[MCN-L] Digital recorder for teacher/classroom use
I've never worked with the myself -- but I've head GREAT things about the ease and usability of the Flip Video Cameras. and Tech Soup is offering a two-for bundle, -- two cameras for $175 (normally they're about $150 each). See: http://home.techsoup.org/stock/pages/category.aspx?category=FlipVideo - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: James Keeline keel...@yahoo.com To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 12:05 pm Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital recorder for teacher/classroom use Last July my wife and I organized and hosted a successful convention to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Tom Swift series of books about a young inventor. The first five stories were published in 1910 and since that year there have been 105 books in five series. The first three of these series were produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, also responsible for Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys among many others. As part of this convention we produced two live performances based on a book from each of the first two series. Tom Swift and His Airship was from 1910 and public domain. Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X was from 1961 and in the public domain because the owner failed to renew the copyright. The shows had voice actors from San Diego's WriteOutLoud (http://writeoutloudsd.com) and the script, direction, and sound effects were accomplished by the talented and resourceful Scott Paulson (http://ScottPaulson.info). Scott engages in performances like these to provide sound effects for stage performances like the recent It's a Wonderful Life at the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town San Diego for the Christmas season. In this version, the performance is a 1940s-era radio show with a live audience, voice actors who step up to the vintage-looking microphones, and Scott as sound effects artist on the side of the stage. He has also provided sound effects and movies for silent films through his Teeny Tiny Pit Orchestra. Recently these have been shown at New Village Arts in Carlsbad in the northern part of San Diego county. In these, as with many of his performances, he gets the audience involved by passing out noise makers and then gives direction to how and when to use them in the program. Some of these are cheap items which can be given away and others are vintage sound machines that he collects at the end of the performance. In our Tom Swift and His Airship show, bubble wrap was used for gunshots and cellophane for crackling fire. As usual, he also had machines that made ratchet sounds and other devices for use in the program. Here are a few clips to give an idea of how this worked: 2008 clip about Scott discussing sound effects devices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szyht9jc8PE Tom Swift and His Airship performance at UCSD library http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88EuLHIfWg The performances of Airship and Visitor from Planet X were highlights of our convention. Looking at your project, it appears that you initially asked for an audio recorder to gather the sounds and build your performance. Of course, many phones, including the iPhone, come with voice recorder apps which are fairly effective and save files in .WAV format. This is useful because it is not compressed at this stage and easier to edit with free tools like Audacity. Another device I own which could work in this fashion is a voice recorder. Mine is an RCA model number RP5030A. It was purchased at Fry's Electronics some years ago so I don't know what the current offerings are. It also stores audio in .WAV format. For my purposes, one of the key features is that the USB plug that connects to the computer. It shows up as a USB mass storage device on my computer (Mac) so I can simply copy the files over and then use them in an editing program like iMovie or Audacity. Probably Garage Band could be used on the Mac as well if that is available. Some voice recorders have a limited frequency response so it may be well to look into this. Looking at the offerings of Frys today on Voice Recorders I see one in the $30 range that saves files as .MP3 (a compressed format which loses some data) but it does use USB so the key would be whether it shows up as a mass storage device or requires special software. In the community which is interested in sounds for model railroad layouts, they generally recommend using a video camera for audio recordings. The quality is often sufficiently good and the devices are more generally available than dedicated audio recorders. The additional advantage is that you get to see the source of the sound and this can help with identifying clips. It could also be a benefit to the participants and their families to see them actually performing
[MCN-L] Using old postcards to create new souvenirs: copyright?
