[MCN-L] PDF standard to be released to ISO

Hi all, Perhaps of interest to many on mcn-l, Adobe announced yesterday that it will release the PDF specification for submission to the ISO for maintenance as an open standard. This is good news re: long-term sustainability for all of us who have used it over the years as a vendor-maintained

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 5

Seth; you might want to ask these questions in two other places as well. The Fluid project (www.fluidproject.org) is a multi-institutional, multinational collaboration to improve usability and the Web experience. Its primary focus is on open source projects, but its value extends beyond that, and

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

WordPress 3.0 is due out 5/1/10 - the alpha is out and very impressive, public beta will be 3/15/10. As mentioned the main changes are the merge with WP MU and a flexible taxonomy structure allowing it to function much more like Drupal. To add to the discussion some thoughts: whether you use M

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

I've worked with BuddPress a little bit, I was looking at using it for a project. It's a hack on top of hack: wpmu is a fairly supported hack of wordpress, but buddypress seemed like a convoluted set of plugins on top of that. My main beef with it was that it pushed all the user tasks stuff to t

[MCN-L] Folksonomy as Symbol

At 5:03 PM -0500 12/26/06, Mike Rippy wrote: >Sounds like an agenda driven article. > >Mike Rippy Mike, I'm not sure what you mean by that evaluation... are you saying that's bad? Do you agree/disagree with the general point of the article? Just parts of the article? Does it miss the boat entir

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

Tom, Ari... thanks. Tom, the site has a rudimentary CMS but most of the email addresses come from sources other than the website class registrations, ecommerce, on-site signups etc. The daunting task is consolidating all of these and eliminating duplicates. Ari, I'll look into

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Drupal 7 is in alpha right now. I think they're planning on releasing it some time in the second quarter of this year. Of course then you have to wait for all the modules to catch up, too, so my guess is that we're probably looking at the fall for a viable Drupal 7 installation. AF Andrew Fox Web

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

The release date for WordPress 3.0 is early May. http://wordpress.org/development I've stayed out of this conversation (for reasons that Eric is aware of!) but since the conservation seems to of value to the community. My two cents. We've built a lot of Web sites over the years with various CMS

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Following on many good comments about how Drupal compares to Wordpress MU I'll throw in some comments about my team's experience, most of which has been with Drupal 6 over the past 18 months, though we have built a few small sites with WordPress. We've certainly found that Drupal holds up well whe

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Does anyone happen to know when Wordpress 3.0 comes out, or Drupal 7? I've heard of both of them being in development for some time now, but have never been able to get a clear picture of when. Thanks! ~P Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley,

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Perian, Sue, and all, ...and by coincidence, yesterday Wired posted an annotated, play-by-play slide show of the Internet Archive's book-scanning process online at: Rob Perian Sully wrote: > Hi Sue: > > Th

[MCN-L] Job opening at Smithsonian Institution Archives

We are looking for a great web developer interested in working at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. See job posting at http://bit.ly/9PRVpv Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig Smithsonian Institution Archives Electronic Records Division

[MCN-L] IP SIG, et al.: Happy Public Domain Day

It seems that yesterday was Public Domain Day: http://www.copyrightwatch.ca/ "It's January 1st, the day on which the calendar rolls over, and with it, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of books, articles, photographs, works of art, unpublished documents, and other "works", in all areas of

[MCN-L] Call for papers

Dear Colleagues, The 2^nd workshop on *Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology ACVA'10 -- Vision, Visualization, and Computational Methods to Cultural Heritage Needs*, http://acva2010.cs.drexel.edu, will be held on Sunday June 14^th in San Francisco, in conjunction with the IEEE Conferen

[MCN-L] Digital distribution as PDF with e-signature

> We are currently investigating the possibility of distributing contracts > & licenses as secure encrypted PDFs and I was wondering if anyone had > experiences to share and / or recommendations. We are particularly > interested in workflows around e-signature, especially since the > documents in

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Hi Sue: The Internet Archive has a number of scanners that they loan out to institutions, complete with support and software and the like. When I met with them, they also suggested partnering with other institutions or contacting those with one of their scanners already installed. After scouring

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Hi Perian, I think Brewster Kahle was using some sort of a system he developed for the Internet Archive that ended up being inexpensive to use - probably because of volume.. . I'd be curious to know of any other scanners or systems people have had luck with. Thanks, Sue -- Susan Grinols Dire

[MCN-L] Social Media for the Arts Symposium (SMartCAMP)

Hi all, Just wanted to send out a quick announcement letting you know that, if you're in the NYC area March 6th & 7th and interested in social media, I'm organizing a two day symposium on the topic: www.socialmediaartcamp.com The event is taking place at The Roger Smith hotel in Midtown and featu

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Hi all: We're trying to determine what other digitization equipment we should look into getting and one of the things I'm requesting is some sort of book scanner. I remember there being a news article about a very inexpensive automatic book digitizer, but I can't find it now. Does anyone rememb

[MCN-L] wikis

We've used Wikispaces (wikispaces.com) which is a $5/month subscription site. Plug and play, very easy - - especially for extranet-type deployments. We also set up an instance of jspwiki (jspwiki.org) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an Intranet. I think it's very successful. A much bett

[MCN-L] Last Chance to Register for "Pop Culture in Libraries" with Robin Brenner and Sara Sogigian

(Please excuse cross-posting) *Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education* *Pop Culture in Libraries* March 1 - 31, 2010 (online asynchronous) $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) PDPs: 15 Students will be introduced to the important place pop culture has in libraries. Instructors will present on a

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Let me just jump in without addressing any one post to say how much I appreciate everybody's feedback on the Drupal/WordPress MU question--this has all been great food for thought! The museum computer community is amazing. (And please don't let this message deter anybody else from responding--

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

I'll chime in with the rest here and say that WordPress is really great for it's user-friendly admin UI and large community. From a technical/speed standpoint, it hasn't always been the the fastest or prettiest code in the world, but recent releases have gone a long ways in terms of improvements

[MCN-L] Digital Directions, June 10-12 Jacksonville, FL - Register Online Now!

ONLINE REGISTRATION Now Open! www.nedcc.org DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections The NEW School for Scanning June 10 - 12, 2008 Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Jacksonville, Florida A conference presented by th