Re: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies

[Tanner, Simon]

Hi Perian,

Check out DAYOR for some interesting articles and papers and insights on image 
usage and for some links to records on image use.
http://displayatyourownrisk.org/about-dayor/

Also:
Kapsalis, E., The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & 
Archives (2016), available at: 
http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/2016_03_10_OpenCollections_Public.pdf

Gorgels, P., Rijksstudio, Make Your Own Masterpiece. A Keynote from the 2013 
NDF Conference (2014), 
available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW17d-OQsIs

Sanderhoff, M., ‘Open Images. Risk or opportunity for art museums in the 
digital age?’ (2013) Nordic Museology 131-46

Best regards,
Simon

Simon Tanner | Pro Vice Dean (Impact & Innovation), Arts & Humanities
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage
Department of Digital Humanities | Senior Tutor
King's College London | 219, 26-29 Drury Lane | London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Research: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/simon.tanner.html

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian 
Sully
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 11:54 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies

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
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Re: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies

[Tanner, Simon]

Hi Perian,

Check out DAYOR for some interesting articles and papers and insights on image 
usage and for some links to records on image use.
http://displayatyourownrisk.org/about-dayor/

Also:
Kapsalis, E., The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & 
Archives (2016), available at: 
http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/2016_03_10_OpenCollections_Public.pdf

Gorgels, P., Rijksstudio, Make Your Own Masterpiece. A Keynote from the 2013 
NDF Conference (2014), 
available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW17d-OQsIs

Sanderhoff, M., ‘Open Images. Risk or opportunity for art museums in the 
digital age?’ (2013) Nordic Museology 131-46

Best regards,
Simon

Simon Tanner | Pro Vice Dean (Impact & Innovation), Arts & Humanities
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage
Department of Digital Humanities | Senior Tutor
King's College London | 219, 26-29 Drury Lane | London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Research: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/simon.tanner.html

-Original Message-
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Sully
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 11:54 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies

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
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[MCN-L] New opportunities at Digital Humanities, King's College London

[Tanner, Simon]

I'm delighted to announce that four new posts for the Department have today 
been advertised, hopefully to join us from April onwards or as soon as possible 
thereafter.  You'll find details here:

https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66187 Lecturer 
in Digital Media Management and Innovation

https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66188 Lecturer 
in Digital Culture

https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66182 Lecturer 
in Digital Curation

https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66177 Professor

"The Department of Digital Humanities is recruiting four new posts: three 
lecturships and a professorial post.  The Department is entering a period of 
growth and expansion building on our success in the 2014 Research Excellence 
Framework (REF) and the rapid growth in student numbers on our four MA 
programmes, the recently launched BA in Digital Culture, and the PhD in Digital 
Humanities. In September 2016 the Department will launch a new MA in Big Data 
in Culture and Society. The Department through its research and teaching aims 
to make a world-leading contribution to understanding our digital lives, 
cultures and societies, and in the process to forge a strong understanding of 
the place of the humanities in today's digital world. Further details of the 
posts can be found by following the links below:

Professor: The Department is seeking to appoint a Professor of Digital 
Humanities to provide intellectual and strategic leadership, world-leading 
research, and inspiring teaching at both undergraduate and post graduate level. 
The post holder will demonstrate exceptional performance in research, teaching 
and leadership, enhancing and extending the reputation of the Department as 
world-leading, including facilitating impact and knowledge exchange and 
identifying new areas for research and exploration.
https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66177

Lecturer in Digital Curation: The Lecturer in Digital Curation will join the 
team teaching on the highly successful MA Digital Asset and Media Management, 
the MA Digital Curation, and will contribute to the BA Digital Culture where 
appropriate. The post holder must be able to demonstrate research strengths and 
comprehensive knowledge of the lifecycle management of digital assets, 
including digital preservation, metadata, and access, and be capable of 
translating this knowledge into innovative teaching that inspires our students. 
The post holder will have the opportunity to develop their research strengths 
in the area of digital curation and to extend into new directions and 
significant emergent areas, for example in digital forensics or aspects of 
semantic interoperability.
https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66182

Lecturer in Digital Media Management and Innovation: The Lecturer in Digital 
Media Management and Innovation will join the teams teaching on the highly 
successful MA Digital Asset and Media Management and the BA Digital Culture. 
The post holder will provide internationally excellent research and teaching in 
digital media management with particular expertise in one or more of the 
following: management theory and practice in the digital media and content 
industries, digital marketing and digital advertising, digital economy and 
audiences, and innovation and entrepreneurship in the digital industries.
https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66187

Lecturer in Digital Culture: The Lecturer in Digital Culture will join the team 
teaching on the recently launched BA Digital Culture and will contribute to the 
MA programmes where appropriate. The successful applicant will have an 
interdisciplinary mindset drawing insights from different domains of human and 
social sciences, and from computing and information science, with research and 
expertise in digital technology and its implications on various fields of 
contemporary society and culture. We particularly welcome applicants with 
research and teaching strengths in either Internet studies and theoretical 
approaches to the Internet or those with strengths in researching online 
communities and the creative potential of the internet including web 
publishing, web design and knowledge representation.
https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=66188


Simon Tanner | Pro Vice Dean (Impact & Innovation), Arts & Humanities
Department of Digital Humanities | Senior Tutor and 
Chair of SSLC
King's College London | 219,  26-29 Drury Lane | London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Research: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/simon.tanner.html
Twitter: @SimonTanner
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk

**RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR KING'S ARTS & HUMANITIES PEOPLE**

[MCN-L] Vacancy: Teaching Fellow in Digital Asset and Media Management

[Tanner, Simon]

Dear All,

Please see this post below and at the link to apply.
Please consider it and please share with all your networks - we really need 
someone to help with our growing cohort of excellent students next year.

