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Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: January
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>IPR-In the News
>Compiled by Jen Green, Massachusetts College of Art + Design
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Music Industry Ditches Company It Used to Gather Evidence on Students
>by Sara Lipka, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, January 5, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/atmysa>http://tinyurl.com/atmysa
>
>"The Recording Industry Association of America, which announced last 
>month that it would stop suing groups of students for alleged 
>illegal file sharing, has ditched the company it had hired to seek 
>out such pirates."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ad Exec Threatens to Sue over Copyright on Hitler's Globe in Tom Cruise Movie
>by Mike Masnick, Techdirt, January 5, 2009
><http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090104/1822593279.shtml>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090104/1822593279.shtml
>
>"A bunch of folks have been submitting the story that ad exec Robert 
>Pritikin is claiming that Tom Cruise's new movie, Valkyrie, about 
>the plotted (and failed) assassination of Adolf Hitler, abuses his 
>copyright on Hitler's globe."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>RI Judge Hears Arguments in Music Downloading Case
>by Associated Press, Boston Herald, January 6, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/8v5h6d>http://tinyurl.com/8v5h6d
>
>"A Rhode Island couple whose son is accused of illegally sharing 
>songs online should not be forced to surrender their home computer 
>for inspection because it would violate their privacy, their lawyer 
>argued at a federal court hearing Tuesday."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says
>by Brad Stone, The New York Times, January 6, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/966wxr>http://tinyurl.com/966wxr
>
>"In moves that will help shape the online future of the music 
>business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying 
>restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and 
>allow record companies to set a range of prices for them."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
>by Declan McCullagh, cnet news, January 6, 2009
><http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html?tag=nl.e703>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html?tag=nl.e703
>
>"One of Obama's first tech-related decisions has been to select the 
>Recording Industry Association of America's favorite lawyer to be 
>the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama's pick as 
>deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the 
>lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension 
>Act--the same law that Lessig and his allies unsuccessfully sued to 
>overturn."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Blog: Wired Blog Network: Felton, Fellow Tinkerers Predict $900 
>iPhone, Piracy Prosecutions
>posted by David Kravets, January 7, 2009
><http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/felten-fellow-t.html>http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/felten-fellow-t.html
>
>"DRM technology will still fail to prevent widespread infringement.' 
>Another obvious prediction from the Tinkerers is that the Recording 
>Industry Association will continue to sue individuals for file 
>sharing copyrighted works, despite its pledge not to."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Blog: Wired Blog Network: Court: Inmate Cannot Sue U.S. for 
>Copyright Infringement
>posted by David Kravets, January 8, 2009
><http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/court-inmate-ca.html>http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/court-inmate-ca.html
>
>"A federal inmate who copyrighted a calendar he produced while 
>performing graphic-art labor as part of his 17-year-bank robbery 
>sentence cannot collect the $500,000 he says his product is worth, a 
>federal appeals court ruled Wednesday."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Harvard Law Prof Seeks Live Webcast of RIAA P2P Trial
>by Mark Hefflinger, Ars Technica, January 8, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/8ms29b>http://tinyurl.com/8ms29b
>
>"Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson has asked the judge hearing 
>the copyright infringement trial of an alleged music file-swapper 
>that he and his students are defending to allow the proceedings to 
>be webcast live on the Internet."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mashups Changing the Face of Copyright Laws
>by Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia, January 8, 2009
><http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62049904,00.htm>http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62049904,00.htm
>
>"User-generated mashups are changing the face of copyright laws, 
>which have to evolve to catch up with the Internet generation, said 
>Mary Wong, an expert on intellectual property (IP)."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>EFF Proposing DMCA Exemption for iPhone Jailbreaking
>by Justin Berka, Ars Technica, January 9, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/9uphm9>http://tinyurl.com/9uphm9
>
>"A number of iPhone owners out there have chosen to jailbreak their 
>devices, and although Apple hasn't done much to stop the practice, 
>it's unclear what the legal situation related to jailbreaking looks 
>like."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Singapore: Make Online Content Free
>by Chua Hian Hou, Asia Media News Daily, January 9, 2009
><http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=103148>http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=103148
>
>"Intellectual property forum attendees remain ambivalent about how 
>to simultaneously protect their work and make money in YouTube age."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Copyright Reformer Lands Key Legislative Post
>by Wendy Davis, Online Media Daily, January 9, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/77kwa4>http://tinyurl.com/77kwa4
>
>"Some digital rights advocates cheered the appointment of longtime 
>copyright-reform champion Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) as chair of the 
>House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the 
>Internet."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>New video-on-demand service may hinge on Supreme Court ruling
>by David G. Savage, L.A. Times, January 9, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/7n62t5>http://tinyurl.com/7n62t5
>
>"Networks and studios oppose Cablevision's plan to offer 
>rebroadcasts of programs without commercials and without a fee paid 
>to producers."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>A Talk with Lawrence Lessig
>by Samuel P. Jacobs, The Boston Globe, January 11, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/87zgk3>http://tinyurl.com/87zgk3
>
>"A cutting-edge legal mind turns to an age-old problem: corruption."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Court Hearing in Music-Industry Lawsuit Can Be Broadcast Online
>by Sara Lipka, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, January 15, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/cdvzl5>http://tinyurl.com/cdvzl5
>
>"A federal judge ruled today that Harvard University's Berkman 
>Center for Internet & Society can broadcast online a hearing in a 
>recording-industry lawsuit scheduled for January 22."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Internet Piracy Regulations Planned for UK
>by Ben Fenton & Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times, January 16, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/97x7sl>http://tinyurl.com/97x7sl
>
>"Ministers intend to pass regulations on internet piracy requiring 
>service providers to tell customers they suspect of illegally 
>downloading films and music that they are breaking the law, says the 
>draft report by Lord Carter."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Australia: Australian Trade Opts to Keep Territorial Copyright
>by Catherine Neilan, The Bookseller.com, January 21, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/bg4auh>http://tinyurl.com/bg4auh
>
>"The Australian book trade has rejected its government's proposal to 
>end territorial copyright restrictions, which would allow 
>international publishers to sell overseas editions into the country."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>YouTube to Allow Big Media to Bring on own Adds, Take on Hulu
>by David Chartier, Ars Technica, January 22, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/btfasr>http://tinyurl.com/btfasr
>
>"Google is expected to allow more big media partners to sell their 
>own ads against their content posted on YouTube. This could go a 
>long way towards mending rocky copyright relations, but it could go 
>even farther for helping YouTube to gain a reputation for premium 
>content."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>New Zealand: Copyright Law Dust-up Turns into a War of Words
>by Pat Pilcher, The New Zealand Herald, January 22, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/8gt73p>http://tinyurl.com/8gt73p
>
>"It's official, the recording industry has thrown its toys out of 
>the cot after critics have roundly condemned the controversial 
>Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Google Calls for UK Copyright Reforms
>by Vicky Frost, The Guardian, January 22, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/c793xp>http://tinyurl.com/c793xp
>
>"Google today called for UK copyright reforms that allow individuals 
>limited use of copyrighted work in order to create new content."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Swedish Police Want Personal Info of P2P Users
>by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica, January 22, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/b86zsh>http://tinyurl.com/b86zsh
>
>"Swedish law enforcement would like to be able to get personal 
>information on P2P users who are suspected of lesser copyright 
>crimes, and plan to send a report to the Ministry of Justice in 
>support of a new file sharing bill."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>New Zealand: Ignorance is No Excuse over New Copyright Law
>by Jenny Keown, Business Day, January 23, 2009
><http://www.businessday.co.nz/industries/4826750>http://www.businessday.co.nz/industries/4826750
>
>"Thousands of New Zealand businesses are unaware they could be in 
>breach of a copyright internet law to come into force next month, 
>says Business New Zealand."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>GateHouse Media Case against NYTimes goes to Trial
>by Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press, January 25, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/b6q6w7>http://tinyurl.com/b6q6w7
>
>"The two publishers will square off in federal court this week in a 
>case that is being closely watched by journalists, bloggers and 
>Internet users."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The Problem with Extending Copyright on Music
>by Ben Jones, TorrentFreak, January 24, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/b8eg6d>http://tinyurl.com/b8eg6d
>
>"Several studies have shown that an extension of copyright on sound 
>recordings is a bad idea. It will lead to less competition and 
>higher prices while only the record labels benefit from it. Next 
>Tuesday, the Open Rights Group will be hosting a round-table event 
>to discuss performance copyright extension in the EU."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Why the Recording Industry Stopped Suing Students
>by Tracy Mitrano, Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, 
>January 27, 2009
><http://tinyurl.com/ccu3lm>http://tinyurl.com/ccu3lm
>
>"When the Recording Industry Association of America decided in 
>December to stop filing bulk lawsuits against college students, 
>several students in my "Culture, Law, and Politics of the Internet" 
>course asked me to comment on the strategy."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Sources: AT&T, Comcast May Help RIAA Foil Piracy
>by Greg Sandoval, cnet News, January 28, 2009
><http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10151389-93.html?tag=nl.e703>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10151389-93.html?tag=nl.e703
>
>"AT&T and Comcast, two of the nation's largest Internet service 
>providers, are expected to be among a group of ISPs that will 
>cooperate with the music industry in battling illegal file sharing, 
>three sources close to the companies told CNET News."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Obama wants to know: Why open source?
>by Matt Asay, cnet News, January 28, 2009
><http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html?tag=nl.e703>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html?tag=nl.e703
>
>"Obama's been asking around about the benefits of open source, 
>according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by Obama 
>to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can 
>derive from open source."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Press Release: Call for Open Access to Digital Images
><http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/>http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/
>
>"The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a 
>co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of 
>best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual 
>media."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>New tool: From the Copyright Advisory Network: The Section 108 Spinner
><http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/>http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/
>
>"Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Code allows libraries and 
>archives, under certain circumstances, to make reproductions of 
>copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder. 
> This tool can help you determine whether or not a particular 
>reproduction is covered by this exemption."
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Many thanks to all of our VRA-IPR members who are monitoring 
>multiple listservs to make this IPR news posting possible. Please 
>submit any comments, questions, or suggestions to Jen Green at 
><mailto:jen.green at massart.edu>jen.green at massart.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Jen Green
>Visual Resources Librarian
>Morton R. Godine Library
>Massachusetts College of Art and Design
>621 Huntington Avenue
>Boston, MA 02115
>617-879-7109
>jen.green at massart.edu
>


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From maburns at uci.edu  Mon Feb  2 10:12:53 2009
From: maburns at uci.edu (Maureen Burns)
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:12:53 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: Six weeks until VRA Conference 27!
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20090202101159.03a812e0@uci.edu>

Please forgive the cross-posting, but we want to 
make sure and get the word out to MCN colleagues 
who may want to attend the VRA conference in 
Toronto (see below). Still plenty of time to register. Hope to see you there.

Best regards,
Maureen

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>With the turning of the calendar page to February, it?s time for me to send
>forth a reminder about registration for our 27th Annual Conference, held
>this year from March 18-21 in fabulous Toronto.
>
>One of the highlights of this year?s Conference is sure to be our opening
>plenary session ?Fair Use or Fair Dealing?? on the afternoon of Wednesday,
>March 18, 2009.  This fascinating comparison of the copyright environments
>in the United States and Canada, particularly as these affect educational
>and cultural heritage institutions, will feature two noted experts in the
>field (one from Canada and one from the U.S.): Giuseppina D?Agostino,
>Professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto; and
>Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia
>University.
>
>We will also be inviting as our special guests Professor D?Agostino?s
>colleagues and students from the Osgoode Hall Law School, faculty and
>students from the iSchool (Faculty of Information Studies) at the University
>of Toronto, and members of the ARLIS/NA Ontario Chapter, along with Toronto
>area museum professionals whose responsibilities include intellectual
>property and rights management.
>
>Our guests for the Copyright Plenary Session will also be invited to join
>our members and plenary session speakers for the following VRA Welcome Party
>and Reception, to be held at the Conference hotel.  We see this as a
>significant opportunity to reach out to professional communities throughout
>the greater Toronto area that share many interests in common with our
>membership, and to acquaint them with our organization and its activities.
>
>So, whether or not the Groundhog sees his shadow today, spring will be in
>the air six weeks from now.  And six weeks is all that remains before the
>opening of VRA Conference 27.  Take a look at the updated schedule of events
>at http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/toronto2009/ataglance.html
>and then fill out your registration form today.  Remember, on-line
>registration will continue only through February 27, and it offers a
>substantial discount from on-site registration fees.
>
>I hope you can join us in Toronto!  The current exchange rate favors
>visitors from the States, and don't forget that even the rooms at the
>conference hotel (Sheraton Centre Toronto) that you book through web
>discount sites will still count towards our room block fulfillment.
>
>
>Allan
>
>
>Allan T. Kohl
>President, Visual Resources Association
>Library/Visual Resources
>Minneapolis College of Art & Design
>2501 Stevens Avenue South
>Minneapolis, MN   55404
>612.874.3781
><allan_kohl at mcad.edu>
>
>

Maureen A. Burns, Ed.D.
Humanities Curator
Visual Resources Collection
61 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3375
949-824-8027 phone
949-824-4298 fax
MABURNS at UCI.EDU


From nina at museumtwo.com  Mon Feb  2 10:40:55 2009
From: nina at museumtwo.com (Nina Simon)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:40:55 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] MW2009 Roommates?
In-Reply-To: <p0624085dc5a980f429b8@[64.26.178.36]>
References: <p0624085dc5a980f429b8@[64.26.178.36]>
Message-ID: <9B90D04C-2EA9-4B48-8EC7-1C72A4E3D995@museumtwo.com>

Hi MCN-ers,

Are you looking for a roommate for MW2009?  No way.  Me too.

