[MCN-L] photography, digitization, and a color/grey card?

2008-10-28 Thread Eve Sinaiko
Imperfect as a color bar or grayscale may be, I would put in an ardent plea for their inclusion in all digital scans, whether of old rescanned transparencies or new scans of artworks. I speak on behalf of the publishers and printers who have been left with no visual cues to guide color correction o

[MCN-L] FW: Google, Authors, Publishers Announce Agreement on Book Search

2008-10-28 Thread akes...@imj.org.il
"Once this agreement has been approved, you'll be able to purchase full online access to millions of books. This means you can read an entire book from any Internet-connected computer, simply by logging in to your Book Search account, and it will remain on your electronic bookshelf, so you can co

[MCN-L] Woices

2008-10-28 Thread akes...@imj.org.il
Thought this might be of interest to some out there in the MCN "echosphere": -Original Message--- From: Peter Brantley ...Woices is a beta site that permits people to publish geo-encoded verbal notes for people to rediscover later. woices can be grouped together to form a "walk" i

[MCN-L] photography, digitization, and a color/grey card?

2008-10-28 Thread Newman, Alan
There was a question raised about whether to include color bars while digitizing aged photo albums and Stanley Smith posted a reply. I asked Ken Fleisher of my staff at the National Gallery (who does not belong to this list) to prepare a comment to Stanley to post. This is a core topic of an upcomi

[MCN-L] IP SIG et al: Digital Scholarship, Author's Rights, Tout de Suite

2008-10-28 Thread akes...@imj.org.il
For all of the "journal article authors" amongst us: Author's Rights, Tout de Suite, the latest Digital Scholarship publication, is designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author's rights and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use

[MCN-L] IP SIG: 10 Years of Digital Millennium Copyright Act

2008-10-28 Thread akes...@imj.org.il
Note, below, a video interview with Prof. Peter Jaszi, who will participate in the panel "Second Lives: Copyright in Virtual Worlds" at MCN 2008. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG For immediate release October 27, 2008 Public Knowledge ?Celebrates? 10 Years of