Teaching Fellow in Digital Asset and Media Management
Salary Details: Grade 6 £32,277 to £38,511
Allowances: £2,323 London Allowance
Contract Type: Temporary/Fixed term
Contract Term: Full time

This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st 
September 2015 in the Department of Digital Humanities. The successful 
applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching on the 
rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM), in 
particular on the core module and the optional module Digital Asset and Media 
Technologies in Practice. The post holder may also be asked to contribute to 
core and optional modules on the other MA programmes. The post includes both 
teaching and administrative roles, and also includes an allocation of time for 
scholarship.

The successful application will be expected to take a lead role in the 
planning, organisation and delivery of teaching activities within the 
department in accordance with established departmental practice and will 
contribute to the on-going development of MA DAMM modules.

S/he will participate fully in assessment and examination process as 
appropriate using a variety of methods and techniques and provide effective, 
timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their leaning.

The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the 
Grade 6 scale, currently £32,277 to £38,511, per annum plus £2,323 per annum 
London Allowance.

This is a Fixed contract Term for 12 months.

Interviews will be held on 21 August 2015.

https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=62845

Thanks,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Senior Tutor and Chair of SSLC
Director of Digital Consulting (KDCS)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
Room 219, 2nd Floor
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner

DDH:  www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk
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Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

[Tanner, Simon]

Hi Carissa,

In the spirit of not being at all helpful but enjoying the opportunity to roll 
out a true favourite...

Back in the 90's we had a digital project which we gave the acronym: SQUIRREL 
NUTKIN

It stood for:
Sequential Query User Interface Resourcing a Research Electronic Library   
Notably User-oriented Technology for Keeping the Information Needed

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities
Room 219, 2nd Floor Drury Lane
King's College London

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner


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From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Carissa 
Dougherty
Sent: 10 February 2015 20:00
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

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
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Re: [MCN-L] Digitizing Photographs

[Tanner, Simon]

I would say that I would be much more concerned about the heat on the glass bed 
of the flatbed scanner than the light exposure. Those beds get pretty hot after 
multiple scans and this can do an awful lots of damage by activating dirt on 
the surface of the photograph or causing chemical reactions within the 
substrates.

This can easily be alleviated by running two imaging rigs so that one is 
cooling as the other is imaging so the bed stays relatively safe heatwise but 
this comes with obvious added workflow complications plus space and hardware 
implications.

Best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities
Room 219, 2nd Floor Drury Lane
King's College London

Email: simon.tan...@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner


-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Frank 
Kennedy
Sent: 23 January 2015 16:51
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digitizing Photographs

As was passed on to me by the NEDCC, the light exposure from a flatbed scanner 
is similar to having the original object on exhibit for one day. With that in 
mind, you can decide. A camera copy stand will likely use powerful incandescent 
lights which are highly damaging, but for such a brief time that the result is 
the same - like one day on exhibit. LED lit type scanners produce very little 
UV light and the scanning can be considered harmless. As others have pointed 
out, be careful with handling and the forced flattening of any curled prints 
which will crack the gelatin. We've scanned many thousands of old BW prints 
this way. Personally, I find the results from a flatbed visually superior to 
the results from high-end photography, with the added benefit of no skew or 
fisheye..

Frank Kennedy, IT Manager
Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Glendale Rd., PO BOX 308
Stockbridge, MA 01262
413-931-2216, fax 413-931-2316
http://www.nrm.org 

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[MCN-L] When we Share, Do they Care?

[Tanner, Simon]

Please excuse any cross postings

When we share, do they care? Using Impact Assessment to understand how our 
digital presence changes lives.
Keynote address for Sharing is Caring, 1st April 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark

We, as memory organizations, have the wealth of human knowledge and experience 
within our collections and it is our responsibility to share that with the 
world - we should seek to educate, to enlighten and to entertain. And 
increasingly, our ability to share is becoming ever more feasible because, just 
like a candle's flame, when we share digitally we enable lots of other flames 
to be lit at little cost other than our initial willingness to share. But I 
often hear folk quibble about whether the economic models underlying these 
approaches are fair and affordable.

See more at: 
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/when-we-share-do-they-care-using-impact.html

Best regards,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner

DDH:  www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk

[MCN-L] Remembering Revolutionaries

[Tanner, Simon]

Please excuse any cross postings

Remembering Revolutionaries - Mandela, Tutu, Tony Benn and the Women's Library
See more at: 
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/remembering-revolutionaries-mandela.html
The last 2 weeks have been busy with remembering those who have made a 
revolutionary change to our lives. This post considers the way we remember the 
lives of Nelson Mandela and Tony Benn, and the revolutionary lives and history 
of women contained in the Women's Library.

Best regards,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner

DDH:  www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk

[MCN-L] UK Creative Industries success story

[Tanner, Simon]

**apologies for any cross-posting**
I have put up a new blog posting:

UK Creative Industries success story in hard economic times
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/uk-creative-industries-success-story-in.html

The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport released the Creative Industries 
Economic Estimates today. They show an incredible story of growth and success 
for the UK Creative Industries compared to the incredibly shallow growth in the 
rest of the UK economy.
The creative industries reportedly generate ?8m per hour for the UK economy and 
employment within the creative industries increased at more than 10 times the 
prevailing rate of UK job growth.

