Re: [MCN-L] Transcription software for oral histories

Might want to try oTranscribe (http://otranscribe.com/). I have no experience using it myself, but it was recommended by someone in the digital humanities community a while back. Diane Diane M. Zorich Cultural Heritage Consultant – Digital Strategies for Culture Organizations 113 Gallup Roa

[MCN-L] FW: Public Domain Day 2016

Public Domain Day, folks! (I love Heidi's excitement at "flipping the rights status" and would like to suggest that museums who do this might want to announce it more publicly ­ via their social media outlets - when the occasion warrants it, of course.) -Diane From: Visual Resources Associati

[MCN-L] FW: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] Technical Consultant Opportunity - Elizabethtown, PA

An interesting opportunityŠ. From: Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh Reply-To: Date: Monday, June 15, 2015 1:23 PM To: Cc: Sarah Penniman Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] Technical Consultant Opportunity - Elizabethtown, PA The Hess Archives and Young Center for Anabaptist Studies at Elizabethto

Re: [MCN-L] Conservation module in database

Hi Lauren, You may wish to post your question to the Conservation Online listserv (consdistl...@cool.conservation-us.org). There's not a lot of crossover between that group and MCN : ( Diane Diane M. Zorich Cultural Heritage Consultant ­ Digital Strategies for Culture Organizations 113 Gallup

Re: [MCN-L] side project

Matt, You might want to contact Darwin Scott, Music Librarian at Princeton: https://library.princeton.edu/staff/dfscott Diane On 2/20/15 2:06 PM, "Matt Wheeler" wrote: >Good afternoon-- > >Someone recently asked me to get involved with her efforts to catalog her >father's collection of oper

[MCN-L] FW: CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts

FYI ­ includes a section for museumsŠ. From: "Christine L. Sundt" Reply-To: Visual Resources Association Date: Monday, February 9, 2015 11:08 AM To: Subject: CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts The College Art Association (CAA)'s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use

Re: [MCN-L] Crowdfunding at MCN 2014

On 11/10/14 3:01 PM, "Rob Lancefield on lists" wrote: >Len and all, > >A recent one that springs to mind is Portland's Newspace Center for >Photography--not strictly a museum, but maybe close enough here as a >nonprofit focused on art education and exhibition in a public gallery. >They just ran

[MCN-L] FW: Conservation and Digitization

Dear Friends and Fellow Listees, I am working on a project for the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) entitled, "Charting the Digital Landscape of the Conservation Profession." Over the next year, AIC will be conducting background research, surveys, interviews, and community forums as part

[MCN-L] Policies regarding 3-d scanning/printing

Dear Emily, You can check out the Smithsonian's policy for its 3D files (which, BTW, is the same terms of use for its website) at http://3d.si.edu/ One of my favorite publications is by the group Public Knowledge entitled, "It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw It Up" http://publicknowledge.o

[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

Krista, The Smithsonian Institution has undertaken a large crowdsourcing project (see The Transcription Center - https://transcription.si.edu/) and the person who is largely overseeing this at the Institution is Ching-Hsien Wang. You may wish to speak with her -- she spoke briefly about this

[MCN-L] Facial recognition technology and photos

Don't know about photographic collections, but UC Riverside's Art History Dept. is exploring this technology for identifying individuals in paintings. See http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/5453. BTW - They just received their second NEH-ODH grant to explore the use of this technology for this purpose, so I

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Things you don't see everyday...

Things You Don't See Every Day: MPAA Argues For Fair Use In Court, http://t.co/EqFqSAMBCV Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DigitalKoans/status/322354693630214144 Sent via TweetDeck

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Free courses on open access topics

>From Creative Commons: "The School of Open has launched! Take a free online course on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture, open video formats, and more at http://schoolofopen.org/. . Read more about the launch at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.";

[MCN-L] FW: Endowed Professor position in Museum Studies

From: "Brownell, Susan E." Date: Friday, March 8, 2013 5:48 PM To: Diane Zorich Subject: FW: Endowed Professor position in Museum Studies The University of Missouri-St. Louis is conducting a search for an endowed professorship in Museum Studies (job advertisement attache

