From dianezorich at comcast.net  Tue Dec  1 07:01:10 2009
From: dianezorich at comcast.net (Diane M. Zorich)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:01:10 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News is now a blog
Message-ID: <p06200702c73adee82ace@[10.0.1.2]>

The monthly VRA IP newsletter that I have been reposting to this list 
is morphing into a blog, so if you have been interested in the 
newsletter's content you may wish track it in its new form (see below 
for details).

Diane


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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I am pleased to announce that the monthly listserv posting of the 
>VRA IPR News has transitioned to a blog titled "VRA Intellectual 
>Property Rights News" (see link below).  We on the IPR Committee 
>hope that you find this new blog not only visually appealing, but 
>easier to access, read, and search.  In consideration of 
>convenience, ease of access, and continuity, I'll send a monthly 
>announcement once new content has been posted.
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><http://vraiprnews.blogs.plymouth.edu>http://vraiprnews.blogs.plymouth.edu
>
>As always, please contact me with your thoughts.
>
>Best wishes,
>Jen
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From lesleyeharris at comcast.net  Tue Dec  1 17:51:23 2009
From: lesleyeharris at comcast.net (Lesley Ellen Harris)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:51:23 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Copyright News
Message-ID: <EA692E9C-59A4-4AB8-BF4F-CAE408B7976A@comcast.net>

FROM THE OFFICES OF LESLEY ELLEN HARRIS
Copyright, New Media Law & E-Commerce News
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

Vol. 13, No. 5, December 1, 2009
ISSN 1489-954X

Contents:

1. Studies, Legislation and Conventions
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related
Rights
Finland makes Broadband Access a Legal Right

2. Legal Cases:
Database of Classified Ads held Copyrightable
Software Pirates Fined and Jailed in China

3. Of Interest:
iStockphoto Provides Guarantee to Users Regarding IP
Rights
Listing of Copyright & Licensing Positions

4. Seminars and Publications:
The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter 2010
WIPO Magazine
Copyright Certificate Program
Online Copyright Courses
  __________________________________________________________________
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Copyright, New Media & E-Commerce News is distributed for free by the  
office
of Lesley Ellen Harris. Information contained herein should not be  
relied upon or
considered as legal advice. Copyright 2009 Lesley Ellen Harris. This e- 
letter may
be forwarded, downloaded or reproduced in whole in any print or  
electronic
format for non-commercial purposes provided that you cc:
lehletter at copyrightlaws.com.

This e-letter, from 1996 to the present, is archived with Library &  
Archives
Canada at:  http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/copyright/.
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1.  STUDIES, LEGISLATION AND CONVENTIONS:

WIPO STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
- The nineteenth session will take place in Geneva from December 14 to  
18, 2009.
The Committee is currently discussing special provisions for  
education, libraries
and persons with disabilities, as well as the protection of audiovisual
performances and broadcasting organizations.  Meeting documents are at:
www.wipo.int.

FINLAND MAKES BROADBAND ACCESS A LEGAL RIGHT ? The Finnish
government is the first worldwide to introduce new laws that guarantee  
broadband
access to every person living in the country. Starting in July 2010,  
every Finnish
person will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection; and  
by the end
of 2015 the legal right will be extended to a 100Mb connection. Almost  
80% of
the population (5.5 million) currently use the Internet; with  
approximately 1.5
million broadband connections in the country.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

2.  LEGAL CASES:

DATABASE OF CLASSIFIED ADS HELD COPYRIGHTABLE ? This case
involved the Defendant copying classified ads and pictures from an  
issue of Want
Ad Digest into its own publication. The U.S. District Court for the  
Northern
District of New York held that while the individual ads were not  
protected by
copyright since they lacked creativity and originality, the digest?s  
arrangement of
subheadings was sufficiently creative to receive copyright protection  
as a
compilation. See: Want Ad Digest Inc. v. Display Advertising Inc.

SOFTWARE PIRATES FINED AND JAILED IN CHINA ? Four people were
sentenced to 2-4 years in prison and fined approximately 11 million  
Renminbi
($1.6 million) for distributing pirated versions of Microsoft Windows  
XP and
other software on a Web site called ?the Tomato Garden?. The Huqin  
District
People?s Court in Suzhou also fined the company who operated the site  
more than
8.7 million Renminbi ($1.3 million) and confiscated part of its  
revenue. Estimates
suggest that more than 10 million people downloaded pirated software  
from the
Web site.








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3.  OF INTEREST:

ISTOCKPHOTO PROVIDES GUARANTEE TO USERS REGARDING IP
RIGHTS?iStockphoto, who licenses images for a relatively low cost, has
implemented a new guarantee to alleviate customer concerns regarding
infringement of intellectual property rights. Under the guarantee, the  
company
will cover up to $10,000 of legal costs in cases involving IP  
infringement.
Coverage may be increased to $250,000 at a cost of 100 of the credits  
ordinarily
used to purchase images, videos, etc. Credits presently cost $1.50 or  
less. This
new guarantee capitalizes on consumer concerns of the risks involved  
in using
images that are freely downloadable from the Internet. See:
http://www.istockphoto.com.

LISTING OF COPYRIGHT & LICENSING POSITIONS ? Listings of available
positions in the U.S., Canada and around the world, are now posted at
www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com.  Current listings include positions  
for
librarians, rights and reproduction person in a museum, and a position  
at WIPO.
These listings will continue to include positions for non-lawyers in  
copyright and
licensing as well as positions for lawyers outside the traditional  
practise of law.

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

4. SEMINARS AND PUBLICATIONS:

THE COPYRIGHT & NEW MEDIA LAW NEWSLETTER 2010 ? The 2010
Volume of this previously print-only Newsletter (which has been in  
publication
since 1997) is now also available in a PDF format.  This unique  
publication
provides plain English copyright compliance and licensing information  
aimed at a
diverse audience including librarians, educators, government employees,
publishers, digital content creators and distributors, and lawyers.   
See:
www.acteva.com/go/copyright.  Email editor at copyrightlaws.com for a  
sample
copy.

WIPO MAGAZINE ? The December 2009 issue of WIPO Magazine includes a
number of stories on digital copyright issues including ?Wikimedia  
Licensing
Policy Change ? A Conundrum?, ?Is Sampling Always Copyright  
Infringement??
and ?Legal Use of Digital Content ? Making it Clear and Simple.?  See:
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/.




COPYRIGHT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ? Copyrightlaws.com jointly with the
Special Library Association/Click University offers a seven course  
Certificate in
Copyright Management.  See:  www.clickuniversity.com.  A primer on  
Canadian
Copyright Law is also available through this program for any Canadians  
wishing
to pursue the Certificate.  Register for a free virtual open house for  
this program
on January 20, 2009 at
http://www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/copyright/index.cfm.

ONLINE COPYRIGHT COURSES? Copyrightlaws.com is offering the
following online courses in early 2010:
? Managing Copyright Issues
? Copyright Law for Canadian Librarians
? Copyright Education:  Demystifying Copyright in Your Enterprise
? Developing a Copyright Policy.  By completing the assignments in this
course, you will have a draft Copyright Policy customized for your
organization.
For further information and registration, see:
www.copyrightlawscom.blogspot.com and www.acteva.com/go/copyright.

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

This newsletter is prepared by Copyright Lawyer Lesley Ellen Harris.  
Lesley is
the author of the books Canadian Copyright Law (McGraw-Hill), Digital
Property: Currency of the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill), and Licensing  
Digital
Content (ALA Editions).  Lesley edits the print newsletter, The  
Copyright & New
Media Law Newsletter. Lesley may be reached at:  http://copyrightlaws.com 
.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

If you are looking for further topical and practical information about  
copyright
law, obtain a sample copy of the print newsletter, The Copyright & New  
Media
Law Newsletter, from editor at copyrightlaws.com.





From akeshet at imj.org.il  Tue Dec  1 21:31:38 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:31:38 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?=FE=FEIP_SIG=3A_Copyright_and_Doc_Film_i?=
	=?windows-1255?q?n_South_Africa?=
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C492@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

________________________________________
??
American University?s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Center for Social Media working with South Africa?s Documentary Filmmakers Association and Women of the Sun are proud to present a special 2-day workshop and film screening focusing around the issue of expanding the utility of copyright ?users? rights? for documentary filmmaking.
More information, including registration info, can be found at http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/workshop-dec2009 and http://docfilmsa.com/rights/
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Gauteng Film Commission this workshop is part of a larger international project working with filmmakers around the world to better understand and expand rights to utilize copyrighted material in filmmaking without license.
The event will feature the launch of Untold Stories in South Africa: The Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Film, the final report and film from a year-long study of rights clearance and documentary film in South Africa.
The workshop will begin with a public screening and discussion with the director of The Order of Myths<http://docfilmsa.com/rights/myths.html>, a documentary that explores race, music and celebration at Alabama?s Mardi Gras, and which benefitted from a project in the U.S. working with filmmakers to understand users? rights under copyright law. Click here to learn more about the film.<http://docfilmsa.com/rights/myths.html>
The following two days at the ?SAB World Of Beer? Conference Venue, in Newtown, workshops will be conducted on how South African filmmakers can use and expand users? rights under South Africa?s copyright law. All of the events are open to the public and free of charge for members of Woman of the Sun (WOS - www.womenofthesun.org.za<http://www.womenofthesun.org.za>) or the Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA ? www.docfilmsa.com<http://www.docfilmsa.com>). The Opening and film screening is free to all.
Thursday Dec. 10

 *   Film Screening and Discussion with Director: The Order of Myths
A Film by Margaret Brown
 *   Venue: The Laager Theatre at the Market Theatre ? Newtown
(Secure parking: Crn, Miriam Makebe St & Gwigwi MMrewbi St)
Free to all
7-10pm
Friday Dec. 11

 *   Workshop: User?s Rights Under South Africa?s Copyright Law: What are They and How Can Filmmakers Use Them?
 *   Venue: ?SAB World Of Beer? Conference Venue ? Newtown
(Secure parking: entrance on Gerard Sekoto Street)
Free to DFA, WOS or BFN members and invited guests, a subsidised fee of R80 for others
10am-5: 30pm
Saturday, Dec. 12

 *   Workshop: Expanding the Utility of Users? Rights: Implementing the Recommendations of the Cape Town Workshop on Copyright Clearance and Free Expression, March 2009.
 *   Venue: ?SAB World Of Beer? Conference Venue ? Newtown
(Secure parking: entrance on Gerard Sekoto Street)
Free to DFA, WOS or BFN members and invited guests, a subsidised fee of R80 for others
10am-5pm
Featuring:

 *   Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, Author of Copyright Law (2006) and Director of the Fair Use and Public Media Project.
 *   Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law
 *   Andrew Rens, Intellectual Property Fellow, Shuttleworth Foundation, Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, co-founder and director of The African Commons Project
 *   Marc Schwinges, National Treasurer for the Documentary Filmmakers' Association, National Board Member and Head of Communications for the South African Screen Federation & Independent Producer - Underdog Productions
 *   Eve Rantseli, Women of the Sun
 *   Margaret Brown, Independent Filmmaker
 *   Freddy Ogterop, Visual History Archive, University of Cape Town, Author of Audiovisual Audit Report: The South African Liberation Struggle

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From graeme at museumsetc.com  Wed Dec  2 04:08:33 2009
From: graeme at museumsetc.com (Graeme Farnell)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:08:33 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] New Book: Twitter for Museums
Message-ID: <fbf8e79f0912020408q1c0f74f6i291b963cc8095c12@mail.gmail.com>

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The topics covered include:
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From SFisher at MINNETRISTA.NET  Wed Dec  2 06:45:32 2009
From: SFisher at MINNETRISTA.NET (Stephanie Fisher)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:45:32 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines
Message-ID: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>

I am putting together social networking guidelines for employees at our
museum.  Does your institution have a policy? Please share links and key
ideas, if you can. Thanks!

Stephanie Fisher
ITS Coordinator
Minnetrista
1200 North Minnetrista Pkwy
Muncie, Indiana 47303
765-287-3509
www.minnetrista.net




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From jbondy at okhistory.org  Wed Dec  2 06:53:15 2009
From: jbondy at okhistory.org (Jason Bondy)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:53:15 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines
In-Reply-To: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>
References: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>
Message-ID: <7A3BCE03221E432589C97B3A3F9A003D@okhistory.org>

Stephanie (and others),

We do not currently have a policy, but would also be interested in seeing
how others are approaching this.

Jason

_______________________________________________________
Jason Bondy
Exhibit AV/IT Systems
Oklahoma History Center
2401 N. Laird Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK  73105
405-522-0783 - Office
405-522-5402 - Fax
www.okhistory.org
 


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Stephanie Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:46 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines

I am putting together social networking guidelines for employees at our
museum.  Does your institution have a policy? Please share links and key
ideas, if you can. Thanks!

Stephanie Fisher
ITS Coordinator
Minnetrista
1200 North Minnetrista Pkwy
Muncie, Indiana 47303
765-287-3509
www.minnetrista.net




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From beth at bethkanter.org  Wed Dec  2 07:32:37 2009
From: beth at bethkanter.org (Beth Kanter)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:32:37 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines
In-Reply-To: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>
References: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>
Message-ID: <4550b5110912020732h4b92299avefac76765ba56f67@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Stephanie:

The PowerHouse Museum one of the first museums to have a blogging policy
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2007/04/23/powerhouse-museums-official-blog-policy-april-2007/
and here is a post about updating it:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/04/14/updating-your-social-media-and-staff-blog-policies/

Also I've written about this topic and how it applies to nonprofits:

Social Media and The Workplace:  What Should Go In Your Social Media Policy
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/04/social-media-in-the-nonprofit-workplace-does-your-organization-need-a-policy.html
Includes pointers to other nonprofit policies

Social Media Usage Guidelines:  Don't Moon Anyone With A Camera or At
Least Hide Your Face While You Do It
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/more-on-social-media-policies-and-nonprofits-whats-your-best-advice-for-policy.html
Policies are not enough, usage guidelines are important


Red Cross Social Media Policy/Operational Handbook
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/07/red-cross-social-media-strategypolicy-handbook-an-excellent-model.html
Example of policy and usage guidelines

A Twitter Like Twitter Policy
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/a-twitterlike-twitter-policy.html

My Posts on Social Media Policy
Covers other issues
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/policy/

Beth Kanter
Beth's Blog


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Stephanie Fisher
<SFisher at minnetrista.net> wrote:
> I am putting together social networking guidelines for employees at our
> museum. ?Does your institution have a policy? Please share links and key
> ideas, if you can. Thanks!
>
> Stephanie Fisher
> ITS Coordinator
> Minnetrista
> 1200 North Minnetrista Pkwy
> Muncie, Indiana 47303
> 765-287-3509
> www.minnetrista.net
>
>
>
>
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> ?1200 MInnetrista Parkway
> ?Muncie, Indiana
> ?United States
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From mmisunas at sfmoma.org  Wed Dec  2 09:20:48 2009
From: mmisunas at sfmoma.org (Misunas, Marla)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:20:48 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines
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References: <E1F5011E3EA5574497D9E6FDACB672CE03EA26D8@inmuncminnexch.eciheritage.net>
	<4550b5110912020732h4b92299avefac76765ba56f67@mail.gmail.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Beth Kanter
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:33 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines

 

Hi Stephanie:

 

The PowerHouse Museum one of the first museums to have a blogging policy

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2007/04/23/powerhouse-
museums-official-blog-policy-april-2007/

and here is a post about updating it:

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/04/14/updating-yo
ur-social-media-and-staff-blog-policies/

 

Also I've written about this topic and how it applies to nonprofits:

 

Social Media and The Workplace:  What Should Go In Your Social Media
Policy

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/04/social-media-in-the-nonprofit
-workplace-does-your-organization-need-a-policy.html

Includes pointers to other nonprofit policies

 

Social Media Usage Guidelines:  Don't Moon Anyone With A Camera or At

Least Hide Your Face While You Do It

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/more-on-social-media-policies
-and-nonprofits-whats-your-best-advice-for-policy.html

Policies are not enough, usage guidelines are important

 

 

Red Cross Social Media Policy/Operational Handbook

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/07/red-cross-social-media-strate
gypolicy-handbook-an-excellent-model.html

Example of policy and usage guidelines

 

A Twitter Like Twitter Policy

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/a-twitterlike-twitter-policy.
html

 

My Posts on Social Media Policy

Covers other issues

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/policy/

 

Beth Kanter

Beth's Blog

 

 

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Stephanie Fisher

<SFisher at minnetrista.net> wrote:

> I am putting together social networking guidelines for employees at
our

> museum.  Does your institution have a policy? Please share links and
key

> ideas, if you can. Thanks!

> 

> Stephanie Fisher

> ITS Coordinator

> Minnetrista

> 1200 North Minnetrista Pkwy

> Muncie, Indiana 47303

> 765-287-3509

> www.minnetrista.net

> 

> 

> 

> 

>
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Subject: [MCN-L] Along the lines of social media...
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We are in the process of researching different ways in which we can utilize social media (such as Facebook) to promote different events within the museum, but have had some questions about the best way to do this. Have you found that it is more beneficial to have all information found stemming from one page, or if it is more useful to give separate events/ groups their own page?  Would you allow the various program leaders to update the Facebook page or should that come from one administrator?

Thank you in advance for any feedback you can provide!

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:42:53 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] web apps
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Does anyone have experience developing web apps? I would be interested
to hear about your experiences.

 

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Regarding social networking guidelines, a wonderful resource is the Social Media Governance online database. Policies for a number of nonprofits are included:
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From valasec at fastmail.fm  Wed Dec  2 21:56:24 2009
From: valasec at fastmail.fm (VALA Executive Officer)
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:56:24 +1100
Subject: [MCN-L] VALA2010 Announces More Conference Details
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  ----Apologies for cross-postings----

VALA is pleased to advise that full details of the inaugural VALAtech
Boot Camp will be available on our Website on Monday 7 December,
together with a link to enable registered delegates to apply for a free
place in the session(s) of their choice.

Already announced has been the OCLC API Mashathon, on Monday 8 February
2010. We are very pleased indeed to be able to make the following
announcement.

Please feel free to pass it on!

THOMSON REUTERS' TOM TAGUE JOINS VALA CONFERENCE LINE-UP
 IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

OpenCalais Initiative Lead to Share Insights and Perspectives
 on Emerging 'Web 3.0' Trends

VALA is delighted to welcome Thomas Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead
from Thomson Reuters, to the VALA2010
conference(www.vala.org.au/conf2010.htm).

"I am extremely pleased to join the impressive roster of speakers at the
VALA conference this year," said Thomas Tague, OpenCalais Initiative
lead, Thomson Reuters.  "Some of our earliest adopters have been based
in Australia, including the pioneering Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and
we look forward to meeting face-to-face with the region's top content
experts to exchange insights and ideas on building success in tomorrow's
content landscape."

OpenCalais is the fastest way to tag the people, places, companies,
facts and events in content.  Found at OpenCalais.com, the free service
makes it easy to streamline editorial processes, enhance the value of
content and drive user engagement.

?       Tuesday, 9 February, 2:05 - 3:45 p.m., Boot Camp: OpenCalais
Workshop:
OpenCalais Initiative lead, Thomas Tague will hold a workshop during
VALA's first Boot Camp, sharing the top 10 ways to add value to content
with the free OpenCalais service.

?       Wednesday, 10 February, 3:15 - 4:40 p.m., 'Office Hours' in
Thomson Reuters booth (#59 & 60): 
Tom will be available to answer questions on how OpenCalais can help you
streamline content operations and enhance the value of your content.

?       Wednesday, 10 February, 4:40 - 5:40 p.m., Top Trends Panel: 
Tom will join the discussion of the rapidly evolving new content
economy, including innovations in the Semantic Web and the dialogue
between content and users in next-generation information portals.