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS)
Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)
Twitter: @SimonTanner

DDH:  www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk

[MCN-L] Study on impact on interpretative staff by collections online efforts

[Tanner, Simon]

Dear Perian,

There is an extensive bibliography that may well help you in the full report:

Tanner, S. (2012) Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value 
Impact Model. King's College London, October 2012. Available at: 
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS)
Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
Perian
Sent: 24 April 2013 04:29
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Study on impact on interpretative staff by collections online 
efforts

Hi everyone:

For about 8 years now, I've had a bit of an agenda to see if we can move past 
relatively passive online catalogs and into enriching interpretive materials 
about the collections. I've been thinking a lot lately about possible methods 
for this, now that so many of us have our collections online, either on our 
websites or through social media. In my mind, there are four populations that 
have a hand in providing interpretive materials about individual collection 
items:

Curators
Museum educators
External experts (researchers, teachers) General public (especially people with 
personal stories)

The first two generally have the task of responding to the latter two. 
I'm particularly interested to know if, by putting our collections out there, 
how much of an increase in research requests museums have received, and how 
that impacts the staff. Does this affect further online interpretation efforts?

So I wanted to query the lazywebs and punt it out to you all to see if you're 
familiar with any studies around this topic. The only two I've found thus far 
(admittedly, just a surface search) is Erika Dicker's MW
2010 paper, The Impact of Blogs and Other Social Media on the Life of a 
Curator and Nancy Proctor's The Google Art Project: A New Generation of 
Museums on the Web?

Thanks!

~Perian
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[MCN-L] African Manuscripts - a treasure in danger?

[Tanner, Simon]

**apologies for any cross-posting**

I have put up a new blog posting:
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/african-manuscripts-treasure-in-danger.html

Reflecting on the tragic burning of the manuscript collections in Timbuktu, 
Mali and some thoughts on the role for digitisation.

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS)
Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)
Twitter: @SimonTanner

DDH:  www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
Blog:   http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk

[MCN-L] The full report: Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources - The Balanced Value Model now available for download and use.

[Tanner, Simon]

**apologies for any cross-posting**

I have put up a new blog posting:
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-balanced-value-impact-model.html

The full report Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources - The Balanced Value 
Model is now available for download and use.

The Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) draws evidence from a wide range of 
sources to provide a compelling account of the means of measuring the impact of 
digital resources and using evidence to advocate how change benefits people. 
The aim is to provide key information and a strong model for the following 
primary communities of use: the cultural, heritage, academic or creative 
industries.

For the purposes of this Model, the definition of Impact is:
The measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that 
demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community for 
which the resource is intended.

The outcome of this cross disciplinary research is a new and targeted model of 
Impact Assessment for the primary communities of use identified above. The 
Balanced Value Impact Model brings together aspects from disparate Impact 
Assessment communities into a cohesive and logical process for Impact 
Assessment.

The Balanced Value Impact Model is intended to aid the thinking and decision 
making of those wishing to engage in Impact Assessment. It also acts as a guide 
through the process of Impact Assessment to enable the core values most 
appropriate to the assessment to be brought to the fore and given a balanced 
consideration when evaluating outcomes. It presumes that the assessment will be 
measuring change within an ecosystem for a digital resource.

Who should use the BVI Model?

* The aim of this report is to provide key information and a strong 
model for the following primary communities of use:

* Memory institutions and cultural heritage organizations, such as 
libraries, museums and archives.

* Funding bodies who wish to promote evidence-based impact assessment 
of activities they support.

* Holders and custodians of special collections.

* Managers, project managers and fundraisers who are seeking to justify 
further investment in digital resources.

* Academics looking to establish digital projects and digital 
scholarship collaborations with collection owners.

* Publishing, media and business sectors which may be considering the 
best means to measure the impact of their digital resources and are looking to 
collaborate and align with collection owners, with academia or with memory 
institutions.

* Impact Assessment practitioners considering an Impact Assessment of a 
digital resource.

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and 
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.ukhttp://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
Twitter: @SimonTannerhttp://twitter.com/#!/SimonTanner
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)   +44(0)20-7848-2861 (Dept Office)

[MCN-L] Suggestions on Flatbed Scanners

[Tanner, Simon]

Epson is great and I would highly recommend those products esp the V700.

If you can't afford the brand though then try this supplier:
http://www.microtekusa.com/us/index.php

they supply components to Epson so is similar products without the brand.

Best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner
Blog: http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/


-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
Kelly Carpenter
Sent: 21 September 2012 15:10
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Suggestions on Flatbed Scanners

Good morning, 

 

My name is Kelly Carpenter and I am the Digital Media Manager at the 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. My department is currently looking into purchasing a 
flatbed scanner for digitizing black and white photographs.
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for the best brand? 

 

All the best, 

Kelly

 

Kelly Carpenter

Digital Media Manager

1285 Elmwood Avenue

Buffalo, NY 14222-1096

716.270.8235

kcarpenter at albrightknox.org

 


Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Celebrating 150 Years
1862 - 2012

[MCN-L] Job Posting: Digital Asset Management Specialist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Tanner, Simon]

Any chance of an online link to allow us to post this on FB and Twitter etc?