[MCN-L] IP SIG FW: Museum IP CAA Creativity and Copyright Survey

From: david_sturtevant_museum Reply-To: Date: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:05 AM To: Subject: Museum IP CAA Creativity and Copyright Survey forwarded message: CAA Creativity and Copyright Survey The College Art Association is conducting research in the visual arts community on uses of third

[MCN-L] IP SIG: FW: Museum IP Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization [1 Attachment]

FYI - From: Cherie Chen Reply-To: Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:25 PM To: Subject: Museum IP Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Cherie Chen included below] Colleagues, I'm sharing the attached letter filed by the

[MCN-L] Webcast on The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums

TODAY! Nov. 28th 6:30PM-8:30PM EST DigitalHumanities Museums http://t.co/UfyKbBj6. Hashtag #cunydhi. Speakers: Christina DePaolo (Balboa Park Online Collaborative) Michael Edson (Smithsonian) William Noel (University of Pennsylvania) Neal Stimler (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The event will be li

[MCN-L] iPhone app for MCN schedule

Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Rich Cherry wrote: > MCN attendees: Ray Garcia from the San Diego Natural History Museum > has posted a nice schedule app for the conference. You can access > it at http://mcn.sdnhm.org via your iPhone. > > Rich > > > > Rich Cherry > Di

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Tune In January 13: Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning

Free, and only one hour long (Thanks to Kathy Spiess for bringing this to our attention.) > > >From: educause at educause.edu [mailto:educause at educause.edu] >Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:41 AM >Subject: Tune In January 13: Copyright Balance and Fair Use in >Networked Learning > >

[MCN-L] Fwd: [Centernet] DH Specialists and Metadata Manager positions for the Digital Humanities Observatory (Dublin)

>Envelope-to: dzorich at patmedia.net >X-Commtouch-RefID: str=0001.0A010209.47BEEB3E.00B3,ss=1,fgs=0 >X-Commtouch-Virus-Threat: Unknown >X-Commtouch-Class: Unknown >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:30:50 -0500 >From: Susan Schreibman >To: centernet at lists.digitalhumanities.org >X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YE

[MCN-L] Digital Preservation Forum

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a forum on "/Digital Preservation: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Resources/," to be held March 14, 2008 in Washington, DC. With the increasing number of digital objects-both tthose born digital and those that have been converted to d

[MCN-L] Fwd: [Centernet] Jobs at the Center for History and New Media

>Envelope-to: dzorich at patmedia.net >X-Commtouch-RefID: str=0001.0A090204.47289F41.00B3,ss=1,fgs=0 >X-Commtouch-Virus-Threat: Unknown >X-Commtouch-Class: Unknown >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:32:20 -0400 >From: Daniel Cohen >To: centernet at lists.digitalhumanities.org >Subject: [Centernet] Jobs at

[MCN-L] Fwd: NEH DHI Update: Job Openings at the NEH

NEH openings for program officers (see below). They are looking for folks with humanities and computing/technology backgrounds, which sounds to me like a lot of people on this list... Diane >Envelope-to: dzorich at patmedia.net >X-Commtouch-RefID: str=0001.0A090202.470E3556.0166:SCJSTAT89602

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)

FYI -- a useful tool from those "can-do" folks at VRA >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:32:01 -0400 >Reply-To: Visual Resources Association >Sender: Visual Resources Association >From: Marlene Gordon >Organization: University of Michigan- De

[MCN-L] IP SIG - Fwd: Intellectual Property Rights News: Monthly Updates

For those who are overwhelmed by monitoring myriad lists for IP information, a very nice service from our colleagues at VRA . With apologies to Tolkien - "one list to rule them all" ; ) Diane >X-Google-Sender-Auth: fa23ba84c3132b25 >Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:59:02 -0500 >Reply-To:

[MCN-L] Fwd: [padiforum-l] Announcement: National Library of New Zealand Open-Source Metadata Extraction Tool

>FYI -- >-- Forwarded message -- >From: Gordon Paynter ><Gordon.Paynter at natlib.govt.nz> >Date: Jul 16, 2007 4:57 PM >Subject: [padiforum-l] Announcement: National >Library of New Zealand Open-Source Metadata >Extraction Tool >To: