Re: [MCN-L] Budget for Digital

2016-04-14 Thread Berg-Fulton, Tracey
To add perhaps a bit more nuance to Keir's response (lol, by the way)- what do people feel would be the ideal budget amount? How does that ideal compare with what you're actually getting? Keep in mind we can't say "Yes, all of the dollars!" as a budget. Cheers, Tracey Tracey Berg-Fulton,

Re: [MCN-L] Touch screen monitors

2015-11-18 Thread Berg-Fulton, Tracey
Hi Tamsen, Brian Kennedy touched on this in his MCN talk about ditching Flash based interactives in favor of HTML based ones. In his talk (and maybe he'll chime in here?) he shared this toolkit he built for locking it down so people don't just surf the web/ the device doesn't auto populate

Re: [MCN-L] digital signatures on loan agreements

2015-08-20 Thread Berg-Fulton, Tracey
Considering I purchased a house, and recently a medical device, via DocuSign...I'd say that could be a viable alternative. Might certainly speed the process up and keep people from losing forms and/or forgetting to sign or initial in the right places (I believe DocuSign will pester you to fill

Re: [MCN-L] Social Tagging for Museum Online Collections

2015-06-11 Thread Berg-Fulton, Tracey
Neil, You're probably already aware of it, but the Walters has an open tagging system, which doesn't require login. It appears as though there's either minimal moderator intervention, or none (if you're out there, please please correct me!). I'm a huge fan of their collections search and

Re: [MCN-L] High efficiency scanners

2015-03-02 Thread Berg-Fulton, Tracey
Who only knows how much this cost to get/operate...but the Smithsonian is digitizing their historic currency collection, and it is basically a digitization conveyor belt. Here's a Vine: https://vine.co/v/OhhxK615gt6 And a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0Xet2kpqA#t=11 As