I started a thread about this on the MW2009 forum here: http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/need_roommate_mw2009

But to give you a synopsis, I'm looking for 1-3 roommates to share a  
room at the Hyatt Regency conference hotel.  I'm gender-flexible,  
looking for folks who don't snore/watch TV all night and are won't be  
freaked out by early morning pushups and a minimal approach to  
clothing (no, you do not have to participate in these activities).

Let me know if you'd like to join me, or post a response on the forum  
if you are looking for a different type of roommate situation!

Nina

Nina Simon
Museum 2.0 - www.museumtwo.com

831.331.5460
nina at museumtwo.com
1040 Mystery Spot Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
skype, twitter, yahooIM, flickr, facebook: ninaksimon


From jmaza at thewalters.org  Mon Feb  2 11:35:41 2009
From: jmaza at thewalters.org (James Maza)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:35:41 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Job Opening: Administrator of Museum Databases at The
	Walters Art Museum
Message-ID: <D07C0277A63EF84590EE7CD725D9308A03BBED57@omega.walters.local>

The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, MD is seeking a full time
Administrator of Museum Databases
 
About the Walters:
The Walters Art Museum preserves and develops in the public trust a
distinguished collection of world art from antiquity to the 20th
century. In 1931, the museum's founding benefactor, Henry Walters,
bequeathed the core collection to the City of Baltimore "for the benefit
of the public." Since its opening, the Walters has been a national
leader in scholarship, conservation, and education.  Today, the
collection has grown to more than 28,000 objects. The Walters Art Museum
brings art and people together for enjoyment, discovery, and learning.
We strive to create a place where people of every background can be
touched by art. We are committed to exhibitions and programs that will
strengthen and sustain our community.
 
About the Administrator of Museum Databases Position:
The Administrator of Museum Databases reports to the Chief Technology
Officer and works closely with the Chief Registrar and key stakeholders,
including Education, Exhibitions, Conservation and Marketing.  She/he
will initially be responsible for the management and administration of
the TMS Art Collection Management System and the implementation,
management and administration of the Media Beacon Digital Asset
Management System including:
*	Administrates the TMS and Media Beacon applications, including
security control, user access and table management.
*	Works with staff throughout the museum on protocols and
standards for data entry and authority controls.
*	Develops SQL scripts to extend the functionality of the
applications, including developing and maintaining automated reporting,
scripts and stored procedures to facilitate data management and
integrity.
*	Implements and maintains procedures and processes related to the
collection of, archival storage of and dissemination of data and
associated media. 
*	Defines requirements for the development of application
programming interfaces (APIs).
*	Assesses database systems architecture and design requirements
for database system integrations. 
*	Implements, maintains, and troubleshoots database system
integrations. 
*	Implements and maintains a test environment for database systems
where new processes and upgrades can be tested. Maintains the test
environment with recent production data.
*	Documents, tests and applies operating system, platform and
application updates and patches on database servers to the DB systems.
Test and perform platform and application upgrades as new product
versions are released. 
*	Coordinates with the Network Administrator and CTO to recommend
minimum requirements for database server and client hardware, work with
Network Administrator on installing and configuring hardware for
database systems. 
*	Assesses and develops requirements for growth scenarios of
current database systems. Works with Network Administrator and CTO on
budgeting and future planning to facilitate necessary expansion.  
*	Develops and maintains comprehensive disaster recovery and
backup plans for database systems and data. Monitor these processes to
ensure appropriate coverage.
*	Develops and maintains maintenance plans for SQL Server
databases to ensure data integrity and efficient performance. 
*	Creates and maintains manuals and documentation for system
administration, data entry and data retrieval.
*	Supervises data entry assistants.
*	Performs end-user client maintenance as related to database
applications, including installation and troubleshooting. 
*	Trains staff in database usage and provides end-users with daily
support for all database related issues as help desk resource.
*	Develops Crystal Reports for use throughout the Museum.
*	Responds to collection inquiries involving advanced database
query or analysis.
*	Works with staff on digital projects containing database
content, including kiosks, project related databases and web sites.
Includes coordinating the digitization of the collection and its
dissemination to the website and other new media projects. Collects,
analyzes, stores and disseminates digital media and associated data and
oversees the collections content on the website and ensure its accuracy
and timely updating. 
*	Conducts file transfers, imports, exports and dissemination of
data and associated media to web based applications, partner
organizations (i.e. ARTstor, shared databases).
*	Acts as liaison to outside organizations regarding projects
utilizing collection data in shared databases, such as ARTstor, etc. 
*	Networks with peers and organizations with similar missions to
both promote The Walters as an industry leader and to explore other
technology and best practice scenarios.
 
Qualifications include two years experience with TMS database
application, strong SQL scripting skills, B.A. in Art History or related
field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and
experience.   Must have knowledge of museum practices and procedures.
Experience with Crystal reports, PhotoShop preferred.  Must have good
organizational skills, be detail oriented, and communicate effectively.
Start date: February 1.  Send letter, resume, and three references to:
Human Resources, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street,
Baltimore, MD  21201.
 
Additional information about the Walters Art Museum and the position can
be found at www.thewalters.org
 
Jim
 
Jim Maza
Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St.,
Baltimore, MD  21201
jmaza at thewalters.org;  http://www.thewalters.org/
<http://www.thewalters.org/> ;  410.547.9000 ext 339  
 
The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods opens
February 15
Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project through February 16
The Romance of the Rose: Visions in Love in Illuminated Medieval
Manuscripts January 24 through April 19
Mummified through November 8
 
 
 
 
 

From jbedard at artsmia.org  Tue Feb  3 06:45:42 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:45:42 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Intranet survey
Message-ID: <49880435.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>

We are in the process of developing an Intranet and would be interested in surveying other museums to learn what they have done.  Below is link to a Google Doc for this survey that anyone can access, either to participate in the survey or to see what has been posted.  You can even add another column if you would like to add a question to the survey.
 
Thank you in advance for being willing to share what you have done at your organization by completing this short survey.
 
 
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phY6vmXIwG2bWDc1j_FaIEQ 
 
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ )

From ReneeM at lacma.org  Tue Feb  3 13:19:34 2009
From: ReneeM at lacma.org (Montgomery, Renee)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:19:34 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Room-mate wanted, upcoming IMLS Webwise Conference
Message-ID: <785EF3E8EEBF554DBBCC6909943D22B705951ED9@saturn.lacma.org>

Anyone going to the above conference in DC the last week of this month
who is interested in a room-mate to help defray costs, I am interested
- male or female.

 

Renee Montgomery

Assistant Director

Collections Management and Information

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

T 323 857-6059

E reneem at lacma.org


From jbedard at artsmia.org  Wed Feb  4 06:03:31 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:03:31 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Intranet Survey - updated
Message-ID: <49894BD3.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>

Thank you to those who have participated so far in the Intranet Survey.  Unfortunately, during the day yesterday one participant did not realize that the first row was a header row and the column headers got overwritten.    I have restored the headers and added a note to indicate that a participant should scroll to the first empty row to enter their information.  My apologies to those who entered their information without the benefit of the column headings- you did a great job figuring out the questions on your own.
 
The survey is still open, so feel free to participate, and also it is open to all for viewing
 
Here is the link
 
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phY6vmXIwG2bWDc1j_FaIEQ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ )

From brynerke at wfu.edu  Wed Feb  4 10:47:42 2009
From: brynerke at wfu.edu (Kyle Elizabeth Bryner)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:47:42 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] SEMC Annual Meeting co-presenters
Message-ID: <4989E2CE.4040306@wfu.edu>

Apologies for cross-posting!

I am searching for SEMC members who plan to attend the annual meeting in 
Charleston, WV in October who are interested in joining a session with 
my museum. We want to present information on technology in museums and 
how that allows increased outreach to community groups. Our part of the 
session would concern our recent completion of our online database and 
its associated programs. We are looking for other museums who have 
successfully (or unsuccessfully) used technology for outreach. Please 
contact me if you are interested in participating with us. The deadline 
for submission is Monday February 16.
Thanks!!!

Kyle Bryner

From toney at systemsplanning.com  Wed Feb  4 12:18:55 2009
From: toney at systemsplanning.com (Stephen Toney)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:18:55 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] MWeb Flash
Message-ID: <1233778735.4752.76.camel@Dell>

Systems Planning announces MWeb Flash, a prototype of a Flash interface
to our MWeb Enterprise online catalog system. Sites may use Flash for
specific purposes, such as Online Exhibits, or to replace the entire
interface.

The source code for MWeb Flash is available free to MWeb Enterprise
clients. We have done the database and XML work so you can concentrate
on the user experience.

Please try the prototype at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (we are
grateful to LACMA for hosting the prototype):
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mweb/mwebflex.htm

More information about MWeb Flash may be found at
http://systemsplanning.com/mweb/features.asp#flash


-  
Stephen Toney
Systems Planning
toney at systemsplanning.com
http://systemsplanning.com

MWeb, CAPS, MARCView, and MARConvert are trademarks of Systems Planning



From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb  4 22:32:47 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:32:47 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: YouTube's Fair Use Massacre
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780A85AB00FE@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

________________________________________


http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/youtubes-january-fair-use-massacre

"First, it appears that more and more copyright owners are
using YouTube's automated copyright filtering system (known as
the Content ID system), which tests all videos looking for a
"match" with "fingerprints" provided by copyright owners.

"Second, thanks to a recent spat between YouTube and Warner
Music Group, YouTube's Content ID tool is now being used to
censor lots and lots of videos (previously, Warner just
silently shared in the advertising revenue for the videos that
included a "match" to its music).

"EFF, along with many other public interest groups, have
repeatedly expressed our concerns to both copyright owners and
YouTube about the dangers of automated filtering systems like
the Content ID system. These systems are still primitive and
unable to distinguish a tranformative remix from copyright
infringement. So unless they leave lots of breathing room for
remixed content, these filters end up sideswiping lots of fair
uses.

"And that's exactly what has happened these past few weeks. And
while today it's Warner Music, as more copyright owners start
using the Content ID tool, it'll only get worse. Soon it may
be off limits to remix anything with snippets of our shared
mass media culture -- music, TV, movies, jingles, commercials.
That would be a sad irony -- copyright being used to stifle an
exciting new wellspring of creativity, rather than encourage
it.

"It's clear from the Warner Music experience that YouTube's
Content ID tool fails to separate the infringements from the
arguable fair uses. And while YouTube offers users the option
to dispute a removal (if it's an automated Content ID removal)
or send a formal DMCA counter-notice (if it's an official DMCA
takedown), many YouTube users, lacking legal help, are afraid
to wave a red flag in front of Warner Music's lawyers. That's
a toxic combination for amateur video creators on YouTube. "

________________________________________

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

From jbedard at artsmia.org  Thu Feb  5 06:14:43 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:14:43 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Intranet Survey update 2
Message-ID: <498A9FF3.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>

One listserv participant informed me that their organization blocks Google Docs.  If you cannot access the Google Doc survey, you can put our information in the attached spreadsheet and I will post it in the Survey Doc.
 
If anyone who cannot access the document wants to see the results, send me an email and I will download the survey into an Excel document next week and send it to you.
 
Thanks to all who have participated so far, both for the information you have provided and for helping me test this form of collaboration.  I will leave it open until February 13 for anyone who wishes to contribute or view.
 
The link is 
 
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phY6vmXIwG2bWDc1j_FaIEQ 
 
John
 
 
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ )

From ECoburn at getty.edu  Mon Feb  9 10:03:32 2009
From: ECoburn at getty.edu (Erin Coburn)
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:03:32 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] ConservationSpace
Message-ID: <498FFF73.4DCA.0003.0@getty.edu>

 
To: The conservation profession and to the museum, library and archive  
community that conservation serves
 
From: Kenneth Hamma, Project Manager
 
Subject: An open source application for conservation documentation:  
The design phase
 
www.conservationspace.org 
 
With funding from the Research in Information Technology Program of  
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://rit.mellon.org), two community  
design meetings for conservation documentation will be held in 2009,  
the first in early March at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,  
primarily for North American participants; the second in early April  
at the National Gallery, London, primarily for UK and European  
participants.
 
The focus of these meetings is solely on the requirements, as  
described by professional conservators and conservation scientists,  
for a software application that would support and help to manage their  
work, its documentation, and related scientific data. This narrow  
focus on design is intended to increase the likelihood of achieving a  
comprehensive requirements document for application development later  
in the process, while setting aside for the present the related topics  
of specific technology and standards.  (Because it will be difficult  
for conservators to discuss requirements without mentioning standards,  
two experts will note and record standards-related issues for later  
discussion, so that the meetings can retain their focus on the  
functional requirements.)
 
The core team, listed on the website, has been selected from a broad  
range of potential participants for these meetings, taking into  
account their individual engagement with information technology as  
well as their conservation and science expertise.  Serving in an  
advisory capacity, they identified potential participants from a  
variety of collecting institutions: libraries, archives, and museums  
of art, archeology, anthropology, natural history, and science.
 
While the number of participants that could be accommodated at each of  
these meetings is necessarily limited, all resulting documents will be  
public and available for community comment and input.  This includes  
narrative summaries of the discussions as well as initial drafts of a  
requirements document for the development of an application. It is  
expected that there will be two such public drafts before a final  
document is prepared at the end of 2009. Their availability will be  
announced to the conservation field, and feedback will be solicited,  
as widely as possible.
 
The website identified above has additional information on the core  
project team, closely related efforts, and the full narrative from the  
application to the Research in Information Technology Program at the  
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
 
Kenneth Hamma
 
+1 310 270 8008
khamma at me.com 
 
368 Patel Place
Palm Springs CA 92264
 
www.becomingdigital.org 
www.conservationspace.org 

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Mon Feb  9 10:53:35 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:53:35 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1255?q?Wikipedia_Loves_Art_=FE=FE?=
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780B5ADA935B@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Is anyone on this list involved in the "Wikipedia Loves Art" project?

If so, I for one would love to hear about it. 

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art

Wikipedia Loves Art, the name being a play off Valentine's Day, is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2009. Although there are planned events at each location, you can go on your own at any time during the month.

The project is coordinated by the Brooklyn Museum, with the participation of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum. In all, there are 15 different museums and cultural institutions participating.

From cscrofani at honoluluacademy.org  Mon Feb  9 11:00:25 2009
From: cscrofani at honoluluacademy.org (Chris Scrofani)
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:00:25 -1000
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1252?q?Wikipedia_Loves_Art_=3F=3F?=
In-Reply-To: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780B5ADA935B@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
References: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780B5ADA935B@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
Message-ID: <49907D49.40006@honoluluacademy.org>

Hey Amalyah,

Our organization is participating:
http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=381

I'm not heavily involved, but the person organizing the project works 
right next door to me.  Is there anything specific you'd like me to 
inquire about?

Chris

Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] wrote:
> Is anyone on this list involved in the "Wikipedia Loves Art" project?
>
> If so, I for one would love to hear about it. 
>
> Amalyah Keshet
> Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
> The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
>
> Wikipedia Loves Art, the name being a play off Valentine's Day, is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2009. Although there are planned events at each location, you can go on your own at any time during the month.
>
> The project is coordinated by the Brooklyn Museum, with the participation of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum. In all, there are 15 different museums and cultural institutions participating.
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From tibbo at email.unc.edu  Tue Feb 10 10:25:44 2009
From: tibbo at email.unc.edu (Helen Tibbo)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:25:44 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] DigCCurr2009 - Register now, reserve your hotel,
	& see conference discounts
Message-ID: <01d101c98bac$fd16b790$f74426b0$@unc.edu>

************Apologies for Cross-Posting************
DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects
April 1?3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Conference program now available at
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule
 REGISTER HERE: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/registration  Regular
Registration Ends 3/14/09! See details below.
ALERT: Reserve your hotel rooms NOW - they are going fast!  Also, see
website for conference discounts from American Airlines and Avis Rental
Cars.   http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/travel_hotels
Following the success of DigCCurr2007, the School of Information and Library
Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our
second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital
Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to
Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum
(DigCCurr) project.
DigCCurr 2009 will host over 100 speakers from a dozen countries. Keynoter,
John Wilkin from the University of Michigan will lead us off with a
presentation entitled: ?Building the Universal Library:  The promise and
challenges of HathiTrust.? This will be followed by two days of papers,
panels, digital curation tool demonstrations, poster presentations,
receptions and a conference dinner. Speakers will report on best practices,
current experiences, and tools available for digital curation tasks today.
DigCCurr2009 will focus on current practice and research surrounding digital
curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital
curation professionals. Day 1 session titles include:

Funders? Perspectives
Gaps and Persistent Challenges
Distributed Custodial Frameworks for Archival Preservation
Digital Curation of Humanistic, Multimedia Materials: Lessons Learned and
Future Directions
Digital Curation Vignettes: Personal, Academic, and Organizational Digital
Information
Education for Digital Curation
Curation of Scientific Datasets: Trends, Current Initiatives, and Solutions
Technology Learning for Digital Curators
Metadata

See the schedule for what?s in store for Day 2:
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule
Conference Fees:
Regular $350 online registration 1/15/09 - 3/14/09
				+$20 for Thursday dinner
Late $400 online registration after 3/15/09
				+$20 for Thursday dinner
Student Regular $200 online registration 1/15/09 - 3/14/09
				+$20 for Thursday dinner
Student Late $250 postmarked after 3/15/09
				+$20 for Thursday dinner
Cancellations
*       Refund minus $100 processing fee if cancellation request received by
March 1, 2009
*       No refund after March 1, 2009
*       Cancellations or substitutions must be made to Rachael Clemens
rclemens at unc.edu


Sponsors
Institute of Museum and Library Services <http://www.imls.gov>

Coalition for Networked Information <http://www.cni.org>
National Archives and Records Administration <http://www.archives.gov>

School of Information and Library Science <http://www.ils.unc.edu>

University of North Carolina <http://www.unc.edu>
UNC University Libraries <http://www.lib.unc.edu/>


Planning Committee
Rachael Clemens
Dr. Wendy Duff
Dr. Maria Guercio
Carolyn Hank
Dr. Cal Lee
Dr. Seamus Ross
Dr. Ken Thibodeau
Dr. Helen Tibbo, Chair
Dr. Elizabeth Yakel


Dr. Helen R. Tibbo
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall CB#3360
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Tel: 919-962-8063
Fax: 919-962-8071
Email: tibbo at email.unc.edu




From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb 11 22:18:05 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:18:05 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG:  ALA site on the Google Book Search settlement
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781053F0B717@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

 
ALA  site on the proposed Google Book Search settlement:

http://wo.ala.org/gbs/2009/01/28/summary-of-the-google-book-settlement-session-at-ala-midwinter-conference/


".... Courant claimed that the settlement agreement potentially weakens fair use for libraries, since the settlement in effect creates a market for old works, and where there is a market courts are less amenable to fair uses.
He said that even though the settlement claims that fair uses are not affected, on the ground, it really is."

________________________________________

From ejohnson at monticello.org  Thu Feb 12 07:03:43 2009
From: ejohnson at monticello.org (Eric Johnson)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:03:43 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
Message-ID: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>

Hi, all-

 

Please excuse any cross-posting.  I'm interested in compiling a list of
blogs written by museum librarians (and those by librarians at other
heritage institutions) and sadly, I haven't been able to find many.  Are
you or one of your colleagues a museum librarian who writes a blog?  Or
if you are your institution's librarian or fill that role (or just dig
museum libraries), what blogs do you read to stay current on museum
librarianship?  

 

I'm primarily interested in blogs discussing museum librarianship as
such, though I'd also be interested in blogs that are done by/for museum
libraries themselves (e.g. the Smithsonian Libraries blog
<http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/> ) especially
if they are more than simple announcement lists.

 

Any guidance/suggestions/rants you can provide is most appreciated!

 

Thanks,

 

--Eric

 

Eric D. M. Johnson

Web Services Librarian

Jefferson Library, Monticello

P.O. Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
http://www.monticello.org/library/ <http://www.monticello.org/library/> 

ejohnson at monticello.org

 


From deborahwythe at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 12 07:56:18 2009
From: deborahwythe at hotmail.com (Deborah Wythe)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:56:18 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
Message-ID: <BLU126-W41D5119483D2F1CEE63255CFBB0@phx.gbl>


Our library and archives staff post to the Museum's blog on a regular basis -- find posts here:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/category/libraries-archives/

Mostly about content and activities, as opposed to librarianship or archival issues (archivistship?), though. 

Deborah Wythe
Brooklyn Museum
deborahwythe at hotmail.com 




> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:03:43 -0500
> From: ejohnson at monticello.org
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
> 
> Hi, all-
> 
>  
> 
> Please excuse any cross-posting.  I'm interested in compiling a list of
> blogs written by museum librarians (and those by librarians at other
> heritage institutions) and sadly, I haven't been able to find many.  Are
> you or one of your colleagues a museum librarian who writes a blog?  Or
> if you are your institution's librarian or fill that role (or just dig
> museum libraries), what blogs do you read to stay current on museum
> librarianship?  
> 
>  
> 
> I'm primarily interested in blogs discussing museum librarianship as
> such, though I'd also be interested in blogs that are done by/for museum
> libraries themselves (e.g. the Smithsonian Libraries blog
> <http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/> ) especially
> if they are more than simple announcement lists.
> 
>  
> 
> Any guidance/suggestions/rants you can provide is most appreciated!
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> --Eric
> 
>  
> 
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> 
> Web Services Librarian
> 
> Jefferson Library, Monticello
> 
> P.O. Box 316
> Charlottesville, VA 22902
> Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
> http://www.monticello.org/library/ <http://www.monticello.org/library/> 
> 
> ejohnson at monticello.org
> 
>  
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From aridavidow at gmail.com  Thu Feb 12 11:34:58 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:58 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
Message-ID: <747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com>

Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at
http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how
they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very
little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been
resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at
Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the
philosophical issues we face.

ari

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Eric Johnson <ejohnson at monticello.org> wrote:
> Hi, all-
>
>
>
> Please excuse any cross-posting.  I'm interested in compiling a list of
> blogs written by museum librarians (and those by librarians at other
> heritage institutions) and sadly, I haven't been able to find many.  Are
> you or one of your colleagues a museum librarian who writes a blog?  Or
> if you are your institution's librarian or fill that role (or just dig
> museum libraries), what blogs do you read to stay current on museum
> librarianship?
>
>
>
> I'm primarily interested in blogs discussing museum librarianship as
> such, though I'd also be interested in blogs that are done by/for museum
> libraries themselves (e.g. the Smithsonian Libraries blog
> <http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/> ) especially
> if they are more than simple announcement lists.
>
>
>
> Any guidance/suggestions/rants you can provide is most appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> --Eric
>
>
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
>
> Web Services Librarian
>
> Jefferson Library, Monticello
>
> P.O. Box 316
> Charlottesville, VA 22902
> Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
> http://www.monticello.org/library/ <http://www.monticello.org/library/>
>
> ejohnson at monticello.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
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From ejohnson at monticello.org  Thu Feb 12 12:04:19 2009
From: ejohnson at monticello.org (Eric Johnson)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:04:19 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
	<747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C06297897@bradley.monticello.org>

Hi, Ari--

That last point is very much at the heart of my inquiry.  I find it intriguing that museum librarians and archivists (and related information professionals) who are engaged in the day-to-day work of helping connect people to information spend so little time talking among themselves about the meta-level questions of what they're doing.  There are certainly plenty of librarian blogs out there that address librarianship as such, but not many that I've found doing so with a focus on the museum world.  I've seen quite a bit of discussion of museum/information connections, but it seems to be lead primarily by academics and programmers, with curators throwing in their occasional two cents.  I'd like to see more sharing of information from other museum information practitioners (spoken of broadly, as the lines are often quite blurred).

I suspect you're right about the institutional reluctance to support that kind of blogging, as it may result in negative reflection on "the way things are being done" at a given institution.  But I don't think that negativity necessarily has to be the case at all, nor does the conversation really have to revolve around a single site.

In any case, more food for thought.  Thanks!

--E.
?
Eric D. M. Johnson
Web Services Librarian
Jefferson Library, Monticello
P.O. Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
http://www.monticello.org/library/
ejohnson at monticello.org
?




-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:35 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs

Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at
http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how
they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very
little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been
resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at
Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the
philosophical issues we face.

ari




From aridavidow at gmail.com  Thu Feb 12 12:33:19 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:33:19 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C06297897@bradley.monticello.org>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
	<747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com>
	<A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C06297897@bradley.monticello.org>
Message-ID: <747cfaf50902121233s4491a38oec9304325b36e61e@mail.gmail.com>

I take your point, but in our case, at least, it isn't that management
is against such discussion, but rather that the blog is seen as an
outreach tool, and staff haven't been interested in adding the "meta"
dimension.

I am curious as to whether the library bloggers you notice are their
main institutional bloggers, or if they are blogging on their own time
about their craft. I seem to have a long list of bloggers I follow
from general cultural heritage institutions--in most cases, though,
they blog outside the institution--Seb Chan at Australia's Powerhouse
being one notable exception as I try to think on my feet and fail, yet
again.

ari

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Johnson <ejohnson at monticello.org> wrote:
> Hi, Ari--
>
> That last point is very much at the heart of my inquiry.  I find it intriguing that museum librarians and archivists (and related information professionals) who are engaged in the day-to-day work of helping connect people to information spend so little time talking among themselves about the meta-level questions of what they're doing.  There are certainly plenty of librarian blogs out there that address librarianship as such, but not many that I've found doing so with a focus on the museum world.  I've seen quite a bit of discussion of museum/information connections, but it seems to be lead primarily by academics and programmers, with curators throwing in their occasional two cents.  I'd like to see more sharing of information from other museum information practitioners (spoken of broadly, as the lines are often quite blurred).
>
> I suspect you're right about the institutional reluctance to support that kind of blogging, as it may result in negative reflection on "the way things are being done" at a given institution.  But I don't think that negativity necessarily has to be the case at all, nor does the conversation really have to revolve around a single site.
>
> In any case, more food for thought.  Thanks!
>
> --E.
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> Web Services Librarian
> Jefferson Library, Monticello
> P.O. Box 316
> Charlottesville, VA 22902
> Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
> http://www.monticello.org/library/
> ejohnson at monticello.org
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:35 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
>
> Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at
> http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how
> they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very
> little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been
> resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at
> Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the
> philosophical issues we face.
>
> ari
>
>
>
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From ejohnson at monticello.org  Thu Feb 12 13:04:11 2009
From: ejohnson at monticello.org (Eric Johnson)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:04:11 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <747cfaf50902121233s4491a38oec9304325b36e61e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org><747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com><A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C06297897@bradley.monticello.org>
	<747cfaf50902121233s4491a38oec9304325b36e61e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C062978A4@bradley.monticello.org>

Hi, Ari--

I rather tangled two points, for which I apologize.  You're quite right about the typical use of institutional blogs as outreach tools--that's been how we use ours as well, and how most seem to be getting used.  Announcing interesting exhibits, new books, speakers, fun facts, etc.

We briefly contemplated also including the "meta" dimension in our own library blog, but we decided fairly early on that that would get a little confusing for readers.  So we've stuck primarily with the outreach aspects.

Any "meta"-level bloggers I'm finding do indeed seem to be doing so on their own time.  What I've found though is that very few of even those people seem to be heritage institution *librarians*.  That's the thing that has struck me in all this.  

My thought, indistinctly made in my previous post, is that--whether they would blog from outside or within of the walls of an institution--perhaps that reluctance to blog is in part due to a reluctance to be seen as critical of the  institution in question?  I think that's a shame, because it needn't be done from a critical perspective.  And as you point out there are quite a number of cultural heritage staffers who blog (primarily on their own time), and quite successfully and compellingly.  But not so much from the library perspective.

I'll see what I can do to pull together who seems to be responsible for what kind of blogging and report back.

--E.
?
Eric D. M. Johnson
Web Services Librarian
Jefferson Library, Monticello
P.O. Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
http://www.monticello.org/library/
ejohnson at monticello.org
?






-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:33 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs

I take your point, but in our case, at least, it isn't that management
is against such discussion, but rather that the blog is seen as an
outreach tool, and staff haven't been interested in adding the "meta"
dimension.

I am curious as to whether the library bloggers you notice are their
main institutional bloggers, or if they are blogging on their own time
about their craft. I seem to have a long list of bloggers I follow
from general cultural heritage institutions--in most cases, though,
they blog outside the institution--Seb Chan at Australia's Powerhouse
being one notable exception as I try to think on my feet and fail, yet
again.

ari

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Johnson <ejohnson at monticello.org> wrote:
> Hi, Ari--
>
> That last point is very much at the heart of my inquiry.  I find it intriguing that museum librarians and archivists (and related information professionals) who are engaged in the day-to-day work of helping connect people to information spend so little time talking among themselves about the meta-level questions of what they're doing.  There are certainly plenty of librarian blogs out there that address librarianship as such, but not many that I've found doing so with a focus on the museum world.  I've seen quite a bit of discussion of museum/information connections, but it seems to be lead primarily by academics and programmers, with curators throwing in their occasional two cents.  I'd like to see more sharing of information from other museum information practitioners (spoken of broadly, as the lines are often quite blurred).
>
> I suspect you're right about the institutional reluctance to support that kind of blogging, as it may result in negative reflection on "the way things are being done" at a given institution.  But I don't think that negativity necessarily has to be the case at all, nor does the conversation really have to revolve around a single site.
>
> In any case, more food for thought.  Thanks!
>
> --E.
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> Web Services Librarian
> Jefferson Library, Monticello
> P.O. Box 316
> Charlottesville, VA 22902
> Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
> http://www.monticello.org/library/
> ejohnson at monticello.org
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:35 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
>
> Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at
> http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how
> they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very
> little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been
> resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at
> Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the
> philosophical issues we face.
>
> ari
>
>
>
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From jbedard at artsmia.org  Thu Feb 12 13:27:26 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:27:26 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Quick Survey on email limits
Message-ID: <49943FDE.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>

I am taking a quick survey on limits (age, size, number of messages) that museum place on on email storage.  You can participate and/or view the survey contents at 
 
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phY6vmXIwG2ahG5j2iXQkVA 
 
 
Thanks in advance to all who are willing to share this information.
 
John
 
 
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ )

From lesleyeharris at comcast.net  Thu Feb 12 13:54:49 2009
From: lesleyeharris at comcast.net (Lesley Ellen Harris)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:54:49 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG:  Copyright Questions
In-Reply-To: <p06200708c5894374e5ff@[10.0.1.199]>
References: <p06200708c5894374e5ff@[10.0.1.199]>
Message-ID: <F3876B02-B4EF-4AC9-83A2-B303D0380763@comcast.net>

For the many museum and archive copyright related questions coming my  
way, I've added a section to the Copyright Questions & Answers blog at www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com 
.  This is meant as a spot for asking your questions and reviewing the  
copyright issues of colleagues.

See 14.0  Museum Related Copyright Questions

Do you have a question related to your museum or archive? A question  
about a sculpture or painting, rights and reproductions, exhibition  
marketing, in-house and visitor education? Ask your questions by  
commenting below.

Lesley


Lesley Ellen Harris
lesley at copyrightlaws.com
www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com




From lesleyeharris at comcast.net  Thu Feb 12 13:54:49 2009
From: lesleyeharris at comcast.net (Lesley Ellen Harris)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:54:49 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG:  Copyright Questions
In-Reply-To: <p06200708c5894374e5ff@[10.0.1.199]>
References: <p06200708c5894374e5ff@[10.0.1.199]>
Message-ID: <F3876B02-B4EF-4AC9-83A2-B303D0380763@comcast.net>

For the many museum and archive copyright related questions coming my  
way, I've added a section to the Copyright Questions & Answers blog at www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com 
.  This is meant as a spot for asking your questions and reviewing the  
copyright issues of colleagues.

See 14.0  Museum Related Copyright Questions

Do you have a question related to your museum or archive? A question  
about a sculpture or painting, rights and reproductions, exhibition  
marketing, in-house and visitor education? Ask your questions by  
commenting below.

Lesley


Lesley Ellen Harris
lesley at copyrightlaws.com
www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com




From katherine.moloney at cartermuseum.org  Thu Feb 12 15:16:21 2009
From: katherine.moloney at cartermuseum.org (KatherineM)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:16:21 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
In-Reply-To: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org>
Message-ID: <49A6E411EE69EA4898AFA579D8A06DFCFC8636@exchange.cartermuseum.org>

The Art Libraries Society listerv has an archive to find ongoing
discussions about art (and museum) librarianship.  I understand there is
some discussion on using Facebook as a different vehicle for
communication.

<http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html>

Katherine Moloney
Teaching Resources Coordinator
Amon Carter Museum
www.cartermuseum.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Eric Johnson
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:04 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs

Hi, all-

 

Please excuse any cross-posting.  I'm interested in compiling a list of
blogs written by museum librarians (and those by librarians at other
heritage institutions) and sadly, I haven't been able to find many.  Are
you or one of your colleagues a museum librarian who writes a blog?  Or
if you are your institution's librarian or fill that role (or just dig
museum libraries), what blogs do you read to stay current on museum
librarianship?  

 

I'm primarily interested in blogs discussing museum librarianship as
such, though I'd also be interested in blogs that are done by/for museum
libraries themselves (e.g. the Smithsonian Libraries blog
<http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/> ) especially
if they are more than simple announcement lists.

 

Any guidance/suggestions/rants you can provide is most appreciated!

 

Thanks,

 

--Eric

 

Eric D. M. Johnson

Web Services Librarian

Jefferson Library, Monticello

P.O. Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
http://www.monticello.org/library/ <http://www.monticello.org/library/> 

ejohnson at monticello.org

 

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From davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com  Fri Feb 13 05:57:33 2009
From: davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com (David Green)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:57:33 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Open Access to Digital Images
References: <20090213095201.E8A6C2C2CF@woodward.joyent.us>
Message-ID: <3FBAC80D-EBCF-4772-BB20-2D68E21B5072@knowledgeculture.com>

A note on Humanist you all might find of interest, forwarded from Dot  
Porter on Humanist.

Many of us, of course, have been advocating for such a workable  
"network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to  
facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media."

The emphasis here is not so  much on the technology but that "network  
of mutual trust and cooperation."


David

Begin forwarded message:

>
>
> **********************
>
> From:     Dr. Christine von Oertzen coertzen at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
> Date:     22 January 2009
>
> Call for Open Access to Digital Images
>
> The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a
> co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of
> best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual
> media. The recommendations aimed at facilitating the scholarly use and
> publication of historical digital images were drafted following
> consultations with scholars and representatives of leading museums,
> libraries, image archives and publishers. The aim of the document is
> to create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
> and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to
> facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media. The
> recommendations can be downloaded from the MIPWG website which
> currently features a detailed report on the initiative.
>
> The recommendations were prompted by the barriers encountered by those
> who wish to use and publish images of cultural heritage objects. High
> license fees and complicated access regulations make it increasingly
> difficult for scholars in the humanities to work with digital images.
> It is true that the digitization of image collections has acted as a
> catalyst for scholarly research. However, archives, collections and
> libraries differ greatly with respect to the question of how, where
> and on what basis images may be used for scholarly purposes. Moreover,
> their policies in this regard are becoming increasingly restrictive,
> especially when it comes to new forms of e-publishing.
>
> The MPIWG drew up its recommendations for facilitating the scholarly
> use of digital images following consultations with international
> experts which took place in January 2008. The recommendations call on
> curators and scholars to develop a mutually binding network of trust.
>
> The aim of the initiative is to encourage stakeholders jointly to
> address the current and future challenges raised by the digital age.
>
> The document urges curators to refrain from restricting the public
> domain arbitrarily and calls on them to accommodate the needs of
> scholars for reasonably-priced or freely-accessible high-resolution
> digital images - both for print publications and new Web-based forms
> of scholarly publishing. It exhorts scholars to recognise museums,
> libraries and collections as owners and custodians of physical objects
> of cultural heritage and to acknowledge their efforts in making
> digital images available. Moreover, it urges them to take their role
> as guarantors of authenticity and accurate attribution extremely
> seriously.
>
> Website:
> http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/
>
> -- 
> Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager
> Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper
> Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
> -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy --
> Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400
> http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter at gmail.com
>


From j.stevenson at vam.ac.uk  Fri Feb 13 06:13:23 2009
From: j.stevenson at vam.ac.uk (James Stevenson)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:13:23 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Open Access to Digital Images
In-Reply-To: <3FBAC80D-EBCF-4772-BB20-2D68E21B5072@knowledgeculture.com>
References: <20090213095201.E8A6C2C2CF@woodward.joyent.us>
	<3FBAC80D-EBCF-4772-BB20-2D68E21B5072@knowledgeculture.com>
Message-ID: <49957FFC.ABAA.00EA.0@vam.ac.uk>

The V&A has been offering free use of its images for this community for over 18 months. See the link at

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/

Images up to A5 in size and a print run of below 4000 allows such use.

James Stevenson

James Stevenson
Photographic Manager
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
London
UK

tel +44 (0) 207 942 2545
fax +44 (0) 207 942 2746

www.vam.ac.uk

>>> David Green <davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com> 13/02/2009 13:57 >>>
A note on Humanist you all might find of interest, forwarded from Dot  
Porter on Humanist.

Many of us, of course, have been advocating for such a workable  
"network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to  
facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media."

The emphasis here is not so  much on the technology but that "network  
of mutual trust and cooperation."


David

Begin forwarded message:

>
>
> **********************
>
> From:     Dr. Christine von Oertzen coertzen at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de 
> Date:     22 January 2009
>
> Call for Open Access to Digital Images
>
> The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a
> co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of
> best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual
> media. The recommendations aimed at facilitating the scholarly use and
> publication of historical digital images were drafted following
> consultations with scholars and representatives of leading museums,
> libraries, image archives and publishers. The aim of the document is
> to create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
> and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to
> facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media. The
> recommendations can be downloaded from the MIPWG website which
> currently features a detailed report on the initiative.
>
> The recommendations were prompted by the barriers encountered by those
> who wish to use and publish images of cultural heritage objects. High
> license fees and complicated access regulations make it increasingly
> difficult for scholars in the humanities to work with digital images.
> It is true that the digitization of image collections has acted as a
> catalyst for scholarly research. However, archives, collections and
> libraries differ greatly with respect to the question of how, where
> and on what basis images may be used for scholarly purposes. Moreover,
> their policies in this regard are becoming increasingly restrictive,
> especially when it comes to new forms of e-publishing.
>
> The MPIWG drew up its recommendations for facilitating the scholarly
> use of digital images following consultations with international
> experts which took place in January 2008. The recommendations call on
> curators and scholars to develop a mutually binding network of trust.
>
> The aim of the initiative is to encourage stakeholders jointly to
> address the current and future challenges raised by the digital age.
>
> The document urges curators to refrain from restricting the public
> domain arbitrarily and calls on them to accommodate the needs of
> scholars for reasonably-priced or freely-accessible high-resolution
> digital images - both for print publications and new Web-based forms
> of scholarly publishing. It exhorts scholars to recognise museums,
> libraries and collections as owners and custodians of physical objects
> of cultural heritage and to acknowledge their efforts in making
> digital images available. Moreover, it urges them to take their role
> as guarantors of authenticity and accurate attribution extremely
> seriously.
>
> Website:
> http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/ 
>
> -- 
> Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager
> Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper
> Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
> -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy --
> Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400
> http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter at gmail.com 
>

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From Douglas.Hegley at metmuseum.org  Fri Feb 13 06:24:08 2009
From: Douglas.Hegley at metmuseum.org (Hegley, Douglas)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:24:08 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Open Access to Digital Images
In-Reply-To: <3FBAC80D-EBCF-4772-BB20-2D68E21B5072@knowledgeculture.com>
References: <20090213095201.E8A6C2C2CF@woodward.joyent.us>
	<3FBAC80D-EBCF-4772-BB20-2D68E21B5072@knowledgeculture.com>
Message-ID: <FB214249DDE00A40882081C0788A5F4103E044450F@SMAILPRODBE.metmuseum.org>

For these reasons, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with ArtSTOR has been offering publication-quality images free for use by the scholarly community through the Images for Academic Publishing initiative:
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/services-publishing.shtml

Douglas Hegley
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
212-650-2931
douglas.hegley at metmuseum.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of David Green
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:58 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Open Access to Digital Images

A note on Humanist you all might find of interest, forwarded from Dot  
Porter on Humanist.