?       Thursday, 11 February, 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. 'Next up? The Linked
Content Economy': 
Tom will share insights on the emerging media landscape - and the
rapidly evolving ecosystem of open data assets - based on more than two
years spent meeting with publishers, content curators and entrepreneurs
in the 'Web 3.0' space.

OpenCalais (www.opencalais.com) is a free Semantic Web service from
Thomson Reuters. OpenCalais used natural language processing (NLP) and
text analytics to analyse content, finding the entities, facts and
events it contains. Used by publishers such as The New Republic, Al
Jazeera, CBS Interactive / CNET, and the Huffington Post, OpenCalais
allows content providers to build richer and more engaging content.

About Thomas (Tom) Tague:
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the developer community at www.opencalais.com.  He is an internationally
recognised expert and keynote speaker on top trends in the semantic web,
and is a regular on Paul Miller's Semantic Web Gang
(http://cloudofdata.com/category/podcast/).

About the OpenCalais Initiative:
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connecting all the world's business-relevant content. It offers free
metadata generation services, developer tools and an automatic
connection to the Linked Data cloud.  The free OpenCalais service and
open API makes it easy to automate content operations, enhance content,
increase audience engagement and extend distribution across the content
ecosystem. Visit OpenCalais.com. With headquarters in New York and major
operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more
than 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more
information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com


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From JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au  Thu Dec  3 15:48:05 2009
From: JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au (JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:48:05 +1100
Subject: [MCN-L] web apps
In-Reply-To: <84853E7BA4DD944C91ECF76DD3DF669D225E6A@tfcmail.frick.org>
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Hi Floyd,

No-one else has replied (to the list, anyway) so I may as well chime in...

We are actually developing a web application framework right now, using
Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/).
I'm the content expert, so unfortunately I can't give you much in the way
of technical specifics.

However, I can tell you that, so far, our developers have built:
* a set of interrelated apps that control events, exhibitions and
'venues' (ie: the spaces within the museum where things happen)
* an app to create an interface for our collection database
* a contacts app
* a 'miscellaneous photos' app
* a podcasts channels app
* a history timeline app
* a flat pages app

I'm amazed at how quickly functionality can be built (apparently it's a bit
like bolting pre-fab bits of software together and making minor
adjustments); although, of course, a lot more time is required to test and
refine. The tools suit an agile development process
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development), which we are
using.

I'd be happy to report back to the list when we have launched stage 1
(hopefully by April 2010).

Regards,

Jonathan Cooper
Manager of information / website
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney AUSTRALIA
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Tel: +61 2 9225 1811 or +61 2 9225 1796 (message)
http://doctordada.com
jonathanc at ag.nsw.gov.au

mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu wrote on 03/12/2009 08:42:53 AM:

> Does anyone have experience developing web apps? I would be interested
> to hear about your experiences.
>
>
>
> Floyd Sweeting III  Head, Information Technology and New Media
> THE FRICK COLLECTION 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
> Tel: 212-547-6889  Fax: 212-879-2091 www.frick.org
> <http://www.frick.org/>

From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Thu Dec  3 17:17:35 2009
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:17:35 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
In-Reply-To: <A9F2DD8C-926C-43A9-BB9B-C3C14BBD4F9F@virginia.edu>
References: <A9F2DD8C-926C-43A9-BB9B-C3C14BBD4F9F@virginia.edu>
Message-ID: <a05f60f80912031717j792d57fw45d34398eca54bc3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the research
library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in
the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently working
on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I firmly
believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation,
with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of
reasons.

I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu


There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for
library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:

https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib

I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some
partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.

---
A. Soroka
Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
the University of Virginia Library

From brubakerconsulting at gmail.com  Thu Dec  3 18:13:50 2009
From: brubakerconsulting at gmail.com (Julie Brubaker)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:13:50 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Along the lines of social media...
In-Reply-To: <852D0B7B9E414D47AEAB0659DC50CCA705F264118B@speedmail4>
References: <852D0B7B9E414D47AEAB0659DC50CCA705F264118B@speedmail4>
Message-ID: <e69cfb9b0912031813udfdbc0cv2bedac9b599cbac1@mail.gmail.com>

FYI: On Saturday 12/5, the Holocaust Museum is hosting a conference on
how to use social media for good. http://www.ushmm.org/social/blog/
You can follow the conference using the #conconf hashtag on twitter.

________________________________
Julie P. Brubaker
Founder, Brubaker Consulting
Executive Technology and Strategy Consulting
 for Museums, Non-Profits, and Universities
BrubakerConsulting at gmail.com
Twitter: @JulieBrubaker
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliepbrubaker



On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Kirsten Popp <kpopp at speedmuseum.org> wrote:
> We are in the process of researching different ways in which we can utilize social media (such as Facebook) to promote different events within the museum, but have had some questions about the best way to do this. Have you found that it is more beneficial to have all information found stemming from one page, or if it is more useful to give separate events/ groups their own page? ?Would you allow the various program leaders to update the Facebook page or should that come from one administrator?
>
> Thank you in advance for any feedback you can provide!
>
> Kirsten Popp
> The Speed Art Museum
> Public Information Associate
> kpopp at speedmuseum.org<mailto:kpopp at speedmuseum.org>
>
>
>
>
>
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From waibelg at oclc.org  Fri Dec  4 09:16:23 2009
From: waibelg at oclc.org (Waibel,Guenter)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:16:23 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
In-Reply-To: <a05f60f80912031717j792d57fw45d34398eca54bc3@mail.gmail.com>
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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 that you'll correct me.)

What I think I've learned:
You can use XForms to store keyed data in an XML format of your choosing.
However, you can't use XForms to transform pre-existing structured data into XML.

In other words, in the context of descriptive metadata, it seems to me that XForms would only be useful in an instance where you are cataloging from scratch. From my vantage point, the most pressing issue in museums is to transform existing data housed in collections management systems into XML, and from what I've learned so far, XForms is not applicable to that task.

So in the end, my key question is the niche which XForms could fill in a museum context: how do you envision XForms could help an institution whose core information system is a database? In other words, what would a use case for a CDWA Lite editor be? How would a museum use XForms to create metadata when the main investment in creating that metadata is the collections management system? 

Cheers,
G?nter

***

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OCLC Research
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:18 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

Hi all,

I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the research
library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in
the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently working
on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I firmly
believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation,
with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of
reasons.

I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu


There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for
library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:

https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib

I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some
partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.

---
A. Soroka
Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
the University of Virginia Library
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From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Fri Dec  4 12:19:46 2009
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:19:46 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
In-Reply-To: <AA3DCFAA4E87BD40BBAA507B1C36CC3D0228B509@OAEXCH4SERVER.oa.oclc.org>
References: <A9F2DD8C-926C-43A9-BB9B-C3C14BBD4F9F@virginia.edu>
	<a05f60f80912031717j792d57fw45d34398eca54bc3@mail.gmail.com>
	<AA3DCFAA4E87BD40BBAA507B1C36CC3D0228B509@OAEXCH4SERVER.oa.oclc.org>
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Hi G?nter,

Thank you for the interesting set of questions.  To address the first: yes,
you can create XML from scratch or open pre-existing XML documents and save
them back to a repository.

The second issue is more complex.  I assume by "pre-existing structured
data" you mean a database?  XForms doesn't do this directly, but the
enterprise software application, Orbeon, which is designed to address low
level information management issues for XForms applications, can communicate
with any web service through REST or SOAP.  Hypothetically, you can build an
XForms app on top of a traditional database, but that is not really the
intent of the standard.

Databases and XML both have their strengths and weaknesses.  XML is very
good for describing highly hierarchical information, complex contextual
information, and optional and repeatable elements.  Databases tend to
struggle to encapsulate this information efficiently, yet databases form the
backbone for the content management systems that museums use.  The reason is
that since flat databases are much more simple, it is easier to program
forms to create, edit, and delete records.  The technology for performing
the same operations on complicated, hierarchical XML files (like CDWA or
EAD) simply wasn't available until very recently.  XForms apps, and Orbeon
for delivering them, have advanced in the last two or three years to the
point where they are now.  Currently, many libraries and archives are
developing XML manually in text editors (and even Microsoft Word!).  This
presents a dilemma for the museum community, which is heavily invested in
proprietary databases that require licensing fees.  This is in contrast to
libraries and archives, which are increasingly involved in the use and
development of open source applications for providing access to
collections.

XML standards such as VRA Core and CDWA would enable more robust metadata
description for art and artifactual collections than databases.  As a
result, one can create more useful discovery tools and user interfaces than
those that currently exist.  As far as open source solutions go,
CollectiveAccess is a great step forward, though I believe it could be even
better if the underlying data was CDWA that can be managed with an XForms
backend and delivered with a front end that takes advantage of what the XML
has to offer, including the use of Solr for faceted search.

In summation, if an institution's core data is contained in a database,
XForms would not be of much use.  The subscription model for proprietary
software is dying in the library realm, so I would encourage museum
professionals to take part in a dialog on 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.

Ethan Gruber
University of Virginia Library

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Waibel,Guenter <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote:

> 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 that you'll
> correct me.)
>
> What I think I've learned:
> You can use XForms to store keyed data in an XML format of your choosing.
> However, you can't use XForms to transform pre-existing structured data
> into XML.
>
> In other words, in the context of descriptive metadata, it seems to me that
> XForms would only be useful in an instance where you are cataloging from
> scratch. From my vantage point, the most pressing issue in museums is to
> transform existing data housed in collections management systems into XML,
> and from what I've learned so far, XForms is not applicable to that task.
>
> So in the end, my key question is the niche which XForms could fill in a
> museum context: how do you envision XForms could help an institution whose
> core information system is a database? In other words, what would a use case
> for a CDWA Lite editor be? How would a museum use XForms to create metadata
> when the main investment in creating that metadata is the collections
> management system?
>
> Cheers,
> G?nter
>
> ***
>
> G?nter Waibel
> OCLC Research
> voice: +1-650-287-2144
> G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:18 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
>
> Hi all,
>
> I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
> experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the
> research
> library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in
> the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently
> working
> on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
> Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I
> firmly
> believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation,
> with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of
> reasons.
>
> I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
> museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
> subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
> interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
> Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
> To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu
>
>
> There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for
> library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
> committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
> investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
> discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:
>
> https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib
>
> I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some
> partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
> there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
> alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.
>
> ---
> A. Soroka
> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
> the University of Virginia Library
> _______________________________________________
> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer
> Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
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From waibelg at oclc.org  Fri Dec  4 12:46:47 2009
From: waibelg at oclc.org (Waibel,Guenter)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:46:47 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
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Hi Ethan,

Thanks for going into more detail on what XForm is good and useful for. My take-away is that you can most readily use it if you're creating XML data from scratch, and if you're managing all your data in native XML rather than in a database system.

Needless to say, I wholeheartedly agree with you that increasing the capacity of the museum community to output standards-based descriptive data brings with it a lot of benefits. OCLC Research has just wrapped up a Mellon grant which (among other things) made available tools to extract data from a collections management system in CDWA Lite XML, and make the data harvestable via OAI-PMH. I'll post a link to the final project report once it is available - however, you can already access the free tools (linked to from http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/museumdata/)

I haven't followed the various open source collection management 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.edu] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:20 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

Hi G?nter,

Thank you for the interesting set of questions.  To address the first: yes,
you can create XML from scratch or open pre-existing XML documents and save
them back to a repository.

The second issue is more complex.  I assume by "pre-existing structured
data" you mean a database?  XForms doesn't do this directly, but the
enterprise software application, Orbeon, which is designed to address low
level information management issues for XForms applications, can communicate
with any web service through REST or SOAP.  Hypothetically, you can build an
XForms app on top of a traditional database, but that is not really the
intent of the standard.

Databases and XML both have their strengths and weaknesses.  XML is very
good for describing highly hierarchical information, complex contextual
information, and optional and repeatable elements.  Databases tend to
struggle to encapsulate this information efficiently, yet databases form the
backbone for the content management systems that museums use.  The reason is
that since flat databases are much more simple, it is easier to program
forms to create, edit, and delete records.  The technology for performing
the same operations on complicated, hierarchical XML files (like CDWA or
EAD) simply wasn't available until very recently.  XForms apps, and Orbeon
for delivering them, have advanced in the last two or three years to the
point where they are now.  Currently, many libraries and archives are
developing XML manually in text editors (and even Microsoft Word!).  This
presents a dilemma for the museum community, which is heavily invested in
proprietary databases that require licensing fees.  This is in contrast to
libraries and archives, which are increasingly involved in the use and
development of open source applications for providing access to
collections.

XML standards such as VRA Core and CDWA would enable more robust metadata
description for art and artifactual collections than databases.  As a
result, one can create more useful discovery tools and user interfaces than
those that currently exist.  As far as open source solutions go,
CollectiveAccess is a great step forward, though I believe it could be even
better if the underlying data was CDWA that can be managed with an XForms
backend and delivered with a front end that takes advantage of what the XML
has to offer, including the use of Solr for faceted search.

In summation, if an institution's core data is contained in a database,
XForms would not be of much use.  The subscription model for proprietary
software is dying in the library realm, so I would encourage museum
professionals to take part in a dialog on 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.

Ethan Gruber
University of Virginia Library

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Waibel,Guenter <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote:

> 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 that you'll
> correct me.)
>
> What I think I've learned:
> You can use XForms to store keyed data in an XML format of your choosing.
> However, you can't use XForms to transform pre-existing structured data
> into XML.
>
> In other words, in the context of descriptive metadata, it seems to me that
> XForms would only be useful in an instance where you are cataloging from
> scratch. From my vantage point, the most pressing issue in museums is to
> transform existing data housed in collections management systems into XML,
> and from what I've learned so far, XForms is not applicable to that task.
>
> So in the end, my key question is the niche which XForms could fill in a
> museum context: how do you envision XForms could help an institution whose
> core information system is a database? In other words, what would a use case
> for a CDWA Lite editor be? How would a museum use XForms to create metadata
> when the main investment in creating that metadata is the collections
> management system?
>
> Cheers,
> G?nter
>
> ***
>
> G?nter Waibel
> OCLC Research
> voice: +1-650-287-2144
> G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:18 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
>
> Hi all,
>
> I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
> experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the
> research
> library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in
> the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently
> working
> on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
> Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I
> firmly
> believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation,
> with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of
> reasons.
>
> I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
> museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
> subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
> interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
> Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
> To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu
>
>
> There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for
> library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
> committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
> investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
> discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:
>
> https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib
>
> I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some
> partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
> there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
> alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.
>
> ---
> A. Soroka
> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
> the University of Virginia Library
> _______________________________________________
> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer
> Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
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From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Fri Dec  4 12:59:36 2009
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:59:36 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
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I'm not completely familiar with all of the details about the databases many
of the proprietary museum collection systems are dependent on.  You can
export mySQL to XML, and it would not be very difficult to transform it into
CDWA Lite with an XSLT stylesheet once one establishes a crosswalk from the
field names in the database to their equivalent in CDWA.  If SirsiDynix, a
big developer of library catalogs, is any indication, some proprietary
museum systems may have been programmed in a way that is not human readable,
with few or no comments in the code.  Field names in the database may also
be little more than strings of incomprehensible characters.  This is because
SirsiDynix designed their system from the ground up to not be migratable to
other systems, so that institutions would be locked indefinitely into using
their subscription-based software.  I don't know to what extent this occurs
in museum systems, but I'm afraid it may present an enormous obstacle to
migrating to open systems in the future.

Ethan

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Waibel,Guenter <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote:

> Hi Ethan,
>
> Thanks for going into more detail on what XForm is good and useful for. My
> take-away is that you can most readily use it if you're creating XML data
> from scratch, and if you're managing all your data in native XML rather than
> in a database system.
>
> Needless to say, I wholeheartedly agree with you that increasing the
> capacity of the museum community to output standards-based descriptive data
> brings with it a lot of benefits. OCLC Research has just wrapped up a Mellon
> grant which (among other things) made available tools to extract data from a
> collections management system in CDWA Lite XML, and make the data
> harvestable via OAI-PMH. I'll post a link to the final project report once
> it is available - however, you can already access the free tools (linked to
> from http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/museumdata/)
>
> I haven't followed the various open source collection management 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.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:20 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in
> libraries
>
> Hi G?nter,
>
> Thank you for the interesting set of questions.  To address the first: yes,
> you can create XML from scratch or open pre-existing XML documents and save
> them back to a repository.
>
> The second issue is more complex.  I assume by "pre-existing structured
> data" you mean a database?  XForms doesn't do this directly, but the
> enterprise software application, Orbeon, which is designed to address low
> level information management issues for XForms applications, can
> communicate
> with any web service through REST or SOAP.  Hypothetically, you can build
> an
> XForms app on top of a traditional database, but that is not really the
> intent of the standard.
>
> Databases and XML both have their strengths and weaknesses.  XML is very
> good for describing highly hierarchical information, complex contextual
> information, and optional and repeatable elements.  Databases tend to
> struggle to encapsulate this information efficiently, yet databases form
> the
> backbone for the content management systems that museums use.  The reason
> is
> that since flat databases are much more simple, it is easier to program
> forms to create, edit, and delete records.  The technology for performing
> the same operations on complicated, hierarchical XML files (like CDWA or
> EAD) simply wasn't available until very recently.  XForms apps, and Orbeon
> for delivering them, have advanced in the last two or three years to the
> point where they are now.  Currently, many libraries and archives are
> developing XML manually in text editors (and even Microsoft Word!).  This
> presents a dilemma for the museum community, which is heavily invested in
> proprietary databases that require licensing fees.  This is in contrast to
> libraries and archives, which are increasingly involved in the use and
> development of open source applications for providing access to
> collections.
>
> XML standards such as VRA Core and CDWA would enable more robust metadata
> description for art and artifactual collections than databases.  As a
> result, one can create more useful discovery tools and user interfaces than
> those that currently exist.  As far as open source solutions go,
> CollectiveAccess is a great step forward, though I believe it could be even
> better if the underlying data was CDWA that can be managed with an XForms
> backend and delivered with a front end that takes advantage of what the XML
> has to offer, including the use of Solr for faceted search.
>
> In summation, if an institution's core data is contained in a database,
> XForms would not be of much use.  The subscription model for proprietary
> software is dying in the library realm, so I would encourage museum
> professionals to take part in a dialog on 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.
>
> Ethan Gruber
> University of Virginia Library
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Waibel,Guenter <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote:
>
> > 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 that
> you'll
> > correct me.)
> >
> > What I think I've learned:
> > You can use XForms to store keyed data in an XML format of your choosing.
> > However, you can't use XForms to transform pre-existing structured data
> > into XML.
> >
> > In other words, in the context of descriptive metadata, it seems to me
> that
> > XForms would only be useful in an instance where you are cataloging from
> > scratch. From my vantage point, the most pressing issue in museums is to
> > transform existing data housed in collections management systems into
> XML,
> > and from what I've learned so far, XForms is not applicable to that task.
> >
> > So in the end, my key question is the niche which XForms could fill in a
> > museum context: how do you envision XForms could help an institution
> whose
> > core information system is a database? In other words, what would a use
> case
> > for a CDWA Lite editor be? How would a museum use XForms to create
> metadata
> > when the main investment in creating that metadata is the collections
> > management system?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > G?nter
> >
> > ***
> >
> > G?nter Waibel
> > OCLC Research
> > voice: +1-650-287-2144
> > G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> > Ethan Gruber
> > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:18 PM
> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> > Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
> > experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the
> > research
> > library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used
> in
> > the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently
> > working
> > on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
> > Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I
> > firmly
> > believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata
> creation,
> > with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety
> of
> > reasons.
> >
> > I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
> > museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
> > subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
> > interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
> > Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
> > To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu
> >
> >
> > There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms
> for
> > library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
> > committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
> > investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
> > discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:
> >
> > https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib
> >
> > I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even
> some
> > partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
> > there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
> > alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.
> >
> > ---
> > A. Soroka
> > Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
> > the University of Virginia Library
> > _______________________________________________
> > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum
> Computer
> > Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
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> >
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> >
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From seth at whirl-i-gig.com  Fri Dec  4 14:15:19 2009
From: seth at whirl-i-gig.com (Seth)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:15:19 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
In-Reply-To: <a05f60f80912041219s70a9000arc408881bcdf03c5f@mail.gmail.com>
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Ethan,

Thanks for the kind words regarding CollectiveAccess!

