions?
Hi Chiara, Ours is hosted on Pressroom / PR.CO - not sure if it covers all the needs you indicate, but have a look: http://pers.beeldengeluid.nl/ Kind regards, Erwin *Erwin Verbruggen* Project lead RD *Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision* *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | * *beeldengeluid.nl* http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/ ᐧ On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Chiara Bernasconi chiara.bernasc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am writing to see whether anyone can recommend a good press site for cultural institutions? Some of our requirements are: section for news/press releases/archived releases, section for advanced programming, film schedule/exhibition information, press releases archive (PDF), press kits, and restricted password protected access for high res images. Many thanks in advance, Chiara --- Chiara Bernasconi Digital Media The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 212-408-6451 MoMA.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.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@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://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Digital POWRR White Paper Released
Dear Stacey, very interesting - though I can't seem to find a way to download the white paper from the repository. The description is extensive, but no link to PDF or other files seems to be present. Would you happen to have a direct link to the white paper? Kind regards, Erwin Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Stacey Erdman serdman at niu.edu wrote: The Digital POWRR Project (Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources), is a multi-institutional, IMLS National Leadership Grant project that has been making waves in the field of digital preservation (DP) since its efforts began in 2012. Its focus has been on investigating scalable DP solutions for small and mid-sized institutions that are often faced with small staff sizes, restricted IT infrastructures, and tight budgets. These institutions hold unique digital content important to their region's cultural heritage, yet many of the practitioners are unsure how to approach the stewardship of the content and are overwhelmed by the large number of DP tools/services available. As the project progressed, the team uncovered the particular challenges, advantages, needs, and desires of under-resourced institutions. They worked to address and overcome obstacles that often prevent practitioners from taking even initial steps in preserving their digital content. POWRR sought to create a well-marked, realistic path towards sustainable digital stewardship for this often overlooked group. For example, - The team delivered a well-received, graphic-based tool grid ( http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/) that shows, at-a-glance, the functionalities of over 60 DP tools and services and how they fit within an OAIS-based digital curation lifecycle. - POWRR successfully petitioned select DP-solution vendors for scaled-down and transparent pricing geared towards smaller institutions. - The team created materials ( http://powrr-wiki.lib.niu.edu/index.php/One_Pagers_tailored_to_educate_different_professionals) to aid practitioners as they attempt to build awareness around the need for a DP program and advocate for the necessary resources. - They developed a pragmatic, hands-on workshop ( http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/survived-powrr-wkshp/) to teach the initial steps necessary to accession and inventory digital content as well as how to realistically approach developing a DP program. Recognizing that many of their target institutions currently have little-to-no travel and training budgets, the POWRR team is traveling across the country to conduct these workshops for very little cost to the practitioners. - Because institutions can achieve economies of scale by working together (not to mention the value of the we're all in this together approach!), POWRR is producing collaboration models and the underlying legal framework often needed for these endeavors...all directed at small and mid-sized institutions. - Most recently, POWRR released their White Paper, From Theory to Action: Good Enough Digital Preservation for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions ( http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/13610) . These are just a selection of the efforts put forth by the POWRR team to guide and empower their peers on the path to digital stewardship. Stay tuned to the POWRR website ( http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/) for further activities and developments! Stacey Erdman Digital Collections Curator Northern Illinois University 97 Founders Memorial Library DeKalb, IL 60115 ph. 815.753.1004 serdman at niu.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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Flickr and digital collections
Hi Ellice, there's quite some literature on the subject from a few years back - see the list below. Main advantage of using Flickr over other social media sites is their policy of licenses: you can clearly indicate under what license the material is available - unless you take part in the Flickr Commons programme, where you need to indicate there are no known copyright restrictions. It's still curious why the company is doing such great advocacy work on Creative Commons but doesn't grant museum collections the same flexibility. When you use Pinterest or other services, their Terms of Service usually indicate some vague lines in which you basically sign away your rights of ownership to them. In practice, this is more of an ethical decision than a practical one. Europeana did publish a case study of how they - and museums involved - make use of the various sharing platforms last year - see: http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/1587205 and http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/1600355/ Finally, another option to consider is Wikimedia Commons - less user friendly / shareable perhaps, but if you can publish materials under an open license it allows wikipedia editors to use the materials in erudite articles - see the GLAMWIKI projects for more info: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM Regards, Erwin Bray, Paula, Sebastian Chan, Joseph Dalton, Dianne Dietrich, Effie, Michelle Springer, and Helena (H) Zinkham. ?Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons.? In *Museums and the Web 2011: Proceedings*, edited by D. Bearman and J. Trant. Totonto: Archives Museum Informatics, 2011. http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/rethinking_evaluation_metrics_in_light_of_flic . Donahue, Ryan, and Aaron Straup Cope. ?Archiving Flickr and Other Websites of Interest to Museums,? n.d. http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/archiving_flickr_and_other_websites_of_interes . Gardu?o Freeman, Cristina. ?Photosharing on Flickr: Intangible Heritage and Emergent Publics.? *International Journal of Heritage Studies* 16, no. 4?5 (July 2010): 352?68. doi:10.1080/13527251003775695. Moortgat, Judith. *Taking Pictures to the Public*, 2009. http://www.den.nl/getasset.aspx?id=Website/Taking_pictures_of_the_public_NA.pdfassettype=attachments . Springer, Michelle, Beth Dulabahn, Phil Michel, Barbara Natanson, David Reser, David Woordward, and Helena Zinkham. *For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project*. Library of Congress, 2008. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf. Vaughan, J. ?Insights into the Commons on Flickr,? 2010. http://digitalcommons.library.unlv.edu/lib_articles/123/. Kind regards, *Erwin Verbruggen* Project lead RD *Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision* *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | **beeldengeluid.n http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/l* ? On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Aude Mathey aude_mathey at yahoo.fr wrote: Hi everyone, That is a very interesting topic indeed. I actually got a question while reading your emails: why Flickr for your collections, instead of let's say Pinterest or Instagram? Especially if you want people to share and interact with them? Thanks for your answers! Aude Le Mardi 13 mai 2014 14h39, Perian Sully perian at emphatic.org a ?crit : Hi Ellice: A number of institutions I've worked with use Flickr for their online presence. In fact, when I was at Balboa Park, we worked with John Fox (of MemoryMiner) to develop a tool to help museums and archives put their materials and metadata onto Flickr: www.sammu.org (Mac only, I'm afraid). I've not tested it for a couple of years, so YMMV, but it worked very well. Currently, I'm working with BPOC, the San Diego Air and Space Museum (SDASM), and Piction to develop Flickr and YouTube communication tools with the DAMS, so they can also harvest the comments and tags that people are leaving. SDASM has over 100K images on the Flickr Commons, and a few hundred videos on YouTube, so there's a lot of information to sort through. The enthusiasts are very active and engaged with new content. I have noticed that art museums don't always do so well on Flickr. There are clusters of car, plane, train, and history enthusiast communities who really engage with the pictures. Art and culture museums just don't have the same number of people chatting about their works. Recently, the Brooklyn Museum pulled their Flickr Commons content. Shelley Bernstein wrote about their decision here: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2014/04/04/social-change/ She makes some good points, but I think that the users we're interested in are still present on Flickr. Hope this helps, ~Perian On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Ellice Engdahl ElliceE at thehenryford.orgwrote: Hi all, I'm wondering how other LAMs use Flickr with their digital collections. Does anyone use Flickr in lieu
[MCN-L] embedded metadata for image collections
Hi Melissa, a few more pointers for your research: Industry tools: * AV Preserve's Exiftool Tutorial series: http://www.avpreserve.com/exiftool-tutorial-series/ * A pretty comprehensive site about photo metadata (industry-related): http://www.photometadata.org/ * Also industry-related: DPBestFlow: http://dpbestflow.org/metadata/metadata-handling Use-cases: * British higher education organisation JISC has a pretty comprehensive site: http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/metadata-and-digital-images * The Oregon Health Science University issued a paper on using consumer-level facial recognition software for describing their photograps: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8486 Documentation: * and of course the IPTC: http://www.iptc.org/site/Photo_Metadata/Embedded_Metadata_Manifesto_%282011%29 * The library student journal has an extensive article about Embedded metadata: friend or foe to our digital collections?http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj/article/view/210/290 In the case of Sound and Vision, you can get in touch with Margot Knijn mknijn -figure- beeldengeluid.nl, who manages our photo collection of 1M+ images. Kind regards, Erwin Maarten Brinkerink mailto:mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl 5 maart 2014 09:24 You might also wanna get in touch with the people behind: http://commonsmachinery.se/ Best, Maarten ___ 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ Rich Cherry mailto:rcherry at museumsandtheweb.com 5 maart 2014 00:03 The published papers at Museums and the Web would be a good place to start: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/?s=embeded+metadatasubmit=Search Rich ___ 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ Melissa Ann Gill mailto:melgill at uw.edu 4 maart 2014 20:36 Hello, I am a graduate intern at the Getty Research Institute working to develop a proposal to harmonize embedded metadata standards and practices across the Getty's various digital image initiatives. I would to ask the listserv about current embedded metadata practices employed by museums and special collections archives. Does your institution currently embed metadata in digital media assets, and if not, do you plan to do so in the future? I am specifically interested in the application of embedded metadata for open content programs; however, I would be happy to correspond with anyone regarding EM schemas, software, and usability. Please contact me off-list if you would like to discuss further. I can be reached at melgill at uw.eduand mgill at getty.edu Thank you! Best regards, Melissa *___**Melissa Gill, MLIS* The Getty Research Institute mgill at getty.edu melgill at uw.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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Final call for Proposals: The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage
Dear MCN list, please find below the extended call for the 'Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage' (PATCH'2014) workshop. Kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Project lead, Research Development Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision www.beeldengeluid.nl/research -- Call for Proposals - PATCH?2014 ? The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage, Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014 Extended deadline: 26 December 2013 The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. For more details check PATCH2014 webpage: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/. The PATCH workshop series (http://patchworkshopseries.wordpress.com/) is the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage and personalization research ? using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage applications. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in cultural heritage in order to make the individual cultural heritage experience a link in a chain of a lifelong cultural heritage experience which builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, developers and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains, e.g. museums, archives, libraries, and more, and personalization. Topics Multimedia information systems, such as interactive tours, visualizations and search engines, are now positioned centrally in a shared information space consisting of (1) digitized artifacts (2) the social web (3) and links between them. Personalization in multimedia information systems can improve the experience of visitors by assisting them in finding appropriate starting points, and in discovering new relevant information. Critically, these systems must become smart, so that they are able to adaptively act, react, respond and learn intelligently from user interactions. This workshop investigates three timely and interrelated issues relevant to the domains of both intelligent user interaction and cultural heritage: Mobile, personalized and context-aware cultural heritage information delivery ? using mobile devices, large displays, projectors embedded in the environment and new technologies including Google Glass. Grow existing knowledge with new knowledge ? Explore methods and tools to capture knowledge resulting from interactions between users (collective intelligence), professionals and collection artifacts, and interaction between users and different (intelligent systems) collecting information about them Extend contexts of use ? Appropriation of digitized artifacts from memory organizations outside the traditional museum and research context for both visitors and professionals Call for papers Besides the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. We invite submissions of work at all stages of development that address any aspects of personalization in the cultural heritage domain, e.g., papers which describe work in progress, empirical results, position statements, and demonstrations of existing systems. An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2014. Submissions Paper submissions should follow the general ACM Multimedia submission guidelines and must comply with the formatting instructions: Full papers: max. 10 pages Position papers: max. 4 pages Short papers: max. 4 pages Demo papers: max. 4 pages All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system. (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. Important dates Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2013 Author Notification: Jan 17, 2014 Camera-ready Version: Feb 10, 2014 Workshop: Feb 24, 2014 Organizers Cristina Gena - Universit? di Torino, Italy Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel Johan Oomen
[MCN-L] Social Media Policy
Dear Jason, the website Social Media Governance hosts a database with 200+ social media policies from the government non-profit sectors: http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php Kind regards, *Erwin Verbruggen* Project lead, Research Development *T* +31 35 677 1691 tel:%2B31%2035%20677%201691**/ / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Park, Sumatralaan 45, Hilversum, NL P.O. Box 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum, NL www.beeldengeluid.nl/research http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/researchhttp://www.beeldengeluid.nl/blogs/research-and-development Phil Wilson wrote: Jason, Try checking with ISACA.org and do a search on social media internal audit / assurance program, as I remember working on an internal audit (work program) for this space and that document would be ideal input for you. Phil -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Jason Bondy Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:16 AM To: MCN Subject: [MCN-L] Social Media Policy Hello all, We are a State History Museum that is reviewing and updating our social media policies and were wondering if any similar institutions would be willing to share your policies and posting guidelines with us. Also, do you have a social media team or is it all done by one person? Any additional comments and suggestions are welcome. You may contact me directly so as to not clutter the list feed. Thank you for your time. Jason Bondy Exhibits AV/IT | Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105 http://www.okhistory.org/ www.okhistory.org (405) 522-0783 ___ 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Getting information from the community about digitized photographs?
