Re: [MCN-L] Fellow COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum users?
Hi all, As followup to the post below, there's now a Google Group for people involved in keeping COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum running in evolving technical environments. Please join if you wish (invitations have gone out to people I heard from off-list). Because topics with implications for systems security might arise there, the group currently requires approval to join; we may revisit that if it seems needlessly cumbersome. You can request access here: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/coboat-oaicatmuseum all best, Rob On 2019-11-18 17:08, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: Hello all, If your institution uses COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum to extract, transform, and/or serve your collections data, and if you'd like to connect informally with people in other institutions that also use those tools at present, please let me know on- or off-list. We're interested in learning who else is currently using one or both, especially (but not only) in connection with TMS, with the thought that we may all find this useful in evolving contexts of TMS versions, OS versions, etc. all best, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Head of Information Technology Yale Center for British Art PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT 06520-8280 robert.lancefi...@yale.edu britishart.yale.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] Fellow COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum users?
Hello all, If your institution uses COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum to extract, transform, and/or serve your collections data, and if you'd like to connect informally with people in other institutions that also use those tools at present, please let me know on- or off-list. We're interested in learning who else is currently using one or both, especially (but not only) in connection with TMS, with the thought that we may all find this useful in evolving contexts of TMS versions, OS versions, etc. all best, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Head of Information Technology Yale Center for British Art PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT 06520-8280 robert.lancefi...@yale.edu britishart.yale.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] Institutional policy on stalking/harassing/DV
Hello Meredith and all, There's information about Yale's and Wesleyan's relevant policies at the links below. These policies apply fully to the museums and other nested institutions at those universities. <https://smr.yale.edu/find-policies-information/yale-sexual-misconduct-policies-and-related-definitions> <https://www.wesleyan.edu/inclusion/misconduct/index.html> I hope this may be useful. all best, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Head of Information Technology Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, PO Box 208280 New Haven, CT 06520 +1 (203) 432-4290 | robert.lancefield [at] yale.edu https://britishart.yale.edu On 2019-09-20 10:12, Meredith L. Steinfels wrote: Greetings MCN Community, This isn't a question about musetech, but I hope it's okay to ask in this forum. I'd like to hear from those of you whose institutions have a formal policy on addressing stalking, harassment, and domestic violence in the workplace- especially from private universities. And if your institution does, do they make their policy electronically available? What sort of digital safeguards are implemented for those who need them (e.g., call blocking or rerouting of phone calls, removal of contact information from web directories, etc.)? How much onus is placed on the victim to request these services vs. what will your institution proactively do? Thanks, and if you'd rather share offline due to personal experience, that's fine. I won't be making any of this publicly available. --Meredith ___ 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] Job: Davison Art Center Registrar and Collections Manager
Hello all, The position of Davison Art Center Registrar and Collections Manager, a university art collections registrar/manager (and collections information manager) job, has just posted at Wesleyan University. (I'm not involved in hiring for the position, by the way; it's a recrafted successor role to a position in which I currently serve). The collection is managed in EmbARK, which will be the main platform for much of the work to be done by the successful applicant. https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6985 Please feel encouraged to repost and share this, especially if someone could please pass the link along into the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists, where I imagine there may be some interest. all best, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | 860.685.2965 Chair, AAM (American Alliance of Museums) Council of Affiliates ___ 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] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-August 2019, CT)
Hello all, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) has opened three temporary positions for a summer project entailing rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and metadata preparation. Details are in the postings. This collection digitization work is funded by a grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6762 One opening, ten weeks of work, June 10 - August 15, 2019 Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6763 Two openings, nine weeks of work, June 17 - August 15, 2019 Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or are enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields. Application is via Wesleyan's online system at the links above. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis beginning March 26, until the positions are filled. If you have questions, please email me at . Please forward this announcement if and as you wish. best regards, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | 860.685.2965 Chair, AAM (American Alliance of Museums) Council of Affiliates ___ 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] Imaging opinions on the Equalight 3 Tool
Hi Liz and all, Equalight is one of several well-regarded tools for what's often call "flat-fielding" exposure across the full extent of an image: in effect, pixel-mapping any uneven illumination or lens-based falloff based on reference to an exposure made of an unvaried sheet of (nearly) white board or other smooth, non-shiny material, and then using that reference shot to compensate for that variance across the captured field in an identically configured shot of an object. This is, as you note, an algorithmic process, but it's useful also to note that this is in the sense of algorithmic addition/subtraction of pixel exposure values based on an actual reference shot, as distinct from algorithmic processing based on software modeling of how a certain lens is believed (but perhaps not definitively known) to behave in a given context; so in that sense, it's especially closely grounded in shot-specific empirical data. Provided it's used properly, this can be an excellent post-capture way to remove artifacts of real-world uneven lighting and imperfect lens performance, when those factors can't be fully or sufficiently dealt with in the physical world before and during capture. A key thing here is "properly": for example, because the applied compensation is based on a reference shot captured with one particular focal distance, field of view, aperture, light positions, etc., any change to any of those or certain other shooting parameters requires a new reference capture--without which, the software would be modifying an actual capture by applying compensation based on an irrelevant reference shot, and for that reason effectively corrupting rather than correcting the shot you care about. As another example, it's important to apply blur (with appropriate parameters) to the reference shot before feeding it to Equalight, so you don't end up (mis-) "compensating" based on spatially tiny exposure variances that are in fact due to how the reference board's surface (tooth) catches light...whoops...not so good to apply that to object images! Whether Equalight is a good thing to use depends on factors ranging from how even the actual lighting can be made, how the lens performs (e.g., in regard to any falloff or incipient vignetting) at the specific settings to be used, how rigorous the photographer is about using these tools well, etc. As a starting point, though, I'd tend to take a photographer's familiarity with it as a promising indicator of experience with, and care for, accurate and consistent capture, and I'd then ask how she or he typically uses it, to ensure that it is indeed in ways that will reduce artifacts and increase accuracy, rather than the reverse. Hope this helps! all best, Rob Rob Lancefield (mobile) On Mon, October 22, 2018 7:55 pm, Liz Neely wrote: > Hi MCN-L (especially imaging pals), > > While I know what I want as outcomes from my collection imaging projects, I > admit not to be an expert on the ins and outs of all the tools available in > the digital capture process. > > We at the O'Keeffe are embarking on some collections imaging with a > contract photographer who uses a tool called Equalight (3) from Robin Myers > Imaging (http://www.rmimaging.com/equalight.html) to algorithmically deal > with light fall off. > > We want to use the images from this project for print reproductions, > banners and signs, online collections, and for scholarly digital publishing > (through our in-progress IIIF server). (all the usual stuff - in print and > online) > > Knowing the museum's various desires for outcomes from this photography -- > do the imaging experts on this list have opinions / experiences they'd > share about using this type of tool? > > If you'd rather share opinions with me off-list, email me directly! > > Thank you! > Liz > > Liz Neely > Curator of Digital Experience > Georgia O'Keeffe Museum > Santa Fe, N.M. > ___ > 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] Open access but fees for publishers?
Hi all,
+1 for "applicable fees are calculated based on the work requested."
As Peter and Amalyah point out, it's important to separate out the
question of (1) licensing fees as such (if open access, =zero) from (2)
service charges if special services are needed to fulfill the request.
An example here would be a request for an image of a public domain
object not yet shot, and wanted sooner than we could shoot it as part of
systematic imaging; in that situation, we'd have it shot as a rush
one-off, charge the requestor a (cost recovery) fee for that rush work,
and then still provide the image with no licensing fee as such.
Regarding publishers wanting a traditional license document, we try to
help publishers and authors understand that if they simply print out our
open access policy along with a screenshot of the relevant object record
page (which has a thumbnail, object identification, and open access
notice and links) for their files, they're good to go. This can take
repeated reassurance at first ("That's really all I have to do?" "Yes."
"Really?" "Really."); but once they're assured that it is that easy,
they're happy--and ready to use that self-serve model next time.
Rob
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Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965
On 2/23/17 2:53 AM, Amalyah Keshet wrote:
Perian:
"Open Access but fees" is a non-starter. Open Access = free.
Previous comments have hit the major points: there is the "free for personal
use" model (and of course Fair Use), but you must
realize in advance that some commercial publishers/producers/clients will also take
"free" literally and it certainly will not be worth the cost of pursuing them.
Some publishers, however, need to license: they need that document for their
own internal legal requirements. What you charge for is for providing that
service, whether you send them the image file or they download it for free.
Each museum has its own business model and its own experience with income
generated from image licensing. The income isn't an illusion in all cases and
one can't generalize. Even providing Open Access costs money.
The most salient point, however, is that made by Peter: " ...applicable fees are
calculated based on the work requested, not who is requesting the work." Even with
Open Access, there will always be clients with special requirements, and you will be
providing professional services for them. You need to cover your costs for that. It
doesn't matter who they are, a publisher or an advertiser or a school art department.
You are not so much selling the image files as the service.
It reminds me of something I have pointed out many times: the traditional practice of
charging different fees to commercial and "non-profit" clients doesn't hold up
to scrutiny. Non-profit clients almost always require more work on our part; sometimes
researching their questions and completing their orders adds up to weeks or drags out
over months, not including the wait for payment. Obviously they cost us far more in time
and work, and when you think about it, they should be charged more than the typical
commercial client whose order can be completed in an hour or two.
Again (thank you Peter): it's the work requested, not who is requesting the
work.
Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Dueker,
Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:42 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?
Hi Perian,
My advice is to keep things as simple as possible.
The National Gallery of Art does not charge use, permission, or image access
fees to download or use works of art available through Open Access.
We do charge processing fees to offset costs of providing additional imaging
services, such as creating guide prints, making new photographs or customizing
and formatting existing photography.
We don’t make any special fee schedules for publishers or other types of users.
If someone can utilize the image available on NGA Images, great. If they need
to order special processing the applicable fees are caclulated based on the
work requested, not who is requesting the work.
Open Access and NGA Images (5 years old in March!) have been a great success
for us institutionally. Glad to hear you are looking at this.
Peter Dueker
Head of Web and Imaging Services
National Gallery of Art, Washington
On 2/22/17, 12:40 PM, "mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Perian Sull
Re: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies
Hi Perian and all, With images of public domain works here in the Davison Art Center collection, anyone (museum staff, parent university staff, or public) is free to do whatever they want under our open access images policy. That said, if a given use were to be for a public-facing institutional publication under our own auspices, it would eventually go through our general proofing flow in design stage, and approving the treatment of images (regardless of their sources) would be part of that process. Hope this helps, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 10/19/16 6:53 PM, Perian Sully wrote: Hi everyone: I'm looking for a few examples of internal use policies for images, especially for public domain or orphan works. Do you allow free cropping and editing by staff or do you require curatorial approval before each use? what kinds of materials have restrictions, if any? Thanks in advance, ~Perian ___ 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] AAM 2017 session proposals deadline is September 2
Hello everyone, For another ten days (ticking clock!), the American Alliance of Museums will be accepting session proposals for AAM 2017 (St. Louis, May 7–10). The AAM 2017 Program Committee aims to populate twelve program tracks with a wide range of topics, interactive session formats, and engaging presenters who represent diverse perspectives. http://annualmeeting.aam-us.org/proposals Proposal submissions will close September 2, a week from this Friday. Topics central to many of our conversations in MCN figure prominently in AAM 2017's session tracks, which include Forces of Change; Media & Technology; Education, Audience Research, & Evaluation; Marketing & Community Engagement; Career Management; and more: http://annualmeeting.aam-us.org/proposals/tracks best to all, Rob (MCN representative on AAM Council of Affiliates) -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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] Happy 20th Birthday, MCN-L!
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> -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-July 2016, CT)
Hello all, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) has opened three temporary positions for a summer project entailing rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and metadata preparation. Details are in the postings. This collection digitization work is funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5284 One opening, six weeks of work, June 13 - July 22, 2015 Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5285 Two openings, five weeks of work, June 20 - July 22, 2015 Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or are enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields. Application is via Wesleyan's online system via the links above. If you have questions, please email me at rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu. Please forward this announcement if and as you wish. best regards, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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] Artifact photography organizations or conferences?
Hi Ellice, First to mind is ImageMuse, which I'd recommend highly: http://imagemuse.org/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ImageMuse/info Hope this helps! Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 10/15/15 12:58 PM, Ellice Engdahl wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have recommendations on professional organizations, conferences, and/or other developmental opportunities for artifact photography staff at museums? I know of similar things for archival imaging, but we're hoping to find ways for our photo studio to get exposure to the equipment, workflows, methods, standards, etc. that other cultural organizations use in photographing artifacts (of the 3D rather than 2D variety), and also start to develop a professional network of peers. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete
Thanks, Matt. Great work! Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day. That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's early years--back when, for example, having an Internet SIG made sense, and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so on. And it does have the MCN-L ur-message! cheers, Rob On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote: For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new, fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be ___ 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] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!
And then there are the justa acronyms (apocryphal retronyms or real): JAVA (once upon a time, wrongly rumored by some to stand for Just Another Vague Acronym, but it's not an acronym at all*) JBOD (real: Just a Bunch Of Disks: multiple drives not configured as a RAID** array) Rob * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3042854/what-is-the-abbreviation-of-java-language ** Hey, RAID. There's another for the endless list. On 2/11/15 8:55 AM, Marc Check wrote: Okay, I couldn't resist this call-out. Back in the day I had a brief foray at Eastman Kodak Company before their ill-fated attempt to move to digital. As the TWAIN API is probably still used in Museums for digital imaging, and while arguable there is general consensus that intended or not, TWAIN is considered an acronym for Technology Without An Interesting Name. One of my all-time favs : ) Marc E. Check Associate Vice President Information and Interactive Technology Museum of Science 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617.589.4279 (office) 585.755.8622 (mobile) ___ 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] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer Specialists (June-July 2015, CT)
Hello all, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) has just opened three temporary positions for a summer imaging project entailing rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and metadata preparation. Position details are in the postings, which just went live. This collection digitization work is funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/4756 One opening, six weeks of work, June 15 - July 23, 2015 Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/4757 Two openings, five weeks of work, June 22 - July 23, 2015 Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or now are enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields. Application is via Wesleyan's online system via the links above. If you have questions, please email me at rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu. Please feel free to forward this announcement if and as you wish. best regards, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!