As for XML/XForms vs. databases, I think you're conflating a specific form of data representation (XML) with the operations you wish to perform on your data. You can indeed handle hierarchies, loosely typed data, repeating and complex values, etc. in a relational database. And you can implement modern and innovative discovery tools with relationally stored data. As with most tools there's a trade-off - in this case between a variety of things including ease of use, perceived reliability and performance. Despite the attractions of XML-based models, relational databases are still relevant because they're well understood, scale well and generally provide good performance. For most uses they are firmly in "good enough" territory. 

That's not to say handling hierarchies and repeating values in a relational database is particularly fun, any more than fiddling with XPath is fun. But it can be done, it works, and being able to deploy using well supported and widely available software stacks is a huge advantage. And you can always output a representation of your data in an XML format if need be.

The next update to CollectiveAccess can be automatically configured at install-time with a schema implementing CDWA. (Other standards are supported too, including DublinCore, DarwinCore, PBCore and SPECTRUM along as well as a collection of user-developed schemas for specific use cases). It can also use SOLR as its search engine, although we're not taking advantage of all SOLR has to offer at the moment. We're not using XForms yet but there's nothing to prevent us from going in that direction in the future. I look forward to the day when all widely used browsers provide built-in XForms support.


Seth Kaufman
CollectiveAccess developer


On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hi G?nter,
> 
> Thank you for the interesting set of questions.  To address the first: yes,
> you can create XML from scratch or open pre-existing XML documents and save
> them back to a repository.
> 
> The second issue is more complex.  I assume by "pre-existing structured
> data" you mean a database?  XForms doesn't do this directly, but the
> enterprise software application, Orbeon, which is designed to address low
> level information management issues for XForms applications, can communicate
> with any web service through REST or SOAP.  Hypothetically, you can build an
> XForms app on top of a traditional database, but that is not really the
> intent of the standard.
> 
> Databases and XML both have their strengths and weaknesses.  XML is very
> good for describing highly hierarchical information, complex contextual
> information, and optional and repeatable elements.  Databases tend to
> struggle to encapsulate this information efficiently, yet databases form the
> backbone for the content management systems that museums use.  The reason is
> that since flat databases are much more simple, it is easier to program
> forms to create, edit, and delete records.  The technology for performing
> the same operations on complicated, hierarchical XML files (like CDWA or
> EAD) simply wasn't available until very recently.  XForms apps, and Orbeon
> for delivering them, have advanced in the last two or three years to the
> point where they are now.  Currently, many libraries and archives are
> developing XML manually in text editors (and even Microsoft Word!).  This
> presents a dilemma for the museum community, which is heavily invested in
> proprietary databases that require licensing fees.  This is in contrast to
> libraries and archives, which are increasingly involved in the use and
> development of open source applications for providing access to
> collections.
> 
> XML standards such as VRA Core and CDWA would enable more robust metadata
> description for art and artifactual collections than databases.  As a
> result, one can create more useful discovery tools and user interfaces than
> those that currently exist.  As far as open source solutions go,
> CollectiveAccess is a great step forward, though I believe it could be even
> better if the underlying data was CDWA that can be managed with an XForms
> backend and delivered with a front end that takes advantage of what the XML
> has to offer, including the use of Solr for faceted search.
> 
> In summation, if an institution's core data is contained in a database,
> XForms would not be of much use.  The subscription model for proprietary
> software is dying in the library realm, so I would encourage museum
> professionals to take part in a dialog on 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.
> 
> Ethan Gruber
> University of Virginia Library
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Waibel,Guenter <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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 that you'll
>> correct me.)
>> 
>> What I think I've learned:
>> You can use XForms to store keyed data in an XML format of your choosing.
>> However, you can't use XForms to transform pre-existing structured data
>> into XML.
>> 
>> In other words, in the context of descriptive metadata, it seems to me that
>> XForms would only be useful in an instance where you are cataloging from
>> scratch. From my vantage point, the most pressing issue in museums is to
>> transform existing data housed in collections management systems into XML,
>> and from what I've learned so far, XForms is not applicable to that task.
>> 
>> So in the end, my key question is the niche which XForms could fill in a
>> museum context: how do you envision XForms could help an institution whose
>> core information system is a database? In other words, what would a use case
>> for a CDWA Lite editor be? How would a museum use XForms to create metadata
>> when the main investment in creating that metadata is the collections
>> management system?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> G?nter
>> 
>> ***
>> 
>> G?nter Waibel
>> OCLC Research
>> voice: +1-650-287-2144
>> G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
>> Ethan Gruber
>> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:18 PM
>> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
>> Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's
>> experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the
>> research
>> library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in
>> the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files.  I am currently
>> working
>> on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA
>> Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor.  I
>> firmly
>> believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation,
>> with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of
>> reasons.
>> 
>> I am forwarding this email from code4lib.  I encourage technologists and
>> museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to
>> subscribe to the listserv described in the email below.  I am personally
>> interested in the adaptation of common library software 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: [Your Name] <ajs6f at virginia.edu>
>> Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries
>> To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu
>> 
>> 
>> There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for
>> library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have
>> committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are
>> investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific
>> discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at:
>> 
>> https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib
>> 
>> I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some
>> partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me,
>> there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors
>> alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other.
>> 
>> ---
>> A. Soroka
>> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
>> the University of Virginia Library
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From Tfullerton at vmfa.state.va.us  Mon Dec  7 05:45:46 2009
From: Tfullerton at vmfa.state.va.us (Travis Fullerton)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:45:46 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
Message-ID: <C742713A.55C5%Tfullerton@vmfa.state.va.us>

Hello MCN-L?ers, 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is currently in the process of researching
a new Collections Management System and DAM system to coincide with our 2010
Expansion. We have had an internal task force assessing our needs and
researching the DAMs and CMS marketplace. We are now looking to see, from
our peers (you all), how these systems work first hand.

We would like to know if there are any of you out there within a couple
hours drive of Richmond, VA, or really anyone in the mid-atlantic, who has
recently implemented a new system (DAM or CMS), that might be willing to
host a small group of us for a tour/demo. We are particularly interested in
what systems are most commonly being used, how your DAMs and CMS are being
integrated, and how they are being used on a day to day basis.

We would also appreciate it if anyone that has recently implemented a new
CMS or DAM system would be willing to share your RFP requirements and/or
specifications. 

Please feel free to respond on or off list.

Thanks!


Travis Fullerton
Assistant Photographer
Photography Department
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007
T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548
travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum

www.vmfa.museum

From jbedard at artsmia.org  Mon Dec  7 06:15:05 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:15:05 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Interesting conference idea
Message-ID: <4B1CB9890200003100046087@MIA1.artsmia.org>

Here is an announcement I received from another organization following its annual conference.  It is working with a third party to video conference presentations and make them available at a nominal fee.  Maybe something for MCN to consider in the future.

John

>>> <NiUG at cmcgc.com> 12/3/2009 11:32 AM >>>
Were you unable to attend The NiUG International Discovery Conference
that was held September 28 - 30, in Baltimore? Well, here is your chance
to catch up on all you missed!

Together through a collaborative partnership with Content Management
Corp, NiUG is now offering alternative means of iMIS education. You can
now download sessions from the Discovery Conference that have been audio
synchronized with the instructors PowerPoint presentation and/or
additional software applications used throughout their session. What
this means is that you can follow along with them and get that one on
one, detailed information and training you need!

The conference and all its vital information is preserved! Listen to a
motivating, informative address, or hear the compelling sessions you
missed. The captured content is an excellent benefit and now available
(as released for inclusion).

As a member, you are being offered the option to purchase the content
from the entire conference for $499.00 or purchase content from
individual days for $249.00! Not sold yet!? Well take a look at some of
the offerings by clicking on the preview option prior to purchasing!

To access the education portal, simply click on the following web link (
http://www.softconference.com/niug) or copy and paste the link to your
browser.

How to view presentations AFTER purchasing:

	Please click on the "Log-in/Create Account" link on the top
right hand corner and log in as returning user using the Email Address
and Password provided below. Once logged in, select "my content" located
on the right hand side of the page. This will direct you to a list of
sessions that you have purchased.

	Another option for displaying your purchased content is to
choose the link to "Access Online Content". For each of the sessions you
have purchased, you will find a purple "View" button that will open the
session.

How to download the Audio Only MP3 file after purchasing:

	Click the drop down menu in the flash player where it says,
click here for more options. Select Downloads and save this MP3 Audio
file to your computer.

*	Username: 
*	Password: 

If needed, contact CMC's IT department for technical support by phone
toll free at 
1-888-711-1138 (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST) or via E-mail: support at cmcgc.com 
<mailto:support at cmcgc.com> . 



From TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu  Mon Dec  7 07:05:18 2009
From: TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:05:18 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <C742713A.55C5%Tfullerton@vmfa.state.va.us>
References: <C742713A.55C5%Tfullerton@vmfa.state.va.us>
Message-ID: <FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C1E7@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>

Hello,
I would be most interested to hear the responses, as we are currently looking into a new CMS here at MFIT. A DAM is a much longer range goal, but definitely being considered.
Thanks!

--
Tamsen Schwartzman
Museum Media Manager
The Museum at FIT, Room E116
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
212~217~4547  **  212~217~4561 fax
www.fitnyc.edu/museum
Visit our collections online at fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter @MuseumatFIT

Closes April 10: American Beauty
Closes May 11: Night & Day
Opens March 9: Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Travis Fullerton
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:46 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

Hello MCN-L?ers, 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is currently in the process of researching
a new Collections Management System and DAM system to coincide with our 2010
Expansion. We have had an internal task force assessing our needs and
researching the DAMs and CMS marketplace. We are now looking to see, from
our peers (you all), how these systems work first hand.

We would like to know if there are any of you out there within a couple
hours drive of Richmond, VA, or really anyone in the mid-atlantic, who has
recently implemented a new system (DAM or CMS), that might be willing to
host a small group of us for a tour/demo. We are particularly interested in
what systems are most commonly being used, how your DAMs and CMS are being
integrated, and how they are being used on a day to day basis.

We would also appreciate it if anyone that has recently implemented a new
CMS or DAM system would be willing to share your RFP requirements and/or
specifications. 

Please feel free to respond on or off list.

Thanks!


Travis Fullerton
Assistant Photographer
Photography Department
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007
T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548
travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum

www.vmfa.museum
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Mon Dec  7 08:31:36 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:31:36 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?IP_SIG=3A_=FE=FECopyright_Watch=3A_onlin?=
 =?windows-1255?q?e_database_of_national_copyright_laws?=
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C4BC@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

I think I forwarded this to the list before, but only now have I had a chance to look at the site, and
my reaction is "wow."  Everyone in the business needs to have this one bookmarked.  

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for
Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined
together today to launch Copyright Watch -- a public website created
to centralize resources on national copyright laws at
http://www.copyright-watch.org .

Copyright Watch is the first comprehensive and up-to-date online
repository of national and regional copyright laws. Users can find
links by choosing a continent or by searching a country name. The site
will be updated over time to include proposed amendments to laws, as
well as commentary and context from national copyright experts.
Copyright Watch will help document how legislators around the world
are coping with the challenges of new technology and new business
models.

For the full press release:
https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/11/13

______________________________________________


From rissanen at museumca.org  Mon Dec  7 09:19:30 2009
From: rissanen at museumca.org (Carolyn Rissanen)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:19:30 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C1E7@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>
Message-ID: <3343056538-353971565@mail.mediatrope.com>

Please post responses to the list - we are also looking!


Carolyn Rissanen
Registrar, Natural Sciences
Oakland Museum of California
510-238-3885
www.museumca.org
 
 2010 "A New State of Mind"
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:05 AM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

Hello,
I would be most interested to hear the responses, as we are currently
looking into a new CMS here at MFIT. A DAM is a much longer range goal, but
definitely being considered.
Thanks!

--
Tamsen Schwartzman
Museum Media Manager
The Museum at FIT, Room E116
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
212~217~4547  **  212~217~4561 fax
www.fitnyc.edu/museum
Visit our collections online at fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter @MuseumatFIT

Closes April 10: American Beauty
Closes May 11: Night & Day
Opens March 9: Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Travis Fullerton
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:46 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

Hello MCN-L?ers, 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is currently in the process of researching
a new Collections Management System and DAM system to coincide with our 2010
Expansion. We have had an internal task force assessing our needs and
researching the DAMs and CMS marketplace. We are now looking to see, from
our peers (you all), how these systems work first hand.

We would like to know if there are any of you out there within a couple
hours drive of Richmond, VA, or really anyone in the mid-atlantic, who has
recently implemented a new system (DAM or CMS), that might be willing to
host a small group of us for a tour/demo. We are particularly interested in
what systems are most commonly being used, how your DAMs and CMS are being
integrated, and how they are being used on a day to day basis.

We would also appreciate it if anyone that has recently implemented a new
CMS or DAM system would be willing to share your RFP requirements and/or
specifications. 

Please feel free to respond on or off list.

Thanks!


Travis Fullerton
Assistant Photographer
Photography Department
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007
T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548
travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum

www.vmfa.museum
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From aridavidow at gmail.com  Mon Dec  7 11:07:09 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:07:09 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C1E7@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>
References: <C742713A.55C5%Tfullerton@vmfa.state.va.us>
	<FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C1E7@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>
Message-ID: <747cfaf50912071107ndeacb52gcd3f67c7295c46ff@mail.gmail.com>

You know, I could see how a DAM might feed into a CMS--and it would be
a great idea--but would not want to be responsible for digital asset
management if the opposite were true--so much of what is required for
DAM is irrelevant and usually not present on a CMS.

I am curious, though. Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

ari

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN
<TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would be most interested to hear the responses, as we are currently looking into a new CMS here at MFIT. A DAM is a much longer range goal, but definitely being considered.
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Tamsen Schwartzman
> Museum Media Manager
> The Museum at FIT, Room E116
> Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
> New York, NY 10001
> 212~217~4547 ?** ?212~217~4561 fax
> www.fitnyc.edu/museum
> Visit our collections online at fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
> Find us on Facebook
> Follow us on Twitter @MuseumatFIT
>
> Closes April 10: American Beauty
> Closes May 11: Night & Day
> Opens March 9: Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Travis Fullerton
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:46 AM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
>
> Hello MCN-L?ers,
>
> The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is currently in the process of researching
> a new Collections Management System and DAM system to coincide with our 2010
> Expansion. We have had an internal task force assessing our needs and
> researching the DAMs and CMS marketplace. We are now looking to see, from
> our peers (you all), how these systems work first hand.
>
> We would like to know if there are any of you out there within a couple
> hours drive of Richmond, VA, or really anyone in the mid-atlantic, who has
> recently implemented a new system (DAM or CMS), that might be willing to
> host a small group of us for a tour/demo. We are particularly interested in
> what systems are most commonly being used, how your DAMs and CMS are being
> integrated, and how they are being used on a day to day basis.
>
> We would also appreciate it if anyone that has recently implemented a new
> CMS or DAM system would be willing to share your RFP requirements and/or
> specifications.
>
> Please feel free to respond on or off list.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Travis Fullerton
> Assistant Photographer
> Photography Department
> Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
> 200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007
> T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548
> travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum
>
> www.vmfa.museum
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From P-Dueker at NGA.GOV  Mon Dec  7 12:08:33 2009
From: P-Dueker at NGA.GOV (Dueker, Peter)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:08:33 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <747cfaf50912071107ndeacb52gcd3f67c7295c46ff@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C742CAF1.EE38%P-Dueker@NGA.GOV>

An evergreen topic - came up recently on the TMS listserve as well.

> so much of what is required for
> DAM is irrelevant and usually not present on a CMS

My personal belief is that the functional requirements differ enough that it
is rarely practical to shoehorn the functionality of a DAM into an existing
CMS (or vice versa). You end up short changing one area or another and
rarely get everything you need.

However, I've talked with others on the list who feel quite the opposite.
Perhaps it's material enough for a panel sometime at MCN ...

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

We assign object data to images in our DAM [Extensis Portfolio] using
extract data from our CMS [TMS] , we also push images into the CMS from the
DAM. Absolutely essential.

In this day and age, I don't see a reason to select systems that cannot
communicate with other systems.  I would be hesitant to work with a vendor
who is unwilling or unable to provide information regarding integration
[such as a comprehensible data dictionary] with other products. Again,
personal opinion, but I think this one of the real strengths of both
Portfolio and TMS - they really do work well together.

Peter Dueker
Contract DAMS Manager
Division of Imaging and Visual Services
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 


On 12/7/09 2:07 PM, "Ari Davidow" <aridavidow at gmail.com> wrote:
.

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?


From rebecca at earley.com  Mon Dec  7 13:51:22 2009
From: rebecca at earley.com (Rebecca Allen)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:51:22 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] (Event) Digital Asset Management: Free webinar series
 January 14 - February 4
Message-ID: <1BA1D3B187889949807E12A78D7EA83B7141C0B05B@EXMBX04.exchhosting.com>

Earley & Associates presents a free 4-part Jumpstart webinar series dedicated to the strategic, organizational and technological challenges of Digital Asset Management (DAM). The series of 90-minute weekly webinars begins with laying the groundwork for building the business case for DAM, and subsequent sessions tackle marketing resource management, optimizing creative workflows, and the impact of taxonomy on asset reuse. We will close with an overview of the DAM vendor landscape, including tool selection considerations and the vendor selection process.

Dates: Thursdays, January 14-February 4, 2010
Time:  1:00-2:30pm Eastern
Cost: Free

For session details and registration, please visit: http://bit.ly/63jfhn

Rebecca Allen
Taxonomy Consultant
_____________________________
EARLEY & ASSOCIATES
Cell: 425-299-5400
Email: rebecca at earley.com
Web: www.earley.com




From alaporta at clevelandart.org  Mon Dec  7 14:13:14 2009
From: alaporta at clevelandart.org (Adam LaPorta)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:13:14 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management (Travis Fullerton)
 + (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN) + (Carolyn Rissanen) + (Ari Davidow)
Message-ID: <B21304DE04502843AEF8D100F6FAE431BA1250E703@MAIL02.clevelandart.org>

Hello Travis

Here at the Cleveland Museum of Art we have been using a DAM system called Piction. The task committee underwent many product  comparisons, reviews, user feedback and the decision was made. We currently use our DAM for:

Permanent Collection Objects

We are now implementing:

- Editorial Photography Collection
- Video Collection
- Conservation Object photography collection
- Performing Arts Collection (Audio assets)
Our institution has a Performing Arts department in which all performances are recorded (audio) or captured (video or still imagery)

We are integrating the DAM with our online collection and other assets that feed the web as well.

Ari,

Our plan is to host all of our Permanent collection images and conservation treatment photography in our DAM and feed our CMS with it. Thus reducing the amount of redundant images in multiple systems.

We are/have architected Piction so that users can access all collections, specific collections, or just one collection at a time. Users that have cross collection access can/will find multiple media asset types located throughout Piction (given the proper "tag/identity")

Hope this helps!

Feel free to contact

Cheers,

Adam LaPorta
Digital Imaging Specialist
The Cleveland Museum of Art

alaporta at clevelandart.org
phone: (216) 707- 2762


>>>>>>>>>>>

Message: 1
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:45:46 -0500
From: Travis Fullerton <Tfullerton at vmfa.state.va.us>
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <C742713A.55C5%Tfullerton at vmfa.state.va.us>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="ISO-8859-1"

Hello MCN-L?ers,

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is currently in the process of researching
a new Collections Management System and DAM system to coincide with our 2010
Expansion. We have had an internal task force assessing our needs and
researching the DAMs and CMS marketplace. We are now looking to see, from
our peers (you all), how these systems work first hand.