Simon

Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @SimonTanner
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Digital Media
Sent: 09 May 2012 14:42
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Job Posting: Digital Asset Management Specialist, The 
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Digital Asset Management Specialist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

General Description
Initially, this position will be deeply involved in the administration and 
technical oversight of MediaBin, the museum's digital asset management system.  
Looking forward, the person in this position will have a key role to play in 
any initiative that involves the management of digitized assets at the Museum, 
including system upgrades or migration to a new DAM, task automation, 
application customization, troubleshooting, reporting and other digitization 
procedures.

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
* Provide technical expertise for enterprise content management systems, based 
upon a strong understanding of the client server environment, web services, 
security roles etc. as well as demonstrated experience with a variety of image, 
audio and video formats.
* Serve as primary technical liaison to internal stakeholders and external 
vendors and consultants for all digital asset management activities and related 
projects.
* Work with IST and/or contractual partners to design, specify, execute and 
monitor data migration/synchronization tasks between various Museum data 
repositories.
* Streamline acquisitions, deployments and conversions of multimedia content 
for both internal and external uses.
* Design, develop, and maintain reports for the Museum's content management 
systems (e.g., production workflows, digital rights management, licensing 
activities).
* Review, analyze, and evaluate system and user needs. Assist in the 
development and deployment of solutions based on user requirements.
* Evaluate, maintain and install systems upgrades and fixes. Coordinate changes 
with technical staff and affected users, as required.
* Other related duties

Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience and Skills:
* 3+ years experience in information / content management.
* Demonstrated experience with data services in Microsoft SQL Server, or 
equivalent RDBMS
* Demonstrated experience with web-related application development in Visual 
Basic, .NET, Java or equivalent programming language.
* Demonstrated skill with IIS or equivalent web service infrastructure.
* Demonstrated skill with PC  MAC client-server systems and architectures.
* Experience with end-user support and service; strong verbal and written 
communication skills.
* Preferred: experience with technical implementation and maintenance of 
digital asset or other enterprise content management systems (especially 
MediaBin).
* Preferred: knowledge of digitization processes for content, including digital 
image capture and scanning, image, audio and video formats and codecs, file 
conversion and archiving, data mining and harvesting, and metadata taxonomies.

Knowledge and Education:
* Bachelor's degree or relevant technical certification (preferred in a related 
field)
* Knowledge of digitization processes for content, including digital image 
capture and scanning, image, audio and video formats and codecs, file 
conversion and archiving, data



Please send cover letter, resume, and salary history to employoppty at 
metmuseum.orgmailto:employoppty at metmuseum.org with the position title in 
the subject line.




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.

[MCN-L] Digital Futures - the programme and speakers - Course: delivery and preservation of digital resources

[Tanner, Simon]

We have 2 places remaining on the Digital Futures Academy run by Simon Tanner 
and Tom Clareson.

The full programme and rates are available here:
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/london.html

Guest speakers include:
Prof. Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire
William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition
Alistair Dunning, The European Library

We will visit behind the scenes at The National Gallery and The British Library.

If you wish to come then please email me.

We have 23 delegates so far this year from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, 
representing libraries, museums, archives, plus corporate and national 
repositories. Delegates range from senior management, curatorial and content 
specialists to technical implementation staff.

All my best,
Simon

Digital Futures Academy
The British Library, London
March 19-23, 2012
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/london.html

King's College London is pleased to announce the Digital Futures Academy 5-day 
training event. We are thrilled that this year it will be hosted at The British 
Library.

Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital 
resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital 
Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, 
heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and 
management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to 
delivery. Delegates will also receive 2 half day visits with expert talks and 
behind the scenes tours of The National Gallery and The British Library.

As the Academy enters its 9th year we invite you to join our experts of 
international renown in London, UK. Delegates from over 40 countries have 
experienced the benefits of the Digital Futures Academy. This is what they have 
said:
   Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a 
digitization program
   I was very pleased. The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, 
friendly and personable.
   Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience.
   A really useful course and great fun too!

Digital Futures is led by Simon Tanner, Director of Digital Consultancy at 
King's College London and Tom Clareson, Lyrasis. They have over 20 years 
experience each and worked on over 500 digital projects across the world in 
delivering digital content or preserving culture. They will be supported by 
Alistair Dunning of The European Library and William Kilbride of the Digital 
Preservation Coalition.  Other experts at the National Gallery and The British 
Library will give talks during the tours.

Digital Futures  covers the following core areas:
   Planning and management
   Fund raising
   Understanding the audience
   Social media and its impact
   Metadata - introduction and implementation
   Copyright and intellectual property
   Sustainability, value and impact
   Financial issues
   Implementing digital resources
   Digital preservation
A certificate of attainment is offered to all Digital Futures Academy delegates 
on completion of the course.

If you are interested, please email me as soon as possible, spaces are limited.

Best regards,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and 
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.ukhttp://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
Twitter: @SimonTannerhttp://twitter.com/#!/SimonTanner
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)   +44(0)20-7848-2861 (Dept Office)

Co-Director of MA in Digital Asset 
Managementhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/madam/
DDH research and teaching: my personal 
pagehttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/core/tanner/index.aspx

[MCN-L] New bloggage - owning your museum

[Tanner, Simon]

New bloggage addressing how children can feel a sense of ownership of a museum. 
Mentioning (with video) the Glasgow museum open storage space, the VA and 
Science Museum.

http://simon-tanner.blogspot.com/2012/03/owning-your-museum.html

Comments welcomed.