According to this website: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm ANYTHING published Before 1923 is in the public domain - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Pandora Mather-Lees pandor...@hotmail.com To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 10:04 am Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Using old postcards to create new souvenirs: copyright? Hello You probably know that the photographer may not still be alive but the rights will continue for 70 years after the end of the year of his or her death. When Bridgeman Art Library accesses this type of material from our museums and we are unsure (often they have little information to give us) we usually flag up the image as 'copyright status unknown' and we would certainly do this for anything post 1900. Sometimes you can track the rights through the photographic studio if there is a stamp there. At least this way our clients are aware that there is some risk. With very old photographs, we would usually take the decision to display them on our website however. Hope that helps, Pandora Mather-Lees, MD, Bridgeman Education From: FThomson at ashevilleart.org To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:30:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Using old postcards to create new souvenirs: copyright? There are occasionally contemporary publishers that also assert copyright over vintage postcards that were published by companies they have bought out. We have so local postcards from around 1900 that a company claims copyrights over. Frank Thomson, Curator Asheville Art Museum PO Box 1717 2 South Pack Square Asheville, NC 28802 828.253.3227 tel 828.257.4503 fax fthomson at ashevilleart.org www.ashevilleart.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Stephanie Weaver Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:00 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Using old postcards to create new souvenirs: copyright? Hi MCN, I know many of you deal with copyright so wanted to ask for your input. One of my clients would like to create new postcards from historic postcards of their site that they have collected or purchased (but not accessioned). At what point do mass-produced images become public domain? The original postcards are from the 1920s-1940s. Copies of these postcards are most likely in collections in our local historical society. Thanks, I appreciate you sharing your expertise. Best, Stephanie Weaver Visitor experience consultant experienceology: Because happy visitors return. San Diego, CA Skype: experienceology E-news: http://www.experienceology.com/newsletter/ For information on our book, blog, podcast, upcoming classes, and e-news, visit www.experienceology.com or follow me on twitter.com/experienceology. See samples of my classes here: www.youtube.com/experienceology. Watch the free archived version of my class on the visitor experience here: http://bit.ly/NlunE Upcoming presentations: Interpretation Canada online conference: November 30, 2010 Hawai'i Museums Association: January 2011 (TBD) Past presentations: Palo Alto Art Center: October 2010 Western Museums Association: October 2010 Heard Museum Phoenix Zoo: October 2010 Downey City Library: August 2010 American Association of Museums: May 2010 Tijuana Estuary docent training: April 2010 UCLA Extension: January 2010 ___ 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] Best YouTube practices
Ari, I am not a YouTube expert - so I'll be eager to hear any other replies... but on our YouTube Channel we have created play lists -- a group of four or six videos that are then grouped together and can be played one right after the other. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/arfminfo#p/p I have found some helpful advice here in the YouTube Handbook and the Creator's Corner http://www.youtube.com/t/creators_corner http://www.youtube.com/t/yt_handbook_home And - lastly - community Forums are here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube?hl=en - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Ari Davidow aridavi...@gmail.com To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 12:17 pm Subject: [MCN-L] Best YouTube practices We have been putting video up on YouTube this past year. Our channel consists primarily of those uploads, along with some favorited fellow-traveler videos. Things are at the point where it seems like it would be good to do more linkages between some of the videos--put them into the equivalent of flickr sets or collections, for instance. Does YouTube have such tools (beyond the use of folksonomic tagging, which I assume matters, but can also be pretty generic)? I am thinking about a way to link several videos from one concert, or conference, or department, or whatever. While I am at it, does YouTube have forums for the people uploading video--the equivalent of the flickr forums? I haven't found such so far, but I starting at no knowledge. 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://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Online Photo Sharing
Travis, For what you want to do - why not consider some sorta file-sharing website? There are many out there. The one we use is Drop Box -- https://www.dropbox.com They allow 2GB free storage, easy file transfers, and even create thumbnails and gallery views for photos uploaded into your special Photos folder. - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Travis Fullerton tfuller...@vmfa.state.va.us To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 12:07 pm Subject: [MCN-L] Online Photo Sharing Sorry for the cross-posting (but, we should all be used to it by now...) Hi all. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with using online photo sharing websites such Shutterfly, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, or the like to share and distribute publicity and event images internally. We don?t have a DAMs set up that can be accessed by multiple users (yet) and we are looking for a simple and cheap solution for allowing image users to browse publicity images that are ?fresh? and available. We would have about a dozen people that would need private access. People like publications, marketing, education, and web would be the primary users. Any comments, advise, or anecdotes are welcome... -Travis -- Travis Fullerton Assistant Photographer, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220 804.340.1538 ___ 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] Photography releases
Eric -- I found it interesting to note that visitors entering the Civil War Days event at the Naper Settlement Museum in Naperville Illinois were offered a flier with the bold heading Attention all Photographers. This hand-bill invited visitors to submit (donate) a disk of their photos to the museum (along with an attached photo release) in exchange for a one-year family membership. I thought it was an interesting way to gather hundreds of images, and engage the crowd. - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Eric Johnson ejohn...@monticello.org To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 10:49 am Subject: [MCN-L] Photography releases Hi, all-- We were curious about how people are handling a couple of photo-release-related situations these days: 1.) Does your institution have a formal policy concerning the use of photography of visitors for promotional purposes (i.e. marketing or advertising)? Do you always, sometimes, never use photo releases? 2.) How do you reconcile that with the opportunities that Facebook or other social media provides to showcase visitors or events at your institution? Do you consider such images editorial and thus put them up without signed releases or do you get such releases there, too? We've been asked to gather best practices, but I'm almost more interested in focusing not only on what other organizations do but on what the best practices are from a legal perspective. In other words, I'm interested not just in the letter but the spirit of the law. Any and all thoughts on these matters are very welcome! Thanks, --E. Eric D. M. Johnson New Media Specialist Monticello P.O. Box 316 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Phone: (434) 984-7570 | Fax: (434) 977-6140 http://www.monticello.org/ ejohnson at monticello.orgmailto:ejohnson at monticello.org ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Reggae Video
Try searching on http://www.archive.org; - they'll undoubtedly have something -- and best part is most of it's in the public domain. - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Michele Miller miche...@seattleartmuseum.org To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 4:46 pm Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Reggae Video Contact John Seman, Curator of Audio Archives at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Cherry Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 2:42 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Reggae Video MCN'rs, Wondering if any of you have access to or knowledge of any significant archives of Reggae video. Rich Rich Cherry Director Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plz San Diego, CA 92101 B: (619) 819-8331 F: (619) 819-8230 rcherry at balboaparkonline.orgmailto:rcherry at balboaparkonline.org ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ 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] Form submission software and time-lapse video
In answer to the first question You might look at and play around with Google Documents as an inexpensive (FREE!) solution.?? They have pretty good integration between Gmail, Google Docs (with a spread sheet and a simple form creating template). I've mussed around enough to know that it probably CAN be done, but not enough to know exactly how to do it -- good luck.?? *smile* - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Richard Urban rjur...@illinois.edu To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 7:46 pm Subject: [MCN-L] Form submission software and time-lapse video Begin forwarded message: Hello MCN-L, I have a couple unrelated questions I would like to throw out to the List. First, we in the Photo Department at VMFA are looking for some sort of form submission solution. Currently, requests for photography from the museum staff come to us on paper. We are looking for a software solution, in a box (via intranet) or web-based, that will allow our internal staff to digitally submit requests for photography from their own computers. It would be ideal if these forms could be exported into a spreadsheet like Excel. Another perk would be if the form submission system would allow tracking, so that we can acknowledge receipt of the request and acknowledge=2 0 completion. We do not currently have a museum-wide digital asset management system, though I know some of the ?enterprise? systems allow this feature. We are looking for recommendations, if anyone has any, for systems, packages, or web-based systems that would allow this sort of online form submission and tracking that would be separate from an asset management system. Secondly, we are looking for recommendations for inexpensive digital video cameras that have a time-lapse capture feature. If anyone is using anything to accomplish these sort of videos, we would appreciate hearing about what you are using. We are looking specifically for small, light, and inexpensive camera systems for documenting installations and construction. Thanks in advance... Travis Fullerton Assistant Photographer Photography Department Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007 T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548 travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum www.vmfa.museum ___ 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] Titles
It's probably not what you're looking for -- but I've used the title webguy.?? The word WebMASTER seemed to sever, and it implied a mastery of skills that I simply didn't have at the time I took over management of the organization's website (I learned on-the-job by trial and error).??? - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum (and webguy for several websites) www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Anna Holloway Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:18 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Titles Perian - Our person who does the webmistressy stuff holds the title 'Programs and Multimedia Specialist.' That adds a lot of syllables to a title - but seemed to sum up what she does. ~anna Anna Holloway, Vice President, Collections Programs The Mariners' Museum 757-591-7740 757-591-7312 (fax) The USS Monitor Center - Now Open!!! An Ironclad Promise of Adventure visit us at www.marinersmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:02 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Titles Hello, fellow techs! I've been struggling over this for a couple of weeks now and I'm not getting anywhere. I'm being promoted to Collections Information Manager and I'm also taking over the website. Even though I'll be doing the basic webmistressy stuff, I'll also be involved with digital strategy and thinking about how we can use web technologies to promote our mission. Since many of us on staff have multiple roles, I'll be allowed to have a double title, Collections Information Manager and under that, this other title. I don't feel that Webmistress or Webmaster is descriptive enough, so I'm not entirely comfortable with it. Does anyone here deal with website management and strategy? What is your title? Are you happy with it? Please reply to me offlist. Thanks! 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 ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l * The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. * ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
[MCN-L] Do you use icontact?
Oh -- good question. Haven't heard of iContact, most folks around here are using Constant Contact. From what I can gather all these programs are pretty similar, though iContact looks to be a tad cheaper for non-profits (they offer a 20% discount vs. Constant Contact's 15%). I'd love to have a comparison of both, along with any other web-based e-mail list management software.. - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Julia Baldini jbald...@windsorhistoricalsociety.org To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Fri, 9 May 2008 9:48 am Subject: [MCN-L] Do you use icontact? Our small museum is looking into using icontact for email blasts and we are wondering if anyone has used this before, or have any comments on it. Thanks! Julia Baldini Windsor Historical Society ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
[MCN-L] Kiosks - Macs vs. all-in-one CF media players
Greetings all -- I'm a new subscriber here. I spent a bit of time perusing the archives (fun topics) but didn't specifically find this query addressed, so I tought I'd bring it up. We are in the final stages of fabricating free-standing exhibit kiosks. All total there will be five separate kiosks (on per each time period of the exhibit). Each kiosk will house artifacts, interactives, and exhibit text, and a computer/media-player element.My question is about this media-player Initially I envisioned using a free-standing computer. I'm a Mac person so I was considering a Mac Mini or a iMac, (perhaps with a touch-screen), and using a web browser operating in a kiosk-mode. My exhibit fabricator is strongly suggesting we use a self contained, compact flash media-player (he's recommending one of the Medeawiz all-in-one players). He's arguing that a media player is easier to program, less maintenance, and less expensive than a free-standing computer. The proposed content on the player would primarily be video (visitors would select one of four or six videos) but it would be nice to have the flexibility to have vistors select/view additional exhibit text, photographs, perhaps some accessions data, etc The web-browser scheme gives me the ultimate in flexibility, I'd present the content as web-pages but then I do see the advantages of a CF player. Questions - 1. Has anyone played with the Medeawiz players? Can it handle non-video content such as text pages or photographs? I'm downloaded the user manual (fairly spartan) and I see it has a 600x800 pixel touch-screen and can handle multiple tracks. If I wanted to display five or ten photos (and have visitors click though them one-at-a-time) would I load each photo as a different track? Is there a means to have visitors scroll though photos/text, (using a scroll-bar or perhaps pages with arrows, hyper-links, whatever) or would the photos/text/slide-show need to be converted to a video file? 2. I noticed the thread in the MCN-L archive about the Brooklyn Museum having a Firefox kiosk browser -- does that work on a Mac, (I fear not!?) Anyone have a Mac web-browser with a good (easy to use) kiosk mode?A year or two ago I stumbled upon iCab (www.icab.de) and it looked like it'd do the trick -- has anyone played with it? 3. As it stands now, for each kiosk we're specing a small (all-in-one) player/touch screen, and then adding a second larger slave monitor for other visitors (family groups) to view the content.Anyone have any thoughts about that?Would one (mid-sized) touch screen be better than one small input device and a second larger slave monitor? 4. I haven't dealt much with touch-screens, is there much maintenance/re-calibration that needs to be done to the Medeawiz player screens? Assuming we go with the free-standing computer option, are touch screens fairly easy to connect and program to a Mac? Is Elo Touch the brand that everyone would recommend? And if going with the free-standing computer option, should we dump the touch-screen concept all together and go think about a trackball? Any suggestions will be gleefuly accepted.Looking forward to participating on the list! - David - David Lewis, curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools
Perian, For those Macintosh folks in your audience, I know that the (free) version of iPhoto allows easy/direct uploads to your Flickr account, and I believe that all the meta-data will be transferred as well. What I haven't found is an easy way to import meta-data into iPhoto Though I haven't played around with it all that much. Not to hijack your thread, but what I'm curious about is exporting meta-data -- specifically tags and such -- that users might have added. For example... If we upload a collection with an assortment of unidentified people, places, events, and then have a pool of volunteers identify them, how can this information be mined back out of Flickr and added to a photos data-file? Wish I were closer - would be interested to hear your program. Would you consider sharing any notes, outline, etc. that you might have? - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -Original Message- From: Perian Sully psu...@magnes.org To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 5:38 pm Subject: Re: [MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools Many thanks to everyone who responded to my query. Once I started researching it, it seemed very strange to me that there would be no tool available to do what I was asking, OR take the data and embed it into the IPTC fields. I know lots of photographers and artists use FileMaker or Excel to catalog their assets, without using Bridge or Lightroom to edit the files upon creation. Unfortunately, I have no PHP skills, or familiarity with working with APIs, so I can't really build a solution myself. Apparently, there's some way to use Extensis Portfolio to import csv, tab-delimited, or Excel files into the IPTC fields of the images, but I don't have the funds to explore that option. I'm going to look into some of the open-source DAMS to see if they have that functionality. I also contacted John Fox to see if his software, Memory Miner (which we currently use to organize and upload our previously-undescribed assets into Flickr - http://www.memoryminer.com ) can import data via a csv. He's looking into it and doesn't think it would be that difficult to do. Chris, I'll check with your friend Brian and check it out. That sounds like a promising lead! The reasoning beyond all of this is that I want to get all of our collection assets into Flickr soon, and I'm giving a presentation next week at the CAM conference about using Flickr as a quick-n-dirty means for increasing access to collections. I'd love to have a handy solution right at hand to tell people exactly how to do it (beyond copy-paste). Best, ~Perian Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA ___ 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/