Many of us, of course, have been advocating for such a workable  
"network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to  
facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media."

The emphasis here is not so  much on the technology but that "network  
of mutual trust and cooperation."


David

Begin forwarded message:

>
>
> **********************
>
> From:     Dr. Christine von Oertzen coertzen at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
> Date:     22 January 2009
>
> Call for Open Access to Digital Images
>
> The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a
> co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of
> best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual
> media. The recommendations aimed at facilitating the scholarly use and
> publication of historical digital images were drafted following
> consultations with scholars and representatives of leading museums,
> libraries, image archives and publishers. The aim of the document is
> to create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars
> and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to
> facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media. The
> recommendations can be downloaded from the MIPWG website which
> currently features a detailed report on the initiative.
>
> The recommendations were prompted by the barriers encountered by those
> who wish to use and publish images of cultural heritage objects. High
> license fees and complicated access regulations make it increasingly
> difficult for scholars in the humanities to work with digital images.
> It is true that the digitization of image collections has acted as a
> catalyst for scholarly research. However, archives, collections and
> libraries differ greatly with respect to the question of how, where
> and on what basis images may be used for scholarly purposes. Moreover,
> their policies in this regard are becoming increasingly restrictive,
> especially when it comes to new forms of e-publishing.
>
> The MPIWG drew up its recommendations for facilitating the scholarly
> use of digital images following consultations with international
> experts which took place in January 2008. The recommendations call on
> curators and scholars to develop a mutually binding network of trust.
>
> The aim of the initiative is to encourage stakeholders jointly to
> address the current and future challenges raised by the digital age.
>
> The document urges curators to refrain from restricting the public
> domain arbitrarily and calls on them to accommodate the needs of
> scholars for reasonably-priced or freely-accessible high-resolution
> digital images - both for print publications and new Web-based forms
> of scholarly publishing. It exhorts scholars to recognise museums,
> libraries and collections as owners and custodians of physical objects
> of cultural heritage and to acknowledge their efforts in making
> digital images available. Moreover, it urges them to take their role
> as guarantors of authenticity and accurate attribution extremely
> seriously.
>
> Website:
> http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/
>
> -- 
> Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager
> Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper
> Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
> -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy --
> Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400
> http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter at gmail.com
>

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From maburns at uci.edu  Fri Feb 13 07:45:41 2009
From: maburns at uci.edu (Maureen Burns)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:45:41 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: Conference registration reminder
Message-ID: <p06240800c5bb455ecca7@[192.168.1.108]>

Hope you can consider joining in on the VRA conference in Toronto 
(see below). MCN members welcome.

Please excuse the cross-postings.
Best regards,
Maureen

>Date:         Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:38:36 -0500
>Reply-To: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
>Sender: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
>From: Jolene de Verges <jdeverge at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Conference registration reminder
>To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>
Warm greetings, all

This is a reminder that there are exactly two weeks left to 
pre-register for the VRA 2009 conference in exciting Toronto.  If 
procrastination is your middle name, like mine is, I suspect that you 
are just waking up to the fact that February is HALF OVER.

The pre-registration deadline is February 27th (11:59pm). 
Registration will be available on site, but the rates will increase.

Don't let February pass you by.  REGISTER TODAY!  Operators are 
standing by to assist you 24/7.
http://vraweb.org/conferences/toronto2009/memberclicks.html

Regards,
Jolene "P" de Verges
-- 
Maureen Burns, Ed.D.
Humanities Curator
Visual Resources Collection
University of California, Irvine
92697-3375
949-824-8027 ph
949-824-4298 fx
maburns at uci.edu
www.arts.uci.edu/vrc/
http://vrc.ucr.edu/luci/index.html

From aridavidow at gmail.com  Fri Feb 13 13:49:10 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:49:10 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia - online ed Mar
	1; beta 	this Monday, 2/17/09
Message-ID: <747cfaf50902131349l3d2345bke1a3d1e9d2e7054e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friend,

We are pleased to announce that on March 1, 2009, the Jewish Women's
Archive will launch the free, online version of Jewish Women: A
Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Previously available only on
CD-ROM, the Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive source on the
history of Jewish women and includes more than 1,700 biographies, 300
thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations (minus a few
for which we do not have web display permission). The Encyclopedia
nearly doubles the content available on our website (jwa.org) and
gives Internet users all over the world free and easy access to a
wealth of information. A press release is attached. We encourage you
to forward it to your friends and colleagues.

For the next two weeks we will making final pre-release adjustments.
If you are interested in participating in the Preview/Beta, please
email adavidow at jwa.org ; if you would like to get a sense of who is in
the Encyclopedia, or to find out more, please visit
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/preview

Our formal press release follows (from
http://qa.jwa.org/press/2009/2009-0202-encyclopedia.html ):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FOR RELEASE: February 2, 2009
UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCE GOES ONLINE MARCH 1, 2009
Jewish Women's Archive Gives Free, Global Access to Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) announces the launch of the first
comprehensive online source for the history of Jewish women. On March
1, 2009, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia?which
includes over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400
photographs and illustrations?goes live on JWA's website, jwa.org.

"Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia represents a
huge advance for the fields of history and women's studies," said Gail
Reimer, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Jewish Women's Archive. The
Encyclopedia was previously available only on CD-ROM. Reimer notes,
"In its CD-ROM form, the Encyclopedia was expensive and not widely
accessible, so we are delighted to make this important resource
available online and usable at no cost. We've taken history out of the
locked vaults of physical repositories and put it into the hands of
Internet users all over the world."

Reviewers hailed the CD-ROM version, published in 2006 by Shalvi
Publishing Ltd., for its easy navigation and for the wealth of
information it contains. The online edition has an improved user
interface, which provides thematic and visual links and extensive
cross-references, along with many new Web 2.0 features, including the
ability for users to discuss and update current biographies and to
submit new ones.

Edited by Paula Hyman of Yale University and Dalia Ofer of Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the Encyclopedia contains content from over
1,000 independent scholars on a wide range of Jewish women through the
centuries?from Gertrude Berg to Gertrude Stein; Hannah Greenbaum
Solomon to Hannah Arendt; the Biblical Ruth to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for students, educators,
researchers, and the general public.

Gloria Steinem praised the Encyclopedia as "user-friendly and
thoughtfully compiled, as much a joy for the casual browser as for
those who come with a purpose. Whether you are a scholar in search of
the past, a journalist in need of facts in the present, or a young
Jewish girl looking for role models for dreams of the future, the
encyclopedia is a treasure-trove."

The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover,
chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of North
American Jewish women. A national non-profit organization founded in
1995 and headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, JWA disseminates
educational materials, conducts original research, hosts public
programs, and maintains an innovative website. Through web exhibits,
online collection projects, and oral histories, JWA shares the
stories, struggles, and achievements of North American Jewish women
spanning many generations. In 2007, JWA produced the film Making
Trouble, a prize-winning documentary about three generations of Jewish
women in comedy, from Molly Picon to Gilda Radner.

Contact:
Jordan Namerow
Jewish Women's Archive
138 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446

Tel: (617) 232-2258
Fax: (617) 975-0109
http://jwa.org/contactus

More details: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sun Feb 15 22:36:11 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:36:11 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] University Lecture Videos
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD7811E2A9D06C@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Thought this might be of interest (especially to those of us who don't live near Berekeley - ahem!):



-----Original Message-----

a very interesting young site aggregating academic lecture videos from some leading universities, incorporating feedback from users (rating, etc) and playlists - 

http://academicearth.org/subjects/  

(Note Introduction to Copyright Law)  





Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sun Feb 15 23:02:12 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:02:12 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: University Lecture Videos
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD7811E2A9D06F@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

And yes, I do know how to spell Berkeley.  Most days.

A.K.


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:36 AM
To: 'mcn-l at mcn.edu'
Subject: [MCN-L] University Lecture Videos

Thought this might be of interest (especially to those of us who don't live near Berekeley - ahem!):



-----Original Message-----

a very interesting young site aggregating academic lecture videos from some leading universities, incorporating feedback from users (rating, etc) and playlists - 

http://academicearth.org/subjects/  

(Note Introduction to Copyright Law)  





Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem _______________________________________________
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From karismit at umich.edu  Mon Feb 16 14:03:29 2009
From: karismit at umich.edu (Smith, Kari)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:03:29 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Digital Preservation Management workshop: May 2009 (Ann
 Arbor) - registration opens Feb 23
Message-ID: <BBD0BD36E99E9A4BB0BA3A0167946DE924F39551D9@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu>

Apologies for cross-postings.

Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems
Venue: ICPSR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Dates: May 3-8, 2009

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is now hosting the workshop curriculum originally developed at Cornell by Anne R Kenney and Nancy Y McGovern.

The application form for the workshop will be available by 9am ET on Feb 23, 2009 - there will be a link to the application form on this page until registration is full (24 participants): http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/registration.html.

The intended audience for the workshop series is managers at organizations who are or will be responsible for digital preservation. Additional information about the workshop series and future dates are available at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html.

The workshop series has been developed with funding from NEH.

If you have questions, please contact us at: digital-preservation at icpsr.umich.edu<mailto:digital-preservation at icpsr.umich.edu>

Kari R. Smith
Project Manager, Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Workshop Series


From rjurban at illinois.edu  Mon Feb 16 15:35:52 2009
From: rjurban at illinois.edu (Richard Urban)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:35:52 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Only 2 Weeks Away: Museum-Ed Online Conference on Writing
	in Museums
References: <795B6EB6-A8F1-4B82-BDAD-6FAD12282379@sandboxstudios.org>
Message-ID: <71759730-9C0B-457E-BABB-2B6C0157AD80@illinois.edu>



Begin forwarded message:
>
> Subject: Only 2 Weeks Away: Museum-Ed Online Conference on Writing  
> in Museums
>
> Please excuse cross postings. We hope you'll join us for the second  
> annual Museum-Ed Online Conference on writing, February 25 and 26,  
> 2009. We are very excited about our conference sessions: on  
> Wednesday, February 25 I'll kick things off with a  session on  
> writing for technology (if there's anything specific you'd  like me  
> to address now is the time to speak up), followed by writing  for  
> audio tours by a former Antenna Audio writer, and then a session  on  
> writing for cell phone audio tours, which we think can be quite   
> different from standard audio tours.
>
> On Thursday, February 26 Philip Yenawine will take a journalistic   
> slant toward writing for adult visitors, followed by a session on   
> writing with children in museum galleries, and we'll close with a   
> session on grant writing for museum educators! Take a look at  the  
> program descriptions (http://www.learningtimes.net/museumed/program.html 
> ) Registration is open and available online at the conference site.  
> Last year, several museums registered one staff member and broadcast  
> the conference sessions for all education at the museum, so consider  
> that option as well. Please send all questions or comments to me.  
> Hope to "see" you at the conference!
>
> All Best,
>
> Kris Wetterlund
> Editor, Museum-Ed
> krisw at museum-ed.org
>

From sbrennan at gmu.edu  Tue Feb 17 07:07:49 2009
From: sbrennan at gmu.edu (Sheila Brennan)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:07:49 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Museums and Mobile Content Delivery
Message-ID: <016a01c99111$7f692ac0$7e3b8040$@edu>

Hi folks, 
 
Wanted to follow up on the survey request about museums and mobile content
delivery that I sent out at the end of January. We have made the results
page public (minus any contact information) and will keep the survey open
for a few more weeks. 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=jGlHjyPs9C1grfGaAwzBWeFr11S55z1ENoryx
G51K_2fs_3d 
 
Bests, 
Sheila 
 
________________________________
Sheila A. Brennan
Senior Digital History Associate
Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
703-879-8366
 <mailto:sbrennan at gmu.edu> sbrennan at gmu.edu 
 <http://chnm.gmu.edu/> http://chnm.gmu.edu

From maburns at uci.edu  Wed Feb 18 08:34:11 2009
From: maburns at uci.edu (Maureen Burns)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:34:11 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: VRA 27: What's On in Toronto
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20090218083209.03bbeea8@uci.edu>

More information about the upcoming VRA conference in Toronto below. 
Please excuse the cross posting. This is the third in a series of 
messages, in which many exciting aspects of the VRA Toronto 
conference, 18-21 March 2009, will be highlighted.