We would like to know if there are any of you out there within a couple
hours drive of Richmond, VA, or really anyone in the mid-atlantic, who has
recently implemented a new system (DAM or CMS), that might be willing to
host a small group of us for a tour/demo. We are particularly interested in
what systems are most commonly being used, how your DAMs and CMS are being
integrated, and how they are being used on a day to day basis.

We would also appreciate it if anyone that has recently implemented a new
CMS or DAM system would be willing to share your RFP requirements and/or
specifications.

Please feel free to respond on or off list.

Thanks!


Travis Fullerton
Assistant Photographer
Photography Department
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N Boulevard / Richmond, VA 23220-4007
T 804.340.1538 / F 804.340.1548
travis.fullerton at vmfa.museum

From chad.petrovay at themim.org  Mon Dec  7 16:11:03 2009
From: chad.petrovay at themim.org (Chad Petrovay)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:11:03 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <C742CAF1.EE38%P-Dueker@NGA.GOV>
References: <747cfaf50912071107ndeacb52gcd3f67c7295c46ff@mail.gmail.com>
	<C742CAF1.EE38%P-Dueker@NGA.GOV>
Message-ID: <68298022D2B4BC4C8FDBA80B548FD3ADC7E8BA@mim02.mim.local>

Extensis Portfolio uses a proprietary flat-file format for data storage - you'll need to purchase the SQL Server back-end option to make cross-system communication possible. I only mention it because licensing for Extensis Portfolio is reasonable, but the SQL back-end is an additional product.

Chad Petrovay ?| ?Collections Database Administrator
MIM-Musical Instrument Museum | 8550 S. Priest Drive ?| ?Tempe, AZ 85284 
480.481.2460 main ?| ?480.353.2746 direct | 480.481.2459 fax ?| www.themim.org



-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Dueker, Peter
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

An evergreen topic - came up recently on the TMS listserve as well.

> so much of what is required for
> DAM is irrelevant and usually not present on a CMS

My personal belief is that the functional requirements differ enough that it
is rarely practical to shoehorn the functionality of a DAM into an existing
CMS (or vice versa). You end up short changing one area or another and
rarely get everything you need.

However, I've talked with others on the list who feel quite the opposite.
Perhaps it's material enough for a panel sometime at MCN ...

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

We assign object data to images in our DAM [Extensis Portfolio] using
extract data from our CMS [TMS] , we also push images into the CMS from the
DAM. Absolutely essential.

In this day and age, I don't see a reason to select systems that cannot
communicate with other systems.  I would be hesitant to work with a vendor
who is unwilling or unable to provide information regarding integration
[such as a comprehensible data dictionary] with other products. Again,
personal opinion, but I think this one of the real strengths of both
Portfolio and TMS - they really do work well together.

Peter Dueker
Contract DAMS Manager
Division of Imaging and Visual Services
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 


On 12/7/09 2:07 PM, "Ari Davidow" <aridavidow at gmail.com> wrote:
.

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

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From graeme at museumsetc.com  Tue Dec  8 01:25:15 2009
From: graeme at museumsetc.com (Graeme Farnell)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:25:15 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter in Action: Interactive Online Seminar: Early-Bird
	Rate Ends Tomorrow
Message-ID: <fbf8e79f0912080125v26190de1jdb1ca83442c470bc@mail.gmail.com>

Twitter in Action: Interactive Online Seminar: Thursday 17 December

A quick email to let you know that our great-value discounted rate for this
seminar - just ?47 [$77USD] - ends on Wednesday.

Join colleagues from organisations like The Franklin Institute, Whitechapel
Gallery, National Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Speed Art Museum, Collections
Trust, National Library of Sweden, Parks Canada, Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian, English Heritage, National Archives and very many
more...

And learn about:
? Making the case for Twitter to your organization
? Steps to starting a Twitter account
? Listening
? Getting the word out
? Content and conversations
? Managing your time
? Benefits, analytics and much more...

You can even participate with a group of your colleagues - all included in
the same terrific rate!

To register online - and for lots more information and timings - please
visit: www.museumsetc.com/?p=1416

Graeme Farnell
MuseumsEtc

From musechair at mediaandtechnology.org  Tue Dec  8 06:50:41 2009
From: musechair at mediaandtechnology.org (musechair at mediaandtechnology.org)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:50:41 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [MCN-L] Now Accepting Sumssions for the AAM | M&T Committee MUSE
	awards
Message-ID: <55562.199.16.64.3.1260283841.squirrel@lishost.net>

Announcing the 2010 AAM Muse Awards



Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and
Technology Committee announces the 21th annual Muse Awards competition
with a NEW Student category.

The MUSE Award competition, now in its 21th year,  recognizes excellence
in media produced by or for museums. The 20th MUSE competition received
almost 250 applications from institutions around the world, representing a
70% increase in participation. Categories of media include audio and video
tours, interactive kiosks, multimedia installations, websites and 'web
2.0' formats. See the categories and criteria page for more
information.http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/criteria.html

We will accept online applications from museums and producers on the AAM
Media and Technology Web site from Dec. 1, 2009 to Jan. 31, 2010. The cost
is $30 per entry.

Visit http://www.mediaandtechnology.org to enter your project. If you have
any questions, please contact us via muse at mediaandtechnology.org and join
us on Facebook to keep updated on MUSE and M&T events
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AAM-Media-Technology/35290555855?ref=ts

We look forward to your participation!


Looking forward to hearing from you.

Suzy Sarraf, MUSE Chair



-- 
MUSE Awards
American Association of Museums
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/

Join Us:
Media & Technology Marketplace of Ideas
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60371207867#/event.php?eid=140213235152

AAM Media and Technology Standing Professional
Committee Business Lunch
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60371207867

Media and Technology 20th Annual MUSE Awards and Champagne Reception
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48880217265




From loic.tallon at gmail.com  Tue Dec  8 06:52:13 2009
From: loic.tallon at gmail.com (Loic Tallon)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:52:13 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Handheld Guide survey 2009: the results are in!
Message-ID: <d21bbe2e0912080652k9a67443tdd4a3f7be6605615@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All.

The results of our handheld guide survey 2009 exploring the use,
challenges + future of mobile interpretation in museums is now online
at http://www.learningtimes.net/museumhandheldsurvey/

We received a fantastic response - in total there were 238 survey
completes - and in our analysis of the findings we've compared
responses from museums that currently use handheld guides with those
from museums that currently do not use handheld guides but would like
to within the next five years: we think this provides a pretty
fascinating perspective into the community's vision for mobile
interpretation.

For the full presentation of the survey findings please visit
http://www.learningtimes.net/museumhandheldsurvey/  And at this site
you can also request a copy of the survey Raw Data so as to
collaborate in the analysis, and leave feedback/discuss the survey
findings.

Thank you again to all those that participated in the survey, we hope
that you find the findings insightful/valuable, and we look forward to
any feedback/discussions on these!
#handheldsurvey

Loic Tallon & Learning Times.


-- 
Loic blogs on mobile interpretation @ www.musematic.net
For info on my book "Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience"
(Alta Mira, 2008) see  http://tr.im/mnfP

From TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu  Tue Dec  8 07:42:10 2009
From: TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:42:10 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management
In-Reply-To: <68298022D2B4BC4C8FDBA80B548FD3ADC7E8BA@mim02.mim.local>
References: <747cfaf50912071107ndeacb52gcd3f67c7295c46ff@mail.gmail.com>
	<C742CAF1.EE38%P-Dueker@NGA.GOV>
	<68298022D2B4BC4C8FDBA80B548FD3ADC7E8BA@mim02.mim.local>
Message-ID: <FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C1F4@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>

Chad, 
Does Portfolio not operate on the Oracle platform?

--
Tamsen Schwartzman
Museum Media Manager
The Museum at FIT, Room E116
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
212~217~4547  **  212~217~4561 fax
www.fitnyc.edu/museum
Visit our collections online at fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter @MuseumatFIT

Closes April 10: American Beauty
Closes May 11: Night & Day
Opens March 9: Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Chad Petrovay
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:11 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

Extensis Portfolio uses a proprietary flat-file format for data storage - you'll need to purchase the SQL Server back-end option to make cross-system communication possible. I only mention it because licensing for Extensis Portfolio is reasonable, but the SQL back-end is an additional product.

Chad Petrovay ?| ?Collections Database Administrator
MIM-Musical Instrument Museum | 8550 S. Priest Drive ?| ?Tempe, AZ 85284 
480.481.2460 main ?| ?480.353.2746 direct | 480.481.2459 fax ?| www.themim.org



-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Dueker, Peter
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Asset and Collection Management

An evergreen topic - came up recently on the TMS listserve as well.

> so much of what is required for
> DAM is irrelevant and usually not present on a CMS

My personal belief is that the functional requirements differ enough that it
is rarely practical to shoehorn the functionality of a DAM into an existing
CMS (or vice versa). You end up short changing one area or another and
rarely get everything you need.

However, I've talked with others on the list who feel quite the opposite.
Perhaps it's material enough for a panel sometime at MCN ...

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

We assign object data to images in our DAM [Extensis Portfolio] using
extract data from our CMS [TMS] , we also push images into the CMS from the
DAM. Absolutely essential.

In this day and age, I don't see a reason to select systems that cannot
communicate with other systems.  I would be hesitant to work with a vendor
who is unwilling or unable to provide information regarding integration
[such as a comprehensible data dictionary] with other products. Again,
personal opinion, but I think this one of the real strengths of both
Portfolio and TMS - they really do work well together.

Peter Dueker
Contract DAMS Manager
Division of Imaging and Visual Services
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 


On 12/7/09 2:07 PM, "Ari Davidow" <aridavidow at gmail.com> wrote:
.

>Is anyone using a DAM that is usefully connected
>to their CMS? What is good/not so good about what you've got?

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From davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com  Tue Dec  8 09:46:34 2009
From: davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com (David Green)
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:46:34 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Google Goggles
Message-ID: <86E6F034-9EF3-42B0-8B91-BB35B25FAC14@knowledgeculture.com>

See this video and an oncoming storm of other media about Google Goggles enabling image analysis, ID and web-linking from mobile-phone camera shots of artworks, places, people, books. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcE_EQRpdA&feature=player_embedded

From psully at magnes.org  Tue Dec  8 11:15:55 2009
From: psully at magnes.org (Perian Sully)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:15:55 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>

Hi everyone:
 
I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
can't seem to remember which sites those were.
 
SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
 
Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
 
Best,
 
~Perian
 
Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
2911 Russell St.
Berkeley, CA 94705
Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
Fax: 510-849-3673
http://www.magnes.org
http://www.musematic.org
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
 

From melings at library.berkeley.edu  Tue Dec  8 12:54:35 2009
From: melings at library.berkeley.edu (M. Elings)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:54:35 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
Message-ID: <04CD4DFE-8ED6-4184-B25A-88B029E57CC1@library.berkeley.edu>

Perian,
Not sute if this is what you're looking for, but UNLV has some  
CONTENTdm collections online that allow commenting. Don't have the URL  
handy but it is called Boomtown as I recall.

Mary W. Elings
Archivist for Digital Collections
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> can't seem to remember which sites those were.
>
> SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
>
> Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
>
> Best,
>
> ~Perian
>
> Perian Sully
> Collections Information Manager
> Web Programs Strategist
> The Magnes
> 2911 Russell St.
> Berkeley, CA 94705
> Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
> Fax: 510-849-3673
> http://www.magnes.org
> http://www.musematic.org
> http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum  
> Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
>
> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu
>
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>
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From melings at library.berkeley.edu  Tue Dec  8 14:05:19 2009
From: melings at library.berkeley.edu (M. Elings)
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:05:19 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <04CD4DFE-8ED6-4184-B25A-88B029E57CC1@library.berkeley.edu>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
	<04CD4DFE-8ED6-4184-B25A-88B029E57CC1@library.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20091208140511.039ceec8@library.berkeley.edu>

Here it is: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown/

At 12:54 PM 12/8/2009, M. Elings wrote:
>Perian,
>Not sute if this is what you're looking for, but UNLV has some
>CONTENTdm collections online that allow commenting. Don't have the URL
>handy but it is called Boomtown as I recall.
>
>Mary W. Elings
>Archivist for Digital Collections
>The Bancroft Library
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
>
>On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> > creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> > collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> > generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> > can't seem to remember which sites those were.
> >
> > SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> > comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> > served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > ~Perian
> >
> > Perian Sully
> > Collections Information Manager
> > Web Programs Strategist
> > The Magnes
> > 2911 Russell St.
> > Berkeley, CA 94705
> > Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
> > Fax: 510-849-3673
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From deborahwythe at hotmail.com  Tue Dec  8 14:09:37 2009
From: deborahwythe at hotmail.com (Deborah Wythe)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:09:37 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
Message-ID: <BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0@phx.gbl>


Hi Perian--

People can comment on the Brooklyn Museum's collections pages. See:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/

If you scroll down, you can see "recent comments," or just browse around the collection and see what turns up. 

Deb Wythe
deborahwythe at hotmail.com 






> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:15:55 -0800
> From: psully at magnes.org
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
> 
> Hi everyone:
>  
> I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> can't seem to remember which sites those were.
>  
> SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
>  
> Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
>  
> Best,
>  
> ~Perian
>  
> Perian Sully
> Collections Information Manager
> Web Programs Strategist
> The Magnes
> 2911 Russell St.
> Berkeley, CA 94705
> Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
> Fax: 510-849-3673
> http://www.magnes.org
> http://www.musematic.org
> http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
>  
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From S-SARRAF at NGA.GOV  Mon Dec  7 11:26:39 2009
From: S-SARRAF at NGA.GOV (Sarraf, Suzanne)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:26:39 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] ANN: Announcing the 2010 AAM Muse Awards
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Announcing the 2010 AAM Muse Awards

Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media &
Technology Committee announces the 21th annual Muse Awards competition.

The 2010 Muse Awards competition received nearly 250 applications from a
wide variety of museums in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Entries included audio, cell phone and interactive handheld tours,
interactive kiosks and multimedia installations, podcasts, blogs, games,
websites, online collection and image databases, videos and e-mail marketing
campaigns. This year we are expecting another exciting round of projects
that reflect innovation in the museum media community.

We will accept online applications from museums and producers on the AAM
Media and Technology website from Dec. 1, 2009, to Jan. 31, 2010. The cost
is $30 per entry.

Visit http://www.mediaandtechnology.org  to enter your project. If you have
any questions, please contact us via musechair at mediaandtechnology.org

We look forward to your participation!

Don?t miss the new category for ?Students.?
See the categories and criteria page for more information.
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/criteria.html

From simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk  Tue Dec  8 09:02:39 2009
From: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk (Tanner, Simon)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:02:39 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Public Consultation on Web Archiving
Message-ID: <4B1E86AF.60804@kcl.ac.uk>

Dear All (with apologies for cross postings),

For the last 4 years I have been a member of the Legal Deposit Advisory
Panel that advises UK Govt (DCMS) on matters relating to the 
implementation of the 2003 Legal Deposit Act. During that time I have 
been Chair of the Web Archiving sub-committee. We made recommendations 
for regulation to the DCMS a while ago and here is the resultant public 
consultation.

This is very much the UK Govt's document now, we are but advisors. But 
the public consultation is an important step on the road to getting Web
Archiving supported by legal frameworks, so your response is critical to
these next stages as it affects us all.

So please read the following email from DCMS, pass it on to friends and
colleagues and respond.

Best regards,
	Simon
++++++++++++++

The Department for Culture Media and Sport has launched a consultation
on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications
which are available free of charge and without access restrictions.  The
Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 allows for publications to be deposited
with Trinity College, Dublin (subject to provisions in Section 13),
which is why we are seeking responses from interested parties in the
Republic of Ireland as well as the UK.

Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit
copies of their printed publications to the British Library and, on
their request, the other deposit libraries (the National Library of
Scotland; the National Library of Wales; the Bodleian Library, Oxford;
the University Library, Cambridge; and the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin) so that they can to be preserved for the benefit of future
generations and become part of the national heritage.

This consultation sets out recommendations provided by the Legal Deposit
Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State for Culture on the legal
deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications.

The consultation will be of interest to professional and amateur writers
who are the author of online publications that are available to the
public free of charge and accessible without restriction.

Further information, including the consultation document (a Welsh
language version will be available shortly), can be found on the DCMS
website:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6506.aspx.

Please respond before the closing date of 01 March 2010 using the
questionnaire at Annex G of the document, to
deposits.consultation at culture.gsi.gov.uk.  If you do not have access to
e mail, please respond to:

Frances Love Libraries and Archives Team, Culture Directorate 2-4
Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5DH

For enquiries about the consultation (handling) process only please
contact the DCMS Public Engagement and Recognition Unit (PERU) at the
above address or email using the form at www.culture.gov.uk/contact_us
heading your communication ?Proposal on the Collection and Preservation
of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications,
which are available free of charge and without access restrictions?.

Please forward this email to anyone you know who will be interested in
this consultation.

Many thanks.

Department for Culture Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London
SW1Y 5DH
http://www.culture.gov.uk/

-- 
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services,
King's College London,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861
Email: simon.tanner at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/


From valasec at fastmail.fm  Tue Dec  8 21:09:16 2009
From: valasec at fastmail.fm (VALA Executive Officer)
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:09:16 +1100
Subject: [MCN-L] VALA2010: VALAtech Boot Camp Applications Are Open - and
 Earlybird Registrations Close Friday!
Message-ID: <1260335356.689.1349179235@webmail.messagingengine.com>

   ----Apologies for cross-postings----

Dear Colleague,

   (Please feel free to pass on this message.)


As announced in the VALA2010 Registration brochure in August, we are
launching the inaugural VALAtech Boot Camp at the 2010 Conference in
February. The VALAtech Boot Camp is VALA's new series of high-end
technical and practical sessions. Book into these interactive sessions
(no passive participation here) and expand your knowledge of some of the
key and emerging technologies used today. As a high-end and practical
stream, a core level of technical knowledge is required. Participants
are also asked to bring their notebooks / netbooks.

The VALAtech Boot camp is FREE to conference delegates, but spaces are
limited and conditions apply. To attend the Boot Camp you must first
complete the online application form. Applicants will be advised whether
they have been successful before 22 January. To apply for any of the
following sessions please go to:
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010/boot2010.htm.

Remember, you need to be a registered delegate to apply - and earlybird
registrations close on Friday 11 December!


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -

Monday 8 February 2010

Boot Camp Session A: OCLC API Mashathon
09:00 to 17:30: session for up to 50 delegates at the new Melbourne
Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Facilitator: Roy Tennant OCLC, Dublin, Ohio, USA

As announced in August, this all-day workshop will give participants a
firm grounding in a variety of OCLC-provided APIs, including the
WorldCat Search API. All of these services are free to OCLC cataloguing
institutions. Besides learning about these services, you will have time
to use them while having experts in the room to answer questions and
assist. You will emerge well prepared to use a rich array of library
APIs to enhance your local services. See
http://www.oclc.org/au/en/worldcatapi/default.htm for details.

Requirements: Attendees should bring laptops and be ready to code.
Software used in this Boot Camp will be supplied via a flash drive on
the day of the session.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Boot Camp Session B: Video: Negotiating the Online and Mobile Space
10:50 to 12:30: session for up to 40 delegates in the VALA Showcase
space.
Facilitators: Simon Goodrich and Al Cossar, from the Portable Film
Festival, Melbourne, Victoria

The Portable team will take you through a variety of web tools and
technical processes to ensure you are getting the best from your video
content, and ensure you are connecting content to your audience online
and on mobile. The studio session will include: Encoding for web and
mobile and enabling for streaming, transcoding and problem solving, and
optimising video standards for web and mobile presentation across a
variety of popular transcoding tools. We will also look at changing
distribution models, and a variety of case studies around
forward-thinking video content solutions for web that you can make use
of, from Tubemogul to Kaltura, Boxee to Vivaty. We will talk online
content strategy, and how you can meaningfully connect your video to
communities of interest around the internet.