Hi Carissa and all, Okay, I'll bite, starting with a key one that's not tech-specific: ROI, BI, CRM (CRM in the Constituent Relationship Management sense), LIDO, CIDOC-CRM (this CRM in the different, Conceptual Reference Model sense), FADGI, AAT, ULAN, TGN, DAM, and CMS--with both meanings of CMS teased out in regard to Web CMS versus Collection Management System, an ambiguity which has led more than one conversation seriously astray! And so very many more that it might be worth thinking about turning this effort into a community-sourced wiki or some such resource, which could have certain advantages: ease of updating, wide accessibility cheers, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 2/10/15 2:59 PM, Carissa Dougherty wrote: Hi, all... I'm trying to compile a list of tech-related acronyms that might be important for museum staff to know and understand -- or at the very least, recognize. Right now, I'm just gathering EVERYthing I can think of -- file extensions (PDF, JPG), emerging technologies (BLE, NFC), web-related (HTML, PHP)... So... - Are there any that you think are particularly relevant/important? - What terms do you frequently toss around during museum tech meetings? - Are there any that are often misunderstood/misinterpreted? I'd be happy to share my final list when I've got it ready... FIRE AWAY!! Thanks... Carissa Head of Knowledge Management The Morton Arboretum | 4100 Illinois Route 53 | Lisle, Illinois 60532 T *630-725-2136* |*cdoughe...@mortonarb.org cdoughe...@mortonarb.org* | mortonarb.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/
Re: [MCN-L] Digitizing Photographs
Matt and all, As two cents from a non-conservator who cares for a collection of works of art on paper (including their digital imaging), these days camera-based capture does most often tend to be best--safe, accurate, fast--with these materials, but each situation can be different. Your one specific factor of light intensity and duration actually may or may not be a concern with flatbed scanning of original photographic prints, depending on the specific scanner and the settings used with it, as well as the specific photographic media involved--for example, well-processed gelatin silver prints, versus more fugitive media. That said...in most museum contexts, other preservation concerns make digital photographic capture vastly preferable to flatbed scanning for works on paper that are considered part of the collection as such, as distinct from photographs considered to be internal documents, etc. These concerns arise from the need to place original works face-down in physical contact with the scanner, and one after another. Depending on the physical attributes of each photo (its surface, condition, etc.), that contact can raise concerns about causing subtle surface damage, as well as about any possible transfer of unseen contaminants--e.g., mold spores--from object to object, if one early in a run has such an issue. (Also, if any of the photographs are matted, the significant handling risks of flipping them over and down onto a flatbed while matted, or of unmatting and rematting each photograph, could both raise more acute preservation concerns and seriously slow down your capture workflow.) So, depending on your situation, it may well be much faster and safer to run rapid, camera-based capture instead, especially by the time you factor in the need to assess any object-by-object risks of scanning. But over to the conservators! (Is Dale Kronkright in the house?) hope this helps, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 1/22/15 4:05 PM, Matt Wheeler wrote: Good afternoon. We have a collection which consists mostly of black and white photographic prints and are beginning to digitize them using flatbed scanners. However, I spoke to a conservator who advised that they be rephotographed with a digital camera instead due to the intense light exposure on a flatbed. Is this a legitimate concern? Will the scanners cause degradation of the originals, and would this degradation be considerable? Thanks in advance. __ 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/
Re: [MCN-L] Proposal deadline [now Jan. 5] for IST Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 2015)
Hello all, It's just been announced that the abstract submissions deadline for IST Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 19-22) has been extended to January 5th. For the announcement, please see: http://goo.gl/z6hk7M best regards, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 12/8/14 12:35 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: Hi all, Just a reminder that abstract submissions are due today for the next IST Archiving conference (Getty Center, Los Angeles, May 19-22, 2015). Relevant topics involve original work in technical areas related to digital archiving, including: * Digital Preservation * Infrastructure, Repositories, Web Harvesting and Archiving * Creating and Preserving Dynamic Media * Sound, Film, Digital Art * Imaging Technology (including digital documentation and forensic analysis of art) * Using Tools, Systems, and Services (quality assurance, managing file formats including image compression, digital forensics) * Managing Content and Digital Curation (policies, processes, metrics for services, illustrating value and ROI, systems, access rights management, data privacy and personally identifiable information) * Share Economies and Partnerships * Innovative Software, Projects, and Services Please see http://goo.gl/wNE7k4 for more information. best regards, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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] Proposal deadline today for IST Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 2015)
Hi all, Just a reminder that abstract submissions are due today for the next IST Archiving conference (Getty Center, Los Angeles, May 19-22, 2015). Relevant topics involve original work in technical areas related to digital archiving, including: * Digital Preservation * Infrastructure, Repositories, Web Harvesting and Archiving * Creating and Preserving Dynamic Media * Sound, Film, Digital Art * Imaging Technology (including digital documentation and forensic analysis of art) * Using Tools, Systems, and Services (quality assurance, managing file formats including image compression, digital forensics) * Managing Content and Digital Curation (policies, processes, metrics for services, illustrating value and ROI, systems, access rights management, data privacy and personally identifiable information) * Share Economies and Partnerships * Innovative Software, Projects, and Services Please see http://goo.gl/wNE7k4 for more information. best regards, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 ___ 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
Re: [MCN-L] Crowdfunding at MCN 2014
Len and all, A recent one that springs to mind is Portland's Newspace Center for Photography--not strictly a museum, but maybe close enough here as a nonprofit focused on art education and exhibition in a public gallery. They just ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to launch a curatorial position: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376884822/newspace-curatorial-program I don't know of anyone there being connected to MCN, by the way; but crowdfunding to actually bootstrap a new position at an exhibiting organization may still make it of interest. Caught my eye, anyway! all best, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 11/10/14 2:38 PM, Leonard Steinbach wrote: Hello all, I will presenting: Big, Small, Create--Maybe It's Even More Fun if It's Crowd-funded (Thurs 330) at the MCN 2014 Conference next Thursday afternoon. I look forward to discussing many aspects of museum crowd-funding, and presenting many examples. I would really like to highlight (give a shout out to), briefly, examples from museums which will be present at the conference, or those who are present on this list and would like to be acknowledged for their. If interested, please just respond to this list or email me at lensteinb...@gmail.com and if you have some comment or something you learned that you would like to share, let me know that, too (full acknowledgment or anonymity, as preferred promised if I cite your contribution). Finally, let me know if you are planning to attend the session, so that I can reach out to engage you in the conversation. thanks Len ___ 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Simplifying Museum Content Contribution - open discussion at AAM
Hello all, As part of an ongoing conversation about ideas that could make it easier for museums to contribute digital images and metadata to multiple aggregators of such content, there will be an open meeting this Sunday, May 18, 2014, at AAM in Seattle. This follows on conversations at WebWise and Museums the Web. Under the rubric of Simplifying Museum Content Contribution, this next gathering will take place from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. this Sunday at the AAM 2014 MW Pavilion in the Washington Convention Center, on the same floor as AAM registration. General information about the MW Pavilion is online here: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/aam2014mwpavilion/ Thanks to Museums the Web for their hospitality in providing such a convenient space for this conversation in Seattle. If you'll be at AAM, please join us; or if you know someone who will be there and may be interested, please share this. best regards, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | 860.685.2965
[MCN-L] [IT SIG:] Password Needed for Files
Hi Jeff (and all), It looks as though that page has an error regarding the email address. I'll ping you off-list in a few minutes after checking on that. best regards, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 2/19/14 9:08 AM, Jeff Kennedy wrote: Can anyone provide me with the password for the Information Technology SIG files located at www.mcn.edu/itsighttp://www.mcn.edu/itsig? I have emailed the address on the page a couple of times and have received no response. I am in the middle of researching a new ticketing system for my museum and would like to reference that info. Thank you. - Jeff L. Kennedy Director of Technology, Kentucky Derby Museum jkennedy at derbymuseum.orgmailto:jkennedy at derbymuseum.org (502) 992-5908 704 Central Avenue - Louisville, KY 40208 The Kentucky Derby Museumhttp://www.derbymuseum.org/ is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
[MCN-L] Google Open Gallery or Google Cultural Institute, anyone?
Lenore and all, This should work: http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2013/12/online-exhibitions-made-easy-with.html best regards, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 1/23/14 4:30 PM, Lenore Sarasan wrote: The link doesn't seem to work -- message says that it can't access the blog. If you can send me some other way of getting to the information, I would be very interested in learning more about it. Lenore Sarasan On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Ari Davidow aridavidow at gmail.com wrote: I am exploring ways to pull LOD together. Someone at the delightful #drinkingaboutmuseums:BOS last night pointed me to Google Open Gallery. At first glance, it appears to be a less capable Omeka--a way to dump some data online, but without any underlying linked data? From the Google blog post on the subject, http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2013/12/online-exhibitions-made-easy-with.htmlI get the impression that this is an extension of the existing Google Cultural Institute, but now open to the public. To find out more, it looks like I have to request an account--it's not yet automated. Has anyone already worked with either of these tools? Anything to report, good/bad/indifferent? (If not, I'm prepared to be the reporter-back) 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://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Location base services in museums, seeking examples
Hi Trilce and all, Several presentations at MCN 2013 addressed current location-aware projects. One such project was the subject of the first presentation in the session Where to Next? Emerging Practices in Location Awareness and in Online Publication, which is now documented on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4wyr75jCk There should be a few others among the MCN 2013 videos already on YouTube or now making their through the production pipeline, so it may be useful for your student to keep an eye on this page: https://www.youtube.com/user/museumcn/videos hope this helps, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 1/8/14 1:34 AM, Trilce Navarrete wrote: Dear all, An MA student is doing research on location-based services in museums and is looking for examples. Would you be involved in location-based services or know of a project, please do share with me and I'll pass it along. Much appreciated ! best, Trilce
[MCN-L] Data Retention Policies?
Hi Maggie and all, One good general place to start for records retention on the financial side of any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization is this IRS brochure: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4221pc.pdf More specifically for museums (and beyond more general financials), you may want to search the AAM bookstore for some of their publications: http://www.aam-us.org/resources/bookstore And in an even more targeted, but serendipitously timely, way, you may want to check out this recently announced all-day workshop coming up: Museums and the Web Deep Dive: Assessing Tools and Best Practices for Email Preservation and Access in Art Museums A lack of robust archiving and retrieval for email correspondence in today?s art museums may limit the primary source materials available to future generations of students, scholars, and the public. This workshop will take place as part of Museums and the Web 2014 in Baltimore on April 1, the Tuesday before the main MW 2014 conference begins. Participants will dive into the topic with a full day focused on policies, practices, and tools for email archiving in art museums, with plans to form a working group to continue momentum after that day. There's more information (and more links) in Rich Cherry's recent blog post on the Museums the Web site: http://goo.gl/xrYsNN Hope this helps! all best, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 1/6/14 2:33 PM, Maggie Hanson wrote: Hi, all - Our Museum is starting to think about a formal data retention policy (or at least some guidelines). Would anyone be willing to share any documentation? I'd appreciate anything I can share with our group about what is working for other museums. Thanks! Maggie
[MCN-L] Museums and Fair Use of Images on Websites
Hi Jesse, Many museums base their policies in this regard on the Policy on the Use of 'Thumbnail' Digital Images in Museum Online Initiatives from the Association of Art Museum Directors. There's a link to download it as a PDF from this page: https://aamd.org/standards-and-practices Hope this helps, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 8/27/13 9:23 AM, Jesse Henderson wrote: Hi all, I am just wondering if any institutions out there (especially university museums) use images still under copyright for which they haven't been able to track down permission on their website? If so, do you have any kind of a Fair Use statement on your site regarding the use of the images? Thanks, Jesse -- Jessica Henderson, MLIS Visual Resources Curator Department of Art Art History Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, NY 13346 315.228.7594 jhenderson at colgate.edu www.colgate.edu/visualresourceshttps://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/colgatevr/ about.me/jesse.henderson
[MCN-L] Permissions
Hello all, Since Cathryn asked for a show of hands, here's one. The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University also is a case of so-far quiet adoption. Our open access images policy has been in effect and in use since 12/12/2012; but until we can make an initial critical mass of images available for download by users (target: September), we're staying low-key about it. The policy and accompanying information are at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess cheers, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 5/29/2013 8:58 AM, Cathryn Goodwin wrote: 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 Hammakhamma 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. Hirtlepbh6 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
[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
Chris and all, A panel on FADGI and Metamorfoze sounds really great. Also, the open-access technical infrastructure session I'm organizing (Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery) will definitely be submitted, and it may prove to be a good fit for the DM SIG's seal of approval. Riffing on items 2 and 3 in your list, I'd bet a session combining the topics of conservation and multispectral imaging would be a big hit. Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 4/11/2013 12:21 PM, Edwards, Chris wrote: Everyone, Understandably, conversations have lessened about imaging specific presentations for 2013 MCN. I just want to bump this back up again and put this back on everyone's radar, even if only for a brief period. I will continue to send out such emails over the next few months just to keep the conversation alive. I would also add a potential topic to this list: Panel discussion on Metamorphoze and FADGI as color management workflows Thanks! Chris. -- Chris Edwards Head, Beinecke Digital Studio Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Tel: 203.436.4690 chris.edwards at yale.edu On 11/15/12 12:53 PM, Edwards, Chrischris.edwards at yale.edu wrote: Thanks for everyone's interest! So far heres what we have: Proposed topics for MCN 2013 1.3D Imaging 2.Partnering with Conservation for imaging 3.Panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral imaging 4.Open Access technical Infrastructure 5.Digital preservation strategies for both still and moving images ? Chuck Patch 6.Stitching for preservation imaging oversize materials (apertures to algorithms) 7.Lossless, Visually lossless, Perceptually lossless, and Lossy JP2 profiles, compression schemes, color management, and digital preservation 8.Panel on studio production management: techniques, tracking systems, metrics, cost control, etc. Again, these are mostly only proposed, not actual so lets keep discussing and refining. Any other ideas would be most welcome! Chris. -- Chris Edwards Head, Beinecke Digital Studio Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Tel: 203.436.4690 chris.edwards at yale.edu
[MCN-L] Jobs: DAC Imaging Project Photographer Specialists (June-July 2013, CT)
Hello all, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) has three temporary positions open for a summer project entailing rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and metadata preparation. The six-week project will run from June 17 through July 25, 2013. Position details are in the postings, which went live today. Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer (one opening): https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/3819 Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist (two openings): https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/3820 For the Imaging Project Specialist positions, we're especially interested in hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or now are enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields. Application is via Wesleyan's online system (see links above). If you have questions about the project, please email me at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. Please feel free to forward this announcement if and as you wish. best regards, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965
[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
Hi all, Great ideas. I'd also love to see a session on the procedures and the underlying technical means by which certain museums are providing Open Access images to end users. This would be focused more on the nuts and bolts (from infrastructure to user experience) of image delivery than on image production or management, but it sure would be interesting. A key aim could be to learn how some Open Access image providers are balancing optimally efficient delivery (minimizing both friction for users and allocated internal staff time) with the capture of meaningful use metrics (i.e., anything more than a raw log of image downloads). Having floated this, maybe I should organize a session proposal Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 11/13/2012 2:58 PM, Jana Hill wrote: Hi Chris et al., In addition to those ideas, DM SIG table #2 at the luncheon was very interested in seeing some presentations on digital preservation strategies for both still and moving images. Jana Hill Collection Information and Imaging Manager Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107 t: 817.989.5173 f: 817.665.4336 www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Edwards, Chris Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:12 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG To everyone I saw at MCN this year, it was great spending time with you in Seattle! We had a really good time. However One of the largest issues I had with the conference this year was the total lack of presentations on imaging. This clearly puts the ball in our court and Id like to have us as a group come up with several proposals to submit for next years conference. Since we are all extremely busy, it is entirely appropriate to begin these discussions now. As chair of the Digital Media SIG I will do my part in officially underwriting proposals emanating from this group to aid in their acceptance. A few back of the envelope ideas that were tossed around at the conference for topics for next year were: 3D Imaging, Partnering with Conservation for imaging (which would be a good way to draw more conservation talks into the mix), and a panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral imaging. These are by no means exhaustive as a list of possible topics but rather a way to get the conversation started. Please reply to this thread with any other ideas you may have and Id like to get some of them pinned down and get them pitched for the conference. If you need any incentives, the conference next year will be in Montreal, home of poutine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine and Molson. I look forward to good presentations on digitization and artery hardening fare! Another piece of business was a proposal to change the name of our SIG from the Digital Media SIG to the Digital Imaging Group SIG as this was perceived to be more appropriate to the group. Please respond with your thoughts. Thanks Chris. -- Chris Edwards Digital Studio Production Manager Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Tel: 203.436.4690 chris.edwards at yale.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://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
Great, Alan. Your name on my hit list just lost its question mark! If other MCN-L subscribers are interested in exploring the idea of speaking on an MCN 2013 panel on Open Access image delivery as floated below, please ping me off-list at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. Thanks. Rob On 11/15/2012 10:11 AM, Newman, Alan wrote: I'm in Rob. I'll help with this. Alan Alan Newman NGA ---sent from mobile device--- On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Rob Lancefield on listslists at lancefield.net wrote: Hi all, Great ideas. I'd also love to see a session on the procedures and the underlying technical means by which certain museums are providing Open Access images to end users. This would be focused more on the nuts and bolts (from infrastructure to user experience) of image delivery than on image production or management, but it sure would be interesting. A key aim could be to learn how some Open Access image providers are balancing optimally efficient delivery (minimizing both friction for users and allocated internal staff time) with the capture of meaningful use metrics (i.e., anything more than a raw log of image downloads). Having floated this, maybe I should organize a session proposal Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 11/13/2012 2:58 PM, Jana Hill wrote: Hi Chris et al., In addition to those ideas, DM SIG table #2 at the luncheon was very interested in seeing some presentations on digital preservation strategies for both still and moving images. Jana Hill Collection Information and Imaging Manager Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107 t: 817.989.5173 f: 817.665.4336 www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Edwards, Chris Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:12 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG To everyone I saw at MCN this year, it was great spending time with you in Seattle! We had a really good time. However One of the largest issues I had with the conference this year was the total lack of presentations on imaging. This clearly puts the ball in our court and Id like to have us as a group come up with several proposals to submit for next years conference. Since we are all extremely busy, it is entirely appropriate to begin these discussions now. As chair of the Digital Media SIG I will do my part in officially underwriting proposals emanating from this group to aid in their acceptance. A few back of the envelope ideas that were tossed around at the conference for topics for next year were: 3D Imaging, Partnering with Conservation for imaging (which would be a good way to draw more conservation talks into the mix), and a panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral imaging. These are by no means exhaustive as a list of possible topics but rather a way to get the conversation started. Please reply to this thread with any other ideas you may have and Id like to get some of them pinned down and get them pitched for the conference. If you need any incentives, the conference next year will be in Montreal, home of poutine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine and Molson. I look forward to good presentations on digitization and artery hardening fare! Another piece of business was a proposal to change the name of our SIG from the Digital Media SIG to the Digital Imaging Group SIG as this was perceived to be more appropriate to the group. Please respond with your thoughts. Thanks Chris. -- Chris Edwards Digital Studio Production Manager Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Tel: 203.436.4690 chris.edwards at yale.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://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post
[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
Chris and all, Great! Now I'm even sorrier I had to miss your session (I was speaking in another room). Also, based on the print program's short abstract, I had mistakenly thought you would be focusing on policy and stakeholder buy-in, not on delivery implementation. It's good to know that the Open Access implementation topic actually did surface as well in Seattle. Chris (and John and Melissa), your Yale team was also on my shortlist of people to tap for a cross-institutional session proposal with this different targeted subtopic next year. Let's talk offlist about this! cheers, Rob On 11/15/2012 10:58 AM, Edwards, Chris wrote: Funny, this is almost EXACTLY what John ffrench (Yale University Art Gallery), Melissa Fournier (Yale Center for British Art) and I presented on this year at MCN. http://www.mcn.edu/opening-access-works-public-domain-yale-university Chris.