>What's On In Toronto #3
>
>With so much great programming for VRA Toronto we can't possibly 
>highlight it all, but invite you to explore the program for 
>sessions, meetings, workshops and activities of interest to 
>you: 
><http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/toronto2009/>http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/toronto2009/
>
>What's new?
>Learn the latest with the Engaging New Technologies and Training 
>Millennials sessions, two of many Toronto Conference opportunities 
>where you will learn more about using new technology 
>effectively.  Eric Schwab has set a great example, employing 
>Netvibes to gather information for Toronto conference goers at this 
>site: 
><http://www.netvibes.com/visualresources>http://www.netvibes.com/visualresources.
>
>The Vendor Slam is also new with a variety of vendors giving short 
>presentations describing products and services of interest to the 
>visual resources professional.  Come and connect with the wonderful 
>people who provide the VRA with products, tools, and current 
>information on technological trends.
>
>Classics
>The VR world seems to be in constant transformation, but have your 
>administrative materials and actions kept pace?  Find out by 
>attending one or both events focused on VR Administration: Workshop 
>1: Issues in VR Administration and/or Session 5: Roundtable on 
>Issues in Visual Resources Administration.
>
>Can't get enough information on metadata and cataloging?  Grapple 
>with the metadata issues at the heart of our practice by attending 
>either of two mini-workshops, Dynamic Duo and Metadata with Muscle, 
>as well as the sessions Metadata in Action, Outside the Canon, 
>Digital Asset Discovery, and Bricks to Bamboo.
>
>Special Guest Speakers
>Be sure not to miss the Conference's Plenary Session: Fair Use / 
>Fair Dealing; Which Should Give You More Comfort?.  This session 
>will feature two noted copyright scholars-one from the US and one 
>from Canada-to discuss the differences and give us a better 
>understanding of the two copyright doctrines.
>
>Additionally, the Keynote Address at the Membership Dinner will be 
>given by Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at 
>the Smithsonian Institution.  Edson will speak on an emerging open 
>access strategy for cultural heritage materials.
>
>Networking
>Get involved in interesting projects with like-minded 
>colleagues.  We invite all VRA members to check out committee 
>meetings, special interest groups, and special user groups on topics 
>of interest or associated with the tools of the trade (such as 
>ARTstor, Digital Matchmaking, Getty vocabularies, MDID, 
>etc.).  Networking is where it's at, so don't be shy-Jump right in!
>
>Remember, the fast approaching early registration deadline is 
>February 27, 2009!
>
>Come to Toronto! All your friends will be there, even those you've 
>yet to meet.
>
>Regards,
>
>Your Incoming VRA Board Officers
>Maureen Burns, President-Elect < <mailto:maburns at uci.edu>maburns at uci.edu >
>Heidi Raatz, VP for Conference Program < 
><mailto:hraatz at artsmia.org>hraatz at artsmia.org >
>Marcia Focht, Secretary < 
><mailto:mfocht at binghamton.edu>mfocht at binghamton.edu >

Maureen A. Burns, Ed.D.
Humanities Curator
Visual Resources Collection
61 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3375
949-824-8027 phone
949-824-4298 fax
MABURNS at UCI.EDU

From lesleyeharris at comcast.net  Wed Feb 18 17:39:18 2009
From: lesleyeharris at comcast.net (Lesley Ellen Harris)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:39:18 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Developing a Copyright Policy
In-Reply-To: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780A85AFC4A4@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
References: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD780A85AFC4A4@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
Message-ID: <97E1D055-939D-442B-8F8D-A2C1602EA32C@comcast.net>

My next Info Rights Column in Information Outlook is on developing a  
copyright policy.  An abbreviated version of this article is below.   
FYI, I am also teaching an online course on this topic beginning  
February 23, 2009 (see www.copyrightlawscom.blogspot.com).

Lesley


Lesley Ellen Harris
lesley at copyrightlaws.com
www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com


Developing a Copyright Compliance Policy

A copyright policy can serve a variety of functions, from determining  
who owns works created during employment, to explaining your licenses,  
to establishing a procedure for clearing permissions in copyright- 
protected works.  Generally speaking, a copyright policy is a summary  
of copyright management procedures for your organization. Depending on  
the contents of the policy, it can also be an educational tool and  
serve as reference material on copyright issues relevant to your  
organization. Another purpose of a copyright policy is to provide a  
single, consistent approach to copyright issues.

Although it may initially be read cover to cover, a copyright policy  
is more likely to be consulted on an as-needed basis, so a strong  
index and/or search tool is recommended to ensure its effectiveness. A  
policy should always be ?live? and be reviewed and updated  
periodically to reflect changes in copyright law, technology,  
organizational policies, and the way in which you use copyright- 
protected materials in your organization.

Write your policy using plain, straightforward language, not  
?legalese.? Keep in mind that this is a document for management, staff  
and librarians in your organization, not for your lawyers. If a lawyer  
prepares your policy, make sure those who will use it can understand  
it. If a non-lawyer prepares it, ask a lawyer to review it for accuracy.

Getting Started

Copyright policies exist in a variety of forms, styles and lengths,  
and writing one may seem like a daunting task. Where do you begin?  
First, read copyright policies from other organizations. Next, prepare  
an outline of the important issues. Gather all those in your  
organization who deal with copyright issues, whether it?s permissions,  
protection, digital licenses or other matters, and obtain their input.  
Then, pick a section and start writing.  Be patient?copyright policies  
are not created overnight, and writing one may take many hours of hard  
(and perhaps frustrating) work.

Before you begin writing your policy, think of the different headings  
that may be relevant to your organization. Headings for a policy may  
include the following:
?      Purpose of this policy

?      A primer on U.S. copyright law and international copyright law

?      Permissions procedure

?      Protecting copyright-protected works created in your enterprise

?      Questions and answers about copyright

?      Updating your policy: Timing and procedure

?      Reference section

?      Internal contacts for copyright matters


  

From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb 18 23:07:20 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:07:20 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: IP Scholar Peter Jaszi is Now Online at the
 (C)ollectanea Blog
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD7811E2A9D0DA@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

 
MCN 2008 speaker Prof. Peter Jaszi is now blogging on (c)ollectanea:


-----Original Message-----

The Center for Intellectual Property is pleased and excited to announce that Professor Peter Jaszi is the CIP's 2009-2011 Intellectual Property Scholar...and in that capacity he will now be moderating the CIP's (C)ollectanea blog. Please join him online now!
 
In addition to being the Center's new IP Scholar, Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and professor of law in the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. He holds expertise in intellectual property and copyright law and has written many chapters, articles and monographs on copyright, intellectual property, technology and other issues. Among his writings and scholarly contributions are numerous resources concerning fair use in copyright, including best practices documents, produced in close collaboration with the Center for Social Media at American University.
 
Read Profesor Jaszi's first blog post--and many more to come--at http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/. In his first post today--"Just when you thought you'd heard enough about Shepherd Fairey and the AP"--he discusses the copyright issues surrounding Fairey, Fair Use, and photography.
 
Professor Jaszi is excited about his role as a blogger and invites you to join him on (C)ollectanea, where you can read, reflect, and respond. 
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Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem



From chuck.patch at gmail.com  Thu Feb 19 08:42:07 2009
From: chuck.patch at gmail.com (Chuck Patch)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:42:07 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
Message-ID: <639de3630902190842r6535518dh23a3011fc7e6d818@mail.gmail.com>

I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
document management systems. These include products like EMC's Documentum,
Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery may have
been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to manage
document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn about
standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository implementations. Nor
am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,  the
content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect, but
what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research, correspondence,
etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation that is
generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there doing
this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do you use
it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
exhibition development? Is email part of it?

Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be thrilled
if other people were interested in this topic as well!

Chuck Patch
National Gallery of Art
c-patch at nga.gov

From jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us  Thu Feb 19 09:45:49 2009
From: jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us (Jo Miles-Seely)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:45:49 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
In-Reply-To: <639de3630902190842r6535518dh23a3011fc7e6d818@mail.gmail.com>
References: <639de3630902190842r6535518dh23a3011fc7e6d818@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <499D9ACD.9030808@mdah.state.ms.us>

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has been having 
discussions on document management with an EMC representative. I am also 
interested in hearing what software other cultural institutions use.

Jo Miles-Seely

Chuck Patch wrote:
> I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
> document management systems. These include products like EMC's Documentum,
> Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery may have
> been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to manage
> document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn about
> standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository implementations. Nor
> am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,  the
> content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect, but
> what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research, correspondence,
> etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation that is
> generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there doing
> this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do you use
> it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
> exhibition development? Is email part of it?
>
> Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be thrilled
> if other people were interested in this topic as well!
>
> Chuck Patch
> National Gallery of Art
> c-patch at nga.gov
> _______________________________________________
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-- 
Jo Miles-Seely, Business Systems Analyst
Information Systems Office
Mississippi Department of Archives & History
PO Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone: 601-576-6979
Facsimile: 601-576-6975
Email: jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us


From dbenavraham at newmuseum.org  Thu Feb 19 13:57:24 2009
From: dbenavraham at newmuseum.org (Doron Ben-Avraham)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:57:24 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1235073602.23961.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
References: <mailman.1.1235073602.23961.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <2F26D29C50CB2843BC777C02AA16ABB2E6C5C5@new-sv-003.newmuseum.org>

I am very interested in a DMS system that is truly cross platform.
I have considered working with SharePoint, but its lack of proper
support of browsers other then IE, and only minimal support of apple
clients (of which we have quite a few) disqualified its use.

Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:42:07 -0500
From: Chuck Patch <chuck.patch at gmail.com>
Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Message-ID:
	<639de3630902190842r6535518dh23a3011fc7e6d818 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
document management systems. These include products like EMC's
Documentum,
Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery may
have
been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to
manage
document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn
about
standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository implementations.
Nor
am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,
the
content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect, but
what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research,
correspondence,
etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation
that is
generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there
doing
this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do you
use
it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
exhibition development? Is email part of it?

Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be
thrilled
if other people were interested in this topic as well!

Chuck Patch
National Gallery of Art
c-patch at nga.gov


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

Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:45:49 -0600
From: Jo Miles-Seely <jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <499D9ACD.9030808 at mdah.state.ms.us>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has been having 
discussions on document management with an EMC representative. I am also

interested in hearing what software other cultural institutions use.

Jo Miles-Seely

Chuck Patch wrote:
> I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
> document management systems. These include products like EMC's
Documentum,
> Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery
may have
> been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to
manage
> document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn
about
> standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository
implementations. Nor
> am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,
the
> content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect,
but
> what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research,
correspondence,
> etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation
that is
> generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there
doing
> this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do
you use
> it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
> exhibition development? Is email part of it?
>
> Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be
thrilled
> if other people were interested in this topic as well!
>
> Chuck Patch
> National Gallery of Art
> c-patch at nga.gov
> _______________________________________________
> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum
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-- 
Jo Miles-Seely, Business Systems Analyst
Information Systems Office
Mississippi Department of Archives & History
PO Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone: 601-576-6979
Facsimile: 601-576-6975
Email: jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us



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From aruginis at fieldmuseum.org  Fri Feb 20 19:31:49 2009
From: aruginis at fieldmuseum.org (Andrew Ruginis)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:31:49 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
In-Reply-To: <2F26D29C50CB2843BC777C02AA16ABB2E6C5C5@new-sv-003.newmuseum.org>
References: <mailman.1.1235073602.23961.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
	<2F26D29C50CB2843BC777C02AA16ABB2E6C5C5@new-sv-003.newmuseum.org>
Message-ID: <c52c8b540902201931nfaeb58bi8c9b0497810f5776@mail.gmail.com>

Fun stuff. I just had a meeting about this topic with my I.T. Department
Staff today. To manage our documents we currently use a windows file server
with a bunch of nested folders. Yuck.

Today we decided that for a large chunk of our departmental documentation we
are going to use Google Docs via our Google Apps Education Edition. We
acknowledge that Google Docs has limitations and is not appropriate for all
content types or subject matter because it is hosted by another company
(Google), but for our internal departmental procedures, policies, meeting
minutes, server configurations, and more, we think it's going to work great.
We have to put some finishing touches on our workflow and rights management
and after using it for a while, I'm sure I'll have more to report. Feel free
to check in with me in a few months about it.

Some of the selling points include:
- documents searchable via Google technology
- universally accessible via any web browser
- awesome revision history capabilities
- simple but effective rights management to limit access to people in our
domain or department
- capability to export to a number of different formats
- integrates with our email system (GMail)
- it's free


Drew Ruginis | Director of I.T. | The Field Museum | Chicago, IL



On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Doron Ben-Avraham <
dbenavraham at newmuseum.org> wrote:

> I am very interested in a DMS system that is truly cross platform.
> I have considered working with SharePoint, but its lack of proper
> support of browsers other then IE, and only minimal support of apple
> clients (of which we have quite a few) disqualified its use.
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:42:07 -0500
> From: Chuck Patch <chuck.patch at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Message-ID:
>        <639de3630902190842r6535518dh23a3011fc7e6d818 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
> document management systems. These include products like EMC's
> Documentum,
> Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery may
> have
> been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to
> manage
> document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn
> about
> standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository implementations.
> Nor
> am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,
> the
> content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect, but
> what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research,
> correspondence,
> etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation
> that is
> generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there
> doing
> this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do you
> use
> it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
> exhibition development? Is email part of it?
>
> Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be
> thrilled
> if other people were interested in this topic as well!
>
> Chuck Patch
> National Gallery of Art
> c-patch at nga.gov
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:45:49 -0600
> From: Jo Miles-Seely <jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Message-ID: <499D9ACD.9030808 at mdah.state.ms.us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has been having
> discussions on document management with an EMC representative. I am also
>
> interested in hearing what software other cultural institutions use.
>
> Jo Miles-Seely
>
> Chuck Patch wrote:
> > I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial
> > document management systems. These include products like EMC's
> Documentum,
> > Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery
> may have
> > been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to
> manage
> > document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn
> about
> > standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository
> implementations. Nor
> > am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover,
> the
> > content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect,
> but
> > what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research,
> correspondence,
> > etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation
> that is
> > generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there
> doing
> > this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do
> you use
> > it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or
> > exhibition development? Is email part of it?
> >
> > Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be
> thrilled
> > if other people were interested in this topic as well!
> >
> > Chuck Patch
> > National Gallery of Art
> > c-patch at nga.gov
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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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> >
>
> --
> Jo Miles-Seely, Business Systems Analyst
> Information Systems Office
> Mississippi Department of Archives & History
> PO Box 571
> Jackson, MS 39205-0571
> Telephone: 601-576-6979
> Facsimile: 601-576-6975
> Email: jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us
>
>
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From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Sun Feb 22 10:17:51 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:17:51 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Confidence in Online services?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1235246402.29252.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
References: <mailman.1.1235246402.29252.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d0056f1903b9aca00acc41b42.56f193@agdog.com>

Hi All,

I have been reading about so many people moving things to Google Docs or
Flickr. Aren't you afraid that they could just fold someday? I am nervous
to rely on third-party solutions since there is no guarantee. We tell
contributors to the Maine Memory Network NOT to use our servers as their
only storage system since the future is not guaranteed.