Requirements: Attendees should bring their laptops / notebooks. Software
used in this Boot Camp will be supplied via a flash drive on the day of
the session. This is a Macintosh and PC-friendly session.
 

Boot Camp Session C: Semantic Web APIs
14:05 to 15:45 session for up to 40 delegates in the VALA Showcase
space.
Facilitator: Thomas (Tom) Tague, OpenCalais, USA

Tom Tague will cover will how streamlining content operations can help
contain costs, and the top 10 ways to add value with the free OpenCalais
service. OpenCalais offers free metadata generation services, developer
tools and an automatic connection to the Linked Data cloud. The free
OpenCalais service and open API makes it easy to automate content
operations, enhance content, increase audience engagement and extend
distribution across the content ecosystem. Tom Tague leads the Thomson
Reuters OpenCalais initiative, and the OpenCalais developer community.
He is an internationally recognised expert and keynote speaker on top
trends in the semantic web, and is a regular on Paul Miller?s Semantic
Web Gang (http://cloudofdata.com/category/podcast/).

Requirements: Attendees should bring their laptops / notebooks, and
prior to attending this Boot Camp session must have registered and
loaded their free OpenCalais API Key. See
http://www.opencalais.com/APIkey for details.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -

Thursday 10 February 2010

Boot Camp Session D: Open Source Content Management Systems - Joomla!
10:30 to 12:10 session for up to 40 delegates in the VALA Showcase
space.
Facilitator: Representative from the Melbourne Joomla Day, Melbourne,
Victoria

Attendees will receive an introduction to the open source content
management package Joomla! The session will include a hands-on
introduction to the basic package, as well as some of the more popular
modules, styles, and extensions. In addition, there will be some
insights into the Joomla 1.6 upgrade that is being released in 2010.

Requirements: Attendees should bring their laptops. The LAMP software
bundle and the latest version of Joomla will be supplied via a flash
drive on the day of the session. See also http://www.joomla.org for
details.
 

Boot Camp Session E: Open Source Content Management Systems - Drupal
13:45 to 15:25 session for up to 40 delegates in the VALA showcase
space.
Facilitator: Tom Denison, Melbourne, Victoria

Tom Denison will provide an introduction to the open source content
management package Drupal. The session will include an overview of the
package, its conceptual framework and its capabilities, a hands-on
introduction to the basic package, and a guide to additional modules and
styles.

Requirements: Attendees should bring their laptops. The LAMP software
bundle and the latest version of Drupal will be supplied via a flash
drive on the day of the session. See also http://drupal.org for details. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -

 

Alyson Kosina
Executive Officer
VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc.
Reg No A0011933K  ABN 75 344 574 577
P.O. Box 509
Mooroolbark VIC  3138
Phone: (03) 9725 2725  Fax: (03) 8625 0079
Email: vala at vala.org.au

From ProctorN at si.edu  Wed Dec  9 13:34:52 2009
From: ProctorN at si.edu (Proctor, Nancy)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:34:52 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online mcn-l Digest, Vol 51,
 Issue 8
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1260388802.23811.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <C745822C.F457%proctorn@si.edu>

I've also been looking at this service, which has been trialed at Tate Modern among other sites:
http://artstream.org

Does anyone else have experience of it or comments on comparable systems elsewhere?

Many thanks,
Nancy


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:54:35 -0800
From: "M. Elings" <melings at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Cc: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID:
        <04CD4DFE-8ED6-4184-B25A-88B029E57CC1 at library.berkeley.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=us-ascii;       format=flowed;  delsp=yes

Perian,
Not sute if this is what you're looking for, but UNLV has some
CONTENTdm collections online that allow commenting. Don't have the URL
handy but it is called Boomtown as I recall.

Mary W. Elings
Archivist for Digital Collections
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> can't seem to remember which sites those were.
>
> SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
>
> Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
>
> Best,
>
> ~Perian
>
> Perian Sully
> Collections Information Manager
> Web Programs Strategist
> The Magnes
> 2911 Russell St.
> Berkeley, CA 94705
> Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
> Fax: 510-849-3673
> http://www.magnes.org
> http://www.musematic.org
> http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:05:19 -0800
From: "M. Elings" <melings at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>,   Museum Computer
        Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Cc: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20091208140511.039ceec8 at library.berkeley.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

Here it is: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown/

At 12:54 PM 12/8/2009, M. Elings wrote:
>Perian,
>Not sute if this is what you're looking for, but UNLV has some
>CONTENTdm collections online that allow commenting. Don't have the URL
>handy but it is called Boomtown as I recall.
>
>Mary W. Elings
>Archivist for Digital Collections
>The Bancroft Library
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
>
>On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> > creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> > collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> > generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> > can't seem to remember which sites those were.
> >
> > SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> > comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> > served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > ~Perian
> >
> > Perian Sully
> > Collections Information Manager
> > Web Programs Strategist
> > The Magnes
> > 2911 Russell St.
> > Berkeley, CA 94705
> > Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
> > Fax: 510-849-3673
> > http://www.magnes.org
> > http://www.musematic.org
> > http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:09:37 -0500
From: Deborah Wythe <deborahwythe at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0 at phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"


Hi Perian--

People can comment on the Brooklyn Museum's collections pages. See:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/

If you scroll down, you can see "recent comments," or just browse around the collection and see what turns up.

Deb Wythe
deborahwythe at hotmail.com




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From jeff at openmuseum.org  Wed Dec  9 23:44:04 2009
From: jeff at openmuseum.org (Jeff Doyle)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:44:04 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0@phx.gbl>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
	<BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <aa60094d0912092344r52dbb32cm2b55e3990638862d@mail.gmail.com>

Registered users can comment on Open Museum objects, chat on museum walls,
and even create their own walls to communicate with other users. We've found
that people comment less frequently on objects than we expected, but are
nevertheless interested in content-centered and creative interactions with
other visitors.

On of the big challenges we are interested in is trying to influence the
general quality of comments. This has led us to provide common spaces for
interactions (e.g. walls in addition to object comments) to give users other
venues for socializing, hopefully preserving object comments for more
content-focused interactions.

However, and this may seem kind of counter-intuitive, comments aren't
visible to non-registered users. One of the problems of scaling social
networking is deciding how to provide the gradients of intimacy the people
need to feel a sense of place. Nina Simon talked recently about the appeal
of secret places in museums. We've been thinking a lot about how to provide
that kind of intimacy in an online museum setting. (Other than just not
having very many visitors - which clearly doesn't scale.)

Because we are focused on using web exhibits for digital outreach and
community building, we are putting a lot of energy into trying to optimize
the experience of repeat visitors: friending individual museums, favoriting
objects, commenting, rating other comments, and even playing
educational/creative games.

If a comment on an object is really good, the museum curator can "promote"
the comment to the status of a contribution - it becomes visible to
unregistered visitors, and a mention is added to the user's profile. Users
can also rack up "kudos" (represented as gold stars) for comments that other
visitors deem valuable. It provides fairly low-key but gratifying
recognition for particularly valuable participation.

Here's a comment that was posted on the Strafford ARTWORKS
wall<http://www.openmuseum.org/museum/wall/29>today that pretty much
sums up what we would like to be for more of our
visitors:

*"Open Museum ma**y **save** **my** **creative** **life. I work alone in the
studio listening to **NPR** or to Balkan or Gypsy music.It can get a little
lonely. Now I allow myself breaks to see what is happening on Open Museum.
Thanks for the interactions."*

Our user numbers are still pretty low (We are  in alpha, entering beta
around the New Year) so it will be interesting to see how the "gradient of
intimacy" theory stands up to increasing traffic. We read today that
Facebook is trying to force everybody OUT of the closet, so it may sound
insane to be heading in the opposite direction, but our sense is that more
is not always more. Lets keep in mind that, much as we want to pump up
visitor numbers at the brick and mortar museum, most of the support
(financial and moral) that museums receive comes from a pretty small slice
of the community. The 90-9-1 rules holds in the real world too. There may be
something to be said for catering to the nines and the ones.

Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:15:55 -0800
> From: psully at magnes.org
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> can't seem to remember which sites those were.
>
> SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
>
> Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
>
> Best,
>
> ~Perian
>
> Perian Sully
> Collections Information Manager
> Web Programs Strategist
> The Magnes

From lholt at ushmm.org  Thu Dec 10 08:25:44 2009
From: lholt at ushmm.org (Holt, Lisa)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:25:44 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <aa60094d0912092344r52dbb32cm2b55e3990638862d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local><BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0@phx.gbl>
	<aa60094d0912092344r52dbb32cm2b55e3990638862d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F6E0A8380D339449246434DD54102350155C9B1@EMAIL1.ushmm.org>

Michael:

This another very interesting comment, although the whole concept here I
think is a little complex for the type of visitor we want to target who
may comment on the content of our objects.  On the other hand, the idea
of "intimacy" may be just what they (survivors, etc.) are looking for.

Lisa 
-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Jeff Doyle
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:44 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online

Registered users can comment on Open Museum objects, chat on museum
walls,
and even create their own walls to communicate with other users. We've
found
that people comment less frequently on objects than we expected, but are
nevertheless interested in content-centered and creative interactions
with
other visitors.

On of the big challenges we are interested in is trying to influence the
general quality of comments. This has led us to provide common spaces
for
interactions (e.g. walls in addition to object comments) to give users
other
venues for socializing, hopefully preserving object comments for more
content-focused interactions.

However, and this may seem kind of counter-intuitive, comments aren't
visible to non-registered users. One of the problems of scaling social
networking is deciding how to provide the gradients of intimacy the
people
need to feel a sense of place. Nina Simon talked recently about the
appeal
of secret places in museums. We've been thinking a lot about how to
provide
that kind of intimacy in an online museum setting. (Other than just not
having very many visitors - which clearly doesn't scale.)

Because we are focused on using web exhibits for digital outreach and
community building, we are putting a lot of energy into trying to
optimize
the experience of repeat visitors: friending individual museums,
favoriting
objects, commenting, rating other comments, and even playing
educational/creative games.

If a comment on an object is really good, the museum curator can
"promote"
the comment to the status of a contribution - it becomes visible to
unregistered visitors, and a mention is added to the user's profile.
Users
can also rack up "kudos" (represented as gold stars) for comments that
other
visitors deem valuable. It provides fairly low-key but gratifying
recognition for particularly valuable participation.

Here's a comment that was posted on the Strafford ARTWORKS
wall<http://www.openmuseum.org/museum/wall/29>today that pretty much
sums up what we would like to be for more of our
visitors:

*"Open Museum ma**y **save** **my** **creative** **life. I work alone in
the
studio listening to **NPR** or to Balkan or Gypsy music.It can get a
little
lonely. Now I allow myself breaks to see what is happening on Open
Museum.
Thanks for the interactions."*

Our user numbers are still pretty low (We are  in alpha, entering beta
around the New Year) so it will be interesting to see how the "gradient
of
intimacy" theory stands up to increasing traffic. We read today that
Facebook is trying to force everybody OUT of the closet, so it may sound
insane to be heading in the opposite direction, but our sense is that
more
is not always more. Lets keep in mind that, much as we want to pump up
visitor numbers at the brick and mortar museum, most of the support
(financial and moral) that museums receive comes from a pretty small
slice
of the community. The 90-9-1 rules holds in the real world too. There
may be
something to be said for catering to the nines and the ones.

Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:15:55 -0800
> From: psully at magnes.org
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
> creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
> collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
> generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
> can't seem to remember which sites those were.
>
> SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
> comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
> served to enlighten the staff and public alike?
>
> Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.
>
> Best,
>
> ~Perian
>
> Perian Sully
> Collections Information Manager
> Web Programs Strategist
> The Magnes
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From PBrenner at lacma.org  Thu Dec 10 09:49:05 2009
From: PBrenner at lacma.org (Brenner, Peter)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:49:05 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Job opportunity @ LACMA
Message-ID: <785EF3E8EEBF554DBBCC6909943D22B70B0F205A@saturn.lacma.org>

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is seeking a qualified candidate
who will be the Digital Archive Manager for the Photo Services/Imaging
department.  

 

 

Qualifications:

 

Bachelor's degree preferred and 2-4 years prior experience in managing a
digital image database and performing high end image editing.

 

Ability to communicate effectively with museum employees on a number of
levels, to work as part of a team, troubleshoot, and meet project goals
and deadlines.

 

Expert knowledge of Photoshop and Bridge.  Proficient with Lightroom,
Excel, a museum CMS system, preferably Multi-Mimsy and digital asset
management software. Able to perform batch processing and scripting.
Solid knowledge of color management, and maintaining multiple databases.

 

Experience using FTP, Excel, Word and XML

 

Background in photography is preferable .   An eye for color correction
and matching is a necessity.  

 

Must be organized, highly productive and detail oriented.

 

Essential Duties and responsibilities:  

 

Maintain and monitor appropriate image storage and various databases in
a Mac and Windows environment. 

 

Edit digital files (ie: color correct/balance, mask, clean, crop)

 

Convert analog assets to digital media using various scanning devices.

 

Manage heavy workflow of images, correct file naming improprieties
against CMS, update legacy files

 

Create derivative files for multiple use and link files to their data
records.

 

Import data from separate data systems; export images for use in outside
databases.

 

Supervise employees responsible for editing, scanning and creation of
derivative files

 

Generate system reports, production statistics and general
troubleshooting.

 

Fulfill requests for access to digital files.

 

Improve functionality and design of online database as needed,
documenting system design. 

 

Assist in maintaining best practices in digital imaging, archiving
practices, with a strong understanding of metadata and color management

 

Verify object identification, enforce file naming conventions and image
formatting

 

Check and enter technical metadata into digital files, CMS media module
and/or DAM per established procedure.

 

Monitor and maintain the majority of software and hardware used to
capture, edit, import and export assets.

 

Keeping abreast of digital technology, products and procedures in the
professional and cultural heritage arena.

 

Participate in the planning and implementation of new systems and
technologies

 

 

Please follow the below link to apply:

 

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From jeff at openmuseum.org  Thu Dec 10 12:05:34 2009
From: jeff at openmuseum.org (Jeff Doyle)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:05:34 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <4F6E0A8380D339449246434DD54102350155C9B1@EMAIL1.ushmm.org>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
	<BLU126-W269EB17107E7458484B558CF8F0@phx.gbl>
	<aa60094d0912092344r52dbb32cm2b55e3990638862d@mail.gmail.com>
	<4F6E0A8380D339449246434DD54102350155C9B1@EMAIL1.ushmm.org>
Message-ID: <aa60094d0912101205l713bfa0cx9d253c5a892d25b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Holt, Lisa <lholt at ushmm.org> wrote:

>
> This another very interesting comment, although the whole concept here I
> think is a little complex for the type of visitor we want to target who
> may comment on the content of our objects.  On the other hand, the idea
> of "intimacy" may be just what they (survivors, etc.) are looking for.
>
>
Yes, I think it matters a lot on why you want comments in the first
place, what sort of comments you are hoping for, and what sort of ethos you
are trying to establish.

People will say different things depending on whether they are commenting
anonymously or have a public persona - and also whether their potential
interlocutors are similarly anonymous or identifiable.

Also some users will care whether their comments are going to get indexed by
search engines, etc.

We don't allow anonymous comments and haven't yet had an uncivil comment -
but we have only had 575 comments so far...

-- 
Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle

From jtrant at archimuse.com  Thu Dec 10 14:09:44 2009
From: jtrant at archimuse.com (J.Trant)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:09:44 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] MW2010 reminder: early registration ends next Friday
Message-ID: <EC397516-742A-44D0-8BC4-AC0D1D95B2BF@archimuse.com>


  Museums and the Web 2010
  the international conference for culture and heritage on-line
  April 13-17, 2010
  Denver, Colorado, USA
  http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/


A Reminder:
Early Registration for MW2010 (April 13-17 in Denver) closes next  
Friday, December 18, 2009.  Register on-line at https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2010/mw2010.registrationForm.html 
  for the best rates, and to ensure your choice of tour and workshop.

The Program:
The full program for MW2010 [our tag!] is available on the conference  
web site. There will be contributions from more than 180 people from  
17 countries. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/sessions/index.html

Participate:
If you'd like to participate in MW2010, there's still time. The  
deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2009. For full  
details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/demos/index.html

Learn More:
To stay up to date on MW2010, you follow @museweb on Twitter or  
connect with MW on various social networking sites. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/online/index.html 
  for details.

Hope to see you in Denver!

jennifer and David

------------
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman
Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010			produced by
April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo			Archives & Museum Informatics
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ 			158 Lee Avenue
email: mw2010 at archimuse.com				Toronto, Ontario, Canada
phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025
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From macarthurm at si.edu  Thu Dec 10 15:55:40 2009
From: macarthurm at si.edu (MacArthur, Matthew)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:55:40 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online
In-Reply-To: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
References: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D0F30@jlm-net.jlm.local>
Message-ID: <2507C31A2AFDC344A1702BAF708B31E629C4088804@SI-MSEV01.US.SINET.SI.EDU>

At the National Museum of American History we have a function for comments (and responses) on our collection pages.  It's a little spotty right now, mostly because we have limited staff time to moderate and post the comments (and the process is somewhat labor-intensive).  But here are a few examples:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=22
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=23
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=193

Matt MacArthur

________________________________________
From: Perian Sully [psully at magnes.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:15 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Comments on your collections online

Hi everyone:

I'm preparing a lecture (tomorrow) about collections access and the
creation of wonder and discussion. I know I've seen some museum
collections online that allow for comments on their site, and have
generated some great discussions between users. Aaaand, of course, I
can't seem to remember which sites those were.

SO! Do any of you know/have collections online that allow for user
comments? Have you seen some great discussions between users that have
served to enlighten the staff and public alike?

Thanks in advance and hope y'all are staying warm.

Best,

~Perian

Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
2911 Russell St.
Berkeley, CA 94705
Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
Fax: 510-849-3673
http://www.magnes.org
http://www.musematic.org
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org

From evesinaiko at earthlink.net  Fri Dec 11 09:59:48 2009
From: evesinaiko at earthlink.net (Eve Sinaiko)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:59:48 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Google Goggles
In-Reply-To: <86E6F034-9EF3-42B0-8B91-BB35B25FAC14@knowledgeculture.com>
References: <86E6F034-9EF3-42B0-8B91-BB35B25FAC14@knowledgeculture.com>
Message-ID: <01f101ca7a8b$bb325040$3196f0c0$@net>

> David Green
> 
> See this video and an oncoming storm of other media about Google Goggles
> enabling image analysis, ID and web-linking from mobile-phone camera shots
of
> artworks, places, people, books.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcE_EQRpdA&feature=player_embedded

David, is there some thought that this might overcome the problem of
copyright/owner search for visual images?

Regards,
Eve Sinaiko




From AFrancois at denverartmuseum.org  Fri Dec 11 10:22:49 2009
From: AFrancois at denverartmuseum.org (Aubrey Francois)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:22:49 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] Exchange Archiving
Message-ID: <C7667D6C-56DC-4B43-AD0D-A7CB673F081C@denverartmuseum.org>

Hello All,

We are looking to start archiving mail from our exchange server to control disk space and improve performance. Have any of you installed an used any archiving solutions that you loved? (or hated?)

Aubrey Francois
Lead Technical Developer
100 W14th Ave Pkwy
Denver, Colorado 80204
720-913-0086
afrancois at denverartmuseum.org



From jana.hill at cartermuseum.org  Fri Dec 11 12:59:21 2009
From: jana.hill at cartermuseum.org (Jana Hill)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:59:21 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
Message-ID: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>

Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.

 

Thanks, whoever you are!

