[MCN-L] new job

ject: Re: [MCN-L] new job I'm late to the game, but this is massive and excellent news. Congratulations and welcome G?nter!!! From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Waibel,Guenter [waib...@oclc.org] Sent: Monday,

[MCN-L] new job

Dear colleagues & friends, I am sorry to say that I'll miss this year's MCN conference in Austin. I've attended every single conference from 1998 Santa Monica on, so Austin would have been my 13th MCN conference in a row. My reason for missing the conference is not superstition, but that I'll b

[MCN-L] rapid digitization workflows

Hi everybody, I've recently had the good fortune of seeing the rapid digitization process the National Gallery has set up for its works-on-paper. (I know Alan and Peter are on this list, so rather than bungling the details, I'll leave it to them to describe what they're doing - needless to s

[MCN-L] Registration Now Open - "Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership through Collaboration", 20-21 September at the Smithsonian Institution

We've debated library, archive, museum convergence in many panels at MCN over the years. This event tries to highlight successful strategies from those who are exercising leadership through collaboration, as the event title has it. Since space is limited, I'd advise you to sign up soon. I hope t

[MCN-L] Live Webcast of the Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium tomorrow 9am EDT

This webcast got announced very last minute today. If you are interested in digital preservation, this promises to be a very interesting event to follow. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian, is among the many luminaries presenting. The program runs from 9am until 5pm EDT, according to the

[MCN-L] New Report, "Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share"

Amber, thanks for sharing. (I've been traveling while the report was released, otherwise I would have posted a note to MCN-L last week.) A little more context: the Museum Data Exchange, a Mellon funded project, engaged 9 museums in creating tools for extracting data in CDWA Lite XML out of c

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

titutions will save in the long run. That is money better spent on collections building, conservation, and staffing to improve services and existing metadata. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Waibel,Guenter wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > I have to ad

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

Hi Ethan, I have to admit, I don't have any working knowledge of XForms, but after making myself as smart as spending a couple of minutes online and a brief chat with a colleague can make you, I have a couple of working assumptions and questions I'd like to run past you. (If I am wrong, I trust

[MCN-L] Omeka Webinar on 8 December at 1 p.m. EST

As part of the "Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions" (yep, that's TAI CHI) Webinar Series my colleague Roy Tennant puts together, there is an upcoming event focusing on OMEKA, the web-publishing platform for collections created by the Center for History and New Me

[MCN-L] FW: Madrona - open source museum collection management system

I've gleaned the message below from a UK listserv - it's the first time I've heard of Madrona, and I'd assume that the offer to kick the tires would extend to US institutions. Seems like there's an increasing choice of open source collections management systems in the market place... Cheers, G

[MCN-L] FW: can you pls post this to the RC, MCN and MuseumL list serves. tx

Renee, I did not receive the attachment, but hope that this lead will still be valuable to you (and maybe fun for others on the list as well): My OCLC Research colleagues have created a catalog of 2.8 million works of fiction, extracted from WorldCat, which you can then search by particular top

[MCN-L] MCN Board Elections - your input needed!

Dear MCN members, We'll have six open positions on the MCN Board of Directors this year, and we'd like your input on how to fill them. Last year, two of the three non-incumbent candidates on our slate came directly from your suggestions - your advice leads to actions! Please let us know

[MCN-L] Image Licensing

I really enjoyed the recent exchange about image licensing, and as I re-read earlier entries of that rich thread, I started copying & pasting some of the things most interesting to me into a text file. Before I knew it, I had a little document full of nuggets which I thought very nicely lay out

[MCN-L] ??RE: Image Sizes (later Image Theft)

Alan, I really enjoyed reading about your creative solution to the perennial dilemma of image licensing, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that you can make "pay what you can afford" a reality and report back to all of us how you fared. You've got me at the edge of my seat. As for the initial

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

rks. And the use of the right tool for the right material regardless of the museum - archive - library designation? 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

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

EAD indeed is rarely used to describe museum collections, but it is used frequently in museum archives. The only project I am aware of that used EAD to describe museum object collections was Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC). You'll find a lot of documents related to this proje