Kathy

************************
Kathy Bolduc Amoroso
Director of Digital Projects 
kamoroso at mainehistory.org or kathy at mainememory.net
Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207)774-1822 x227 |  www.mainehistory.org | www.mainememory.net



From aridavidow at gmail.com  Sun Feb 22 11:31:55 2009
From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:31:55 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Confidence in Online services?
In-Reply-To: <fc.007ea64d0056f1903b9aca00acc41b42.56f193@agdog.com>
References: <mailman.1.1235246402.29252.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
	<fc.007ea64d0056f1903b9aca00acc41b42.56f193@agdog.com>
Message-ID: <747cfaf50902221131v2cfa2051w2211b498f6a93b1@mail.gmail.com>

Well, you just answered the question, "only storage."

If you are going to rely on one one storage source, then online tools
such as Google Docs are probably more secure (especially in the sense
of having uncorrupted data) than your local non-profit
bargain-basement non-RAID, not-backed-up file server.

But, of course, that is still fundamentally insecure and a horrible
idea. All backup and disaster recovery plans have to include more than
that--preferably at least on+offsite storage using more than one
medium, with a replicated copy in another geographic area entirely for
disaster recovery....). Whether or not having your primary storage
online or offline depends on lots of factors, but given the overall
quality of Google data services vs. what most of us can afford
locally, that isn't necessarily a bad place to start.

(If people here could stand working with Google Docs, vs. say, our
relatively old MS Office, we'd probably do it. But so far, we have yet
to have a project started using Zoho, Google, or anything else stay
there--those apps are still not fitting the hands of our particular
users.)

ari
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Kathy Amoroso
<kamoroso at mainehistory.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been reading about so many people moving things to Google Docs or
> Flickr. Aren't you afraid that they could just fold someday? I am nervous
> to rely on third-party solutions since there is no guarantee. We tell
> contributors to the Maine Memory Network NOT to use our servers as their
> only storage system since the future is not guaranteed.
>
> Kathy
>
> ************************
> Kathy Bolduc Amoroso
> Director of Digital Projects
> kamoroso at mainehistory.org or kathy at mainememory.net
> Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
> (207)774-1822 x227 |  www.mainehistory.org | www.mainememory.net
>
>
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From jdyki at cranbrook.edu  Sun Feb 22 15:00:15 2009
From: jdyki at cranbrook.edu (Judy Dyki)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:00:15 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Call for Articles: ART DOCUMENTATION
Message-ID: <49A192B0020000B100009769@ceccluster_cecgwia_server.cranbrook.edu>

Editors are accepting articles for both the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
issues of ART DOCUMENTATION, the semiannual peer-reviewed journal of the
Art Libraries Society of North America.  Articles should fall within the
scope of art and architecture librarianship, visual resources
curatorship, digital image management, technology related to the visual
arts, art publishing, artists? books, and related fields.  

The deadline for the Fall 2009 issue is April 1, 2009; the deadline for
the Spring 2010 issue is September 1, 2009.  ART DOCUMENTATION
contributor guidelines may be found at
http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/contrib_guidelines.html. 


Judy Dyki
Editor, ART DOCUMENTATION    
Library Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue, Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI  48303-0801
248-645-3364 voice
248-645-3464 fax
jdyki at cranbrook.edu


From SebC at PHM.GOV.AU  Sun Feb 22 16:53:51 2009
From: SebC at PHM.GOV.AU (Chan, Sebastian)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:53:51 +1100
Subject: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
References: <A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C0629787E@bradley.monticello.org><747cfaf50902121134h23d5f943xa1b309741ffac8d7@mail.gmail.com><A501BE138FD417488684C557D65B7F2C06297897@bradley.monticello.org>
	<747cfaf50902121233s4491a38oec9304325b36e61e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A913C79ACD1ADC46955FA806B297D8645B0908@MUTO.phm.gov.au>

Our research library has just started their own blog which covers the research enquiries they are working on.

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/library/

Seb

Sebastian Chan 
A/g Head of Digital Services & Research 
Powerhouse Museum 
street - 500 Harris St Ultimo, NSW Australia 
postal - PO Box K346, Haymarket, NSW 1238 
tel - 61 2 9217 0109 
fax - 61 2 9217 0689
mob - 0413 457 126
e - sebc at phm.gov.au 
w - www.powerhousemuseum.com
b - www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog



-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu on behalf of Ari Davidow
Sent: Fri 13/02/2009 7:33 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
 
I take your point, but in our case, at least, it isn't that management
is against such discussion, but rather that the blog is seen as an
outreach tool, and staff haven't been interested in adding the "meta"
dimension.

I am curious as to whether the library bloggers you notice are their
main institutional bloggers, or if they are blogging on their own time
about their craft. I seem to have a long list of bloggers I follow
from general cultural heritage institutions--in most cases, though,
they blog outside the institution--Seb Chan at Australia's Powerhouse
being one notable exception as I try to think on my feet and fail, yet
again.

ari

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Johnson <ejohnson at monticello.org> wrote:
> Hi, Ari--
>
> That last point is very much at the heart of my inquiry.  I find it intriguing that museum librarians and archivists (and related information professionals) who are engaged in the day-to-day work of helping connect people to information spend so little time talking among themselves about the meta-level questions of what they're doing.  There are certainly plenty of librarian blogs out there that address librarianship as such, but not many that I've found doing so with a focus on the museum world.  I've seen quite a bit of discussion of museum/information connections, but it seems to be lead primarily by academics and programmers, with curators throwing in their occasional two cents.  I'd like to see more sharing of information from other museum information practitioners (spoken of broadly, as the lines are often quite blurred).
>
> I suspect you're right about the institutional reluctance to support that kind of blogging, as it may result in negative reflection on "the way things are being done" at a given institution.  But I don't think that negativity necessarily has to be the case at all, nor does the conversation really have to revolve around a single site.
>
> In any case, more food for thought.  Thanks!
>
> --E.
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> Web Services Librarian
> Jefferson Library, Monticello
> P.O. Box 316
> Charlottesville, VA 22902
> Phone: (434) 984-7540 | Fax: (434) 984-7546
> http://www.monticello.org/library/
> ejohnson at monticello.org
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:35 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Museum librarian blogs
>
> Interesting take on the subject. The Jewish Women's Archive blogs at
> http://jwablog.jwa.org but mostly we blog about current events and how
> they relate to our collections, or just about current events. Very
> little meta discussion about the archive, itself. There has been
> resistance here to using the blog that way. In fact, I blog at
> Musematic when I have something to say about the tools we use or the
> philosophical issues we face.
>
> ari
>
>
>
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From lists at rlweiner.com  Sun Feb 22 17:37:43 2009
From: lists at rlweiner.com (Robert Weiner)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:37:43 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Confidence in Online services?
In-Reply-To: <fc.007ea64d0056f1903b9aca00acc41b42.56f193@agdog.com>
References: <mailman.1.1235246402.29252.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
	<fc.007ea64d0056f1903b9aca00acc41b42.56f193@agdog.com>
Message-ID: <F143D18E65ED45EB8A021B2E01F41E21@RLWT400>

Dear Kathy,

FYI, I wrote a short blog post about this last year discussing best
practices for hosted data.  It's at
http://www.rlweiner.com/best-practices-for-hosted-data

Robert
__________________________
 
Robert L. Weiner Consulting
Strategic Technology Advisors to Nonprofit and Educational Institutions
San Francisco, CA
 
robert at rlweiner.com
415/643-8955 
 
www.rlweiner.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Kathy Amoroso
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:18 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Confidence in Online services?

Hi All,

I have been reading about so many people moving things to Google Docs or
Flickr. Aren't you afraid that they could just fold someday? I am nervous
to rely on third-party solutions since there is no guarantee. We tell
contributors to the Maine Memory Network NOT to use our servers as their
only storage system since the future is not guaranteed.

Kathy

************************
Kathy Bolduc Amoroso
Director of Digital Projects 
kamoroso at mainehistory.org or kathy at mainememory.net
Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207)774-1822 x227 |  www.mainehistory.org | www.mainememory.net


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From rjurban at illinois.edu  Wed Feb 25 08:05:47 2009
From: rjurban at illinois.edu (Richard Urban)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:05:47 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: DCC Charter and Statement of Principles: Have Your Say!
References: <018301c99748$46357dc0$c761d182@ssd4.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <A54AD135-EF5D-45D3-A66D-A4BF1CB0BFAD@illinois.edu>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Joy Davidson" <british.editor at erpanet.org>
> Date: February 25, 2009 6:55:02 AM CST
> To: "Joy Davidson" <british.editor at erpanet.org>
> Subject: [Asis-l] DCC Charter and Statement of Principles: Have Your  
> Say!
> Reply-To: british.editor at erpanet.org
>
> ***Apologies for cross-posting***
>
> Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Charter and Statement of Principles
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk/charter/
>
> There's still time to have your say on the DCC's draft Charter and  
> Statement
> of Principles.
>
> The DCC Charter and Statement of Principles is intended to:
>
> -Convey key curation messages to primary stakeholders and to our wider
> community
>
> -Inform and influence political positioning in the curation and
> preservation landscape
>
> -Promote and publicise the DCC and curation concepts
>
> -Facilitate the process of consensus within the DCC on critical  
> issues of
> identity and mission
>
> To view the Charter and Statement of Principles, please go to
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk/charter/. To contribute your feedback on the  
> Charter
> and Statement of Principles, please use the online form at
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk/feedback-charter/.
>
> The deadline for feedback is February 27th, 2009.
>
> ********************************************
> Dr Liz Lyon
> Director
> UKOLN
> University of Bath
> Bath   BA2  7AY
> UK
>
> email: e.lyon at ukoln.ac.uk
> Tel:   +44 (0) 1225 386580
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb 25 12:20:46 2009
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:20:46 +0200
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?=FE=FEIP_SIG:_Conference_on_Google_Book_Search_Settlemen?=
	=?windows-1256?Q?t_at_Columbia_Law_School?=
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781D33D31AD9@mailsrv.imj.org.il>


For those in the NYC area on March 13 -- a full-day conference on the Google Book Search settlement at The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School.

http://kernochancenter.org/Googlebookssettlement.htm




Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG
www.musematic.net 
From info at museumpods.com  Thu Feb 26 07:57:08 2009
From: info at museumpods.com (MuseumPods)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:57:08 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Creative Commons MuseumPods Podcast Licensing Survey Results
References: <278835DC50C47F4CBE375BE3466D364FAF9A72@ml330g3.main.wagnerfreeinstitute.org>
	<00e701c9823c$de281ff0$0502a8c0@harvardugddap5>
Message-ID: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5>

This past fall Creative Commons (CC) and MuseumPods conducted a brief online 
survey regarding podcast licensing.  The results are now available online at 
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12901 it is not an academic study 
but does provide some valuable insight for museums interested in podcasting 
or including CC licensing, copyright, and attribution to RSS podcast media. 
There are some nice charts to reference.



Based on the survey results MuseumPods added CC licensing, copyright 
capability and human-readable attribution fields to our free podcast media 
software called FeedMe.  FeedMe is a free resource for museums to use to 
create unlimited RSS feeds, episodes, as well as have unlimited media 
storage and bandwidth needed for its distribution.  Since we support 
organizations in over a dozen countries we also included human-readable 
geographical licensing and copyright support.



Best of luck with your podcasting.



Kurt Stuchell

Founder MuseumPods

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12901

http://museumpods.com

Creative_Commons at MuseumPods.com


From webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt  Thu Feb 26 07:59:14 2009
From: webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt (webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:59:14 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?altera=E7=E3o_de_endere=E7o?=
Message-ID: <d8f387957f7a4b07a60940a4b6289176@afcba653d4064be493a24371dd2b1521>

Este endere?o foi alterado. Por favor consulte www.mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt



From pjohnson at skirball.org  Thu Feb 26 11:45:52 2009
From: pjohnson at skirball.org (Johnson, Peter)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:45:52 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases and software
In-Reply-To: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5>
References: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5>
Message-ID: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org>

Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org



From ikyriazi at indiana.edu  Thu Feb 26 15:10:29 2009
From: ikyriazi at indiana.edu (Ilias Kyriazis)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:10:29 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
Message-ID: <b6a2f7740902261510l24daef59w3a1b3a55e2e367d2@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art exhibition
project. We have been wondering if there is some specific software out there
used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy to learn, cheap, and
that would not expect some great experience in 3D design. We are mostly
thinking of a template that would simulate the museum gallery, where we
could drag and move things to get some feeling of what the exhibition
gallery would look like with the art works, painted walls, etc. included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be interested
in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be easier for
curators to use when they lack the availability of an installation designer,
and they just want to have a gallery simulating interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

-- 
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein

From psully at magnes.org  Thu Feb 26 15:13:29 2009
From: psully at magnes.org (Perian Sully)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:13:29 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
In-Reply-To: <b6a2f7740902261510l24daef59w3a1b3a55e2e367d2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b6a2f7740902261510l24daef59w3a1b3a55e2e367d2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B6476DD@jlm-net.jlm.local>

Hmm. I'm not an exhibition designer, but would Second Life be a good
platform for this? I have seen it used for gallery mockups (and have
done something similar myself for other purposes), but it does have the
advantage of being fairly easy to learn.