Dear Cairie, our colleague Liam Wylie from Irish broadcaster RT? recently gave a much appreciated talk on how low-effort steps such as a weekly tweet can already have quite an impact on knowing about your photo collection: http://www.slideshare.net/beheerderbeeldengeluid/presentation-17-may-afternoon-casestudy-2-liam-wylie-21689228 Kind regards and best of luck, erwin *Erwin Verbruggen* Projectmedewerker RD *T* 035 - 677 16 91 *M* 06 - 15 360 371 * * Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid Media Park, Sumatralaan 45, Hilversum Postbus 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum www.beeldengeluid.nlhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA
[MCN-L] Open source DAMS for small museum
Hi Cairie, I'd advise you to take a look at the magnificent DAM list, a Google Spreadsheet managed by Leala Abbot, for a (pretty) full overview of systems out there: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AghOkXx4WqeVdGxtLUo4MmVHVEVBYlpsZkRxR091OHc I'm pretty curious to know how happy people are about ResourceSpace, myself. If you need something that works well with public front-end solutions, you could also take a look at CollectiveAccess http://www.CollectiveAccess.org - which you can host locally or from the cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzWaWfKqkoU (YouTube link). Kind 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 Cairie Riney mailto:cairie.bird at gmail.com December 20, 2012 5:01 AM Hi All, I'm interning for a small volunteer-run museum and about to start a digitization project. This is their first digitization project so they have nothing in place yet in terms of DAMS or website or...really anything digital. I'd like to use an open-source DAM to manage their files and metadata. As of now the museum does not see online publishing in their future. Does anyone have suggestions? Thank you! -Cairie Riney ___ 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?
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] Programme Announcement: Final EUscreen Conference
;Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) /span/p /li li style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;Symbol#39; pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Jamie Harley (FR) /span/p /li li style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;Symbol#39; pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Irina Negraru and Dana Mustata (TVR, RO) /span/p /li li style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;Symbol#39; pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Aleksander Lavrencic/Katja /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;S?turm /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;(RTV Slovenija, SI) /span/p /li li style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;Symbol#39; pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Victoria Metzger/Xavier Jacques-Jourion (RTBF , BE) /span/p /li lispan style=font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-size:11ptAttila Nemes (Kitchen Budapest, HU)/span/li/ulp style=font-family:Symbol;font-size:11ptspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Please go to /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;DIN#39;a href=http://euscreen2012.eventbrite.com/; target=_blankhttp://euscreen2012.WBReventbrite.com/a /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;for programme updates and make sure to register in time for this event./span/pul /ul /div /div div /div div /div /div div div /div div div pspan style=font-size:16.00pt;font-family:#39;DIN#39;;font-weight:700For the editors: /span/p pspan style=font-size:14pt;font-family:DINAbout EUscreen /span/p pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;The EUscreen project has published 30.000 television items online in an act to make historical audiovisual content widely accessible. EUscreen started in October 2009 as a three-year project funded by the European Commission?s eContentplus programme. A beta version of the portal was launched in 2011 and is also directly connected to Europeana. EUscreen is co-ordinated by University of Utrecht and its consortium consists of 28 partners and 10 associate partners (comprising audiovisual archives, research institutions, technology providers and Europeana) from 20 different European countries. /span/p pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;For events info and updates on the project, visit /spanspana href=http://blog.euscreen.eu/; target=_blankhttp://blog.euscreen.eu/a/span/p pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;See for more information: /spanspana href=http://www.euscreen.eu/; target=_blankhttp://www.euscreen.eu//abr /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;Press contact: Erwin Verbruggen, /spanspana href=mailto:info at euscreen.eu target=_blankinfo at euscreen.eu/a, /spanspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;a href=tel:+31615360371 value=+31615360371 target=_blank+31615360371/a?/span/p /div /div /div -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Press release EUscreen Budapest Conference 2012.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 111386 bytes Desc: not available URL: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/attachments/20120620/32736d17/attachment.pdf
[MCN-L] Programme Announcement: Final EUscreen Conference
Dear all, apologies for this warbled chaos, I was not aware that the MCN-list does not like html. Please allow me to decode this message and find enclosed the programme announcement for the final EUscreen conference on Television Heritage and the Web. Thank you for reading, for spreading it in your network or for publishing the conference in your publication. We hope to welcome you in Budapest, coming September. With kind regards from the EUscreen consortium (and apologies for possible cross-posting). -- Press release ? for immediate release Programme Announcement: Television Heritage and the Web (Final EUscreen Conference) Date: 13-14 September 2012 Location: ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary EUscreen, the best practice network for Europe?s television heritage, organises its third and final international conference on Television Heritage and the Web. The conference will take place in Budapest on 13 and 14 September 2012. The programme consists of two workshops, a plenary session with keynotes and case studies by renowned experts in the field. Attendance is free but online registration is required at the following address:http://euscreen2012.eventbrite.com. Conference programme Today, most broadcasters devote resources to web-based forms of television, both in terms of new programming and older programme materials. Broadcast archives are becoming increasingly important as ?old? television content has the potential to attract online users. As a result, the major question for audiovisual archives, scholars and media professionals is: What does the current shift to online forms actually imply for television heritage? The conference Television Heritage and the Web will discuss and analyse the opportunities and challenges of the current media changes. The conference includes a range of international experts and a workshop titledEUscreen best practice applications showcase, which explores the exploitation of broadcast material in the fields of learning, research, leisure/cultural heritage and creative reuse. Confirmed speakers - Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University, USA) - Eggo M?ller (Utrecht University, NL) - Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) - Jamie Harley (FR) - Irina Negraru and Dana Mustata (TVR, RO) - Aleksander Lavrencic/Katja ?turm (RTV Slovenija, SI) - Victoria Metzger/Xavier Jacques-Jourion (RTBF , BE) - Attila Nemes (Kitchen Budapest, HU) Please go to http://euscreen2012.eventbrite.com for programme updates and make sure to register in time for this event. For events info and updates on the project, visit http://blog.euscreen.eu See for more information: http://www.euscreen.eu/ On Jun 20, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Erwin Verbruggen - EUscreen wrote: div div div pfont face=HelveticaNeuespan style=font-size:14.545454025268555pxDear madam, sir,/span/font/ppfont face=HelveticaNeuespan style=font-size:14.545454025268555pxplease find enclosed the programme announcement for the final EUscreen conference on Television Heritage and the Web. Thank you for reading, for spreading it in your network or for publishing the conference in your publication. We hope to welcome you in Budapest, coming September./span/font/p pfont face=HelveticaNeuespan style=font-size:14.545454025268555pxWith kind regards from the EUscreen consortium (and apologies for possible cross-posting)./span/font/ppspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;;font-weight:700--/span/p pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;;font-weight:700Press release ? for immediate release /span/p pspan style=font-size:16.00pt;font-family:#39;DIN#39;;font-weight:700Programme Announcement: /span/ppspan style=font-size:16.00pt;font-family:#39;DIN#39;;font-weight:700Television Heritage and the Web /span/p pspan style=font-size:16.00pt;font-family:#39;DIN#39;;font-weight:700(Final EUscreen Conference)/span/p pspan style=font-size:14pt;font-family:DINDate: 13-14 September 2012 /span/p pspan style=font-size:14pt;font-family:DINLocation: ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary /span/p pspan style=font-size:11.00pt;font-family:#39;HelveticaNeue#39;EUscreen, the best practice network for Europe?s television heritage, organises its third and final international conference on Television Heritage and the Web. The conference will take place in Budapest on 13 and 14 September 2012. The programme consists of two workshops, a plenary session with keynotes and case studies by renowned experts in the field. Attendance is free but online registration is required at the following address
[MCN-L] DigiBIC Survey: Looking for research projects
Dear all, ***apologies for cross-posting*** DigiBIC is looking for research projects in cultural and memory preservation. The project wants to help the deployment of research initiatives in ICT- based cultural and memory preservation services across Europe. By partnering research leaders, the project is creating a network specialised in assisting start up companies and SMEs to exploit new technologies and market opportunities originating in research environments. If your research department, or any institution you work with, has worked on publicly funded products, technologies or investigations, please fill out our questionnaire before November, 14th: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QMHR7DC Many thanks for your attention and / or spreading the word, With kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Research Development Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision www.beeldengeluid.nl