All my best,
Simon

Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and 
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.ukhttp://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
Twitter: @SimonTannerhttp://twitter.com/#!/SimonTanner
Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct)   +44(0)20-7848-2861 (Dept Office)

Co-Director of MA in Digital Asset 
Managementhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/madam/
DDH research and teaching: my personal 
pagehttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/core/tanner/index.aspx

[MCN-L] Examples of successful spending on web initiatives

[Tanner, Simon]

Try the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Best (from train)
Simon


- Original Message -
From: Adam Carrier [mailto:acarr...@marinersmuseum.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 04:29 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Examples of successful spending on web initiatives

Hello all:

I've been trying to find some museum case studies or specific examples where
deliberate spending on web design and/or social media has resulted in
expanded audiences (e.g., larger number of followers/friends/contributors;
more hits and comments from abroad; more research/loan/reproduction
requests; etc.). I'm trying to draw some informed conclusions about how
intelligent spending on web initiatives can contribute to reaching more
people and retaining their interest.



I'm familiar with and looking forward to Culture24's final report on
evaluating online success. This was discussed at Museums and the Web 2011:
http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/how_to_evaluate_online_success_a_new_piece_of_



Does anyone have a specific example or read something where a cultural
institution expanded their audience using a web initiative?



Thanks for any insight you can provide,



*Adam Carrier*

*Digital Media Technician*



The Mariners? Museum

100 Museum Drive

Newport News, Virginia  23606

Phone (757) 952-0431

Fax (757) 591-7319

acarrier at MarinersMuseum.org



www.MarinersMuseum.org

*America?s National Maritime Museum*

[MCN-L] Video from MCN's Great Debate

[Tanner, Simon]

Many thanks Susan.

This is genuinely a brilliant idea, fabulously executed by all concerned 
and the video is very much appreciated by those of us who could not make 
it this year.

Congratulations! Let's post this widely (I am doing this now) so people 
outside the MCN bubble can see what a special event these confs are.

Regards,
Simon

On 29/11/2010 21:06, Susan Chun wrote:
 This year, the MCN conference's closing plenary was a formal debate, 
 featuring two teams of debaters considering topics of broad interest to the 
 museum community.

 Our debate propositions and teams were:

 1. Museums that are not run as businesses will ultimately fail.
 For the motion: Erin Coburn and Rob Stein; against the motion: Nancy Proctor 
 and Bruce Wyman

 2. Engagement with online visitors is as important as engagement with those 
 on site.
 For the motion: Rob Stein and Len Steinbach; against the motion: Beck Tench 
 and Bruce Wyman

 The debates were hard fought, sharply argued, and lots of fun. For those of 
 you who weren't able to be there, Rich Cherry's team at the Balboa Park 
 Online Collaborative captured and edited the event. Thanks to Rich for 
 arranging the videotaping, to Scott Granger for the video capture, and to 
 Chris Borkowski--BPOC's newest staff member--for editing the footage. A 
 four-minute digest of the event has been posted on the MCN website at: 
 http://www.mcn.edu/great-debate

 One of my favorite aspects of the debate was the participation of the 
 audience. Audience members not only voted for the winners (the speakers who 
 persuaded the most people to change their minds during the course of the 
 debate*), but also asked really smart, thoughtful, and relevant questions 
 during the event's cross-examination section. The digest version of the 
 debate doesn't include the audience questions, but a full-length video, which 
 will be posted shortly, does.

 Thanks to our debaters for their fearlessness, preparedness, and wit--and 
 their willingness, in some cases, to debate a position that they didn't 
 necessarily agree with! Thanks, too, to everyone who attended, added to the 
 discussion with questions, and took place in the voting.

 *For the record, the winners of the debates were Erin and Rob, arguing the 
 affirmative side of the proposition, Museums that are not run as businesses 
 will ultimately fail, and Beck and Bruce, arguing the negative side of the 
 proposition, Engagement with online visitors is as important as engagement 
 with those on site.






-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship - the value and benefits of digitised resources]

[Tanner, Simon]

From:   Alastair Dunning a.dunn...@jisc.ac.uk


The UK's JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, supporting the use
of ICT in Higher and Further Education) has recently released a new
report, Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship, looking at the value
and impact of digitised resources. Written by Simon Tanner of King?s
College London, it considers four broad areas in which the creation of
digitised resources have has a significant impact.



http://bit.ly/9NjGw6 (pdf file)



The four themes are



*Inspiring Research*

Digitised resources not only improves access but enable new types of
research to be asked, such as the Data Mining with Criminal Intent
project that is based on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 -
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/



*Bestowing Economic Benefits*

The digitisation of journals, such as the Wellcome Trust Medical Journal
Backfiles project, provides free and immediate access for scientists.
One digitised journal, the Biochemical Journal, receives over 300,000
uses a month -
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/medicaljournals.aspx



*Connecting People and Communities*

Resources such as Great War Archive, gathering digitised memorabilia
from World War One, not only provide new material for scholars, but
enable new communities and expertise to be developed outside the campus
walls - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/



*Digital Britain*

Digitising some of Britain?s special collections not only provides new
data for educators and learners around the world, but also for a greater
appreciation of the nation?s ?prize jewels?; examples include the Freeze
Frame collection of polar photographs, or the Old Weather resource for
measuring and transcribing weather reports in Naval logbooks -
http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/,
http://www.oldweather.org/



More JISC-supported content is available via http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/



Alastair





Alastair Dunning

JISC Digitisation Programme Manager

t: 0203 006 6065

What content has JISC funded? - See http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] OCR Software

[Tanner, Simon]

Hi Kate,

I would recommend you have a look at this freely available report from 
our website:

Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible (PDF document)

Document created for the Oxford University Digital Library to introduce 
character recognition techniques. The document illuminates the key 
factors in designing a text capture method and provides advice to 
digitisation projects on how to approach a text capture project and how 
the various mechanisms of scanning and text capture fit together.
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation.html

Personally I find FineReader Professional (not the lite versions) to be 
a pretty good all rounder that facilitates most purposes.