[MCN-L] Offering
Maury and all, Another prospective recipient might be the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Their mission is to maintain running computer systems of historical importance. The rest of our work flows from that premise, as we preserve the original environments of digital documents and contribute to fact-based discussions regarding the construction and behavior of vintage computer systems. Their wish list of Systems Wanted starts with some IBM equipment, so maybe the IBM System Journal would be of interest to them. Their website is: http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org And since the museum in Seattle, a timely plug: this could be one more reason to make it to MCN 2012 there next week! http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-annual-conference Rob On Sat, November 3, 2012 10:29 am, Ed Rodley wrote: Maury, Have you tried the Computer History Museum in CA? http://www.computerhistory.org/ Ed From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] on behalf of maury friedman [maury1 at comcast.net] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 8:20 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Offering 30 years of the IBM System Journal that needs a home 1962 to 1991 Would like to donate to a non-profit. Maurice Friedman Hampton, NH ___ 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] new topic [email archiving]
Hi Sarah and all, One great resource for this will be a roundtable session next month at the MCN conference in Seattle, if you're able to be there. On Saturday, November 11th, Rich Cherry et al. will present A Roundtable on Tools and Best Practices for Email Preservation and Access at MCN 2012. http://goo.gl/k0slA leads to more information about the roundtable. http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-online-registration has registration information, with early-bird discounts good only through tomorrow! hope this helps, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 10/4/2012 1:56 PM, Sarah Puckitt wrote: How are others archiving their business emails? These days, our registrar handles most of her communication via email and has saved them. However, we'd like to keep that correspondence within an exhibition related folder, outside of or in addition to the email system. We have talked about pasting all emails to be archived into a Word doc for archiving. I'm wondering if there are other methods to consider. Thanks- Sarah = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Sarah Puckitt Collections Information Specialist Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts P.O. Box 230819 Montgomery, AL 36123-0819 334.240.4342
[MCN-L] new topic [email archiving]
Hi again all, Make that Saturday, November 10th! All else below holds true. Rob On 10/4/2012 2:03 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: Hi Sarah and all, One great resource for this will be a roundtable session next month at the MCN conference in Seattle, if you're able to be there. On Saturday, November 11th, Rich Cherry et al. will present A Roundtable on Tools and Best Practices for Email Preservation and Access at MCN 2012. http://goo.gl/k0slA leads to more information about the roundtable. http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-online-registration has registration information, with early-bird discounts good only through tomorrow! hope this helps, Rob
[MCN-L] NYU evening teaching opportunity - forwarded from Museum-L
Hello all, In case this evening teaching opportunity may be of interest to some moonlighting New Yorker on MCN-L, this is fresh off Museum-L. Between the subject header's Digital Imaging Instructor Needed and the description's teaching Collections Management and Digital Technology, the precise nature of desired content seems a bit fuzzy; but either area could be a good match for many MCN members' knowledge domains. cheers, Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 // forwarded from Museum-L: Subject: Digital Imaging Instructor Needed - NYC From: Geri Thomas gtho...@artstaffing.com Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:38:22 -0500 Dear Colleagues: For the new Certificate in Art Collections Management, Registration and Display at New York University, we are looking for an experienced person who would be interested in teaching Collections Management and Digital Technology, for 5 Thursday sessions, beginning February 23 - March 29 (no class on March 15), from 6.20-8.20pm. We launched the new program this September and each of the three required courses have been at capacity. The purpose of the Certificate is to define and keep standards; encourage museums, auction houses, private collectors and others hire from the program, and create jobs. Please let me know if you are interested in learning more about the position or if you can recommend anyone in New York and its environs asap. All best for the Holiday Season! Geri Geri Thomas, President Thomas Associates, Inc. New York and Chicago www.artstaffing.com About Thomas Associates, Inc. With offices in New York and Chicago, Thomas Associates, Inc. in an innovative firm that provides consulting, staffing and professional development training to the arts culture community nationally and internationally. Our career services division services the needs of arts cultural professionals everywhere. To subscribe to our newsletter and job announcements, go to www.artstaffing.com Cheers! //
[MCN-L] CFP: Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovation and Integration
This forwarded CFP may be of interest to some MCN-L subscribers. Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 // Call for papers: Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovation and Integration SIG-AH and SIG-VIS (Arts Humanities, Visualization-Images-Sound) of ASIST are joining forces to examine the digital humanities and information visualization with a group of papers to be published in an upcoming special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Geotags, participatory content, automatic classification methods, statistical analyses, visualization techniques and other technological methods have enhanced the pedagogy and scholarship within the humanities in recent years. With this in mind papers are being sought which present an overview of the digital humanities and information visualization, or which address the current and potential future intersection of the two topics. Special topics for your consideration include: the development of digital technologies and digital humanities tools, data mining applications in the humanities, visualization techniques, the use and re-use of historical data sets, and innovative practices and definitions within the digital humanities and information visualization. We also eagerly invite topics of your choosing which address any aspect of technology within humanities. Papers should be approximately 1000-2000 words in length and submitted by December 31, 2011 to: Sarah Buchanan sarahab at ucla.edu and Joan Beaudoin Joan.Beaudoin at wayne.edu. We welcome you to contact either of us in the interim to discuss potential papers and we look forward to hearing from you.
[MCN-L] Fwd: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art
Fresh off another public list and perhaps of interest to some here. Extra credit for finding the former MCN president among the speakers. Rob Original Message Subject: Invitation: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:43:56 +0100 From: Leo Konstantelos l.konstante...@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk To: JISCDIGITALMEDIA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK *** Apologies for crossposting *** Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art 11-12 October 2011, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK. Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Symposium Fee: Free + ?10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: ? Implications and advances in preserving software art ? Issues of ephemerality ? Significant properties for software art ? Software art as performance ? Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving software art ? Interpretation and Documentation Keynote Speakers: ? Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA ? Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK Presenters include: ? Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth University, UK ? Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London, UK ? Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK ? Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in preservation of Software Art. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art Download the brochure at: http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website ? however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: leo.konstantelos at glasgow.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
[MCN-L] Position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: TMS user with musical training
Hi all, This is forwarded from a non-museum list, with permission of the person who posted it there. Although it's not a technology job, this position may be of interest to some MCN-L subscribers. I know there are many TMS users here, and I suspect there may be an even larger number of us who have (stealth) musical backgrounds and degrees. Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 Original Message Subject: [SEM-L] New Position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0400 From: Moore, Ken ken.mo...@metmuseum.org THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Please send cover letter, resume, and salary history to employoppty at metmuseum.org with the position title in the subject line. ___ Assistant/Associate Curator- Musical Instruments General Description: The primary duty of this position is to interpret, display, and refine the collection of the Department of Musical Instruments. A strong background with European instruments combined with a comprehensive interest in all musical instruments is desired. The applicant should have a knowledge of the history of instruments and makers and in their relationship to the visual arts. The position requires an ability to multitask working with scholars, educators, donors, designers, and musicians. The position requires working with TMS database system and the candidate will be expected to accomplish other Departmental tasks as assigned. Primary Responsibilities and Duties: * Make recommendations concerning acquisition, deaccessioning, and loans; exhibitions, research and publications; performers and educational events * Knowledge of collections management techniques, musical instrument cataloguing standards, and an acquaintance with TMS database system * Basic understanding of handling, playing, and conservation treatment issues and ethics specific to the field * Maintain cataloguing in keeping with current research and descriptive methods * Answer correspondence and route specific questions to the appropriate colleague * Build relationships with dealers, donors, etc. * Provide collection related tours and lectures and docent training * Other related duties Requirements and Qualifications: Experience and Skills: * Strong communication skills that include writing, speaking, and fundraising, required * Strong organizational, logistics, and computer skills, required * Ability to multitask, required * Good interpersonal relationship skills and the ability to work with the general public and colleagues within the Museum, required * Some experience with the cultivation of donors is preferred * Strong contacts with professionals in the field is preferred Knowledge and Education: * M.A., M.M., or Ph.D. in Music with a concentration in Organology, required * Professional music background and knowledge of museology, required * Knowledge of best practices in handling and care of instruments, required The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status, marital status or domestic partner status, genetic information, genetic predisposition or carrier status, gender identity, HIV status, military status and any other category protected by law in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. J. Kenneth Moore Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge Department of Musical Instruments The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, New York 10028-0198 Tel: 212 570-3919, Fax: 212 650-2111 http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=18
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
Hi John and all, Not as a testimonial (I've never used these systems), but... Adlib promises full Unicode support for content in text fields: http://www.adlibsoft.com/products/museum-software CollectionSpace is built to handle Unicode from the outset: http://www.collectionspace.org/about/faq#when CollectiveAccess offers support for multi-lingual cataloguing: http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview http://wiki.collectiveaccess.org/index.php?title=WhatsNew Gallery Systems' eMuseum is fully Unicode compliant (and I'm sure TMS users can say whether TMS itself is; at least core fields are, I think): http://www.gallerysystems.com/products/emuseum/features/unicode-languages and IDEA foregrounds multi-lingual support in its marketing: http://www.idea-alm.com/ Doubtless there are more! Setting aside localized interface (not needed?), the key thing to seek (as you may know) is Unicode support for contents in all text fields. hope this helps Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 2/3/2011 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote: Hello everyone I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, and ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer, English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. Happy Tet -jg
[MCN-L] Google Art Project has gone live
Hi all, Probably of interest to many here: http://www.googleartproject.com. There's more information on the Google blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965
[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services [audio metadata]
Chuck (and anyone else seeking audio metadata tools/practices), Looping back to the metadata thread below, here's another resource: http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/documents/wave_metadata.html That page links to the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative specification for metadata in Broadcast WAVE (BWAV or BWF) files, plus associated documents. A related Mac/Windows tool, BWF MetaEdit, is a free, open source tool that supports embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files, including support for the Federal Agencies guidelines. It's at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit/ Rob -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu On 9/17/2010 10:46 AM, Chuck Patch wrote: Thanks Rob, Deborah, these are very helpful. Chuck On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Rob Lancefield on lists lists at lancefield.net wrote: Hi Chuck and all, In addition to the great resources Deb has suggested, two other leads: The Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, has institutional members who do audio A-to-D in-house but occasionally outsource those services, and other members who provide those services as vendors. ARSC has an active email list, which it may be worth hitting with a query seeking off-list replies about prospective service providers. More at: http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html One lead to an audio digitization house: Sonicraft (sonicraft.com) does very high-quality transfers of music recordings. This recommendation is based on individual experience, not museum-related work. As we know, a key factor in whether any given shop is a good candidate for a project is the eternal tradeoff between transfer quality and cost, vis-?-vis the amount and type of source material, how much quality matters, and budget. Please ask me off-list if you'd like a lead to someone who may have ideas for a specific project. As a LinkedIn user, you might also see if you happen to have connections in the Audio Engineering Society (aes.org) via http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=gid=71239 . Re: storage media, in a word: yes, once audio is digital, physical storage-medium aspects of preserving it are like those of preserving other digital files. Re: metadata, the AES has developed some relevant standards, and LOC digital preservation pages may be useful re: what can be embedded in audio files of a specified format (e.g., WAV): http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd01.shtml hope this helps! Rob (recording engineer in a pre-museum-person life) -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu On 9/15/2010 7:29 PM, Chuck Patch wrote: I've been asked about services that perform digitization of analog audio (reel-to-reel) tapes. Has anyone used such a service that they could recommend? A couple of related questions - are there digital storage media for audio considered remotely archival? Or is it similar to visual data that's best kept on spinning disk and migrated in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider of this sort to embed in the files? ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services
Hi Chuck and all, In addition to the great resources Deb has suggested, two other leads: The Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, has institutional members who do audio A-to-D in-house but occasionally outsource those services, and other members who provide those services as vendors. ARSC has an active email list, which it may be worth hitting with a query seeking off-list replies about prospective service providers. More at: http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html One lead to an audio digitization house: Sonicraft (sonicraft.com) does very high-quality transfers of music recordings. This recommendation is based on individual experience, not museum-related work. As we know, a key factor in whether any given shop is a good candidate for a project is the eternal tradeoff between transfer quality and cost, vis-?-vis the amount and type of source material, how much quality matters, and budget. Please ask me off-list if you'd like a lead to someone who may have ideas for a specific project. As a LinkedIn user, you might also see if you happen to have connections in the Audio Engineering Society (aes.org) via http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=gid=71239 . Re: storage media, in a word: yes, once audio is digital, physical storage-medium aspects of preserving it are like those of preserving other digital files. Re: metadata, the AES has developed some relevant standards, and LOC digital preservation pages may be useful re: what can be embedded in audio files of a specified format (e.g., WAV): http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd01.shtml hope this helps! Rob (recording engineer in a pre-museum-person life) -- Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu On 9/15/2010 7:29 PM, Chuck Patch wrote: I've been asked about services that perform digitization of analog audio (reel-to-reel) tapes. Has anyone used such a service that they could recommend? A couple of related questions - are there digital storage media for audio considered remotely archival? Or is it similar to visual data that's best kept on spinning disk and migrated in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider of this sort to embed in the files?
