[MCN-L] ArtBytes 3 Museum Hackathon: Feb. 6-8

Technologists, innovators, scholars and artists will coalesce into teams on the Sculpture Court of the Walters Art Museum at ArtBytes 3, Friday, February 6-Sunday, February 8, 2015. Participants will collaborate to design and build technologies that enhance the museum experience for visitors

[MCN-L] ArtBytes 3 Registration Link

Please note the URL was incorrect. use this http://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbytes-3-hackathon-tickets-15166279751?aff=erelexporg ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this

[MCN-L] PATCH@IUI2015

Apologies for multiple postings! === CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2015) http://patch2015.wordpress.com co-located with ACM IUI 2015, the 20th

Re: [MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks

Dear Adrian, Thanks for raising this. In the UK, we tend not to have captured information about specific proportions of collections catalogued, and to what extent. Instead, we have developed a set of Performance Indicators for Collections Management which focus on outputs such as access to and

[MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks

Hi all. I know there are lots of hooks around what qualifies as cataloguing, what a record is versus an object and even how to measure the size of a collection, but can anyone point be to some recent benchmarks/surveys/comparisons of percentage of collections databased (jeebus I hate that

[MCN-L] managing incoming donations in a museum

Hi all I am curious to know about the number of donations museums have coming in and how you manage their receipting and assessment. At the Australian War Memorial we are offered (on average) 50,000-60,000 items each year. The majority of these come (unsolicited) from the public and collections

[MCN-L] Job Opportunity: Web Manager, The Autry, Los Angeles

The Autry National Center of the American West is seeking a Web Manager to be responsible for developing and maintaining the Autry's public-facing websites as well as a variety of online tools for staff (calendar, staff site, trustee site, project management, e-blasts, etc.). S/he updates