[MCN-L] Numismatic Data Standards and Ontologies Roundtable at CAA 2014

Andrew Meadows, Karsten Tolle, and David Wigg-Wolf invite participants for a roundtable on numismatic data standards and exchange, to be held at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference (http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org/), Paris, 22-25 April 2014. Coins sur

[MCN-L] OCRE – A major new tool for Roman numismatics

ssible?. ANS database developer Ethan Gruber, who built OCRE, explains how it has been designed from the beginning to use a Linked Data approach to deliver added functionality: ?OCRE is built on Numishare<http://numishare.blogspot.com/p/about-numishare.html>, an open source suite of appl

[MCN-L] Reminder: THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration deadline is TODAY

ld & Lab Recording 7. Theoretical Approaches & Context of Archaeological Computing 8. Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Museums More info: http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/ Follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA or for email inquiries, use thatcampcaana at gmail.com Ethan Gruber Ame

[MCN-L] THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration extended to June 10

can follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA. Look forward to seeing you there! Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

[MCN-L] Announcing THATCamp - Computational Archaeology

The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology(CAA) North American chapter is pleased to announce THATCamp for computational archaeology , co-sponsored by the University of Virginia Library. It will

[MCN-L] Announcement for Linked Ancient World Data Institute May 31-June 2, 2012, NYC

artshums/depts/ddh/people/core/bodard/index.aspx>) - Hugh Cayless, NYU Library/ISAW (Papyri.info <http://papyri.info/>) - Gregory Crane, Tufts University (Perseus<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>) - Sean Gillies, NYU/ISAW (Pleiades <http://pleiades.stoa.org/>

[MCN-L] American Numismatic Society Unveils MANTIS: A Major Numismatic Research Tool

work of ANS Web Developer Ethan Gruber, working in close collaboration with ANS Research Scientist Sebastian Heath. Heath explains: ?The new ANS database is now positioned to become a tool for expressing all the links inherent in each individual coin. We can already see this in the powerful mapping

[MCN-L] Orphan works - UK proposal

Don't worry! Google will scan them all by convincing libraries it is for the greater good (and just imagine the prestige of being part of the Google Book Project!), all while hatching a scheme to profit from monopolizing their dissemination, and libraries will get terabytes of tiff images they don

[MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?

Hi Ryan, I'd recommend joining the code4lib community (http://code4lib.org/) and asking your question on their listserv as well. Ethan On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Hartman wrote: > I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online through > our backend Kemu software.

[MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?

Hello, At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is built on top of Lucene. Solr is very common throughout the library/archive world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems. I have worked on several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual collec

[MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi

ms of service that must be agreed to before allowing a connection. Ethan Gruber On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, John Bedard wrote: > We are about to start installing wi-fi throughout out building and will be > providing it free to visitors. I see that a lot of places like coffee shops &

[MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

ent systems as > closely as I would have liked lately, but hope others can chime in on what > provisions they make for sharing standards-based data. > > Cheers, > > G?nter > > -Original Message- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.e

[MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

the future of information dissemination in the museum field. The more institutions that adopt open and free solutions, the more money those institutions will save in the long run. That is money better spent on collections building, conservation, and staffing to improve services and existing metadata. E

[MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

e tools to museums and other cultural heritage institutions, so I think that museum professionals should play a role in engaging in a dialog with library professionals in developing these sorts of tools. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library -- Forwarded message -- From:

[MCN-L] Ask Slashdot: Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase?

ML-to-XML or Microsoft Acces-to-MySQL 5 conversions people are doing now. http://www.awn.com/news/events/when-rome-rebuild-city Ethan Gruber On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Amalyah Keshet wrote: > "An anonymous reader writes /"I am an artist working with 3d software to > create a

[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?

export whatever is in the viewer to a downloadable jpg, so that's potentially useful to patrons. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists < lists at lancefield.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Any djatoka users out there?

[MCN-L] EAD for artifacts: a new site

es * Integrate non-coin artifacts into the site. A VRA Core viewing stylesheet already exists. Since there is no accepted standard for using EAD to describe art objects, I have opted for VRA Core to describe them. -Ethan Gruber

[MCN-L] Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word

Now if only a judge could order Microsoft from distributing Internet Explorer, the world would be a better place! On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] < akeshet at imj.org.il> wrote: > In case you were dozing off in front of your word processing program, > here

[MCN-L] Viewing digital architectural drawings

s, > > Melita V. Podesta > Project Coordinator > New England Economic Adventure > at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston > 600 Atlantic Avenue, T-10 > Boston, MA 02210 > Tel: 617-973-3197Fax: 617-973-3511 > > > > > Ethan Gruber > Sent by: mcn-l-bounces at

[MCN-L] Viewing digital architectural drawings

ki/djatoka/index.php?title=Main_Page Here's a demo: http://african.lanl.gov/adore-djatoka/ Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Cindy Mackey wrote: > We are thinking about putting digital images of architectural drawings > that we have in o

[MCN-L] (no subject)

than I can. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Johnson, Peter wrote: > Colleagues, > > Within the next few months, we hope to be able to select > photo-management software from one of several vendors we are > considering. Three of our major

[MCN-L] Seeking advice on creating a storage inventory database

Hi Peter, What information are you interested in recording about the documents and their organization and what is the general level of computer proficiency within your organization? Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Johnson, Peter wrote: > Colleag

[MCN-L] Cataloging culture/nationality for archaeological and anthropoligical artifacts

schemas. Databases are too rigid to adequately describe archaeological and artifactual data. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Art Museum On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:09 PM, talita de castro miranda < talita_castro at yahoo.com.br> wrote: > hei, Cheryl > > do you know Afridoc? &

[MCN-L] Advice on advanced degree for museum technology

Hi Kristine, There are a number of universities that have contemplated establishing digital humanities programs, either degree programs, minors, whatever. The spectrum is broad. I believe that George Mason University has recently (or in the near future) begun to offer a Ph.D. in digital humaniti

[MCN-L] Virtualization

e jpeg2000 delivery. Ethan Gruber On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Rich Cherry wrote: > I have had great success using it at three museums and am getting ready to > roll it out for my new organization. The only thing I would say is roll it > out on really good hardware and do some testing on

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

t; more. > Explore how the Great Fire shaped the city > www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning > Before printing, please think about the environment > > > > -Original Message- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Ethan Grub

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

; >ken > > > >Kenneth Hamma > > > >+1 310 270 8008 > >khamma at me.com > > > >368 Patel Place > >Palm Springs CA 92264 > > > >On May 14, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Waibel,Guenter wrote: > > > > > EAD indeed is rarely used to desc

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

> University of California > Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 > melings*library.berkeley.edu > Ph 510-643-2273 > Fx 510-643-2548 > > At 10:05 AM 5/14/2009, Ethan Gruber wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special collections > >obj

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

u/ and the documentation section has a draft of best practices guidelines and the powerpoint presentation I recently gave. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library