[MCN-L] EUscreen portal launches on World Day of Audiovisual Heritage
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear all,* * EUscreen is a unique showcase of Europe?s television heritage. The portal www.euscreen.eu is officially launched on Thursday, Oct. 27th, in celebration of UNESCO?s World Day of Audiovisual Heritage. Major audiovisual archives in Europe have joined forces to offer unified access to the history of television in Europe. Thousands of video?s and images are available for free online consultation, and additional content is added on a daily basis. The EUscreen portal has been accessible in beta testing mode since early 2011, but received an entirely new layout.* *The new layout has been extensively tested* *and accounts for the needs of the various user groups EUscreen focuses on in the fields of education, research, and for the general public. The portal provides a wide variety of functionalities to search and browse the collection, which can be used in different contexts such as curricula and research programmes, for remix, and for leisurely dives into popular history. Additional tools for curated exhibitions and an academic e-journal which researches *significant trends *in over 60 years of European television with the help of original programme sources will become available in 2012. *EUscreen *is a three-year project and started in October 2009. With the support of FIAT/IFTA, the European Broadcasting Union and the Europeana Foundation, the EUscreen *Best Practice Network* aims at achieving a highly interoperable digitised collection of television material. The project brings together 28 partners from 19 countries. The project is supported by the European Commission as part of the e-Contentplus Programme. Content will also become available through Europeana, the gateway to Europe?s vast heritage collections that currently provides access to over 20 million objects from libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual archives. * * For more information about the project and the scope of the portal, see http://blog.euscreen.eu The *UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage* is celebrated annually since 2007. On this year?s 5th Annual World Day, the theme is Audiovisual Heritage: See, Hear and Learn. The theme corresponds with the aim of EUscreen to be a multimedia resource for the general public, pupils and scholars alike. * * -- *Erwin Verbruggen* Research Development *T* +31 35 - 677 16 91 *M* +31 6 - 15 360 371 * * Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Park, Sumatralaan 45, Hilversum Postbus 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum www.beeldengeluid.nlhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA
[MCN-L] Final Programme Announced for Second International EUscreen Conference on Use and Creativity
Dear all, You are warmly invited to attend the Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity, which takes place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2011. Attendance is free, but registration is required at http://euscreen2011.eventbrite.com. You can find the full conference programme (PDF) at: http://blog.euscreen.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Conference-Programme-2nd-EUscreen-Conference.pdf Also, you can follow the EUscreen blog http://blog.euscreen.eu/ or the #EUscreen Twitter hashtag for further updates and conference news. *** After a first successful conference on the contextualisation of audiovisual material in October 2010, EUscreen http://www.euscreen.eu/ now organizes a second international conference on Use and Creativity in the audiovisual domain. The programme is now in its final stage and participants are encouraged to make their registrations and travel arrangements. On the first day of the conference the keynote speakers: - Lynn Spigel from Northwestern University will be speaking about 'analogue nostalgia' - Dagan Cohen will talk about how the Upload Cinema initiative brings curated online video to the big screen - Paul Ashton will talk about the possibilities for online audio-visual media to push education forward - J?r?me Bourdon will present his research into global media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Aub?ry Escande, Kajsa Hedstr?m, Johan Axhamn and Peter B. Kaufman will present different case studies on user engagement with online audiovisual heritage. The second day will consist of two workshop sessions. In the morning the topic of a user community will be tackled, focusing on how EUscreen services can be exploited in learning, research, leisure/cultural heritage and creative reuse. The afternoon session will treat funding opportunities and sustainable business models for the digitisation of audiovisual material. Kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen -- Project Worker RD Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Tw: @erwinverb Skype: erwinverbruggen