All my best,
Simon
-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
http://api.twitter.com/#!/SimonTanner

Richard Urban wrote:
 On behalf of Kate Blanch
 
 From: Kate Blanch kblanch at thewalters.org
 Date: October 18, 2010 9:05:21 AM CDT
 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Subject: RE: OCR Software

 Hi all, I?m seeking recommendations for OCR software that colleagues have 
 had had good luck with.


 We are seeking to use OCR software and a document scanner to aid us in 
 cataloging both historical and modern conservation and exhibition materials. 
 I anticipate a lower success rate with the older materials and the 
 handwritten materials, which is not a deal breaker, but I?d like the OCR to 
 at least have handwriting recognition. We?re planning on scanning to PDF 
 format and wanting to extract text from the PDF (but scanning to TIFF or 
 another format is also an option). There is so much out there by way of 
 open-source or proprietary software, we?d consider either. Any 
 feedback/advice would be much appreciated! 

 Thanks, Kate

 Kate Blanch
 Administrator, Museum Databases
 kblanch at thewalters.org / 410.547.9000 ext. 266 
 The Walters Art Museum
 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201
 \www.thewalters.org
 Checkmate! Medieval People at Play July 17?October 10
 Great Illustrations: Books and Drawings from the Walters? Collection July 
 31?October 24
 Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic September 19, 2010?January 
 2, 2011

[MCN-L] Jane Austen Manuscripts Online

[Tanner, Simon]

One of our CCH projects just went live:

http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html

Thought you'd like it and want to share it.

Jane Austen?s fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of 
holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent 
every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: 
working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private 
circulation. The manuscripts were held in a single collection until 
1845, when at her sister Cassandra?s death they were dispersed among 
family members, with a second major dispersal, to public institutions 
and private collections, in the 1920s Digitization enables their virtual 
reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to 
make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and 
conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of 
Austen?s working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected 
area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry.

Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has 
long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. Digitization 
at this stage in their lives not only offers the opportunity for the 
virtual reunification of a key manuscript resource, it will also be 
accompanied by a record in as complete a form as possible of the 
conservation history and current material state of these manuscripts to 
assist their future conservation.

The digital edition will include in the first instance all Jane Austen?s 
known fiction manuscripts and any ancillary materials held with them.

Best,
 Simon
-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] MCN 2010: Plea to the Program Committee

[Tanner, Simon]

Can I add my support to Alan's ideas.

Simon Tanner
King's College London


- Original Message -
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Tue Jan 26 20:27:48 2010
Subject: [MCN-L]  MCN 2010: Plea to the Program Committee

Dear Colleagues,

I?ve enjoyed participating in MCN conferences as a presenter, a workshop
giver, a listener, a former board member, etc. for at least 25 years (don?t
tell anyone). Always I?ve learned helpful information that I brought home
and applied.

I had a great time in Portland but I also felt frustrated that I missed a
lot when I was on a panel and maybe Sam or Chuck or Mike were in another
room on their panel. By running 5 tracks for fewer than 200 attendees there
are too many competitive slots, often on similar subjects, that splinter the
community.  I know program planning is not easy and those thankless folks
that do this give their valuable personal time without much reward.

Can we find a way in 2010 to have a max of three tracks and be more
selective about what we show and tell?

All best for 2010,
Alan

-- 
Alan Newman
Chief, Digital Imaging  Visual Services
National Gallery of Art

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[MCN-L] Public Consultation on Web Archiving

[Tanner, Simon]

Dear All (with apologies for cross postings),

For the last 4 years I have been a member of the Legal Deposit Advisory
Panel that advises UK Govt (DCMS) on matters relating to the 
implementation of the 2003 Legal Deposit Act. During that time I have 
been Chair of the Web Archiving sub-committee. We made recommendations 
for regulation to the DCMS a while ago and here is the resultant public 
consultation.

This is very much the UK Govt's document now, we are but advisors. But 
the public consultation is an important step on the road to getting Web
Archiving supported by legal frameworks, so your response is critical to
these next stages as it affects us all.

So please read the following email from DCMS, pass it on to friends and
colleagues and respond.

Best regards,
Simon
++

The Department for Culture Media and Sport has launched a consultation
on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications
which are available free of charge and without access restrictions.  The
Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 allows for publications to be deposited
with Trinity College, Dublin (subject to provisions in Section 13),
which is why we are seeking responses from interested parties in the
Republic of Ireland as well as the UK.

Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit
copies of their printed publications to the British Library and, on
their request, the other deposit libraries (the National Library of
Scotland; the National Library of Wales; the Bodleian Library, Oxford;
the University Library, Cambridge; and the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin) so that they can to be preserved for the benefit of future
generations and become part of the national heritage.

