[MCN-L] cross-platform apps?

2010-06-15 Thread Glen Barnes
Hi John, I think you will find more and more tools will come out that support cross platform apps. There are several reasons why there are not a huge number of them to date: - Market penetration: Although other smart phones (apart from the iPhone) have significant market share people do not

[MCN-L] REMINDER: 2011 VRA+ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference - Call for Proposals: Papers, Sessions, and Workshops

2010-06-15 Thread Heidi Raatz
***REMINDER: Deadline is July 1, 2010 Call for Proposals: Papers, Sessions, and Workshops The 2nd Joint Conference between VRA and ARLIS/NA will be held in Minneapolis, MN from March 24-28, 2011. Our conference theme isCollaboration: Building Bridges in the 21st Century. We are now

[MCN-L] Records for displaying unrelated objects together

2010-06-15 Thread Perian Sully
Robyn: I haven't used Mimsy, so I couldn't say if it supports this, but what I've done with a few different databases now is to create an Exhibition record that links all of the items. But for individual, discrete groups, I've always had to manually massage the labels, then save the label to the

[MCN-L] Records for displaying unrelated objects together

2010-06-15 Thread Frank E. Thomson
We occasionally cluster a group of works together and do one label, ie. Top to bottom is It might be the easiest thing to do these labels manually and record the text in your database. Otherwise you may be working very hard to create something that may cause problems later. Frank

[MCN-L] Records for displaying unrelated objects together

2010-06-15 Thread Chad Petrovay
Robyn, At the Musical Instrument Museum, we have had similar situations. In one exhibit, we used components from both a male and female costume in order to create the desired effect (this was a stilted Carnevale, and the female pants were shorter, emphasizing the stilts). To manage these, we