[MCN-L] Lossy compression artifacts example (I Am Sitting in a Video Room)
Hi all, If you ever need a demonstration of the cumulative effects of multiple, non-bit-for-bit compression/decompression cycles on an image, the video below is really something. The artifacts are from 1,000 passes through whatever codec YouTube uses, rather than still-image lossy algorithms; but the same conceptual point remains, and might be useful as a tiny piece of a case somewhere for having sufficient storage infrastructure (why not just archive [lossy-compressed] JPEGs on a smaller array?). And it's a pretty amazing 38 seconds, besides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qKz5YW5J-U There's more at http://mashable.com/2010/06/03/youtube-i-am-sitting. cheers, Rob -- Rob Lancefield, Ph.D. Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] AAM 2010 Personal Conference Scheduling Tool (on behalf of Scott Sayre)
Posted on behalf of Scott Sayre: Sandbox Studios assisted AAM in creating a personal conference scheduling tool to help you better navigate upcoming 2010 annual meeting in Los Angeles. We want to encourage you to give it a try and share it with your friends and colleagues. This new tool, available at http://aam2010.sched.org or through the annual meeting home page at http://www.aam-us.org/am10, offers a wide range of features for personalizing, printing and sharing your conference schedule. The schedule uses the SCHED.org as its foundation. Interactive schedule features include: 1) Access to your personalized schedule through any Web browser or web enabled mobile device (iPhones, Android, etc.) 2) Selecting and saving your customized schedule with the option to share it through Facebook, Twitter and more 3) Printing your custom schedule or publish it to your iCal compatible calendar 4) Searching and accessing full-text descriptions of all session including dates, locations, presenters and endorsements 5) Filtering sessions and events by date, location, and endorsements 6) Scheduling personal appointments and more... We hope you visit and explore this new tool at your earliest convenience to begin solidifying your plans for Los Angeles! If you have not yet registered for the meeting you can still register on-site at the Los Angeles Convention Center in the West Concourse Lobby beginning May 23rd at 9:00 A.M. All best, Scott Scott Sayre Sandbox Studios / Museum411 Education ? Technology ? Art 2520 Colfax Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405 v) 612.423.9691 f) 612.377.4848 http://www.sandboxstudios.org http://www.museum411.com AOLIM/iChat/Skype: zbarscott Need me ASAP? http://awayfind.com/museum411 Check out some of our latest projects: Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Art's ArtsConnectEd http://www.artsconnnected.org/ Art Institute of Chicago's Curious Corner http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/CC/ American Swedish Institute's Ring-a-Tour http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=320514361
[MCN-L] Fwd: Call for Papers: Perspectives JCP: The Digital
Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folk: Forwarded Message: Subject: [IVSA] Call for Papers: Perspectives JCP: The Digital Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:51:51 -0400 From: David Darts da...@nyu.edu To: IVSA at LISTSERV.UWINDSOR.CA Dear Colleagues, Pamela G. Taylor and I are guest editing the Perspectives section of an upcoming issue of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. It will be entitled The Digital and will be published in Spring 2011. We are accepting submissions until May 31st. Please see our call for papers below for more details. If you have any questions, do feel free to contact us directly. And please help us distribute this widely! Warmly, David Darts, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Art and Art Education NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University darts at nyu.edu Pamela G. Taylor, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor Department of Art Education Virginia Commonwealth University pgtaylor at vcu.edu --- PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY! --- JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY - ISSUE 8(1) 2011 PERSPECTIVES: THE DIGITAL ESSAY LENGTH: Approximately 1000 words DUE DATE: May 31, 2010 SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: darts at nyu.edu FORMAT: Both traditional and alternative forms of scholarly representation and communication are encouraged - see below for details ABSTRACT: We are surrounded by digital culture. New media and digital technologies are increasingly embedded within the routines and textures of everyday life. Combined with the meteoric rise of social media networks and platforms, digital culture has transformed what it means to speak, to create, to think, to have agency, and therefore to teach and learn. With the proliferation of social media networks and digital technologies have come profoundly lower hindrances to cultural participation and co-creation. In the span of a few short years, social networking, citizen-based journalism, social bookmarking, video and photo sharing networks, blogging, DIY platforms, gaming, mash-ups, remixing, etc. have come to increasingly characterize and dominate how knowledge and culture are produced, shared and understood in our global networked society. With new on-line communities of practice engaged in DIYalogues where knowledge and culture are shared, co-created and remixed, what does such mass amateurization of knowledge and cultural production mean for teachers? At the same time, digital technologies and networked communications have engendered new forms of surveillance, censorship and control that threaten our privacy and challenge our individual and collective freedoms. Dataveillance, network filtering, digital rights management systems, closed mobile networks and locked down digital devises have introduced emergent forms of discrimination and domination - ones that present real risks to networked collaboration, freedom of expression, innovation, collective action, personal autonomy, and the public sphere. Accordingly, these developments also have important implications for contemporary education?s preoccupation with assessment and monitored teaching and learning. Contributors to this issue are invited to reflect upon these and related issues as they pertain to education and culture. With digital culture assuming a central role in contemporary life, what possibilities and limitations must researchers, educators, policy makers and others address in relation to curriculum and pedagogy? How might we begin to re-imagine traditional notions of education? How might digital culture be meaningfully integrated into school curriculum? And how might we provide young people with the multi-modal literacies required to become articulate and critically engaged citizens in a digital and rapidly changing world? And with such profound implications for change, how does access play a role contributing to the further disempowerment of those social groups who already are economically marginalized? Authors may wish to address one or more of the following topics in relation to teaching and learning: *Participatory culture *Digital Culture and Preservice teacher education *Virtual Worlds *Read-write culture *Multi-modal literacies *Commons-based peer production *Digital divides *Collective intelligence *Gaming and education *Social media and learning *Digital media literacy *Digital censorship and filtering in schools *Surveillance and learning *Open and closed technologies *Copyright and education *DIY Education *Remix culture *Digital communities of practice *Mobile communications *Open Source and schools *Hacking and education *Digital citizenship FORMAT: Both traditional and alternative forms of scholarly representation and communication are encouraged. Authors may consider utilizing the tools and platforms made possible by digital technologies and social media. For example, authors may choose to transmit their essay as a series
[MCN-L] MCN 2009 Online Conferencing Starts Tomorrow!
Hi Howard (and all), Excellent question. We do intend to make the webcasts' content available later as video podcasts, on a timeline to be determined. Once they're online, we'll announce it via MCN-L and other channels. all best, Rob On Wed, November 11, 2009 7:46 pm, Howard Brainen wrote: Will the webcasts be available after the conference is over? Howard Brainen *TWO CAT DIGITAL INC.* 14719 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 USA 510-483-1220 X201 howard at twocatdigital.com www.twocatdigital.com *Digitization Services and Consulting* On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Richard Urban rjurban at illinois.eduwrote: == on behalf of info at mcn.edu == Hello everyone, Details are now online regarding webcasts of selected sessions tomorrow and Friday, November 12 and 13, at the Museum Computer Network's 2009 conference. The webcast URL and special Twitter hashtag for incoming questions, along with a link for making a donation to MCN if you wish, are on the MCN website at: http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2009online MCN 2009 sessions to be webcast* free of charge will be: Museum Data Exchange Thursday 12 November, 1:30-3:00 Tweets to Sweeten Collaborations for Archives, Libraries, and Museums Thursday 12 November, 3:30-5:00 Libraries, Archives, and Museums: From Collaboration to Convergence Friday 13 November, 11:15-12:45 Ramping Up while Scaling Down: Strategic Innovation in Challenging Times Friday 13 November, 2:00-3:30 2009 Conference Roundup Roundtable Friday 13 November, 4:00-5:30 We hope you can join us online even if you can't be here in Portland! Rob Lancefield President, MCN *All times are PST (UTC/GMT-8). Webcast availability is subject to change. Please feel free to forward this announcement and share it with colleagues.
[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?
Hi all, Any djatoka users out there? We're on the brink of deciding between two candidates as open-source AJAX client implementations for working with navigable images served with resolution on demand by djatoka server and a JPEG 2000 back-end. The two candidates are Djatoka OpenURL, based on OpenLayers, and Djatoka Viewer, based on IIPMooViewer. We have test pages up and running with both, and based on lots of search-engine-findable resources, both seem like good candidates based on functional needs and general factors; so I thought I'd ask here if anyone has actually been using either or both. Any hands-on tales of use cases or applications in museum contexts that might suggest one of these tools would be preferable to the other? thanks, Rob -- Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 // President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu The membership organization for museum information professionals
[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?
Thanks, Ethan. That's pretty much where I've been headed so far, too, in what seems otherwise to be close to a toss-up; the current-view outline box on small reference image is a big plus. Any other comments out there? Rob On 9/17/2009 12:21 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: Hi Rob, I have used both. I prefer the viewer based on IIPMooViewer purely for aesthetic reasons. I like the thumbnail in the corner with the small box that shows one's zoomed position on the current layer and one's ability to navigate with that box. There's also the button to export whatever is in the viewer to a downloadable jpg, so that's potentially useful to patrons. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists lists at lancefield.net wrote: Hi all, Any djatoka users out there? We're on the brink of deciding between two candidates as open-source AJAX client implementations for working with navigable images served with resolution on demand by djatoka server and a JPEG 2000 back-end. The two candidates are Djatoka OpenURL, based on OpenLayers, and Djatoka Viewer, based on IIPMooViewer. We have test pages up and running with both, and based on lots of search-engine-findable resources, both seem like good candidates based on functional needs and general factors; so I thought I'd ask here if anyone has actually been using either or both. Any hands-on tales of use cases or applications in museum contexts that might suggest one of these tools would be preferable to the other? thanks, Rob -- Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 // President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu The membership organization for museum information professionals ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Fwd: New tool available: File Information Tool Set (FITS)
Hello all, This may be of interest to some of us on MCN-L: Original Message Subject: [Digipres] New tool available: File Information Tool Set (FITS) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:40:18 -0400 From: Andrea Goethals andrea_goeth...@harvard.edu To: digipres at ala.org, diglib at infoserv.inist.fr, padiforum-l at nla.gov.au File Information Tool Set (FITS): http://fits.googlecode.com With the increase in web archiving and other born-digital projects that introduce new formats and genres to our digital preservation repositories, it is becoming more important that our tools support a wide range of file formats. In particular, our file format identification, validation and metadata extraction tools should work with a broad range of formats and genres. There are a number of these file tools in existence, but none of these tools individually can both support a wide range of formats and extract the technical metadata necessary to fully characterize digital content. In the fall of 2008 Harvard University Library began development on the File Information Tool Set (FITS) in response to this need. FITS acts as a wrapper around multiple open source file format identification, validation and metadata extraction tools. FITS invokes and manages the output of these tools. The native output from these tools is converted into a common format, FITS XML, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. The tools currently wrapped by FITS are: * JHOVE * Exiftool from Phil Harvey * National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor * DROID from the UK National Archives * Ffident from Marco Schmidt * File Utility In addition, FITS includes two original tools: FileInfo and XmlMetadata. There are a number of tools that will be evaluated for incorporation into FITS in the future, including: * Apache Tika * JHOVE 2 * Aduna Aperture * MediaInfo FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.5 or higher. FITS can be invoked by its command-line interface or through its Java API. FITS produces a ?status? value for each format identification it makes. When the status is SINGLE_RESULT, all tools that were able to identify the format agree on the file?s format. When the status is CONFLICT, there is more than one purported format identified for the file. Because FITS combines the output of multiple tools it has to be able to handle conflicts among the tool?s output when they don?t agree. It handles this conflict in many ways: * Tool output is normalized before it is compared for conflicts. For example, one tool might report for a file format that it is ?PNG?, while another tool may output it as ?Portable Network Graphics?. In another example, one tool might output the resolution unit as ?2?; another tool might output it as ?inches?. These values are normalized in the XSLT file that converts the tool?s native output to FITS XML before the FITS XML for each tool is compared to each other. * Users configure a tool ordering preference. In cases of format identification conflicts, the format identified by the preferred tools will determine the format FITS reports. * Tools can be excluded from reporting on particular formats and/or on particular metadata elements if its output is found in testing to be incorrect or buggy. This is very useful for incorporating a tool into FITS because it is good at some things without having to accept known unreliable information from the tool. * FITS consults a configurable ?format tree? to know when two reported formats for a file are not really conflicts because one of the formats is a more specific form of the other format. For example the format tree documents that the OpenDocument Text format is a more specific form of the Zip format. If a file is identified as being in both of these formats by FITS tools it is not reported as a conflict because technically they are both correct. Instead the more specific format, OpenDocument Text, is reported as the format. FITS is available to the public under the LGPL license. Harvard University Library (HUL) plans to use FITS in production in 2010 within its ingest service, but is making an early release of it available now for testing at http://fits.googlecode.com. Additional tools are being written at HUL to convert FITS XML into MIX, textMD, documentMD and other technical metadata schemas. We invite you to download and try using FITS. Any issues using it can be reported on the FITS website on the Issues web page (http://code.google.com/p/fits/issues/list). For more information please see the FITS website (http://fits.googlecode.com) or contact me directly.
[MCN-L] MCN SIGs - am I too clueless to participate?