 

Jana Hill

MCN 2009 Silent Auction Chair

 


From psully at magnes.org  Fri Dec 11 14:07:06 2009
From: psully at magnes.org (Perian Sully)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:07:06 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
In-Reply-To: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
References: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D1015@jlm-net.jlm.local>

Clearly it was aliens. ;)

~Perian

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Jana Hill
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:59 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM

Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.

 

Thanks, whoever you are!

 

Jana Hill

MCN 2009 Silent Auction Chair


From secura at domainregistry.de  Fri Dec 11 23:24:58 2009
From: secura at domainregistry.de (ICANN Registrar Secura)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:24:58 +0100
Subject: [MCN-L] Exchange Archiving
In-Reply-To: <C7667D6C-56DC-4B43-AD0D-A7CB673F081C@denverartmuseum.org>
Message-ID: <20091212092840.D57CC6D4239@server09.mainz-net.com>

We have good experiences with a programm called MailStore. 


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with kind regards,

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-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] Im Auftrag von
Aubrey Francois
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009 19:23
An: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Betreff: [MCN-L] Exchange Archiving

Hello All,

We are looking to start archiving mail from our exchange server to control
disk space and improve performance. Have any of you installed an used any
archiving solutions that you loved? (or hated?)

Aubrey Francois
Lead Technical Developer
100 W14th Ave Pkwy
Denver, Colorado 80204
720-913-0086
afrancois at denverartmuseum.org


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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sat Dec 12 03:53:42 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:53:42 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?=FE=FERE=3A__Google_Goggles?=
In-Reply-To: <01f101ca7a8b$bb325040$3196f0c0$@net>
References: <86E6F034-9EF3-42B0-8B91-BB35B25FAC14@knowledgeculture.com>,
	<01f101ca7a8b$bb325040$3196f0c0$@net>
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C4EE@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Eve:

It won't unless the image and the information are both already published, searchable and findable via Google.

Google Goggles simply combines a Google Images search with a standard Google search.  

If the image is on the web, let's say in a museum's online collections database, and the artist's copyright contact information is published there, then you'll find it.  

If, however, the museum has been prevented from reproducing the image due to copyright restrictions, you won't find it 
using Google Goggles.  

Both the image (as information) and the information (as text) have to be there, on the web, in order to be discoverable by Goggles.  That combination of information could bring copyright searchers to the copyright holders.   

Which I emphasize, because I believe that lo-res images in an on-line database have an informational function, just like text, and should be perceived as such.

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG


________________________________________
?????: ??mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] ??? Eve Sinaiko [evesinaiko at earthlink.net]
??????: ????? ???? 11 ????? 2009 19:59
????: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
??????: Re: [MCN-L] Google Goggles

> David Green
>
> See this video and an oncoming storm of other media about Google Goggles
> enabling image analysis, ID and web-linking from mobile-phone camera shots
of
> artworks, places, people, books.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcE_EQRpdA&feature=player_embedded

David, is there some thought that this might overcome the problem of
copyright/owner search for visual images?

Regards,
Eve Sinaiko



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From evesinaiko at earthlink.net  Sat Dec 12 11:54:35 2009
From: evesinaiko at earthlink.net (Eve Sinaiko)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:54:35 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?=FE=FERE=3A__Google_Goggles?=
In-Reply-To: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C4EE@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
References: <86E6F034-9EF3-42B0-8B91-BB35B25FAC14@knowledgeculture.com>,
	<01f101ca7a8b$bb325040$3196f0c0$@net>
	<9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C4EE@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
Message-ID: <001f01ca7b64$ee1e7540$ca5b5fc0$@net>

> Subject: [MCN-L] ??RE: Google Goggles
> 
> Eve:
> 
> It won't unless the image and the information are both already published,
> searchable and findable via Google.
> 
> Google Goggles simply combines a Google Images search with a standard
> Google search.
> 
> If the image is on the web, let's say in a museum's online collections
database,
> and the artist's copyright contact information is published there, then
you'll find it.
> 
> If, however, the museum has been prevented from reproducing the image due
to
> copyright restrictions, you won't find it
> using Google Goggles.
> 
> Both the image (as information) and the information (as text) have to be
there, on
> the web, in order to be discoverable by Goggles.  That combination of
information
> could bring copyright searchers to the copyright holders.

Thanks, Amalyah. I'm mainly thinking about the anxieties of artists
regarding Orphan Works legislation, who worry that once their picture gets
detached from its metadata and circulates on the web, there's no way to be
found, so that registration of their copyrights at the CO in Washington is
an ineffective protection, and a user could claim that the work seemed to be
an orphan.

It seems as though this could provide artists with a new protection: as long
as they have their images in some location on the web with correct metadata,
a user cannot claim to be unable to find it. (Whether Google Goggles works
perfectly or not, this would protect the artist's ability to sue the
infringer, who could not shelter behind an Orphan Works law.)

Last year, one of the things photographers and textile designers asked for
in the proposed Orphan Works legislation was that it not go into effect
until such time as good visual search tools were available. It appeared as
though this was a tactic to ensure that the law would never take effect--or
at any rate not for 10 years or more. This new tool of Google seems to
assist in meeting that goal, which may make it easier to get OW legislation
passed.

Regards,
Eve


From Christinad at SeattleArtMuseum.org  Sun Dec 13 21:21:58 2009
From: Christinad at SeattleArtMuseum.org (Christina DePaolo)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:21:58 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Stats Inquiry
Message-ID: <6440C474B3F6FE4EB44B34421B3E501E1685B82D30@dtes01.SAM.Home>

Hi,
I have novice questions about twitter. I hope you don't mind. I am trying to report up on the value of Twitter and want to capture it's viral nature.

Is there a twitter maven out there that can lead me to apps that provide analytics? I want to get metrics on the number of tweets SAM gets (@iheartSAM) and the number of Retweets. I'd like to look at them over time, sort of like Google Analytics.

Thank you. Hope you are having a great start to the weekend.


Christina DePaolo | New Media Manager
Seattle Art Museum | 1300 1st Avenue | Seattle WA 98101
christinad at seattleartmuseum.org | 206.654.3165

Find SAM at:
http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
http://facebook.com/seattleartmuseum
http://twitter.com/iheartSAM


From ytau at ucalgary.ca  Sun Dec 13 21:32:06 2009
From: ytau at ucalgary.ca (Tim Au Yeung)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:32:06 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Stats Inquiry
In-Reply-To: <6440C474B3F6FE4EB44B34421B3E501E1685B82D30@dtes01.SAM.Home>
References: <6440C474B3F6FE4EB44B34421B3E501E1685B82D30@dtes01.SAM.Home>
Message-ID: <4B25CDD6.3060603@ucalgary.ca>

You could try using:

http://www.twitteranalyzer.com/
http://twittercounter.com/

Tim

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Tim Au Yeung
Manager, Digital Object Repository Technology
Libraries and Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
ytau(at)ucalgary.ca
403.220.8975



Christina DePaolo wrote:
> Hi,
> I have novice questions about twitter. I hope you don't mind. I am trying to report up on the value of Twitter and want to capture it's viral nature.
>
> Is there a twitter maven out there that can lead me to apps that provide analytics? I want to get metrics on the number of tweets SAM gets (@iheartSAM) and the number of Retweets. I'd like to look at them over time, sort of like Google Analytics.
>
> Thank you. Hope you are having a great start to the weekend.
>
>
> Christina DePaolo | New Media Manager
> Seattle Art Museum | 1300 1st Avenue | Seattle WA 98101
> christinad at seattleartmuseum.org | 206.654.3165
>
> Find SAM at:
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> http://facebook.com/seattleartmuseum
> http://twitter.com/iheartSAM
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From beth at bethkanter.org  Sun Dec 13 21:32:47 2009
From: beth at bethkanter.org (Beth Kanter)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:32:47 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Stats Inquiry
In-Reply-To: <6440C474B3F6FE4EB44B34421B3E501E1685B82D30@dtes01.SAM.Home>
References: <6440C474B3F6FE4EB44B34421B3E501E1685B82D30@dtes01.SAM.Home>
Message-ID: <4550b5110912132132o2d01bdf9rcd96524ccf85b945@mail.gmail.com>

Christine:

The best one is tweetmeme - it isn't free after the free trial.

Also, there is a plugin for Google Analytics that can measure traffic
referrals from Twitter clients.

There's also Twitanalyzer.

You should read Avanish Kaushik's post on Twitter Analytics
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2009/11/social-media-analytics-twitter-quantitative-qualitative-analysis.html

See also
http://futuremediachange.com/2009/11/10-free-twitter-analytics-tools-to-help-you-gauge-your-tweet-effectiveness/

Beth

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Christina DePaolo
<Christinad at seattleartmuseum.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have novice questions about twitter. I hope you don't mind. I am trying to report up on the value of Twitter and want to capture it's viral nature.
>
> Is there a twitter maven out there that can lead me to apps that provide analytics? I want to get metrics on the number of tweets SAM gets (@iheartSAM) and the number of Retweets. I'd like to look at them over time, sort of like Google Analytics.
>
> Thank you. Hope you are having a great start to the weekend.
>
>
> Christina DePaolo | New Media Manager
> Seattle Art Museum | 1300 1st Avenue | Seattle WA 98101
> christinad at seattleartmuseum.org | 206.654.3165
>
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> http://facebook.com/seattleartmuseum
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From jeff at openmuseum.org  Mon Dec 14 20:46:43 2009
From: jeff at openmuseum.org (Jeff Doyle)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:46:43 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
In-Reply-To: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
References: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
Message-ID: <aa60094d0912142046k74b907acubd497297dfeb736d@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>
 wrote:

> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.


Whoever it was, thanks. I love it.

-- 
Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Tue Dec 15 08:51:15 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:51:15 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: great statement by US delegation at WIPO
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C518@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Note in particular the last paragraph: "A Balanced System of International Copyright Law."

________________________________________
??

               World Intellectual Property Organization
      Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
                          Nineteenth Session
                         December 14-18, 2009

                       United States of America

        Statement on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for
                   Persons with Print Disabilities

                             As Delivered

                            December, 2009

                         Geneva, Switzerland


Thank you, Mr. Chairman.


The United States is proud to have a series of specific exceptions and
limitations in our copyright law, including for education, libraries,
and persons with print disabilities.


The law of the United States has these exceptions because we believe
access to information, cultural expression, and ideas is essential and
we know that governments have a role to play in facilitating that access
and reducing barriers to information, education and full participation
in a democratic society. So while the United States believes profoundly,
in the words of our Supreme Court, that copyright law is ?the engine of
free expression,?1we are also committed to policies that ensure everyone
has a chance to get the information and education they need and to live
independently as full citizens in their communities.


Because education and civic engagement can be severely limited when
information is not available in accessible formats, under US copyright
law qualified non-profit organizations and government agencies are free
to reproduce and distribute published literary works under copyright in
specialized formats for use by blind persons or persons with other print
disabilities. We acknowledge that more is needed, but we are proud of
what this copyright exception has achieved. One of the main providers of
materials under this exception, the National Library Service,
distributes two (2) million Braille and audiobook copies of works to
nearly 800,000 users each year. And we have had this provision in our
law since 1996.


Of course, the United States is not alone in serving those with print
disabilities through carefully crafted limitations and exceptions in
copyright law. As we all know, over 50 countries have specific statutory
exceptions addressed to the needs of the visually-impaired and persons
with print disabilities. Other countries like India are in the midst of
thoughtful deliberations on their own national exceptions.


So the United States is pleased that WIPO is addressing this issue. We
believe that WIPO can move forward on this issue meaningfully and
seriously.


In that respect, the United States wants to first acknowledge the WIPO
Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for the Visually Impaired,
prepared by Ms. Judith Sullivan, and presented to the Standing Committee
in 2006.2 This Study represents the kind of thorough comparative work we
must always do as a foundation for the development of new norms in
international copyright law. We also recognizes the on-going work of the
WIPO Stakeholders' Platform, which continues to explore in detail how
the needs of persons with print disabilities can be better addressed
through trusted intermediaries, new technologies, better formats, and
improved "best practices" in the publishing industry.


The United States also wants to acknowledge and express our appreciation
for the draft treaty language prepared by the World Blind Union and
submitted as a formal proposal at the last session of the Standing
Committee by our colleagues from Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay.3 We want
to recognize the tremendous work on that draft that was done by the
World Blind Union, the International Federation of Library Associations,
the DAISY Consortium, and several other groups and individuals. The WBU
treaty proposal will help the Standing Committee focus on this problem
and find the right means of addressing access to materials for people
with print disabilities through well-crafted exceptions to copyright
protection that can become an integral part of the international
copyright system.


As we explained in the last meeting of the Standing Committee, the
United States has been engaged in a process of understanding the
problems that confront persons with print disabilities in our own
country. This has been a joint effort of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office and the U.S. Copyright Office with leadership from the White
House. This process included a Notice of Inquiry in March 2009 that
generated numerous public responses; a public roundtable in May with
many stakeholder representatives presenting different perspectives on
making copyrighted works accessible to persons with print disabilities;
a further public comment period in October and December that included
specific questions on the WBU treaty proposal; and, just last week, an
informal White House meeting of representatives from our country?s
leading organizations for the blind and visually-impaired, our library
community, and our copyright industries.


Those of us working on this issue in the U.S. Government believe that we
are genuinely studentsof this problem; we are still in the process of
learning. But we are committed to doing our homework and doing it well.


Having said that we are still learning and studying, the United States
comes to this meeting with greater clarity and conviction in our views
on how the international copyright community should proceed in
addressing the needs of those with print disabilities.


        Our commitment to reaching an international consensus

     on copyright exceptions for persons with print disabilities


First, the United States believes that the time has come for WIPO
Members to work toward some form of international consensus on basic,
necessary limitations and exceptions in copyright law for persons with
print disabilities. This international consensus could take multiple
forms, including a model law endorsed by the SCCR, a detailed Joint
Recommendation to be adopted by the WIPO General Assemblies, and/or a
multilateral treaty. The United States is open to discussing and
exploring all these options.

The United States believes that the initial most productive course of
action may be a work program that begins with a series of serious,
focused consultations aimed at producing a carefully-crafted Joint
Recommendation of the Berne Assembly and the WIPO General Assembly. We
further believe this initial Joint Recommendation could be a step toward
the development of a treaty establishing basic copyright limitations and
exceptions for persons with print disabilities.


        The first goal of international consensus in this area


In our consultations and review it has become clear to us that the most
pressing problem ? the one identified repeatedly by experts ? is the
cross-border distribution of special format materials made for persons
with print disabilities, whether these special format materials are made
under copyright exceptions in national law or special licensing
arrangements. Therefore, the United States believes that our first goal
should be to reach international consensus on the free exportation and
importation of special format materials for persons with print
disabilities in all countries.


We are confident that this body, the Berne Assembly, and the WIPO
General Assembly have the expertise, wisdom, and resolve to find a
suitable solution to this problem. We are prepared to work with other
countries to explore creative solutions to this problem, including, but
not limited to, [a] the establishment of a properly-limited
international rule of exhaustion in relation to special format copies
made under existing national law exceptions for persons with print
disabilities and/or [b] an international legal norm that trusted
intermediaries and non-profit organizations working for persons with
print disabilities must be able to exchange special format copies
without fear that copyright law bars such activities.


We believe that a solution to the problem of cross-border distribution
of special format materials, properly delineated to prevent abuses,would
solve the foremost problems identified by the print disability and
visually-impaired communities.


    Further international consensus on basic exceptions for print
                             disabilities


The United States is also prepared to participate in a WIPO work program
to establish further international consensus on specific exceptions and
limitations for persons with print disabilities that should be part of
national copyright laws.


As a practical matter, we believe that this project will take longer
than finding common ground on the cross-border distribution of special
format copies made under existing national exceptions. First, any such
consensus should acknowledge the diversity of established national laws
in this area and the diversity of successful experiences with copyright
exceptions for persons with print disabilities that WIPO Members have
had. Second, any such consensus should ensure that WIPO Members retain
the flexibility to craft copyright exceptions and limitations to meet
changing social, economic, and technological conditions that affect the
print disability community. Third, the specific exceptions and
limitations that emerge from such a process should acknowledge ? as many
in the visually impaired and print disability communities have told us
-- that market practices can often help to solve problems of access to
materials and that mandatory exceptions are most needed to address
market failures. Finally, consensus on basic copyright exceptions for
the print disability communities can and should be reached within the
framework of the Berne acquis; Berne Article 9(2); and the corresponding
provisions of TRIPS, the WCT, and the WPPT.


           A balanced system of international copyright law


We recognize that some in the international copyright community believe
that any international consensus on substantive limitations and
exceptions to copyright law would weaken international copyright law.
The United States does not share that point of view. The United States
is committed to both better exceptions in copyright law and better
enforcement of copyright law. Indeed, as we work with countries to
establish consensus on proper, basic exceptions within copyright law, we
will ask countries to work with us to improve the enforcement of
copyright. This is part and parcel of a balanced international system of
intellectual property.


Thank you.


# # #


1 Harper & Row, Publishers. v. Nation Enterprises., 471 U.S. 539, 558
(1985) (?it should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright
itself to be the engine of free expression.?)
2 http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=75696
3 http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=122732


_______________________________________________

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Dec 16 03:49:42 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:49:42 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: " Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in Copyright,
 " Univ. of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF4E7@mailsrv.imj.org.il>


Run, don't walk, to register for "Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in Copyright."  Two of the best speakers on the planet.

http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/symposium.shtml


________________________________
<outbind://127-000000000253ECC20B77D311975F0050040C0E550700D10372AF2535D311974B0050040C0E550000000304CF00009844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD78001FC40704B00000/#>2010 CIP Symposium
Save the Dates...Be There!



Join scholars and experts to discuss today's copyright concerns.

Featured Keynotes:

 *   Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University
 *   William Patry, Google, Inc.

Registration opens January 4, 2010.


________________________________


From jeff at openmuseum.org  Wed Dec 16 09:28:46 2009
From: jeff at openmuseum.org (Jeff Doyle)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:46 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
In-Reply-To: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
References: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
Message-ID: <aa60094d0912160928p527e2a48k57a2dd0b3abc7de8@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:

> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>
>
I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:

THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
of the United States Postal Service.

http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html



-- 
Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle

From TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu  Wed Dec 16 10:40:11 2009
From: TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:40:11 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
In-Reply-To: <aa60094d0912160928p527e2a48k57a2dd0b3abc7de8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>
	<aa60094d0912160928p527e2a48k57a2dd0b3abc7de8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FC819A943681C841B7FDA5050251AFEF12A7A8C22B@FITMBX.fitsuny.edu>

This was certainly no alien technology mug. Nope! It was a Trevor Paglen mug? He is brilliant! He was in the Democracy in America exhibition put together by Creative Time in the Armory on Park Avenue. 

--
Tamsen Schwartzman
Museum Media Manager
The Museum at FIT, Room E116
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
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Closes May 11: Night & Day
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:

> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>
>
I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:

THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
of the United States Postal Service.

http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html



-- 
Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle
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From SMoore at toledomuseum.org  Wed Dec 16 13:06:01 2009
From: SMoore at toledomuseum.org (Sandy Moore)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:06:01 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] On-Line Retail
Message-ID: <4B290569020000470000077F@toledomuseum.org>

Hi All,
The Toledo Museum of Art is rethinking our on-line retail store presence and we are looking at economical alternatives that would make sense for us (and hopefully dollars!).  We noticed more than a few Museums use Yahoo Store, among others.  What on-line store/shopping cart works well for your institution and what has your experience been like (likes and dislikes, profitability, etc.)?  Thanks.
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Sandra J. Moore
Information Technology
Toledo Museum of Art
smoore at toledomuseum.org
 
 

From jbondy at okhistory.org  Wed Dec 16 13:19:49 2009
From: jbondy at okhistory.org (Jason Bondy)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:19:49 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] On-Line Retail
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References: <4B290569020000470000077F@toledomuseum.org>
Message-ID: <10DADEA607A54C97AD724B512A11FC82@okhistory.org>

Hi Sandy, and group,

We are in discussions about this as well.  I too would be interested in
suggestions or ideas that some of you may have.  Thanks!