This consultation sets out recommendations provided by the Legal Deposit
Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State for Culture on the legal
deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications.

The consultation will be of interest to professional and amateur writers
who are the author of online publications that are available to the
public free of charge and accessible without restriction.

Further information, including the consultation document (a Welsh
language version will be available shortly), can be found on the DCMS
website:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6506.aspx.

Please respond before the closing date of 01 March 2010 using the
questionnaire at Annex G of the document, to
deposits.consultation at culture.gsi.gov.uk.  If you do not have access to
e mail, please respond to:

Frances Love Libraries and Archives Team, Culture Directorate 2-4
Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5DH

For enquiries about the consultation (handling) process only please
contact the DCMS Public Engagement and Recognition Unit (PERU) at the
above address or email using the form at www.culture.gov.uk/contact_us
heading your communication ?Proposal on the Collection and Preservation
of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications,
which are available free of charge and without access restrictions?.

Please forward this email to anyone you know who will be interested in
this consultation.

Many thanks.

Department for Culture Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London
SW1Y 5DH
http://www.culture.gov.uk/

-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] Archiving2010 Call for Papers - Deadline Reminder

[Tanner, Simon]

We invite you to submit your abstracts for Archiving 2010 to be held 
June 1-4 in Den Haag (The Hague), the Netherlands, by the *December 13, 
2009 deadline*.  

 

A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at 
http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/index.cfm


The IST Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of 
imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records 
management, and information technology institutions to discuss and 
explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. 
Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, 
governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents 
the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore 
new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can 
serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2010 is a blend of invited 
focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display 
presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and 
interactive presentations by the December 13^th deadline.

 

Proposed program topics include:

? *Creating and Managing Digital Collections*

* User needs and access to digital collections
* Large scale collection management
* Building economically sustainable collections: business models and
  case studies
* Collection development in a digital context: Strategies for
  selecting and archiving digital content
* Strategies for selecting and archiving specific kinds of digital
  content
* Modes of image discovery and access
* Intellectual Property Rights: compliance with copyright law and policy

 

? *Technical Processes: Imaging and Workflow*

* Efficient digitization workflows
* Image capture and quality assurance
* Metadata and data retrieval
* Color management
* Compression: JPEG2000 and other formats
* Optimizing technical processes, including image acquisition

 

? *Long Term Access Strategies*

oReliable storage solutions**

oArchival formats (e.g., PDF/A, JPEG2000, Open XML, RAW)**

oRepository models**

oMicrofilm as a storage solution**

oDigital curation education and training**

oTools, services, and resources for use in a distributed environment

 

Save precious travel time and resources by increasing the value of your 
investment in Archiving 2010 by also attending the IOP Printing and 
Graphics Science Group and the Materials and the Arts Research Centre of 
the University of the Arts, London, conference for digital 
photographers, printers, and conservators.

The 4^th International Conference on Preservation and Conservation 
Issues in Digital Printing and Digital Photography will be held May 
27-28, 2010, in London, UK. More information can be found at 
www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2010.
*
*Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

 

Best regards,

Diana Gonzalez

IST Conference Program Manager

archiving2010 at imaging.org

703/642-9090 x 106

 

[MCN-L] DIGITAL FUTURES ACADEMY 2010

[Tanner, Simon]

DIGITAL FUTURES ACADEMY 2010

We are are pleased to announce the Digital Futures Academy 5 day
training event:

Digital Futures Academy: Sydney, Australia.
1st - 5th February 2010

Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery, London,UK
19th - 23rd April 2010

Book early as places are limited and early bird discounts are available!

http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/


Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation,
delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory
institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and
other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage, media and
cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management
issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to
delivery.


Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:
   o Planning and management
   o Fund raising
   o Understanding the audience
   o Metadata - introduction and implementation
   o Copyright and intellectual property
   o Sustainability
   o Financial issues
   o Visual and image based resource creation and delivery
   o Implementing digital resources
   o Digital preservation

Sydney highlights:
There will be visits to the State Library, NSW and the Powerhouse Museum
to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations.

London highlights:
The visits will be tot he National Gallery and The National Archives to
see behind the scenes and gain expert advice and presentations.


Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate
will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital
Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will
issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.


The Digital Futures leaders are:

* Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's
College London   http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

* Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis
http://www.lyrasis.org/

The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm
between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of
expertise.


What past delegates say about Digital Futures:

* Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a
digitization program

* The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable.

* Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you.

* A really useful course and great fun too!


Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in
co-operation with Lyrasis, USA.   Digital Futures Australasia is made
possible with the co-operation of the Library of the University of
Technology, Sydney.

-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] Costing and funding digitisation projects Executive briefing

[Tanner, Simon]

More and more libraries are working on digitisation projects - are you 
one of them?

If so CILIP's Costing and funding digitisation projects Executive 
Briefing on 26 March is a must-attend event.

The expert panel of speakers will share their experience and expertise. 
  During the day delegates will be provided with key information to 
enable them to better assess the prospects of their digitisation 
projects, and the pitfalls and opportunities in gaining funding.