Hi Ari and all, This is just my personal 2 cents as a former MCN SIG (Special Interest Group) chair, but I'd say your experience is not at all atypical and in no way a symptom of cluelessness--rather, a sign of accurate radar. Most SIGs do fall fairly dormant for most of the year, with a few exceptions. That said, and in the spirit of transparency, inclusivity, and our MCN conference this week (three good things!), two thoughts I can float: 1. This cyclical slide into semi-dormancy is something the SIGs have struggled with forever, to a first approximation; and a SIG is really only as active as its members make it. (By the way, to note this isn't to diss our SIG chairs, but quite the opposite: they're the leaders in this struggle against entropy.) So, I'd encourage conference attendees who feel that they have common interest with any of the SIGs to drop by a meeting or two, speak up, and maybe spur--and run with--an idea. The conference schedule (see At-a-Glance, pp. 7-9, for SIGs) is online at: http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2093 . And for a list of all SIGs, please see: http://www.mcn.edu/groups . 2. Great ideas re: other approaches to maintaining electronic space for SIG content. MCN's entire assemblage of electronic services is a key area of reassessment and work for MCN, so I'd encourage you--and anyone else who may be interested--to keep sharing your ideas, so we can fold them into that process. The annual general meeting (Thursday, 3PM) will offer a chance to see who's leading MCN committee work in this and other areas, and to hear truly brief updates on what those areas of work are. Hope this may help, and that it didn't veer too far off into boosterism! thanks, Rob __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN) On 11/10/08 3:00 PM, Ari Davidow wrote: As long as I am asking convoluted questions At the last MCN conference I attended, two years ago, I was very interested in several SIGs and thought that I joined. Here it is two years later. I can't recall any SIG discussions that I have had in the intervening time (other than the IP-SIG, for which Amalya posts frequently and noticably), and those particular SIG pages, including the related resource pages, do not look like they have changed since. Is this people's general experience? Did I most likely just not make my interest known such that it was captured and acted on (as in, be part of ongoing discussions)? And, of course, am I the only person who suspects that a wiki, perhaps among other CoP tools, might be a better way to capture and maintain information in these SIGs, as generated, rather than what appear to be the current static, unmaintained html pages? Is there more we can do with SIGs that would be useful? Which ones are meeting at MCN (I think I noticed two or three SIG meetings--IP SIG, plus California and Taiwan? in the calendar) ari
[MCN-L] New image search engine: TinEye
Hi all, Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folks, http://tineye.com is an image search engine that moved out of invitation-only beta a few days ago; it accepts an uploaded image file or image URL as its search argument. It doesn't yet have a large pool of indexed images, but seems intriguing. cheers, Rob __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] wikis for project management
Hi Perian, Leslie, and all, And if you're curious to try Trac without configuring your own server or paying for it, there are free Trac and Subversion services such as assembla (assembla.com); see also www.subversionary.org/hosting/hosting-services.* Rob PS: not pitching assembla here, and I have no connection to it other than being a free account user; just offering the lead for your assessment __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN) On Fri, July 18, 2008 3:03 pm, Leslie Johnston wrote: Perian, We use Trac ??? http://trac.edgewall.org/ ??? for project management. It's a combination issue-tracking system and wiki (you can use the wiki features with or without the issue/task tracking) and also provides an interface to a subversion repository you can use to manage documents and code check in. We find it useful to have this combination of wiki pages and an integrated way to manage and view tasks and status in the wiki. I also store related documents there (which you can browse in the wiki), and our developers use it to check-in code so we can always find clean copies of scripts and programs outside the deployment environment. Leslie -- Leslie Johnston Digital Media Project Coordinator Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress 202-707-2801 lesliej at loc.gov Perian Sully psully at magnes.org 7/18/2008 12:42:42 PM Hi all: Ok, I'm feeling a few days late to the party, given that there was just a discussion on this topic at VSA, but since I didn't go, I'm hoping someone here went and can give me some ideas for how we can use our new internal wiki to help keep discussions OUT of email and onto the static/fluid format which is the wiki. We're moving our website into a content management system and I'm hoping I can collect all of the information from the seven workgroups into one location, especially for our collective sanity as we move forward. But I'm kind of stumped as to the format, and with getting buy-in. Many of the staff are not familiar with using wikis, so I need to train them. Plus I'm having a bit of trouble conceptualizing how the organization of the information should work. Does anyone use a wiki for project management and would be willing to share information about organization? and how did you get everyone using it? Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
[MCN-L] Fwd: CFP: IEEE IS Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage
Hi all, Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L subscribers. cheers, Rob Original Message Subject: CFP: IEEE IS Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:07:42 +0200 From: Lora Aroyo l.m.ar...@cs.vu.nl To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG IEEE Intelligent Systems Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/content/CulHerCFP.html Cultural heritage is transforming as fast as the digital age. While once we collected objects such as books, sculptures, statues, and paintings, we now also face the preservation and archival of digital artifacts. These might be digital representations of physical objects or digital creations, such as interactive works of art, blogs, or even the World Wide Web itself, that are in their own right culturally significant and worthy of preservation. This special issue seeks to explore the problems and solutions of cultural heritage in the digital age. To what extent can computers, and particularly knowledge-based technologies, facilitate the processes of authentication, preservation, and archiving of physical and digital artifacts? Topics for which we invite submissions include, but aren?t limited to, these: * Knowledge representations and reasoning ? for example, ? combining heterogeneous collections; ? integration or evolution of vocabularies, metadata schemas, and ontologies; ? syntactic and semantic interoperability issues; ? reasoning strategies (for example, context, temporal, or spatial); and ? novel applications of the Cidoc Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), SKOS, and VRA * Intelligent interface support for professional and lay users, for example: ? annotating digital (representations of) artifacts, ? techniques for exploring and interacting with repositories of digital (representations of) artifacts, ? trust and provenance issues, ? personalization issues, and ? integration of semantics with audiovisual media. * Feature detection techniques for analyzing digital artifacts, for example: ? determining physical artifacts? authenticity (handwriting or brushstroke recognition, x-ray analysis, and so on), ? automatic creation of annotations, ? automatic ontology extraction from collections, and ? use of machine learning and natural language processing techniques. However, all submissions must contain some form of knowledge-based technologies (including the Semantic Web) and directly involve some aspect of cultural heritage. Important Dates * Submissions due for review: 15 Aug. 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 17 Dec. 2008 * Final version submitted: 29 Dec. 2008 * Issue publication: Mar. 2009 Submission Guidelines Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine?s style and presentation guidelines (see http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc/author.html). References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Questions? Contact Guest Editors Lynda Hardman, lynda.hardman at cwi.nl; Lora Aroyo, l.m.aroyo at cs.vu.nl; Eero Hyv?nen, eahyvone at cc.hut.fi; or Jacco van Ossenbruggen, jacco.van.ossenbruggen at cwi.nl --- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request at listserv.acm.org For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv --- -- __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] Website benchmarking
Nik, Len, and all, Great point re: effects of different tools' filtering efficacy on the traffic they report. Last year our main analysis tool changed over from a leading web analytics product* to AWStats. For one illustrative month of overlap, reports derived from the same raw Apache log files suddenly showed 23% fewer unique visitors, 45% fewer visits (!), 28% fewer page views, and 16% fewer hits--that most useless, if biggest, of metrics. So, by concrete anecdote: different tools can produce apples and oranges (and uneasy feelings about past metrics formerly cited in public...). Rob *one which rhymes, kind of, with deep end or head spins Nik Honeysett wrote: We attempted to do this at one point, but found it to be a real challenge. Aside from issues like every metrics software having a different notion of what constitutes a visit, we found that some institutions either didn't or didn't want to filter out unwanted traffic such as bots and spiders, which are significant numbers. In the pursuit of accuracy, we went through one significant upgrade of our metrics software NetGenesis (web log processing) and recently switched to Omniture (page tagging). Both changes resulted in decreases in our traffic due to improvements in filtering. We previously concluded that the only way to accurately benchmark with others, was for all to use a centralized system like this and match all parameters. So, good luck with that... -nik Nik Honeysett Head of Administration J. Paul Getty Museum tel: 310-440-7346 fax: 310-440-7751 nhoneysett at getty.edu Leonard Steinbach lensteinbach at gmail.com 3/11/2008 10:26 AM I was wondering whether anyone uses any particular web traffic statistics to compare the performance of their website to the websites of other museums. In effect is anyone benchmarking their website against others, or know of any studies or papers which address this issue? Thanks __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] [DM SIG] Digital photographic images able to be refocused after capture
Hello all, This may be of interest to people involved in imaging three-dimensional live scenes or objects for certain Web delivery contexts. An apparent startup called Refocus Imaging, http://refocusimaging.com, is working on cameras able to capture not just a plane of focus, but a three-dimensional field of light with a third axis perpendicular to the usual plane (imagine a z-axis projecting from the face of a camera's CCD sensor, creating a capture zone shaped like a rectangular solid). This enables Web viewers of resulting images to pull focus interactively back and forth as they wish. Part of the firm's marketing blurb reads: A Refocus Imaging camera captures the entire light field entering the lens, not just an ordinary image. Our computational photography processes the light field to produce pictures, implementing in software what the conventional camera and lens must do physically in hardware. Many of us have heard this idea kicked around in concept before, but their online gallery of example images suggests that implementation is actually moving along well; see http://refocusimaging.com/gallery/. Of course, this is basically irrelevant to repro shooting of flat work, and it has lots of open questions and perhaps little relevance re: most museum imaging, since technical parameters of all sorts are unspecified; but in principle, it looks pretty cool for some targeted applications. Could be fun for oblique views of gallery walls or reception shots Rob (who has no connection of any kind to Refocus Imaging) __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] Searching Listserv Archive
Hi Chris and all, Sorry the archive interface is so minimal; it's on MCN's list of things to make better! You can try this kludgy, low-tech workaround on Google: search_term site:http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ...which does only a partial job, since Google hasn't indexed all mcn-l archive pages. But hey, it's great at October 2007 posts, at least hope this (partially) helps, Rob PS: the currently accessible mcn-l archive reaches back as far as May 2006, when we went live with new list-management software and host. Chris Alexander wrote: Hello, Is there a way to search the archive of the MCN listserv? I hate to trouble people with something that might have been discussed before. Chris Alexander | Manager of Interactive Technology San Jose Museum of Art 110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 408-271-6875 ph. 408-294-2977 fx. calexander at sjmusart.org mailto:calexander at sjmusart.org -- __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] Fwd: [DIGLIB] JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community
Hi all, Perhaps of interest to MCN-L subscribers who haven't seen it elsewhere, this just out from the UK. A quick glance at the report (URL below) suggests that it offers a quite well-grounded and up-to-date synopsis of JPEG 2000's technical fit with institutional image repositories of many sorts (not solely preservation repositories in a strict DP sense). cheers, Rob __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN) Original Message Subject: [DIGLIB] JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:14:18 +0100 From: Carol Jackson ca...@dpconline.org ***Apologies for Cross Postings*** JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report published today. The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great stride forward for the archival community. The format now allows for greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually lossless. The findings come as the Digital Preservation Coalition launch its latest ?Technology Watch Report? written by Dr. Robert Buckley, a Research Fellow with Xerox, ?JPEG 2000 ? a practical digital preservation standard??. The report looks in-depth at the new format and the challenges it has to cope with. JPEG 2000 is widely used to collect and distribute a variety of images from geospatial, medical imaging, digital cinema, and image repositories to networked images. Interest in JPEG 2000 is now growing in the archival and library sectors, as institutions look for more efficient formats to store the results of major digitisation programmes. The report is aimed at organisations involved in the management and storage of digital information. The in-depth report will help archives, libraries and other institutions make informed decisions about JPEG 2000 format and their future storage needs. JPEG 2000 can reduce storage requirements by an order of magnitude compared to an uncompressed TIFF file. Dr. Buckley says, ?This new format has come at a time of heightened awareness about the access to digital documents. Any format that can assist archives and libraries to do this is welcome.? The format will also enable users to open as much of the file as they need at that time. This means a viewer, for example, could open a gigapixel image almost instantly. This is achieved by retrieving a decompressed low?resolution display sized image from the JPEG 2000 codestream. Coupled with this, the users? ability to zoom, pan and rotate an image have been enhanced. Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation, The National Archives said: ?This is a very timely addition to the DPC's Technology Watch Report series as many organisations are themselves reviewing the JPEG2000 format. This concise, comprehensive and clear guide will be of interest to practitioners across the digital preservation community.? The report concludes that JPEG 2000 offers much more flexibility and features than JPEG, but at the cost of greater complexity. It is however a great stride forward, and of major significance for the information management community. To download a pdf of the report please go to: www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0801 http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0801 For further information please contact, Tim Matthews, tim.matthews at nationalarchives.gov.uk mailto:tim.matthews at nationalarchives.gov.uk, or 020 8392 5277. For further information on the DPC please contact, Frances Boyle, fb at dpconline.org mailto:fb at dpconline.org or 01904 435320. *_ _* *About The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)* The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a cross sectoral member organisation established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally Carol Jackson Administration and Events Manager Digital Preservation Coalition Innovation Centre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG e-mail: carol at dpconline.org mailto:carol at dpconline.org tel: +44 (0) 1904 435 362 https: www.dpconline.org http://www.dpconline.org *
[MCN-L] MCN-L spam postings
Hello, fellow MCN-L subscribers: In case anyone is wondering, we list-admin folks are aware of the spam that has made it out to MCN-L on occasion in recent weeks (but really, doesn't anyone want to buy a watch?). Our list management software actually is intercepting the vast majority of these attempted posts, but a small percentage are sneaking through with forged From headers. Sorry for the low-level nuisance; at least you know we care cheers, Rob __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] [DM SIG] Fwd: Sound Directions publication (audio preservation)
Hello all, For anyone involved in preservation of audio materials, the report announced below (fresh off the digipres list) may be of interest. A quick glance at its text and appendices suggests that it will be a key resource with a usefully broad scope encompassing transfer practices, metadata, file formats, and a wide range of related factors. --Rob Original Message Subject: [digipres] Sound Directions publication Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:42:19 -0500 From: Casey, Michael T micasey@[...] To: digipres at ala.org digipres at ala.org Dear Digipres List members, The Sound Directions project team is pleased to announce that the publication of our findings is now available on the web. Below you will find the official press release with details on access to the document. It is our sincerest hope that you find the document useful and well worth the wait. Mike Casey -- Mike Casey Associate Director for Recording Services Archives of Traditional Music Indiana University (812)855-8090 Co-Chair, ARSC Technical Committee The Sound Directions project at Harvard University and Indiana University announces the publication of Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation, which is available as a PDF from the Sound Directions website at www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/. This 168-page publication presents the results of two years of research and development funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in the United States. This work was carried out by project and permanent staff at both institutions in consultation with an advisory board of experts in audio engineering, audio preservation, and digital libraries. Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation establishes best practices in many areas where they did not previously exist. This work also explores the testing and use of existing and emerging standards. It includes chapters on personnel and equipment for preservation transfer, digital files, metadata, storage, preservation packages and interchange, and audio preservation systems and workflows. Each chapter is divided into two major parts: a preservation overview that summarizes key concepts for collection managers and curators, followed by a section that presents recommended technical practices for audio engineers, digital librarians, and other technical staff. This latter section includes a detailed look at the inner workings of the audio preservation systems at both Harvard and Indiana. This first phase of the Sound Directions project produced four key results: the publication of our findings and best practices, the development of much needed software tools for audio preservation, the creation or further development of audio preservation systems at each institution, and the preservation of a large number of critically endangered and highly valuable recordings. All of these are detailed in this publication, which provides solid grounding for institutions pursuing audio preservation either in-house or in collaboration with an outside vendor. For further information on the Sound Directions project: soundir at indiana.edu __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] Fwd: Draft Version of MIX 2.0 for review (Image Metadata)
Perhaps of interest to some on MCN-L: Original Message Subject: [MIX] Draft Version of MIX 2.0 for review Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:45:05 -0500 From: Morgan V. Cundiff mcundiff@[...] Reply-To: NISO Metadata for Images in XML (MIX) MIX@[...] To: MIX@[...] A Draft version of the MIX Schema (Version 2.0) is now available for review and testing at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/mix20/mix20.xsd Version 2.0 is not backwards compatible with Version 1.0. A list of the changes is provided in the comments at the top of the schema document under Change History Version 1.0 to Version 2.0. Also note that there are now additional discrepancies between the MIX schema and the NISO Data Dictionary. An effort is underway to better synchronize the Data Dictionary and MIX 2.0. A special thanks to Steve Abrams of Harvard University Libraries for providing the thorough review of MIX 1.1 that resulted in many of the changes that appear in MIX 2.0. Please feel free to send any comments to the MIX listserv (MIX@[...]) or directly to me (mcundiff@[...]). Morgan Cundiff Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
[MCN-L] Fwd: Call for participation: alt.chi
Hello all, Perhaps of interest to any MCN-L subscribers who may be involved in computer-human interaction design for kiosks, web, or whatever: Original Message Subject: Call for participation: alt.chi Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:59:29 -0800 From: Louise Barkhuus barkhuus at CS.UCSD.EDU To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for Participation: alt.chi Submission deadline: January 8th 2008. Alt.chi invites controversial ideas, novel prototypes, failed but valuable user studies, bold experiments, and anything else that can give a fresh perspective on CHI. We invite submissions that explore technical or practical limitations in technologies or methodologies; that introduce promising, although currently non-viable techniques; that critique the current state of the field; and that explore topics outside of current discussion. We particularly welcome topics on CHI 2008's theme, art.science.balance. We invite work that would otherwise not have been presented at CHI 2008, because it is too controversial or outside of the norm. alt.chi Review Process: The alt.chi 2008 program will be selected through a non-anonymous process, where all submissions and reviews are completely open. There will be an open forum were anyone can register to submit and review, and all submitters are required to take part in the review process. All reviews and submissions will be available to anyone who registers. We want to encourage discussion and debate on what makes a good alt.chi (or regular CHI) submission, what makes a good review, and, ultimately, what makes for a fruitful conference experience. See details at: http://www.chi2008.org/alt.chi.html Louise Barkhuus and Jofish Kaye, alt.chi co-chairs, 2008 chi2008-alt at acm.org --- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request at listserv.acm.org For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---
[MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects
Hi all, The barcoding study Will recalls may have been the one noted below in an MCN-L post from 2002 (and hey, the URL it cites still points to a live page!). In another, more recent thread from 2006, Perian Sully and David Parsell also exchanged thoughts on the topic; please let me know offlist if it would be useful to have that thread forwarded, also offlist. cheers, Rob __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network 2002 Message Subject: Check out Barcoding for Museums Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:50:33 EDT From: MarbleCity at aol.com To: mcn-l at mcn.edu ... Barcoding for Museums ... Friends, ... http://members.aol.com/oldtruth/bcindex.html The page is intended to be updated regularly. If you see something is missing or something can be better, please let me know so I can address it. If you would like to add your survey responses, by all means, click on the Complete Survey hyperlink and send me your responses. If you have a great image to replace the down and dirty one I created, please send it along. I want to thank each of the contributors, yet again, for their great responses. Sam Quigley, Bob Futernick, Johanna Humphrey,Susan Fishman-Armstrong, Kate Turner Morgan, and Heather Polubinski, your responses will influence my activities and I suspect they will be helpful for others. I can't thank you guys enough. I want to invite others, yet again, to share your experience and wisdom with us. Ruth Bryant Power Real, Will wrote: Annamaria, We use a barcoding system here at Carnegie Museum of Art. The barcoding software is a third-party application developed for use with our collections management system (KE Emu). It functions over our wireless network and is used primarily for updating object locations, though it can also be configured for on-site data-entry and/or object accessioning projects. At present not all of the collection has been barcoded so the system is not used consistently. We have found that the biggest challenges, besides finding the time to complete the barcoding of the entire collection, are deciding how to approach barcoding for multi-part objects (whether at the item or part level) and how to keep track of the physical bar code tags of three-dimensional objects as they come on and off view. While we agree with others who have said that the barcoding system increases accuracy, there is always going to be an element of human or procedure error that no technology that I am aware of can quite overcome! Another source to investigate: a several years ago someone, I think an MCN member on this list, did a survey and posted specific information on museum barcoding on a website. I don't have the link and don't know if the site is even live anymore. Does this ring a bell to anyone else? Will Real Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 7:35 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects Dear all, I would like to know : 1. how many museums are using the barcoding objects inventory system 2. if the CMS they use support the system 3. A feedback on the use of this tool Annamaria Poma Swank Rinascimento Digitale project consultant...--
[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction - Week after Next!