[MCN-L] Museum Data Exchange software suite

Hi everybody, As part of our Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant, we've just released a suite of tools which aims to help museums extract CDWA Lite XML out of collections management systems, and share it via OAI-PMH. All of the software is available fee-free, some is open source. I've blogged

[MCN-L] MWeb Universal

ources" will also soon be dispelled. > > Best, > > Jay > > Jay Hoffman, CEO > Gallery Systems > 261 West 35th Street, 12th Floor > New York, NY 10001 > jay at gallerysystems.com > +1.646.733.2239 > > > > > > > -Original Message- >

[MCN-L] MWeb Universal

- From: Stephen Toney [mailto:to...@systemsplanning.com] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:40 AM To: Waibel,Guenter Cc: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: RE: [MCN-L] MWeb Universal Hello Gunter, At present MWeb Universal sorts alphabetically by the brief name of the database, subsorted by the type

[MCN-L] MWeb Universal

Hi Stephen, How do you deal with ranking search results from various sources? The Baltimore example seems to side-step ranking. It displays hits segregated by database. Cheers, G?nter -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Stephe

[MCN-L] New Report: "Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums"

I thought that this new report would be of interest to an MCN audience. The workshops which led to the findings of the report had ample museum participation - we conducted workshops at the Smithsonian and the Victoria & Albert, and the university workshops at Edinburgh, Princeton and Yale also h

[MCN-L] Digital Asset Management System

Keith, while it's 18months old by now, I think the RLG DigiNews special issue on "Managing Digital Assets in US Museums" still has some quite valuable information on strategies at the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Center for Creative Photography at The University of Ar

[MCN-L] New PARcast Available: The Cost of Owning Technology--A Tribute to Ken Hamma

Hi everybody, I thought you'd like to hear what's on Ken Hamma's mind as he leaves the Getty and looks back on a 21-year career. I had an interesting conversation with Ken last week, and recorded the call as a podcast so you can all listen in. The links are in the announcement below. Enj

[MCN-L] OCLC awarded Mellon grant to conduct museum data exchange study

Hi everybody, I thought the information contained in the press release below would be of general interest to an MCN audience. I've also blogged about the Mellon grant at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=368, if you prefer a more informal summary of what this grant aims to achieve, and what how we'

[MCN-L] Archive materials - image sizes?

Hi Perian, A lot of the responses you've received so far have advised you to go for higher resolution. I belief that this advice may make sense in certain circumstances (for example, original art, fragile materials or small high-value collections), but the situation you're describing is differe

[MCN-L] 16mm transfer

I'd look into BAVC's services - when I was working for the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, they did transfers for us. http://www.bavc.org/media/preservation/ G?nter -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of David Lynx Se

[MCN-L] Yahoo's flickr

Any number of online file-sharing sites may be useful to share images with colleagues in-house - a lot of museums are investigating / implementing Digital Assets Management Systems for that purpose as well, although that's a much bigger project. In order to have those images penetrate the educat

[MCN-L] FW: Around the World in 2 billion pages

Here's your chance to nominate some web content you want to see survive for a visit from the Internet Archive. G?nter -Original Message- From: Kris Carpenter [mailto:kcarpen...@archive.org] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:45 AM To: DLF-ANNOUNCE at LISTS.DIGLIB.ORG Subject: Around the

[MCN-L] Creative Commons text

Perian, there are XMP panels available from the Creative Commons website which allow you to embed CC info directly into your files using Photoshop (or any other XMP enabled application.) http://creativecommons.org/technology/xmp-help Cheers, G?nter -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounc

[MCN-L] Program Officer Positions, RLG Programs, OCLC

*** Please excuse cross-posting *** Two openings in RLG Programs have just been posted on the OCLC Website: Program Officer https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/oclc_jobs/jobs/candidate/job.jsp?jobid=1268&mode=view Senior Program Officer https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/oclc_jobs/jobs/candidate/job.jsp?j

[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools

Perian, another place to get an answer to this question might be here http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrcommons/discuss/. The Indicommons folks probably have the best handle on what tools do exist. G?nter -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.ed