[MCN-L] programmer salaries

Dear Ari: Oh, these kinds of inquiries make me so sad. There's a good basic rule in this--You Get What You Pay For. Museums need to make some very basic decisions about either committing to paying what the market requires, or simply outsourcing, what you want done. These kids coming right

[MCN-L] programmer salaries

I'm not sure if there is a definitive guide to programmer salaries but articles like this might help: http://esj.com/Enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=2052. As for the internal argument -- in an egalitarian world where everything is equal, that might be true but the reality in our area (for

[MCN-L] programmer salaries

Hi, This is my first post. I'm in Arkansas and my husband is a developer/programmer with his MS in Computer Science, so I thought you might appreciate some of his thoughts on this: salary.com has some salary search abilities: http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_localrangebell.a

[MCN-L] programmer salaries

We don't use monster.com to hire but its a fairly good tool to figure out what the state of the job market is for situations like this. You can use monster.com to search for programmer postings in Boston and then filter by salary range - you won't get (m)any for what you're looking to offer. And

[MCN-L] programmer salaries

I'd parrot much of what had already been said with the following additions: - If you go for the low end of the range, you're going to get someone who does simply what you tell them to do. If you're at a museum, I'm going to assert that you probably only partially know that answer, and whoever y

[MCN-L] programmer salaries

On 2/2/07, Holly Witchey wrote: > Oh, these kinds of inquiries make me so sad. > > There's a good basic rule in this--You Get What You Pay For. > > This is so true. In some respects we are better than many non-profits and are certainly interested in doing better. But we also have the usual constr

[MCN-L] CIDOC 2007 conference EN/FR call for paper

Dear all, CIDOC is ICOM's international committee for museum documentation. CIDOC is the focus for the documentation interests of museums and related organizations. In many (most?) ways CIDOC is comparable to MCN and in my opinion a closer collaboration would be most profitable for both organiz

[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools

Hi All, Regard this flickr metadata sync issue I have added the following 2 applications you may find useful although I haven?t tried these myself. LINK: http://wareseeker.com/Network-Internet/flickr-metadata-synchr-0.9.0.0.zip/35 03217 (WIN) LINK: http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/624/(MA

[MCN-L] (Event) Cross Mapping Taxonomies - March 3 Taxonomy Community of Practice webinar

Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice webinar, presented by Earley & Associates. This month's topic is Cross Mapping Taxonomies. Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 Eastern Time Cost: $50 To register, visit: http://www.earley.com/webinars/ente

[MCN-L] DAM system recommendations

Hello, Does anyone have any recommendations for an efficient DAM system that works best with TMS? Thank you, Aleesha On Fri, Jan 9, 1970 at 2:00 PM, wrote: > Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to >mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >

[MCN-L] DAM system recommendations

We use Media Bin and synchronize data with TMS. But you should do a requirements definition before you start evaluating DAM systems. John R. Bedard | Director of Information Systems Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 612-870-3268 | JBedard

[MCN-L] DAM system recommendations

We use Luna Insight, in a 2-way sync with TMS scripted by Museum staff. I'll second John's recommendation for a study of requirements and staff capabilities -- all systems will require either a fair amount of staff work to make the link or a fair amount of money to pay a vendor for customizatio

[MCN-L] DAM system recommendations

While underscoring Deb and John?s emphasis on starting with a system needs and staff capabilities analysis, our DAM solution that permits communication with TMS is NetXposure?s Image Portal. However considerable in-house IT work is required to build good functionality between the 2 systems. Erik

[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools

Hi, I am a member of the Visual Resources Association and co-chair of the Embedded Metadata subcommittee. Here are a few other embedded metadata extraction tools you might find useful: ExifTool (complete reader/editor for EXIF, IPTC, and XMP) http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/ -Exi