_______________________________________________________
Jason Bondy
Exhibit AV/IT Systems
Oklahoma History Center
2401 N. Laird Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK  73105
405-522-0783 - Office
405-522-5402 - Fax
www.okhistory.org
 

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To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] On-Line Retail

Hi All,
The Toledo Museum of Art is rethinking our on-line retail store presence and
we are looking at economical alternatives that would make sense for us (and
hopefully dollars!).  We noticed more than a few Museums use Yahoo Store,
among others.  What on-line store/shopping cart works well for your
institution and what has your experience been like (likes and dislikes,
profitability, etc.)?  Thanks.
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Sandra J. Moore
Information Technology
Toledo Museum of Art
smoore at toledomuseum.org
 
 
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From bwyman at denverartmuseum.org  Wed Dec 16 13:18:14 2009
From: bwyman at denverartmuseum.org (Bruce Wyman)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:18:14 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] On-Line Retail
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References: <4B290569020000470000077F@toledomuseum.org>
Message-ID: <p0624084ac74efec6aad0@[192.168.0.67]>

>We noticed more than a few Museums use Yahoo Store, among others.

While I don't have direct experience, I've heard of a bunch of people 
in the private sector using shopify , <http://www.shopify.com/> 
lately with pretty happy results. Looking at their online presence 
and what they offer, it doesn't seem to suck.

-bw.
-- 
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From meggoc at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 16 13:40:33 2009
From: meggoc at yahoo.com (Megan Callan)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:40:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14
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Oh boy!!
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>Run, don't walk, to register for "Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in Copyright."  Two of the best speakers on the planet.
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>http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/symposium.shtml
>
>
>________________________________
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>
>
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>Join scholars and experts to discuss today's copyright concerns.
>
>Featured Keynotes:
>
> *   Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University
> *   William Patry, Google, Inc.
>
>Registration opens January 4, 2010.
>
>
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>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:
>
>> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
>> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
>> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
>> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>>
>>
>I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
>Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:
>
>THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
>four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
>(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
>incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
>wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
>of the United States Postal Service.
>
>http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html
>
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Doyle
>www.openmuseum.org
>@jeffdoyle
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:40:11 -0500
>From: TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN <TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
>To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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>
>This was certainly no alien technology mug. Nope! It was a Trevor Paglen mug? He is brilliant! He was in the Democracy in America exhibition put together by Creative Time in the Armory on Park Avenue. 
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Doyle
>Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:29 PM
>To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
>Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
>
>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:
>
>> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
>> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
>> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
>> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>>
>>
>I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
>Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:
>
>THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
>four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
>(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
>incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
>wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
>of the United States Postal Service.
>
>http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html
>
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Doyle
>www.openmuseum.org
>@jeffdoyle
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From mkendrick at SFMOMA.org  Wed Dec 16 13:53:41 2009
From: mkendrick at SFMOMA.org (Kendrick, Margaret)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:53:41 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] MCN 2009 Conference Presentations on website
Message-ID: <45058F8692E66640955EC9882C7C484305F68D76@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>

True to the theme of this year's annual conference "Doing More with
Less," presenters have been submitting their slides for linking on the
MCN website. 

 

Many thanks go to session chairs and individual panelists!

 

To date more than thirty presentations are available through the
website.

 

To access, use the search box on the home page, or browse the conference
program at http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2516.

 

 

Margaret Kendrick

Documentation Specialist

Collections Information & Access

SFMOMA

(415) 538-2681

mkendrick at sfmoma.org

 


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From kaia at mesahistoricalmuseum.org  Wed Dec 16 18:01:13 2009
From: kaia at mesahistoricalmuseum.org (Kaia Landon)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:01:13 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] On-Line Retail
In-Reply-To: <4B290569020000470000077F@toledomuseum.org>
References: <4B290569020000470000077F@toledomuseum.org>
Message-ID: <d499bb7b0912161801x7de9b473ta3e9513991c6643b@mail.gmail.com>

We've used various combinations of Google Checkout, Paypal, straight HTML,
and Ubercart (a shopping cart that works nicely with Drupal). All of the
above are rather inexpensive, as you only pay credit card processing fees
(that are close to what you probably pay when you swipe a card in house).
If you decide to use a service that requires you to pay something extra
(such as Yahoo Store), be sure you research your options, and know what it
is you're paying extra for.  Plenty commercial services charge hefty fees,
sometimes monthly, whether or not you've actually sold anything.

We don't do a ton of business through our online store, but we do enough
that it certainly qualifies as profitable.  We didn't spend a lot of time
setting it up (and didn't pay anything, unless you want to count my salary
for the bit of time I spent configuring it), and we only pay fees when we
actually sell something, so if a month goes by and we haven't done any
business through our online store, it's not a big deal. It has more than
paid for itself.

And one thing to be sure to check is whether Microsoft/IE thinks you "might"
be a phishing site. I don't do much in IE, so was rather surprised when a
patron called and told me IE was giving him this warning. I've had to
correct the issue twice now, so you have to periodically check. (There's
nothing to fix on our end, it's a matter of filling out MS's form.)

Kaia

---
Kaia Landon
Assistant Director and Curator of Collections
Mesa Historical Museum
www.mesahistoricalmuseum.org



On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Sandy Moore <SMoore at toledomuseum.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
> The Toledo Museum of Art is rethinking our on-line retail store presence
> and we are looking at economical alternatives that would make sense for us
> (and hopefully dollars!).  We noticed more than a few Museums use Yahoo
> Store, among others.  What on-line store/shopping cart works well for your
> institution and what has your experience been like (likes and dislikes,
> profitability, etc.)?  Thanks.
>
> Happy Holidays!
>
> Sandra J. Moore
> Information Technology
> Toledo Museum of Art
> smoore at toledomuseum.org
>
>
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Dec 16 22:12:43 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:12:43 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?=FE=FERE=3A__MCN_conference=3A_MYSTERY_I?=
	=?windows-1255?q?TEM?=
In-Reply-To: <aa60094d0912160928p527e2a48k57a2dd0b3abc7de8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFC01248585@exchange.cartermuseum.org>,
	<aa60094d0912160928p527e2a48k57a2dd0b3abc7de8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C52F@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Cool. Both the detective story played out on this list, and THE THING!

Happy holidays,

Amalyah

________________________________________
?????: ??mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] ??? Jeff Doyle [jeff at openmuseum.org]
??????: ????? ????? 16 ????? 2009 19:28
????: Museum Computer Network Listserv
??????: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:

> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>
>
I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:

THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
of the United States Postal Service.

http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html



--
Jeff Doyle
www.openmuseum.org
@jeffdoyle
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Thu Dec 17 05:26:47 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:26:47 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG:  Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF510@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

 
>From the NYT:
Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/is-the-google-phone-an-unauthorized-replicant/

"Motorola tugged at the hearts of science-fiction fans everywhere when it announced that its first smartphone using Google's Android software would be called Droid, the name given to the lovable robots in "Star Wars."

Google appears to be trying the same tactic with its own soon-to-be-released Android phone. The device is called Nexus One in at least two government filings.

As many bloggers have noted, the name Nexus One seems to be a reference to the cyborgs in the dystopian movie "Blade Runner," which in turn was based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by the late Philip K. Dick. Both the film and the book feature a bounty hunter tracking down several rogue Nexus-6 cyborgs, the sixth generation in the line of Nexus robots.

But unlike Motorola, which licensed the Droid name from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, no one at Google discussed the name with Mr. Dick's family - and they're not happy about it."

From janssen at parc.com  Thu Dec 17 10:24:01 2009
From: janssen at parc.com (Bill Janssen)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:24:01 PST
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
In-Reply-To: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF510@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
References: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF510@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
Message-ID: <58086.1261074241@parc.com>

Bloggers read too much science fiction, and seem to love conspiracy
theories.  "Nexus" as an English word is several centuries old, and
well-chosen for a do-everything cell phone.  There seems to be no
evidence of any correlation between Dick's work and the putative Google
offering, aside from the use of English.

Bill


Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet at imj.org.il] <akeshet at imj.org.il> wrote:

>  
> From the NYT:
> Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/is-the-google-phone-an-unauthorized-replicant/
> 
> "Motorola tugged at the hearts of science-fiction fans everywhere when it announced that its first smartphone using Google's Android software would be called Droid, the name given to the lovable robots in "Star Wars."
> 
> Google appears to be trying the same tactic with its own soon-to-be-released Android phone. The device is called Nexus One in at least two government filings.
> 
> As many bloggers have noted, the name Nexus One seems to be a reference to the cyborgs in the dystopian movie "Blade Runner," which in turn was based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by the late Philip K. Dick. Both the film and the book feature a bounty hunter tracking down several rogue Nexus-6 cyborgs, the sixth generation in the line of Nexus robots.
> 
> But unlike Motorola, which licensed the Droid name from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, no one at Google discussed the name with Mr. Dick's family - and they're not happy about it."
> _______________________________________________
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From g.durbin at vam.ac.uk  Thu Dec 17 12:01:18 2009
From: g.durbin at vam.ac.uk (Gail Durbin)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:01:18 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Search the Collections goes mobile
Message-ID: <4B2A8E0E.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>

We have recently launched a mobile version of Search the Collections, our database of a million plus objects. If you go to www.vam.ac.uk/collections it should download   or go straight to   m.vam.ac.uk   on your mobile phone . We would be grateful for comments. Let me know if you have any difficulty.
Best wishes for the Christmas season
Gail

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online


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From meggoc at yahoo.com  Thu Dec 17 12:28:20 2009
From: meggoc at yahoo.com (Megan Callan)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:28:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [MCN-L] well, that's embarassing!
Message-ID: <750899.53915.qm@web113904.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Sorry for yesterday's random posting! I'm trying out a new phone and obviously replied to the wrong email.

Now I REALLY need a drink!


      


From evesinaiko at earthlink.net  Thu Dec 17 13:29:01 2009
From: evesinaiko at earthlink.net (Eve Sinaiko)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:29:01 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
In-Reply-To: <58086.1261074241@parc.com>
References: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF510@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
	<58086.1261074241@parc.com>
Message-ID: <03aa01ca7f5f$f35b0650$da1112f0$@net>

> Bloggers read too much science fiction, and seem to love conspiracy
> theories.  "Nexus" as an English word is several centuries old, and
> well-chosen for a do-everything cell phone.  There seems to be no
> evidence of any correlation between Dick's work and the putative Google
> offering, aside from the use of English.
> 
> Bill

Even if it were, Philip Dick's family would be out of luck. Names can't be
copyrighted, only trademarked. A fictional character or concept in a book
can't be trademarked (at least, not easily). So if Google wants to name its
most popular phone apps Lolita, Ridley, and Spock, there's nothing to stop
them.

Regards,
Eve Sinaiko
NYC



From general at e-conservationline.com  Fri Dec 18 02:19:17 2009
From: general at e-conservationline.com (general at e-conservationline.com)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:19:17 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Issue no. 12 of e-conservation magazine is now online
Message-ID: <2a6f77b605786273c2da7639b556a159@e-conservationline.com>

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that issue no. 12 of e-conservation magazine is
now online and available for free download or online reading from our
website at http://www.e-conservationline.com/ .
We hope you will enjoy the reading!


INDEX - Issue 12, December 2009
ISSN: 1646-9283

NEWS & VIEWS

Let?s Pin the ?Long Tail? on the Conservation Donkey
By Daniel Cull

Reviews

I Symposium on Conservation-Restoration of Golden Woodcarving and
Sculpture. Preserving the past, Securing the Future
November 26-27, 2009, Porto, Portugal
Review by Rui Bordalo

COST Training School: Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage
(WoodCultHer)
March 16-20, 2009, Hamburg, Germany
Review by Oana Chachula

The 3rd Conservation-Restoration Workshop for the Artistic Components of
Historic Monuments
October 14-16, 2009, Bucharest, Romania
Review by Anca Dina

EVENTS
Upcoming Events & Call for Papers: January 2009

PROJECTS

Conservation in Action: Welcome to the ?CSI Lab?
By Virginie Ternisien

ARTICLES

Examination of Some Inorganic Pigments and Plaster Layers from Excavations
at Saqqara area, Egypt
Optical Microscopy and SEM-EDS Microanalysis
By Hussein Hassan M.H. Mahmoud

Les dilemmes philosophiques de la conservation-restauration
by Pierre Leveau

ARP PROCEEDINGS

Detached Mural Paintings in Portugal
The Conservation-Restoration of the Fragments from the Alberto Sampaio
Museum in Guimar?es
By Maria Alice de Sousa Cotovio

Mudejar Ceilings. Study, Conservation and Restoration
By Carlos Jos? Abreu da Silva Costa


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From kburtonjones at comcast.net  Fri Dec 18 06:06:04 2009
From: kburtonjones at comcast.net (Katherine Burton Jones)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:06:04 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Regarding collections information and social media
Message-ID: <000001ca7feb$3ce0fba0$b6a2f2e0$@net>

Dear colleagues,

 

Please note this request from one of the students in the Harvard museum
studies program.  We would appreciate your input in her survey and thesis.

 

Kathy

 

Katherine Burton Jones

64 Ober Road

Newton, MA  02459

________________________________________________________________________

 

Hi all,

 

I have a very short 8 questions questionnaire regarding CMS and Social 
media that I am trying to get answered and for which I would greatly 
appreciate your help. Many thanks!

 

 
<https://webmail.fas.harvard.edu/horde/util/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surv
eygizmo.com%2Fs%2F220118%2Fcms-and-social-media-questionnaire-marcela-ramos&
Horde=5bc8ea181a0b3c304d538cfbb42c1375>
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/220118/cms-and-social-media-questionnaire-marce
la-ramos

Marcela V. Ramos
Exhibitions Coordinator and Registrar of the Collection
mvramos at fas.harvard.edu

Art Forum
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
#1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617) 496-0558
Fax:(617) 496-2802
www.drclas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/artforum

 


From shyla at upenn.edu  Fri Dec 18 10:41:58 2009
From: shyla at upenn.edu (Shawn Hyla)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:41:58 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Programmer/Developer Position Open At the University of
	Penn Museum
Message-ID: <5D70E6FE7C2F3D46903A8F82F632274A364DBC7087@MAILBOX.exchange.upenn.edu>

Hello,

The Penn Museum is looking for a personable, self motivated person to support our internal and external websites (both using the Joomla CMS). Additionally, this person will help put our new installation of KE EMu (our collections management database) on the web. Professional experience in design, development, integrations, and software solutions based on web technologies is a must. They should be proficient in PHP as well as MySQL and various other smaller database platforms such as Access and Filemaker Pro. The candidate should be comfortable with face to face interaction and be prepared to provide desktop support and training for applications. This position requires a BA in Computer Science or related field and 2-4 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Resume's and inquiries should be sent to itsupport at museum.upenn.edu<mailto:itsupport at museum.upenn.edu>

Thank you,

Shawn Hyla
Penn Museum
IT Manager


From evan.robb at sos.wa.gov  Fri Dec 18 11:03:21 2009
From: evan.robb at sos.wa.gov (Robb, Evan)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:03:21 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Start thinking about proposals for the CONTENTdm Western
	Users Group meeting in Salt Lake City
Message-ID: <A0ACCB9F4405C943A48F7D66142B7E20017DE8AA@secstatemxlib01.secstate.wa.pri>

(please excuse any cross-postings)

 

Start Thinking About Proposals for the CONTENTdm Western Users Group
meeting 
Hosted by: J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah Salt Lake
City, UT 

Please consider submitting a presentation proposal for the CONTENTdm
Western Users Group meeting, which will be held in beautiful Salt Lake
City, Utah, on June 3-4, 2010. Sessions will be held in the
newly-renovated Marriott Library on the University of Utah campus.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to: 

* Audio/video digitization
* Managing full resolution images
* Harvesting metadata 
* Quality of metadata 
* Digital copyright 
* Custom application work 
* Enhancements to CONTENTdm 

Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2010, and more information about
submitting online will become available in January. Questions? Please
contact Kenning Arlitsch at kenning.arlitsch at utah.edu or at (801)
585-3721.

 

 


From squigley at artic.edu  Fri Dec 18 11:49:06 2009
From: squigley at artic.edu (Sam Quigley)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:49:06 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Regarding collections information and social media
In-Reply-To: <000001ca7feb$3ce0fba0$b6a2f2e0$@net>
References: <000001ca7feb$3ce0fba0$b6a2f2e0$@net>
Message-ID: <EFA49FA3-6871-4403-A774-50EA26259777@artic.edu>

I did my Santa thing for the season...
Sam

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Katherine Burton Jones wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> Please note this request from one of the students in the Harvard  
> museum
> studies program.  We would appreciate your input in her survey and  
> thesis.
>
>
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
> Katherine Burton Jones
>
> 64 Ober Road
>
> Newton, MA  02459
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have a very short 8 questions questionnaire regarding CMS and Social
> media that I am trying to get answered and for which I would greatly
> appreciate your help. Many thanks!
>
>
>
>
> <https://webmail.fas.harvard.edu/horde/util/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surv
> eygizmo.com%2Fs%2F220118%2Fcms-and-social-media-questionnaire- 
> marcela-ramos&
> Horde=5bc8ea181a0b3c304d538cfbb42c1375>
> http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/220118/cms-and-social-media-questionnaire-marce
> la-ramos
>
> Marcela V. Ramos
> Exhibitions Coordinator and Registrar of the Collection
> mvramos at fas.harvard.edu
>
> Art Forum
> David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
> Harvard University
> #1730 Cambridge Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> Tel: (617) 496-0558
> Fax:(617) 496-2802
> www.drclas.harvard.edu
> www.fas.harvard.edu/artforum
>
>
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Chicago, IL  60603
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From kburtonjones at comcast.net  Fri Dec 18 12:20:22 2009
From: kburtonjones at comcast.net (Katherine Burton Jones)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:20:22 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Regarding collections information and social media
In-Reply-To: <EFA49FA3-6871-4403-A774-50EA26259777@artic.edu>
References: <000001ca7feb$3ce0fba0$b6a2f2e0$@net>
	<EFA49FA3-6871-4403-A774-50EA26259777@artic.edu>
Message-ID: <004b01ca801f$87418500$95c48f00$@net>

You are the best.  Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Sam
Quigley
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 2:49 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Regarding collections information and social media

I did my Santa thing for the season...
Sam

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Katherine Burton Jones wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> Please note this request from one of the students in the Harvard  
> museum
> studies program.  We would appreciate your input in her survey and  
> thesis.
>
>
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
> Katherine Burton Jones
>
> 64 Ober Road
>
> Newton, MA  02459
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have a very short 8 questions questionnaire regarding CMS and Social
> media that I am trying to get answered and for which I would greatly
> appreciate your help. Many thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
<https://webmail.fas.harvard.edu/horde/util/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surv
> eygizmo.com%2Fs%2F220118%2Fcms-and-social-media-questionnaire- 
> marcela-ramos&
> Horde=5bc8ea181a0b3c304d538cfbb42c1375>
>
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/220118/cms-and-social-media-questionnaire-marce
> la-ramos
>
> Marcela V. Ramos
> Exhibitions Coordinator and Registrar of the Collection
> mvramos at fas.harvard.edu
>
> Art Forum
> David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
> Harvard University
> #1730 Cambridge Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> Tel: (617) 496-0558
> Fax:(617) 496-2802
> www.drclas.harvard.edu
> www.fas.harvard.edu/artforum
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Information Technology / Museum CIO
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL  60603
312-443-4772
www.artic.edu

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From museumpods at gmail.com  Fri Dec 18 15:25:44 2009
From: museumpods at gmail.com (museumpods at gmail.com)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:25:44 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] iPhone Media Conversion Tip
References: <000001ca7feb$3ce0fba0$b6a2f2e0$@net>
	<EFA49FA3-6871-4403-A774-50EA26259777@artic.edu>
Message-ID: <6DFAD0D1C75749EEA67600A50DA3FAAC@harvardugddap5>

Hello,

There are a lot of museums considering or are in the development stages of 
creating iPhone apps for social media or existing web sites.   I would guess 
at least 90% of existing media content including podcasts and online videos 
are not currently compatible for streaming on iPhones.  So if you didn't 
already know video files need to be in MPEG-4 H.264 format.  Here is a great 
article about different systems that can convert existing media for free to 
MPEG-4 H.264 format: http://bit.ly/museum-media-conversion

I hope this helps.