The full programme, details of the speakers, and registration can be 
found at: www.cilip.org.uk/digitalcosting


-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] Digital Futures Academy 2009: London - places still available

[Tanner, Simon]

Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery

* London, UK:   27th April - 1st May 2009


King's College London is pleased to confirm there are still places 
available on the Digital Futures 5-day training event.
http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/

Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the
creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural
and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at
managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and
cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management
issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:

o Planning and management
o Fund raising
o Understanding the audience
o Metadata - introduction and implementation
o Copyright and intellectual property
o Sustainability
o Financial issues
o Visual and image based resource creation and delivery
o Implementing digital resources
o Digital preservation

There will be visits to 2 institutions to see behind the scenes and
receive expert presentations. For Digital Futures London this will be
the National Gallery and The National Archives.

Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate
will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital
Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them.
Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.

The Digital Futures leaders are:

* Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's
College London
* Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, PALINET

The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm
between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of
expertise.

What past delegates say about Digital Futures:

* Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a 
digitization program
* The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable.
* Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you.
* Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience.
* A really useful course and great fun too!


Digital Futures London

Cost: ?840 (VAT not charged, excludes accommodation)
Venue: King's College London
Dates: 27th April - 1st May 2009
Register: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digireg.htm

Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in
co-operation with PALINET, USA.


-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Email: kdcs at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] Favorite e-commerce system

[Tanner, Simon]

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if people would be willing to share their favoirte 
e-commerce systems and providers?

This could be the shopping cart software, or the electronic funds 
transfer system or a bespoke provider of a turn key solution.

But what is your favorite (and why would be nice)?

Any answers not posted to the list I will provide as a digest.

Many thanks for your help.

Happy New Year!

Simon
-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

[MCN-L] FW: RESPONSES: Low-cost digitization rig

[Tanner, Simon]

First up - there are several single button solutions out there already 
(and many that deliver something more useful than PDF - like structured 
XML). So why build another mouse trap?

Secondly, I wrote a handbook on cost reduction for digitisation for 
Minerva: see here:
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/costreduction.htm

The problem is not the technology/software it is the labour and person 
hours required. Any time human intervention is required the costs go up.

A real problem for museums is that a very large proportion of their 
materials require some form of special handling. So the costs of 
removing the item from its preservation enclosure and getting it to the 
scan mechanism and then replacing it in its preservation mechanism far 
outweighs the cost of pressing the button to image the thing.

I have set up dozens of point and click solutions that are extremely 
easy to use or are automated page turning solutions. The staffing issue 
never goes away though and is still the defining cost issue. One very 
well known institution has automated page turning scanners with staff 
sat watching it do its job to ensure it doesn't foul up - this seemingly 
nonsensical approach necessitated by the nature of the core materials. 
Google bookscan (anecdotally) is rejecting 3-5% of library books from 
its mass digitisation program purely on format and condition - so 
automated imaging is never a 100% solution.

The other real problem is that many of the collections are under 
catalogued and to make the digital objects useful then requires high 
amounts of human intervention for adding metadata. There is thus a 
dichotomy in being able to deliver far more images than can be 
effectively managed and described in ways that add value to the content 
and context. So unless the content is text driven and self describing 
(which pretty much means science and newspaper type content only) then 
there is are a lot of metadata costs around this.

I want significant amounts of content to be available online and for 
large scale digitisation to happen - I have worked on many such 
projects. What I think there is too much focus upon is the technology 
will save us thinking about these issues. It is only a partial solution 
and to raise it to the level of panacea is a mistake.

PS. all our research shows that the long tail economic model does not 
apply very well to museum collections - hence my scepticism.

Best,
Simon Tanner
King's College London

akeshet at imj.org.il wrote:
 I've been following this discussion, and for what it's worth, I must say that 
 I fully support those
 who have emphasized the labor issues.  There's no lack of software (or 
 hardware) solutions.  The REAL
 problem is capable manpower, and what it costs.  That goes for museums of any 
 size.
 
 The one-button, anyone can do it idea is usually misleading. Before and 
 after that for dummies methodology can be used, a lot of professional staff 
 has to do a lot of work -- there is a huge labor bottleneck involved in any 
 project of this kind.  That costs time and money, and that is the real 
 problem in search of a funding solution.
 
 
 Amalyah Keshet
 Head of Image Resources  Copyright Management
 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
 
 
 
 
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu on behalf of Cherry, Rich
 Sent: Fri 08/08/2008 00:49
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] RESPONSES: Low-cost digitization rig
 
 I think your answers address some of the labor issues but not all.  I
 don't want to sound like I am against this (as I am not) but I think
 there are some major practical issues that cannot be addressed with
 interns and volunteers in most cases:
 
 Who leads the project (gets the institution behind it, finds the free
 labor source, finds space, organizes tasks and manages a schedule)?
 Who selects the material?
 Who moves the material to the location for scanning (is the free labor a
 security issue?)?
 Who reviews the material to see if there are copyright issues?
 Who proofs the final product to see if errors were made?
 Where will the product live when the funding for online archives
 disappears?
 If there is no cataloging for access other than the OCR is the only use
 a huge repository of unconnected individual pages or if its books and
 collections who catalogs them and connects them?
 
 I think some institutions will find a way to accomplish the tasks above
 and I think that the product described below would help them but my
 guess is that if they can get the buy in required to expend the effort
 listed above that very few would be stopped because of the software
 being a little expensive or hard to use.
 
 To put it another way:  I don't think there are a lot of institutions
 sitting on the fence waiting for a low cost software solution to the
 problem.  They are trying to figure out the challenges listed above.
 
 I do think that the online archive piece might move a few