Hi everyone, As the MCN conference draws nearer, so does our Silent Auction. All 2007 Silent Auction proceeds will fund conference scholarships for MCN 2008. If you haven't already, please dream up your donations and stash them away to take to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully accepted in person. Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk when you register. Any items new or old, useful or happily useless, that may attract bids and be carried home on airplanes are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs, museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are always popular. Donations need not be tangible things--some popular lots have offered half-price registrations for other professional events, or various free services. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help or want to know more, please email me off-list at rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1693 has more news about this and a wide range of MCN 2007 events. See you in Chicago! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007) __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network
[MCN-L] fwd: Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation...
Hello all, Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folk, from DIGLIB: Original Message Subject: [DIGLIB] Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation... Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:42:24 +0200 From: Jeffrey van der Hoeven Jeffrey.vanderHoeven@[...] To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr ***Apologies for cross-posting*** *Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation* The Koninklijke Bibliotheek - national library of the Netherlands - and the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands are proud to present the world?s first modular emulator designed for digital preservation: Dioscuri. Dioscuri is capable of emulating an Intel 8086-based computer platform with support for VGA-graphics, screen, keyboard, and storage devices like a virtual floppy drive and hard drive. With these components Dioscuri successfully runs 16-bit operating systems like MS-DOS and applications such as WordPerfect 5.1, DrawPerfect 1.1 and Norton Commander. Furthermore, it is capable of running many nostalgic DOS-games and a simple Linux kernel. And when you finally open your long-forgotten WP5.1-files you can extract the text from the emulated environment into your current working environment using a simple clipboard-feature. *Designed for digital preservation* The design of Dioscuri is based on two key features: *portability* and *flexibility*. Dioscuri is portable because it is built on top of a virtual layer, called a virtual machine (VM). By using a VM in between the real computer and the emulated one, Dioscuri becomes less dependent on the actual hardware and software it runs on. This approach offers better portability to other platforms, which ensures longevity when a platform fails to survive over time. Dioscuri has shown to run reliably on PC, Apple and Sun computers without the need to alter anything of the application. Flexibility is gained by a component-based architecture. Each component, called module, imitates the functionality of a particular hardware component (i.e. processor, memory, hard disk, etc.). In concept, combining these modules any computer emulation can be created. Configuring Dioscuri is done by a user-friendly graphical interface which stores the settings in an XML-file. Both its portability and flexibility make Dioscuri different from any other emulator that exist today and ensure that it is prepared for the future. *Developing Dioscuri* Development of the emulator started in January 2006 and was lead by Tessella Support Services plc. Together with emulation proponent Jeff Rothenberg the PC-architecture was examined and translated into a software representation, resulting in a modular emulator. Although developing an emulator is not an easy task, the project made it clear that with a limited resources it is possible to build one. With a total effort of roughly two man-years, Dioscuri has been designed, developed and tested. Next steps are already in progress. Since July 2007 development of Dioscuri is continued under the umbrella of the European project *Planets*. Future work will consist of extending Dioscuri with more components to emulate newer x86 computers (286, 386, 486 and Pentium) which will make Dioscuri capable of running operating systems like MS Windows 95/98/2000/XP and Linux Ubuntu. *Download now!* Dioscuri version 0.2.0 is now available as open source software for any institution or individual that would like to experience their old digital documents again. Download Dioscuri from: http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/ *Mailinglist and contact* If you would like to be kept up to date about new developments of Dioscuri, please register for the Dioscuri news mailinglist: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dioscuri-news To get in touch with the project team, please contact: Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands Remco Verdegem, project manager Dioscuri: remco.verdegem at nationaalarchief.nl mailto:[...] Koninklijke Bibliotheek Jeffrey van der Hoeven, co-developer and tester: jeffrey.vanderhoeven at kb.nl mailto:[...] Tessella Support Service plc Bill Roberts, coordinator Development Team bill.roberts at tessella.com mailto:[...]
[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2007!
Hi everyone, As the MCN conference approaches, so does our annual Silent Auction. Your donations to this event support a crucial program: all 2007 Silent Auction proceeds will fund conference scholarships for MCN 2008. It's not too soon to dream up novel donations and stash them away to carry to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully accepted in person. Items new or old, seriously useful or happily useless, that may attract bids and be carried home on airplanes are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs, museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are always popular. Donations need not be tangible things--some especially popular lots have offered free services or half-price registrations for other professional events. Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk in the hotel when you register; details will be announced soon. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help or want to know more about what this entails, please email me off-list at rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1693 has more information about the auction and a wide range of MCN 2007 events. See you in Chicago! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007) __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network
[MCN-L] Forwarded student query re: museum image preparation
Hi all, This query re: digital image preparation and web delivery by museums is forwarded from ImageLib with permission of the Bates College student who posted it there. She's not an MCN-L subscriber, so if anyone feels like responding, please reply offlist directly to her at acoren at bates.edu. cheers, Rob --- begin forwarded text --- Date:Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:18:45 -0500 From:Ashleigh acoren at BATES.EDU Subject: Converting TIFF files to JPEG Hi, I'm an intern writing a research paper on the different standards museums use to convert their images into usable files after they've been scanned on the computer. If you have the time, I would like to learn about how other small/college museums are uploading pictures. Thanks! Ashleigh '07 end forwarded text -- __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network
[MCN-L] pdf and pdf-A
Hi Mary and all, We've been using PDF on our website since 2002 to deliver all press releases; a current example is at http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/exhb/press.html . This supplanted mailing printed releases with 8x10s; some hard-copy releases still go out, but they (and email notices) refer users to the PDF on the Web for images. In this case, PDF works nicely for integrated delivery of images and text with embedded fonts for consistent display, in a single-file, downloadable format as desired by many of our press contacts. PDF permissions make it easy to enable full content export while affording modest protection against changing the PDF itself--not that anyone would bother hacking a press release, but this may help prevent inadvertent alteration or other glitches as the file is passed along. Rob PS: current workflow uses Photoshop for image preparation, Word for incoming text, FrameMaker (!) for assembly, and Distiller and Acrobat for PDF prep. At 1:16 PM -0800 2/22/07, you wrote: I am interesting in knowing if anyone out there is using pdf and/or pdf-A to delivery digital content to web visitors, or for any other application. Feel free to respond on or off list. Thanks. Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley MCN Standards SIG Chair -- __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network
[MCN-L] conference presentations
Hello Alan and everyone, Your timing is impeccable. I believe we'll be seeing an announcement today that will inform us all that proposal submissions are now being accepted. Please stay tuned! best to all, Rob At 10:45 AM -0500 2/5/07, Newman, Alan wrote: Rob, Is it too late to get on the agenda for MCN 2007? It could be a panel or poster session. I want to make a report of a study I will soon initiate with half a dozen other museums to follow up on a museum spec for delivering files to offset lithographers. I expect we will incorporate this into UPDIG. This would be a follow up to a discussion I had in my 2006 panel in Pasadena. Alan ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] IP SIG: Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright
Hello all, From the CNI list (hope Amalyah isn't clicking Send right now, too): --- begin forwarded text --- To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:15:31 -0500 From: Joan K. Lippincott joan at cni.org Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland University College is excited to announce the launch of a new blog portal addressing the cultural, political and legal context of copyright issues: (c)ollectanea! http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ The new (c)ollectanea blog will serve as an online discussion platform for the current and future Center for Intellectual Property scholars. Today, join one of the leading copyright scholars in the country, GEORGIA HARPER as she provides insight and leads discussions with guest bloggers on issues relating to copyright generally, with a specific focus on issues facing the education and library communities. Georgia K. Harper serves as the CIP 2006-2008 Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar and the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries. Previously, Ms. Harper specialized in copyright law and created the well known and widely used online publication, The Copyright Crash Course, for the University of Texas System CIP is one of the leading online educational centers providing training, and solutions on copyright issues affecting the higher education community. This new blog, (c)ollectanea, furthers the Center's mission to provide timely copyright resources for educators. Although the blog will address the needs of the education and library communities, all are welcome to engage in the discussion and contribute. Share your thoughts on copyright issues. Join the blog group (c)ollectanea, collected perspectives on copyright. http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ Marvin Stewart Event Specialist Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adelphi,MD 20783 T: 240.582.2966 mdstewart at umuc.edu end forwarded text -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Conference Presentations?
Hello John and all, MCN 2006 session pages* now carry links to an initial batch of presentation materials (those received most quickly from presenters), thanks to Conference Program Chair Erin Coburn, Web Committee member Christina DePaolo, and Web Editor Margaret Kendrick. More such materials are, I believe, in the pipeline. Thanks for asking! Rob * See links from http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1227 At 3:24 PM -0600 12/8/06, you wrote: Has the date been announced yet when the MCN 2006 presentations will be posted on the MCN web site? John R. Bedard Director of Information Projects and Services The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 Phone: 612-870-3268 Fax: 612-870-3004 Email: JBedard at artsmia.org www.artsmia.org www.artsconnected.org -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] One week until MCN Silent Auction 2006!
Hi again, everyone: MCN's conference is next week, and so is our 2006 Silent Auction, which will take place at the reception on Friday, November 10th. Coming right up! It's been great to see MCN-L threads about SIG-organized auction lots. For those of us who may still be thinking about what to take to Pasadena for the auction, or who may be first-time attendees, here's the deal: For many years, generous contributions to the auction have helped MCN offer programs and resources we all find useful. All proceeds now fund conference scholarships, which the MCN Board instituted for the Pasadena conference using 2005 auction income. All 2006 auction earnings will fund scholarships for MCN 2007. If you haven't already done so, now's the time to dream up novel or excessive donations to carry to Pasadena, where items will be gratefully accepted in person. (Here comes the boilerplate, folks) Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or happily useless--that may be attractive to bidders and carried by airline passengers are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs are always popular. Equally great are museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs. Donations need not be tangible things--some popular lots have offered free services or special half-price registration for professional events. Think unusual! Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk when you register. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help, please email me off-list at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1233 has more details regarding the Friday reception and a wide range of other MCN 2006 conference events. See you next week in Pasadena! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2006) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Using Digital Images report published today
Hi all, Perhaps of interest to some here; please pardon cross-posting. _ NITLE/Wesleyan Report on Digital Images Released Oct. 31 October 31, 2006. Digital images are changing the way professors teach at colleges and universities--although often at great personal expense of time and resources, according to a new study by David Green. Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions, published today, details the results of an intensive study of digital image use by more than 400 faculty at 33 liberal arts colleges and universities in the Northeast. Commissioned by Wesleyan University and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), the study focuses on the pedagogical implications of the widespread use of digital formats. But, while changes in teaching and learning were at the core of the study, related issues concerning supply, support and infrastructure rapidly became part of its fabric. The report suggests how the teaching profession as a whole can better harness these new resources, and it makes recommendations for optimizing their deployment on campus. The full report and an executive summary are available at Academic Commons, an online forum for new technologies and liberal education: http://www.academiccommons.org/imagereport -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] MCN-L update
Hello all, As anyone who tried to post to MCN-L in the past few days may have noticed, the list was down from some time on Thursday until mid-day today (do we all *love* those failures that are detected only on the cusp of a weekend...?). The list is now back up, so please feel encouraged to re-send anything you may have tried to post, only to receive annoying could not be delivered notices. best to all, and sorry for any inconvenience, Rob -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Three weeks until MCN Silent Auction 2006!
Hello again, everyone: MCN's Pasadena conference is drawing closer, and so is our Silent Auction. The 2006 auction will be held at the reception on Friday, November 10th--three weeks from this Friday! For many years, your generous contributions to this annual event have helped our nonprofit organization offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. As announced in the preceding auction reminder, we're delighted to note that all proceeds from this event will fund conference scholarships, which the MCN Board instituted for the Pasadena conference using 2005 auction income. All earnings from the 2006 auction will fund scholarships for MCN 2007. It's never too soon dream up novel (or truly excessive...) donations and stash them away to carry to Pasadena, where donations will be gratefully accepted in person. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or happily useless--that may be attractive to bidders and carried by airline passengers are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs are always popular. Equally great are museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs. Donations need not be tangible things--some popular lots have offered free services or special half-price registration for professional events. I'd say think outside the box, but in fact there is no box! Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk when you register. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help, please email me off-list at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1233 has more details regarding the Friday reception and a wide range of other MCN 2006 conference events. See you in Pasadena! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2006) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2006!
Hello, everyone: As MCN's Pasadena conference approaches, so does our Silent Auction. The 2006 auction will be held at the reception on Friday, November 10th. For many years, your generous contributions to this annual event have helped our nonprofit organization offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. We're delighted to announce that starting this year, all proceeds from this annual event will fund conference scholarships, which the MCN Board instituted for the Pasadena conference using 2005 auction income. All earnings from the 2006 Silent Auction will fund scholarships for next year's MCN conference. It's never too soon dream up novel (or truly excessive...) donations and stash them away to carry to Pasadena, where donations will be gratefully accepted in person. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or happily useless--that may be attractive to bidders and carried by airline passengers are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs are always popular. Equally great are museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs. Donations need not be tangible things--some popular lots have offered free services or special half-price registration for professional events. I'd say think outside the box, but in fact there is no box! Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk in the hotel when you register; details will be announced soon. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help, please email me off-list at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1233 has more details regarding the Friday reception and a wide range of other MCN 2006 conference events. See you in Pasadena! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2006) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Fwd: Call for Participation: ICDAT 2006 - International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies
Hi all, Perhaps of interest to some mcn-l subscribers: --- begin forwarded text --- To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr From: jhwang at iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Call for Participation: ICDAT 2006 - International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies Sorry if your receive multiple copies of this message. -- Call for Participation ** 2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2006) Main Theme: Bridging Technology and Content in Digital Archive 19-20 October 2006 Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Sponsored by Technology R/D Division, National Digital Archives Program Office, Taiwan Content Development Division, National Digital Archives Program Office, Taiwan Academia Sinica, Taiwan National Science Council, Taiwan Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Taiwan URL: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT06/ About the Conference Digital archives/libraries are widely recognized as a crucial component of a global information infrastructure for the new century. Research and development projects in many parts of the world are concerned about using advanced information technologies for managing and manipulating digitized cultural heritage and valuable documents, ranging from data storage, preservation, indexing, searching, presentation, and dissemination capabilities to organizing and sharing of such valuable content over networks. ICDAT 2006 is the fourth in a series of International Conferences on Digital Archive Technologies sponsored by the National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan. The goal of this conference is to provide unique opportunities for participants to share their research results and best practices in the utilization of advanced technologies for and the approaches to the development of digital archives/libraries/museums. Conference Chairman Dr. Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica Program Co-Chairs Prof. Chu-Song Chen, Academia Sinica Prof. Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica Prof. Peng-Sheng Chiu, Academia Sinica Prof. Daw-Ming Lee, Taipei National University of the Arts Contact Person Ms. Tze-Hui Huang Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: 886-2-27883799 ext. 1654 Fax: 886-2-27824814 E-mail: mandyhth at iis.sinica.edu.tw end forwarded text -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Archival Audio Standards and Best Practices
Hi Jen, Along with the great LC and CDP links Mike Rippy and Richard Urban have suggested, other prospective resources include organizations focused on collections of recorded sound.* Two sites that could be worth exploring are: Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) http://www.arsc-audio.org International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) http://www.iasa-web.org Also perhaps of use could be such meta-level lists of resources as: http://personal.stevens.edu/~vforrest/val/AudioArchiving/ To offer a dangerously general bit of background re: your specific question: AIFF and WAV both can store uncompressed audio at high sampling rates (e.g., 96kHz) and high bit depth (e.g., 24-bit), often good things for preservation; while mp3 has severe inherent limits that make it less useful in most archiving scenarios. By very rough analogy if you're used to dealing with images, you can think of AIFF and WAV as offering some of the good things that TIFF or JPEG 2000 do (e.g., an ability to store lots of high-resolution uncompressed information), and mp3 as being in certain ways broadly comparable to JPEG (both can efficiently deliver small, compressed files to end-users, but at a price generally paid in lost visual or audio information). This is a drastically reductive synopsis--maybe useful as a stepping stone to more nuanced and detailed resources you may find, but not as anything more. :) hope this helps, Rob * The Audio Engineering Society (http://aes.org) also deals seriously with preservation, and has Standards Committee working groups concerned with this area; much of their work tends to be more technically oriented than focused on creating and disseminating timely recommendations or best practices for end-users. _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu At 2:08 PM -0700 8/1/06, jpearson at berkeley.edu wrote: Hello group, Does anyone have information on the best Archival Audio Standards and Best Practices? Mp3, AIFF, WAV. I appreciate any advice! Thank you Jen
[MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devices in museums
Hi Will and all, We use a Better Light 6000E-HS for in-house imaging of collections (copy-stand work with original prints, mostly). We do still have occasional jobs that require 4x5 film-based photography, for which we hire an out-of-house photographer. best, Rob _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu At 12:01 PM -0700 7/31/06, Sue Grinols wrote: Hi Will, We're using a BetterLight 6K, and a Phase One P25, although our photographer is itching to upgrade to a P45. We use these cameras for publication quality photography. We use the Phase One more than the Betterlight due to work flow issues. We have phased out transparency photography (no pun intended). We also use a Cannon EOS 5D for our imaging project (lower quality database images). Best, Sue Susan Grinols Director, Photo Services and Imaging Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Legion of Honor and de Young Museums Ph. 415.750.3602 Fax. 415.750.2679 www.famsf.org From: Real, Will RealW at CarnegieMuseums.Org Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:19:33 -0400 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devices in museums As the time for submitting budget requests for our next fiscal year approaches I am curious to know what digital photography devices are being used in the museum community. Would any of you be willing to volunteer whether you are using any of the following for photography of collections? Please be as specific as you can. (respond offline directly to me if you wish to remain anonymous: realw [at] carnegiemuseums.org) Nikon D1X, D200, D2X Canon 5D, EOS 1Ds Mark II Leaf Aptus 75 Phase One P 45, etc. BetterLight 6000 etc. Sinar Bron 44, 54, emotion75, etc. Others (Imacon, Jenoptik, etc.) I would also be interested to know if you have switched to all-digital capture or not. Thanks, Will William Real Director of Technology Initiatives Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.622.3267 412.622.3112 (fax)
[MCN-L] Hello World
Hi Richard, This a test of reply, which currently grabs individual address of sender (here, yours) for new To header (I entered the cc to list manually). I imagine there's a Mailman pref to set and include the Reply-To header? For our testing phase this would be mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com (to be replaced by mcn-l at mcn.edu once we're live). This message also will test whether the list currently accepts posts delivered as cc's, which we should allow (bcc may be another matter--what do you think?). thanks, and more to come, Rob At 8:57 PM -0500 5/23/06, you wrote: This is a test of the MCN-L Listserv. If this were a real message something more interesting would be here. If you do not wish to receive test messages please contact rjurban at uiuc.edu ___ Mcn-l mailing list Mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Hello World
Good--list does accept cc's. /r. At 10:33 AM -0400 5/24/06, I wrote: ... This message also will test whether the list currently accepts posts delivered as cc's, which we should allow (bcc may be another matter--what do you think?). thanks, and more to come, Rob At 8:57 PM -0500 5/23/06, you wrote: This is a test of the MCN-L Listserv. If this were a real message something more interesting would be here. If you do not wish to receive test messages please contact rjurban at uiuc.edu ___ Mcn-l mailing list Mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu ___ MCN-L mailing list MCN-L at toronto.mediatrope.com http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] MCN-L post acknowledgement
And I like the fact that the default preference aparently is for acknowledgment messages like this to go back to senders of successful posts. r. At 6:27 AM -0700 5/24/06, mcn-l-bounces at toronto.mediatrope.com wrote: Your message entitled Re: [MCN-L] Hello World was successfully received by the MCN-L mailing list. List info page: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l Your preferences: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/options/mcn-l/rlancefield%40wesleyan.edu -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] Attachment settings...
Richard et al (cc'ed folks, any opinions on the question below?), I've just tweaked two Mailman settings: 1. View subscriber list is now set to private (admin only) 2. Content filtering now also denies .zip, .vcf, .sit, .hqx Here's a question re: filtering. My strong preference is to kill all attachments (even gif and jpg) and to dumb down HTML messages automatically to plaintext before allowing their text content to post, in a way transparent to senders (no annoying error messages). This was what we decided to do before the site launch and thought we'd done, but it turned out to be unimplementable. Mailman can do this, but what do we think about the underlying policy question? Now that we can, I believe we still should. It's standard practice on virtually all lists I'm on (distinct from announce-only lists, where traffic is much lighter and only emanates from one organazitional sender), and is beneficial in ways I won't belabor. But does anyone have a strong feeling and rationale in favor of *allowing* HTML, GIF, JPEG etc.? Not to open a can of worms--just don't want to be hastily unilateral. If no one speaks up today for a change to a looser policy, Richard (and I think you might?), I imagine a wildcard can strip all attachments. I didn't see it in my quick dip into the admin interface just now, but maybe you know? If not, and if we do stick to the initial deny all, I can peruse Mailman docs. thanks, Rob -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
[MCN-L] test
Trying a PDF attachment -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NISO_TMDSI_DataDict.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 131089 bytes Desc: not available URL: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/attachments/20060524/63fabc06/attachment.pdf
MCN list subscriber support update
Hi everyone, Following on Marla's Friday announcement about our reconfigured Web Committee, here's a practical note on mcn-l user support. Our new committee member, the ever-helpful Richard Urban (rjur...@uiuc.edu), is now the primary contact for mcn-l subscribers. As several subscribers have found, we've encountered an attachment-filtering hitch in our new hosting environment, which currently blocks messages with HTML or styled text.* (We'll keep you apprised of any progress on this.) If you're trying to post what looks like a plain-text message with no attachments but it's being blocked, please check first with Richard. If he seems to be offline for a while, please try me next. For the record, MCN's web team is now: MCN Web Committee = Rob Lancefield, chair Christina DePaolo, website user training manager Richard Urban, mcn-l manager / database coordinator Website Editor == Margaret Kendrick cheers, Rob *In the peer-to-peer spirit of MCN, if a Macjordomo guru out there knows how to set fine-grained attachment rules by MIME type, please do drop me a line offlist -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l DIGEST in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l MAIL
Tip for posting to MCN-L: plain text for now
Hello, fellow mcn-l subscribers: On behalf of MCN, thanks for bearing with us as we iron out a few remaining post-launch issues with our new website and email list-management system. As far as we've heard, the new site as such is working well (but please let me know offlist if not!). Thanks again to Dana Mitroff as former Web Committee chair, fellow committee member Christina DePaolo, and Website Editor Margaret Kendrick for making this so. Our other transition involves mcn-l, which is now managed out-of-house with new software. Most issues related to this change were addressed before switching the live list over, but one more has become clear from recent subscriber comments. Here's a related tip and, for anyone who may be interested, a bit on the underlying issue. = MCN-L USER TIP: To be sure your posts make it through to mcn-l rather than bouncing back to annoy you, please post only plain-text email.* = Here's why: as do many lists, mcn-l prohibits attachments, sparing us all from various annoyances and threats. In its current and quite zealous configuration, that filter interprets as attachments not only .zip files, attached signatures, etc., but also HTML or formatted text in messages--so plain text is the way to go for now. We're sorry for any frustration this may be causing. As soon we've re-formed our committee in the coming weeks, addressing this will be a high priority. We'll keep the list informed of any such user-centric changes as soon as they're in place. best to all, and thanks for your patience, Rob (MCN Web Committee member) * Your email software may have a preference setting, and/or individual message settings, to make outgoing mail plain text; or when sending text copied from a web page or other document, you can make it into plain text by first pasting it into a plain-text editor (BBEdit, etc.), then copying it from there to paste into your message. We're all hoping this workaround will be needed only for a short while. -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l DIGEST in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l MAIL
Fwd: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] EDUCAUSE Podcast Features Digital Prese
Hello all, Perhaps of interest, from CNI: --- begin forwarded text --- Sender: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition cni-annou...@cni.org To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition cni-annou...@cni.org Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:10:00 -0500 From: Diane Goldenberg-Hart di...@cni.org Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] EDUCAUSE Podcast Features Digital Preservation and ECURE Disaster preparedness, research data management, learning management systems and the ECURE conference are featured in a podcast released in December by EDUCAUSE. Arizona State University Archivist and ECURE co-chair Rob Spindler responds to questions by Matt Pasiewicz of EDUCAUSE about the role of archivists in preservation of several forms of digital content. In the 19 minute interview available at http://connect.educause.edu/Rob_Spindler_CNI_Interview_2005, Spindler emphasized the roles of archivists and librarians serving as advocates for preservation and described the work of archivists in helping universities fulfill core university functions through effective recordkeeping. ECURE 2006: Preservation and Access for Digital College and University Resources will be held February 27-March 1st, 2006 at the beautiful Tempe campus of Arizona State University, located in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Conference registration information and a program schedule template is now available. Program information will be expanded as new sessions are confirmed. Please visit www.asu.edu/ecure Contact: Rob Spindler, ECURE Conference co-chair rob.spind...@asu.edu 480.965.9277 # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list cni-annou...@cni.org. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: cni-announce-...@cni.org To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to cni-announce-dig...@cni.org To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to cni-announce-in...@cni.org To postpone your subscription, E-mail to cni-announce-n...@cni.org To resume mail list message delivery from postpone mode, E-mail to cni-announce-f...@cni.org Send administrative queries to cni-announce-requ...@cni.org Visit the CNI-ANNOUNCE e-mail list archive at https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/. end forwarded text -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Fwd: Harvard announces Global Digital Format Registry...
Hi all, From the diglib list, and perhaps of interest to many mcn folk: --- begin forwarded text --- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:06:10 -0500 To: dig...@infoserv.inist.fr From: Stephen Abrams stephen_abr...@harvard.edu Subject: Harvard announces Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) project The Harvard University Library (HUL) is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the development of a registry of authoritative information about digital formats. Detailed information about the format of digital resources is fundamental to their preservation. The two-year project will result in a new Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR), which will become a key international infrastructure component for the digital preservation programs of libraries, archives and other institutions with the responsibility for keeping digital resources viable over time. Development of the Registry will be informed by the considerable expertise in digital preservation the Harvard libraries have acquired through Harvard's Library Digital Initiative (LDI). An earlier Harvard contribution to the international digital preservation community is JHOVE http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/, a tool developed in cooperation with JSTOR that is widely used to analyze and validate the format of digital objects. The wide diversity and rapid pace of adoption and abandonment of digital formats present an ongoing problem for long-term preservation efforts. As noted in the October 2002 planning report of the Library of Congress (Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program), Longevity of digital data and the ability to read those data in the future depend upon standards for encoding and describing, but standards change over time. According to Dale Flecker, associate director of the Harvard University Library, All digital preservation programs must document the format of the objects they are preserving. Without precise knowledge of format, a digital object is merely a collection of undifferentiated bits. Creating a shared registry of such documentation will save an enormous amount of duplicative effort in acquiring and recording such documentation. It also allows the community to share expertise in formats, so that each institution does not require deep local expertise in every format of data it is preserving. GDFR will be established as a distributed service in which participating research libraries, archives, and other organizations with preservation responsibilities can contribute, as well as use, format-typing information. According to Stephen Abrams, digital library program manager in HUL's Office for Information Systems, GDFR will be a sustainable service available to any preservation institution that chooses to participate. From the outset, we've envisioned the registry as a distributed network of individual nodes. Each node will have a full copy of all the format-typing data in the GDFR. Carefully vetted information and updates will be distributed among the nodes following appropriate technical review. GDFR will also provide a separate track for distributing non-vetted information, so that problems and issues identified in the course of daily work can be quickly shared by participants. Major American research libraries are supporting Harvard's efforts to develop the GDFR. MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for the MIT Libraries, stated, The establishment of a digital format registry will be a major contribution to our ability to keep digital content viable into the future, and I am grateful that Harvard is willing to take the initiative to build it and coordinate our efforts to use it. In the words of John Ockerbloom, digital library planner and architect for the University of Pennsylvania Library, Such a system will aid in digital development and preservation not only at my library, but also at many other institutions worldwide. Having open, globally recognized naming, definitions, and documentation of data formats will greatly improve the abilities of libraries and content-management software to use, adapt and share a wide variety of digital content. For current information and updates on GDFR, including information about job opportunities, visit the project web site at http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/. --- Stephen L. Abrams Digital Library Program Manager Harvard University Library, Office for Information Systems 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 404 Cambridge, MA 02138 T +1 (617) 495-3724 F +1 (617) 495-0491 E stephen_abr...@harvard.edu W http://hul.harvard.edu/~stephen/ end forwarded text -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center
MCN Silent Auction 2005 next week!
Hi everyone, With MCN 2005 coming up next week, our Silent Auction is on the horizon--so it's time for one last email pitch about the joys of donating and bidding! The auction benefits our nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to using technology to serve our institutions' cultural aims. Your generous contribution of items to offer for bid helps MCN offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. If you haven't gathered up some things to take to Boston, now's the time! One recently pledged item is a high-resolution 3D scan and 3D reproduction of one of the winning bidder's objects (talk about high-tech!). Another is a beautiful catalog for a recent Chuck Close exhibition. Other striking donations this year include museum street banners, heavily discounted registration for Museums and the Web, and intriguing items from Jerusalem's Elvis Inn. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or cheerfully useless--that may be attractive to bidders (and carried by airline passengers) are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs and other publications are always popular. Museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are especially easy to carry. Donations need not be tangible things. Popular lots in recent years have included free services from vendors and special half-price registration fees for professional events. All donations may be dropped off at the conference registration desk. And don't forget to check out the auction items, which will be on view in the exhibits hall--where we all can bid high, bid often, and hope to head home as winners. See you next week! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2005) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Just two weeks to MCN Silent Auction 2005!
Hello all, With MCN 2005 only two weeks off, our Silent Auction is drawing ever closer--and so, it's time for yet another email harangue about the joys of donating! The auction benefits our nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to using technology to serve our institutions' cultural aims. Your generous contribution of items to set out for bid helps MCN offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. If you haven't already set aside some things to take to Boston, now's the time to do so! As noted last week, one striking donation already promised this year consists of three street banners; bearing images by Chagall, Warhol, and Ansel Adams, these were actually hung from San Francisco streetlight poles to promote SFMOMA exhibitions. Other promised lots range from heavily discounted registration for Museums and the Web, to unusual and intriguing items from Jerusalem's Elvis Inn. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or cheerfully useless--that may be attractive to bidders (and carried by airline passengers) are encouraged. Exhibition catalogues and other publications are always popular. Museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are especially easy to carry. Donations need not be tangible things; some popular lots in recent years have offered free services from vendors or special half-price registration for professional events. Donations may be dropped off at the conference registration desk. If you'd like to help out as an auction volunteer, please email me off-list. See you week after next! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2005) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Three weeks to MCN Silent Auction 2005!
Hi, everyone: With MCN 2005 only three weeks off, our Silent Auction is drawing near. This annual event benefits our nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to using technology to serve our institutions' cultural aims. Your generous contribution of auction items helps MCN offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. Now's the time to set some things aside to take to Boston! One striking donation already promised this year consists of three street banners; bearing images by Chagall, Warhol, and Ansel Adams, these were actually hung from San Francisco streetlight poles to promote SFMOMA exhibitions. Other promised lots range from heavily discounted registration for Museums and the Web, to unusual and intriguing items from Jerusalem's Elvis Inn. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or cheerfully useless--that may be attractive to bidders (and carried by airline passengers) are encouraged. Exhibition catalogues and other publications are always popular. Museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are especially easy to carry. Donations need not be tangible things; some popular lots in recent years have offered free services from vendors or special half-price registration for professional events. Donations may be dropped off at the conference registration desk. And if you'd like to help out as an auction volunteer, please email me off-list. See you in Boston! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2005) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Pacific Northwest Interest Group
Title: Re: Pacific Northwest Interest Group Hi everyone, Great to see enthusiasm building for the new PNW SIG; thanks, Tamara! As of yesterday, the MCN Board already has approved the formation of MCN's Pacific Northwest (PNW) SIG. As Tamara notes, Christina DePaolo has been a key organizer of the new SIG. Christina soon may announce the SIG's creation and some related news about its inaugural meeting, so I won't steal any more thunder from that celebratory announcement; just wanted to clarify where the process now stands. Thanks again to Christina and Tamara for their work on this! Rob (MCN Board SIG Liaison) _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu At 11:03 AM -0700 10/4/05, Tamara Georgick wrote: Greetings- Several of us in the Washington/Oregon area were inspired by the program recently offered by the California SIG. We would like to see if there is interest in forming a similar group for the Pacific Northwest. Christina DePaolo, from the Seattle Art Museum, has contacted MCN and asked for board approval to form the group. We need at least 12 members. We were asked to use this list for communication, so if you are interested, please post to the list. We have not defined a specific geographic region for the Pacific Northwest-just jump in if you feel you would have common interests. If anyone is interested in meeting at the MCN conference, I will be there and would like to meet in person if schedules permit. Also, if you have discussion or demo topics that you would like to see the SIG explore, please let us know. Thanks! Tamara Tamara Georgick Director of Information Technology Washington State Historical Society tgeorg...@wshs.wa.gov 360.561.3982 --
MCN-L: Is your museum using JPEG 2000?
Hello all, For possible mention in an MCN panel on the state of JPEG 2000 implementation in museums, I'd be grateful for news of museum projects using that standard. After gesturing towards allied--and sometimes more widely known--work in the library and archives communities, I'm hoping to offer a broad sense of how JPEG 2000 is being used in museums beyond the two on which other speakers will focus in detail. This current use could be for actual delivery or in digital repositories under construction, even if they're not yet accessible. If you're involved in work of either sort and happen to feel like describing it briefly, please drop me a line offlist. This isn't a formal survey; even off-the-cuff anecdotal accounts would be most welcome. The session will be presented November 3 in Boston; for more details, please see http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005sessions.htm . many thanks, Rob PS: Please pardon cross-posting of a similar message to j2karclib-l. -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MCN Silent Auction 2005!
Hello, everyone: As our Boston conference approaches (only seven weeks away!), so does the MCN Silent Auction. This annual event benefits our nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering our institutions' cultural aims through the use of computer technologies. Your generous contribution of auction items helps MCN continue to offer the programs and resources we all find so useful. It's never too soon to start dreaming up novel (or even grandly excessive!) donations and stashing them away to carry to Boston, where donated items will be gratefully accepted in person. Items of any sort--new or old, seriously useful or cheerfully useless--that may be attractive to bidders (and carried by airline passengers) are encouraged. Exhibition catalogues and other institutional publications are always popular. Equally great and easy to carry are museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs. Donations need not be tangible things--some popular lots in recent years have consisted of free services or special half-price registration for professional events. Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk in the hotel when you register. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help, please email me off-list at rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005events.htm has more details regarding the auction and a wide range of other MCN 2005 conference events. See you in Boston! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2005) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Web Hosting
Title: Re: Web Hosting Hi Jim and all, Although our museum website resides in-house on a university web server, I've been extremely satisfied with pair networks as a host for independent projects (since 1999), and have heard nothing but equally good things about them from other quarters in re: uptime, support responsiveness, etc. I don't know whether pair supports streaming and conferencing, but they offer dedicated servers (running FreeBSD). At any rate, they might be worth a look at http://pair.com . For the record, I have no connection to--or interest in--the firm other than being a long-time happy customer (no referral perks, hidden or in view...). cheers, Rob At 6:35 PM -0400 9/1/05, Jim Maza wrote via mcn-l: We are considering moving our web sites to a new hosting service and are looking fro recommendations. I don't have detailed statistics on our bandwidth usage, but I would guess it is in the 200 -250 Gig a month. We average about 2,000,000 page hits a month. We are looking for a hosting service with a good track record for reliability, redundancy, and security. We are also looking to make greater / more frequent use of video streaming and web conferencing. Any recommendations for hosting services / providers would be appreciated. Thanks Jim Maza Asia Society jm...@asiasoc.org -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Fwd: Self-Learning Module on Digitization and Digital Libraries
-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: r...@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) - SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal end forwarded text -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: MCN 2004: (some?) minneapolis fares on sale today
Title: Re: MCN 2004: (some?) minneapolis fares on sale today Hi Mike (and anyone else who may be wondering), I ran a regular itinerary search from NWA's main page, and the fares that came up were far better than they'd been for at least a month and a half. Just to be clear, the promos I ran across aren't special MCN rates, and they have no connection (other than fortuitous timing) to our Minneapolis meeting. According to http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2004/delegate/mcn2004-d1f.htm , Northwest does have ticket designator file #NM457 set up for the conference, and that may well yield better deals on some routes. Probably worth trying both ways! best regards, Rob At 12:04 -0500 9/28/04, Mike Rippy wrote: Where do you go on theNWAwebsite toreceive the promo pricing, as well asfor quotingthe Ticket Designator File number? The lowest fair I have found has been through ATA at $220 from Indianapolis. Michael Rippy Assistant Photographer Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN, USA 46208-3326 (317)923-1331 ext.191 www.ima-art.org mri...@ima-art.org rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu 9/28/2004 11:27:08 AM Hello, fellow mcn-l subscribers: Those of you who plan to attend our fall conference and who haven't yet booked a flight may want to visit www.nwa.com; after checking daily for some time now, I just found that (as of today) Northwest is running promo fares that cut nearly in half the cost of nonstops from Hartford to Minneapolis. We're such a small market that I'd guess similar savings might be in effect for other itineraries. The savings may even be enough to make it worth rebooking extant reservations and paying a change penalty (e.g., Hartford nonstops dropped by over $200). cheers, Rob -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu ! Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MCN 2004: (some?) minneapolis fares on sale today
Hello, fellow mcn-l subscribers: Those of you who plan to attend our fall conference and who haven't yet booked a flight may want to visit www.nwa.com; after checking daily for some time now, I just found that (as of today) Northwest is running promo fares that cut nearly in half the cost of nonstops from Hartford to Minneapolis. We're such a small market that I'd guess similar savings might be in effect for other itineraries. The savings may even be enough to make it worth rebooking extant reservations and paying a change penalty (e.g., Hartford nonstops dropped by over $200). cheers, Rob -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
DM SIG: Metadata for Audio: AES Conference, London, 17-19 June2004
Hi all, Coming up soon, and perhaps of interest to some on mcn-l: -- Forwarded message -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JUNE 2, 2004 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ... METADATA FOR AUDIO The Audio Engineering Society is holding its 25th International Conference this month in London. We are addressing what we see as a critically important subject: metadata for audio. As the means for production and distribution of digital audio proliferate, appropriate metadata tools are needed to facilitate, control, and extend these activities. There has been a great deal of activity in individual organizations to develop metadata tools. However, substantial issues remain to be addressed before the desired goal of global exchange and common understanding can be reached. International standardization, such as the work of MPEG7 and MPEG21 may hold some important answers. This conference seeks to describe the state of the art, identify the issues, and indicate directions for the development of advanced metadata systems, both for consumer distribution and business-to-business. It will bring together media publishers and software designers, media librarians and archivists, database managers and streaming engineers whose operations are increasingly dependent on the success of sophisticated metadata systems and anyone working in audio who needs to get a better understanding of the subject. Thursday 17 June is a tutorial day, for which it is possible to book separately. The tutorial sessions and workshop will provide an introduction to the key concepts in metadata, and an overview of current schemes. The 31 papers in the main conference discuss all aspects of metadata. There will be plenty of time for discussion and networking. There is also an optional banquet at the Houses of Parliament. It looks like this will be an excellent conference and we hope to see you there. For further information, or to register, see http://www.aes.org/events/25/ or contact Heather Lane at u...@aes.org or on +44 1628 663725. -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MCN announces new Small Museum SIG (Special Interest Group)
Hello, fellow MCN list subscribers: The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce the formation of the MCN Small Museum SIG (Special Interest Group), which will hold its inaugural meeting at MCN's November 2004 conference in Minneapolis. The SIG's precise aims and activities will emerge from open-ended and participatory discussion at that meeting; its general mission is as follows: Statement of Purpose The MCN Small Museum SIG is a forum for discussing technology issues faced by people working in small- and medium-sized museums, galleries, and archives. Such institutions often have fewer resources, and less in-house expertise, than do many larger ones. Along with encouraging members to share information with one another, the Small Museum SIG organizes and proposes at least one topical panel for each annual MCN conference. Any MCN member is welcome to join the SIG; if you feel that your institution is a small one in terms of its staff, budget, or technology resources, or even if you don't work in such a setting but want to help by sharing information about technology issues in these contexts (solutions to common problems, news of emerging tools or practices, etc.), this is a SIG for you. We hope that all MCN members interested in these issues will attend the SIG's first meeting this November, when we all can help to shape the SIG from its inception. For more information, please contact the new Small Museum SIG Chair, David Farrell of the Peel Heritage Complex in Ontario, Canada, at david.farr...@peelregion.ca. General information about MCN's 2004 conference is on the web at http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2004/delegate/mcn2004-d1a.htm all best regards, Rob Lancefield (MCN Board, SIG Liaison) David Farrell (MCN Small Museum SIG Chair) -- _ Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