Kurt Stuchell

http://museumpods.com
kurt_stuchell at post.harvard.edu



From robert at studiolo.org  Sat Dec 19 05:10:36 2009
From: robert at studiolo.org (Robert A. Baron)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:10:36 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Collections Management Literature to gift
Message-ID: <E1NLz4y-00040z-52@elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Dear readers,

I have a relatively large collection of collection management 
literature and studies that I'd like to donate to a library or 
educational institution. It was collected from the mid 1980s through 
approximately 2002.

The collection, thus far is stored in about five or six storage boxes 
(letter size by legal size), and contains many studies by David 
Bearman, plans and analyses for collection management systems, 
descriptions of and advertisements for commercial collection 
management systems, systems management studies, handbooks for 
commissioned systems. There are also term control handbooks, 
including Spectrum, CIDOC and CHIN and the like. There are a few 
volumes of relevant journals, and published studies.

I have not yet located my bound copies of the AAT or the editions of 
Chenhall I collected. If they appear they'll be included too.

I suspect that these materials might appeal to libraries with an 
interest in the history of collection management efforts.

I hope to donate these items within the coming two months (January 
and February, 2010).

I may be contacted at robert at studiolo.org.

Robert Baron
P.O. Box 93
Larchmont, New York 10538 

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sat Dec 19 22:46:45 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:46:45 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Just Published: Visual Resources, Volume 25,
 No. 4 (2009) - Digital Crossroads
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF51E@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

________________________________
Announcement of publication:
Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Volume 25, Issue 4 (2009)
SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital Crossroads: New Directions in 3D Architectural Modeling in the Humanities, edited by Arne R. Flaten and Alyson A. Gill
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917290663<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g917290663>

CONTENTS:

News from the Field
Murtha Baca
Pages 305 - 308

Digital Crossroads: New Directions in 3D Architectural Modeling in the Humanities-Overview
Arne R. Flaten; Alyson A. Gill
Pages 309 - 312

Digitizing the Past: Charting New Courses in the Modeling of Virtual Landscapes
Alyson A. Gill
Pages 313 - 332

Testing Geometric Authenticity: Standards, Methods, and Criteria for Evaluating the Accuracy and Completeness of Archaeometric Computer Reconstructions
David Sherratt Johnson
Pages 333 - 344

The Ashes2Art Project: Digital Models of Fourth-Century BCE Delphi, Greece
Arne R. Flaten
Pages 345 - 362

The Virtual Monastery: Re-Presenting Time, Human Movement, and Uncertainty at Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons
Sheila Bonde;  Clark Maines;  Elli Mylonas; Julia Flanders
Pages 363 - 377

"Auteur" or Architectural Historian? Digitally Modeling the New York YMCA
Paula Lupkin
Pages 379 - 402

Visualizing History: Modeling in the Eternal City
Christopher Johanson
Pages 403 - 418

Author Index (Volume XXV)
Pages 419 - 420

Image Index (Volume XXV)
Pages e1 - e17 (available online only; http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917290663<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g917290663>)

Christine L. Sundt, Editor
Murtha Baca, News Editor
Helen Ronan, Review Editor

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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sun Dec 20 00:25:34 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:25:34 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG:  The Perfect Holiday Gift
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF526@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Can't resist forwarding this, from past MCN conference speaker Jonathan Band.  Perfect for all your Google Book Search obsessed friends and colleagues.  IP SIG certified interesting.

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG



________________________________
Here is a link to an article I wrote on the Google Books Settlement: http://www.jmripl.com<http://www.jmripl.com/>.  It is the perfect gift for you to give to the special people in your life.  It is very informative -- it discusses the original Library Project, the fair use arguments in the litigation, the original settlement agreement, the debate over approval of the settlement agreement, and the amended settlement agreement.  It is very long -- over 100 pages.  It is very green -- you can forward the link to as many people as you want without chopping down any trees.  And best of all -- it is very free.  Just imagine your friends curled up in front of the fireplace, reading this article on their laptops.  They will be so thankful for this thoughtful gift!  Happy Holidays!


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  fax: 202-872-0884
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From adele.hoarau at cr-reunion.fr  Sun Dec 20 04:02:01 2009
From: adele.hoarau at cr-reunion.fr (Adele HOARAU)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:02:01 +0400
Subject: [MCN-L] AUTO : Adele HOARAU Geoffroy est partie
Message-ID: <OF6E28E12B.70FE8678-ON44257692.00421A68-44257692.00421A69@cr-reunion.fr>



Je suis absent(e) du bureau jusqu'au 28/10/2011

Je quitte mes fonctions ? la MCUR le 22 d?cembre 2009.
Pour ce qui concerne la documentation, vous pouvez vous adresser ? ma
coll?gue Alexandra Affidou.
Cordialement,


Remarque?: ceci est une r?ponse automatique ? votre message  "[MCN-L] FW:
Just Published: Visual Resources, Volume 25, No. 4 (2009) - Digital
Crossroads" envoy? le 20/12/09 10:46:45.

C'est la seule notification que vous recevrez pendant l'absence de cette
personne.

From dianezorich at comcast.net  Tue Dec 22 09:50:45 2009
From: dianezorich at comcast.net (Diane M. Zorich)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:50:45 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Simmons College Receives IMLS Grant to incorporate museum
 informatics into its curriculum
Message-ID: <p06200707c756b71f587b@[10.0.1.2]>

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>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Simmons GSLIS Receives $456K Grant from 
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>Simmons GSLIS Receives $456K Grant from Institute of Museum and 
>Library Services
>
>BOSTON (December 16, 2009): The Simmons College Graduate School of 
>Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has received a grant of 
>$455,639 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the 
>project "Curriculum, Cooperation, Convergence, Capacity - Four C's 
>for the Development of Cultural Heritage Institutions."
>
>GSLIS will partner with seven New England cultural institutions to 
>incorporate museum informatics and data stewardship into an existing 
>program of study. Partner affiliates are: American Textile History 
>Museum, Concord Free Public Library, Connecticut Historical Society, 
>Historic New England, Museum of African American History, Phillips 
>Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, and Shelburne Museum. The grant 
>supports institutional capacity building for cultural heritage 
>convergence at GSLIS, and is funded for a period of three years.
>
>The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source 
>of federal support for the nation?s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 
>museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and 
>museums that connect people to information and ideas.
>
>The nationally ranked Simmons College Graduate School of Library and 
>Information Science is one of the oldest and largest library and 
>information science programs in the nation. It is also ranked as one 
>of the top 10 Archives/Preservation Management programs in the 
>country by U.S. News & World Report.
>
>Additional information may be found here: 
>http://www.simmons.edu/overview/about/news/press/869.php
>
>
>Please contact Kimberly Hula, project assistant, for any additional 
>information.
>
>Kimberly Hula
>Simmons College, GSLIS
>IMLS Project Assistant
>617.521.2820
>Kimberly.hula at simmons.edu


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From flecknerj at si.edu  Tue Dec 22 11:33:35 2009
From: flecknerj at si.edu (Fleckner, John)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:33:35 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Walter Gifford Leland Award
Message-ID: <1998C220864C0249AE4F510DCEF9B61D29946DCE93@SI-MSEV01.US.SINET.SI.EDU>

Call for Nominations: 20010 Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Have you read a great new book about archives? Have you come across an exceptional finding aid for a newly-processed archival or manuscript collection? Have you encountered a documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a web publication really stood out to you?

If you have, please consider nominating it for the Waldo Gifford Leland Award.

The annual Leland Award - a cash prize and certificate - encourages and rewards "writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice."  The Leland Award subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists invites you to nominate a monograph, finding aid, or documentary publication published in North America in 2009 for this year's recognition.  (Please note: periodicals are not eligible.)  Established in 1959, the award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland, president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.

Nomination forms, a list of previous winners and more information is available at http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland.asp. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2010.

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!



From jbondy at okhistory.org  Tue Dec 22 13:33:37 2009
From: jbondy at okhistory.org (Jason Bondy)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:33:37 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Headphones in exhibits
Message-ID: <08B78A7558EF46EEA8502EE40BB9A3A5@okhistory.org>

Hello,

 

This is more of an AV question, but since we all multitask anyway.

 

We have a music exhibit that has been up for a year and will be up another
14 months.  Within the exhibit are five listening locations with headphones.
With daily use (and abuse) we have gone through approximately 12 sets of
headphones since the exhibit opened.  

 

I was wondering if anyone had some experience with decent quality headphones
that are designed for heavy use.  Since it is a Rock and Roll exhibit, we
aren't really looking for "library study carrel" style, although they would
probably last longer!  They do need to be tough though, as we often have
large (100+) groups of 4th through 12th graders wandering through the
exhibit.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Jason

 

_______________________________________________________

Jason Bondy

Exhibit AV/IT Systems

Oklahoma History Center

2401 N. Laird Ave.

Oklahoma City, OK  73105

405-522-0783 - Office

405-522-5402 - Fax

www.okhistory.org

 

 


From ACarrier at MarinersMuseum.org  Tue Dec 22 13:51:45 2009
From: ACarrier at MarinersMuseum.org (Adam Carrier)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:51:45 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Headphones in exhibits
References: <08B78A7558EF46EEA8502EE40BB9A3A5@okhistory.org>
Message-ID: <419F10D4185BC14BAF9056D59B735526029CAF01@data3.tmm.local>

Hello Jason:
We've found the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 headphones to be pretty rugged.
We use them in our studios, and they're designed for professional
monitoring and mixing. They might be worth trying in your exhibit. They
are a bit expensive.

http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/headphones/0edf909675b1be4d/index.html

There are straight and coiled cable versions.

Adam Carrier
Audiovisual Technician II
Digital Media & Exhibit Technology Department

The Mariners' Museum 
100 Museum Drive 
Newport News, Virginia  23606
Phone (757) 952-0431 
Fax (757) 591-7335
acarrier at MarinersMuseum.org

www.MarinersMuseum.org
America's National Maritime Museum

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Jason Bondy
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:34 PM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: [MCN-L] Headphones in exhibits

Hello,

 

This is more of an AV question, but since we all multitask anyway.

 

We have a music exhibit that has been up for a year and will be up
another
14 months.  Within the exhibit are five listening locations with
headphones.
With daily use (and abuse) we have gone through approximately 12 sets of
headphones since the exhibit opened.  

 

I was wondering if anyone had some experience with decent quality
headphones
that are designed for heavy use.  Since it is a Rock and Roll exhibit,
we
aren't really looking for "library study carrel" style, although they
would
probably last longer!  They do need to be tough though, as we often have
large (100+) groups of 4th through 12th graders wandering through the
exhibit.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Jason

 

_______________________________________________________

Jason Bondy

Exhibit AV/IT Systems

Oklahoma History Center

2401 N. Laird Ave.

Oklahoma City, OK  73105

405-522-0783 - Office

405-522-5402 - Fax

www.okhistory.org

 

 

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From rao.abhijit at gmail.com  Thu Dec 24 05:50:02 2009
From: rao.abhijit at gmail.com (Abhijit Rao)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:50:02 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] volunteer available for "technical" tasks
Message-ID: <9caaed60912240550m59fd97d6w600a94b61308463d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am gainfully employed - I have almost 18 years of work experience in (i)
CE Product Development (Fimrware/Software/Usability) and (ii) Technology
Licensing. I am seeking volunteering opportunities in aspects of Technology
Planning or Programming or Exhibit Design. Please feel free to suggest other
topics. I can commit to an average of 4 hours to 7 hours a week.

Thank you
Abhijit Rao

From adriennefletcher at ufl.edu  Thu Dec 24 08:30:03 2009
From: adriennefletcher at ufl.edu (Adrienne Fletcher)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:30:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [MCN-L] Calling for participation: Research in the Use of Social
 Media and Museums
Message-ID: <1964109732.184621261672203300.JavaMail.osg@osgjas01.cns.ufl.edu>

Hello all,

My name is Adrienne Fletcher and I am a graduate student at the 
University
of Florida working on a thesis project researching the use of 
social media
in museums. I will be conducting an online survey and am in the 
process of
collecting E-mail contacts for the appropriate person in as many 
museums
as possible that are currently using or are interested in using 
social
media as a type of communication tool. All respondents will 
receive a copy
of the survey results at the end of the research. If you are 
interested in
participating in the online survey which will be sent out in 
January or
are interested in having your institution take part, please E-mail 
me the
appropriate E-mail address for the contact person in your museum.

The survey will be looking into effectiveness, measurement, time 
and
tactics of social media use for museums.

Thank you for your time,

Adrienne

adriennefletcher at ufl.edu
University of Florida


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Thu Dec 24 12:05:27 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:05:27 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 21
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005d369d3b9aca001ddf13ca.5d369e@agdog.com>

Hello,
I will be on vacation from December 24 - January 4. If you need immediate
assistance, please contact info at mainehistory.org. I will return emails as
soon as I can during my vacation or after I get back.

Thanks,
Kathy Amoroso
Dir. of Digital Projects


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Fri Dec 25 12:05:15 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:05:15 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 22
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005d390a3b9aca00d97de346.5d390b@agdog.com>

Hello,
I will be on vacation from December 24 - January 4. If you need immediate
assistance, please contact info at mainehistory.org. I will return emails as
soon as I can during my vacation or after I get back.

Thanks,
Kathy Amoroso
Dir. of Digital Projects


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Sat Dec 26 12:05:14 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:05:14 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 23
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005d3ae63b9aca000dd318e2.5d3ae7@agdog.com>

Hello,
I will be on vacation from December 24 - January 4. If you need immediate
assistance, please contact info at mainehistory.org. I will return emails as
soon as I can during my vacation or after I get back.

Thanks,
Kathy Amoroso
Dir. of Digital Projects


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Sun Dec 27 12:05:14 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:05:14 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 24
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005d3cd53b9aca005f61d76b.5d3cd6@agdog.com>

Hello,
I will be on vacation from December 24 - January 4. If you need immediate
assistance, please contact info at mainehistory.org. I will return emails as
soon as I can during my vacation or after I get back.

Thanks,
Kathy Amoroso
Dir. of Digital Projects


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Mon Dec 28 12:05:17 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:05:17 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 25
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005d40f03b9aca00ef1fc60a.5d40f1@agdog.com>

Hello,
I will be on vacation from December 24 - January 4. If you need immediate
assistance, please contact info at mainehistory.org. I will return emails as
soon as I can during my vacation or after I get back.

Thanks,
Kathy Amoroso
Dir. of Digital Projects


From aoneal at ohiohistory.org  Tue Dec 29 07:36:57 2009
From: aoneal at ohiohistory.org (Angela O'Neal)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:36:57 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Job Posting: Systems Adminstration Manager (Columbus, OH)
Message-ID: <03D7D36074D3BF448726669A228FEC220844B5FE@ohsemail.ohiohistory.org>

The Ohio Historical Society seeks a Unit Manager for Systems
Administration. The successful candidate will work with the Information
Technology manager to ensure the Society's technology infrastructure
provides the performance and capabilities to meet current and future
strategic objectives. He or she will conduct and oversees the research,
implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructure at all OHS-managed
locations, including servers, databases, e-mail, networks, and PC's. The
ideal candidate will be a functional expert in most of the main areas of
the position and will be focused on adopting new and innovative
technologies. He or she will have the ability to clearly and concisely
communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences,
respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints and cultivate a
productive and ongoing dialogue with top management and key constituents
that encourages innovative solutions. 

 

Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent
related work experience required. Three to five years experience in
Information Technology with increasing supervisory and project
management responsibility. Experience with maintaining a Microsoft
network, servers and e-mail systems.  Must have hands-on Windows Server
Administration experience (WINS, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory) and
LAN/WAN Administration experience (TCP/IP, hubs & switches, gateways,
modems, work with communication and Internet Service Providers (ISPs),
network media, access methodologies, e-mail systems/protocols). VMWare
experience a plus. Salary for this position is $61,188 annually. 

 

Founded in 1885, the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) is a full-service
history organization that conducts an expanded range of activities
related to interpreting, collecting and preserving the state's heritage.
In the last century, the society has collected more than 1.5 million
items pertaining to Ohio's history, archaeology, and natural history.
One of the largest state historical organizations in the country, OHS
now has membership of over 9,000. 

 

Resumes received by January 8th will receive first review. For more
information, see: http://www.ohiohistory.org/about/jobs/. 

 

  

Angela O'Neal
Manager, Information Technology

Ohio Historical Society
(614) 297-2576 

www.ohiohistory.org <http://www.ohiohistory.org>  

 

OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY   Connect with the past. Create a better future.

 

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May 1, 2009 - February 28, 2010

www.ohiohistory.org/soul

 


From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Tue Dec 29 14:57:02 2009
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:57:02 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Topic Preferences For New Mobile-Theme Column For _Searcher_
Message-ID: <1546c3f80912291457w23aaefcfj6c0888cec960d4a4@mail.gmail.com>

Colleagues/

I am greatly interested in learning of the potential interests and
preferences of my Web colleagues of candidate topics for a new column
on >>> Mobile Libraries / Mobile Learning / Mobile Outrearch / Etc >>>
titled "Content-Mobile" that I am now writing for _Searcher: The
Magazine for Database Professionals_

!!! Thanks Again bq For The Opportunity !!!

In completing a very/very brief MonkeySurvey Survey, I would most
appreciate you/your indicating which of the listed 26 topics are of
'No Interest' ; 'Minor Interest' ; 'General Interest' ; OR 'Great
Interest' >

?Apps
?Augmented Reality
?Conferences
?Databases
?eBooks
?eReaders
?Institutional Mobile Activities / Initiatives
?International Development / Extension / Outreach
?Laptop Computers
?Library Activities / Initiatives
?Medical-Related Activities / Initiatives
?Microblogging / Twitter
?Mobile Learning
?MP3 Players/ iPods
?Museum Activities / Initiatives
?Netbooks
?Projects
?Publications
?QR Codes
?Smartbooks
?Smartphones
?Tablet Computers
?Text Messaging
?TV / Video
?Webinars
?Websites

The Survey Should Take No Longer Than 5-7 Minutes [If That Long] [:-)

Please Note > The Survey Does Not Request Information That Identifies
An Individual Or Her/His Affiliation / All Responses Are Confidential
And Will Only Be Used To Set Priorities For My Column(s).

!!! Thanks A Million !!!

The MonkeySurvey Survey Can Be Accessed From

[ http://tinyurl.com/yzs7xrp  ]

BTW: My Inaugural "Content-Mobile" Column Is Scheduled To Be Published
In The March 2010 Issue Of _Searcher_.

!!! May You and Yours Have A Happy > Healthy > Prosperous > And Mobile
[:-)] > New Year !!!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs

"The Truth ?, You Can't Handle The Truth !" > "It's All A Battle Of Ideas ... ."

From aridavidow at gmail.com  Wed Dec 30 12:09:15 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:09:15 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] early-teens-friendly designer/design firm?
Message-ID: <747cfaf50912301209u318c521fmc3fa7b2f066eb7ab@mail.gmail.com>

We have a social media project coming up that we hope will engage
girls 11-14 years old. A major concern is that the website feel
friendly and inviting to girls in that age range. Has anyone here had
a good experience working with a designer or design firm in addressing
that demographic? Sample websites and referrals most welcome.

Many thanks,
ari