~Perian

Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
Berkeley, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Ilias Kyriazis
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:10 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software

Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art
exhibition
project. We have been wondering if there is some specific software out
there
used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy to learn, cheap, and
that would not expect some great experience in 3D design. We are mostly
thinking of a template that would simulate the museum gallery, where we
could drag and move things to get some feeling of what the exhibition
gallery would look like with the art works, painted walls, etc.
included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be
interested
in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be easier for
curators to use when they lack the availability of an installation
designer,
and they just want to have a gallery simulating interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

-- 
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein
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From jbedard at artsmia.org  Fri Feb 27 06:10:21 2009
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:10:21 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
In-Reply-To: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org>
References: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5>
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org>
Message-ID: <49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WEB.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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From webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt  Fri Feb 27 06:12:37 2009
From: webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt (webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:12:37 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?altera=E7=E3o_de_endere=E7o?=
Message-ID: <a0fe1a5699a34760b96b54c0555b49ca@8ba2d11db09b475b9aec5a92ad2cd76e>

Este endere?o foi alterado. Por favor consulte www.mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt



From richard at rnaphoto.com  Fri Feb 27 06:54:55 2009
From: richard at rnaphoto.com (Richard Anderson)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:54:55 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
In-Reply-To: <49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>
References: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5>
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org>
	<49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>
Message-ID: <D28D83A1-1B76-4EEF-A4E0-2815EFF87008@rnaphoto.com>


On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:10 AM, John Bedard wrote:

> Peter,
>
> We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved  
> productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It  
> certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will  
> eventually end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may  
> want to consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved  
> from the images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
>
> Here is a link to a case study they did on us
>
> http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WEB.pdf
>
> I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did  
> with them about a year after we went live.
>
> Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our  
> experience.
>
> John
>


John,

Does Media Bin read and write XMP/XML metadata? Can it read DNG files?

Thanks,

Richard Anderson

From pjohnson at skirball.org  Fri Feb 27 10:22:50 2009
From: pjohnson at skirball.org (Johnson, Peter)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:50 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases and
	software
In-Reply-To: <49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>
References: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5><2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org>
	<49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>
Message-ID: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE7@scc-mail.skirball.org>

Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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From pjohnson at skirball.org  Fri Feb 27 10:24:37 2009
From: pjohnson at skirball.org (Johnson, Peter)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:24:37 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	andsoftware
In-Reply-To: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE7@scc-mail.skirball.org>
References: <004801c9982a$e1c089f0$0302a8c0@harvardugddap5><2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CDE@scc-mail.skirball.org><49A79FEC.50A4.0031.0@artsmia.org>
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE7@scc-mail.skirball.org>
Message-ID: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE8@scc-mail.skirball.org>

Oh for garsh sakes! Apologies for posting that to the list.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Johnson, Peter
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:23 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
andsoftware

Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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From dbenavraham at newmuseum.org  Fri Feb 27 12:06:40 2009
From: dbenavraham at newmuseum.org (Doron Ben-Avraham)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:06:40 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1235764802.15940.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
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Hi
We are using Google Sketchup PRO with great success in the new museum.

http://sketchup.google.com/

Regards
Doron


From tatherton at st-albert.net  Fri Feb 27 13:17:04 2009
From: tatherton at st-albert.net (Tim Atherton)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:17:04 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
 andsoftware
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Has anyone tried any of the Open Source DAM solutions?


tim a

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Archives & Research
Mus?e H?ritage Museum & Archives,
St. Albert
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From mclark at DDCF.ORG  Fri Feb 27 13:40:55 2009
From: mclark at DDCF.ORG (Maja Clark)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:40:55 -1000
Subject: [MCN-L] data storage & backup
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Hi All,
Basic question, a survey really, how do you store & backup your data? 

Why I ask:  Our museum's IT needs are remotely serviced from our
foundation's offices (museum is in Hawaii, IT Dept is on the East
Coast). Our IT Dept utilizes Commvault & Livevault, which I gather from
our tech crew is pricey. We keep running out of server space as the
volume of our image files grow. I meet with great resistance to requests
for additional server space due to the cost of backup. I've suggested
utilizing external hard drives to bridge the gap, but this is not a
popular suggestion. My user-end non-techie perspective on this is:
while Livevault/Commvault may be top-of-the-line services - what good
are they to me if they're too expensive to allow expansion of server
space? This is not a records management - get your users to delete their
files more often - problem.  These images are our institutional archives
that will continue to grow. I've also been asked by IT to come up with a
projected number of GB needed for growth over the next several years.
Is it possible to come up with a realistic number?

I attended MCN in 2006 and remember a session on bridging the gap
between IT & administration.  Perhaps the problem is just a
communication one? I'm hoping to share some of your approaches and
solutions with our IT staff. 

Many thanks,
Maja

Maja Clark
Registrar, Shangri La
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
4055 Papu Circle
Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 792-5506
www.shangrilahawaii.org


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:10:29 -0500
From: Ilias Kyriazis <ikyriazi at indiana.edu>
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
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Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art
exhibition
project. We have been wondering if there is some specific software out
there
used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy to learn, cheap, and
that would not expect some great experience in 3D design. We are mostly
thinking of a template that would simulate the museum gallery, where we
could drag and move things to get some feeling of what the exhibition
gallery would look like with the art works, painted walls, etc.
included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be
interested
in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be easier for
curators to use when they lack the availability of an installation
designer,
and they just want to have a gallery simulating interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

-- 
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:13:29 -0800
From: "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B6476DD at jlm-net.jlm.local>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Hmm. I'm not an exhibition designer, but would Second Life be a good
platform for this? I have seen it used for gallery mockups (and have
done something similar myself for other purposes), but it does have the
advantage of being fairly easy to learn.

~Perian

Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
Berkeley, CA

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Ilias Kyriazis
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:10 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software

Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art
exhibition
project. We have been wondering if there is some specific software out
there
used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy to learn, cheap, and
that would not expect some great experience in 3D design. We are mostly
thinking of a template that would simulate the museum gallery, where we
could drag and move things to get some feeling of what the exhibition
gallery would look like with the art works, painted walls, etc.
included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be
interested
in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be easier for
curators to use when they lack the availability of an installation
designer,
and they just want to have a gallery simulating interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

-- 
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:10:21 -0600
From: "John Bedard" <jbedard at artsmia.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:12:37 -0500
From: webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt
Subject: [MCN-L] altera??o de endere?o
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Este endere?o foi alterado. Por favor consulte
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:54:55 -0500
From: Richard Anderson <richard at rnaphoto.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <D28D83A1-1B76-4EEF-A4E0-2815EFF87008 at rnaphoto.com>
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On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:10 AM, John Bedard wrote:

> Peter,
>
> We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved  
> productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It  
> certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will  
> eventually end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may  
> want to consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved  
> from the images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
>
> Here is a link to a case study they did on us
>
>
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
>
> I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did  
> with them about a year after we went live.
>
> Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our  
> experience.
>
> John
>


John,

Does Media Bin read and write XMP/XML metadata? Can it read DNG files?

Thanks,

Richard Anderson


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:50 -0800
From: "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID:
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE7 at scc-mail.skirball.org>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


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John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:24:37 -0800
From: "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	andsoftware
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID:
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE8 at scc-mail.skirball.org>
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Oh for garsh sakes! Apologies for posting that to the list.

Peter

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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:23 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
andsoftware

Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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From julie at openedit.org  Fri Feb 27 13:48:50 2009
From: julie at openedit.org (Julie Riley OpenEdit)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:48:50 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	andsoftware
In-Reply-To: <C5CDA660.76CD%tatherton@st-albert.net>
References: <C5CDA660.76CD%tatherton@st-albert.net>
Message-ID: <49A85FC2.1030405@openedit.org>

Hi Tim,

Full disclosure: I work for OpenEdit - an open source digital asset 
management software company.

You might be interested in our open source software, OpenEdit. It's a 
powerful DAM solution you might be interested in. Because it's open 
source, there is no charge to download and use our software, we do 
charge for our support and services of it should you need that.

We do offer free online support on our website at 
http://www.openeditdam.com

OpenEdit is used by individuals, as well as in enterprise and global 
solutions, so is a very scalable solution.

Take a look at it, perhaps it will meet your needs.

Best Regards,

Julie Riley

Tim Atherton wrote:
> Has anyone tried any of the Open Source DAM solutions?
>
>
> tim a
>
>   

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----------------------
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VP of Business Solutions
OpenEdit, Inc.

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F 513-297-5988
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http://www.openeditDAM.com
http://www.openedit.org

Twitter openedit

OpenEdit DAM - Open Source Digital Asset Management integrated with Web Content Management


From rcherry at skirball.org  Fri Feb 27 15:02:56 2009
From: rcherry at skirball.org (Cherry, Rich)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:02:56 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] data storage & backup
In-Reply-To: <9AF4B1D8DCA5204598E1C813F27C47BD43CCE7@MAIL3.ddcf.org>
References: <mailman.1.1235764802.15940.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
	<9AF4B1D8DCA5204598E1C813F27C47BD43CCE7@MAIL3.ddcf.org>
Message-ID: <2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201DF814F@scc-mail.skirball.org>

Maja,

It may be a communication problem.  Depending on how the
Livevault/Commvault pricing works and how its being used they may using
a more aggressive backup method than is needed for fairly static image
data (maybe they are doing full backups more often than is needed).  I
suggest two things:

*	Sit down with IT and discuss the backup scheme they are using
and see if a less expensive scheme (using the same software) can be used
that meets the end user risk management needs.
*	
*	Sit down with your director and discuss the value of the data to
the organization and find out what his/her thoughts are on risk
management in light of the continued growth of the collection.  Just
like in managing any collection the director will need to make
trade-offs because of limited funding but they need to know what the
trade offs are.  In discussing risk you may want to consider: cost of
re-scanning, loss of use (internal and external), and reputational risk
(do we want to be known as the archives that lost all their images
because of a hardware failure).

Finally don't be surprised in this economic climate if the decision is
to take increased risk or less growth over spending more money.

Rich
 

Rich Cherry
Director of Operations
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Work: (310) 440-4777
Fax: (310) 440-4595
rcherry at skirball.org



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Maja Clark
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:41 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] data storage & backup

Hi All,
Basic question, a survey really, how do you store & backup your data? 

Why I ask:  Our museum's IT needs are remotely serviced from our
foundation's offices (museum is in Hawaii, IT Dept is on the East
Coast). Our IT Dept utilizes Commvault & Livevault, which I gather from
our tech crew is pricey. We keep running out of server space as the
volume of our image files grow. I meet with great resistance to requests
for additional server space due to the cost of backup. I've suggested
utilizing external hard drives to bridge the gap, but this is not a
popular suggestion. My user-end non-techie perspective on this is:
while Livevault/Commvault may be top-of-the-line services - what good
are they to me if they're too expensive to allow expansion of server
space? This is not a records management - get your users to delete their
files more often - problem.  These images are our institutional archives
that will continue to grow. I've also been asked by IT to come up with a
projected number of GB needed for growth over the next several years.
Is it possible to come up with a realistic number?

I attended MCN in 2006 and remember a session on bridging the gap
between IT & administration.  Perhaps the problem is just a
communication one? I'm hoping to share some of your approaches and
solutions with our IT staff. 

Many thanks,
Maja

Maja Clark
Registrar, Shangri La
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
4055 Papu Circle
Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 792-5506
www.shangrilahawaii.org


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   1. question on gallery simulation software (Ilias Kyriazis)
   2. Re: question on gallery simulation software (Perian Sully)
   3. Re: Recommendations for photo management databases	and
      software (John Bedard)
   4. altera??o de endere?o (webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt)
   5. Re: Recommendations for photo management databases	and
      software (Richard Anderson)
   6. Re: Recommendations for photo management databases and
      software (Johnson, Peter)
   7. Re: Recommendations for photo management databases
      andsoftware (Johnson, Peter)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:10:29 -0500
From: Ilias Kyriazis <ikyriazi at indiana.edu>
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
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Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art
exhibition project. We have been wondering if there is some specific
software out there used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy
to learn, cheap, and that would not expect some great experience in 3D
design. We are mostly thinking of a template that would simulate the
museum gallery, where we could drag and move things to get some feeling
of what the exhibition gallery would look like with the art works,
painted walls, etc.
included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be
interested in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be
easier for curators to use when they lack the availability of an
installation designer, and they just want to have a gallery simulating
interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

--
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:13:29 -0800
From: "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hmm. I'm not an exhibition designer, but would Second Life be a good
platform for this? I have seen it used for gallery mockups (and have
done something similar myself for other purposes), but it does have the
advantage of being fairly easy to learn.

~Perian

Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
Berkeley, CA

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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:10 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software

Dear all,

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working this semester with the
Curator of Works on Paper at the University Art Museum on an art
exhibition project. We have been wondering if there is some specific
software out there used for exhibition design, to be handy, quite easy
to learn, cheap, and that would not expect some great experience in 3D
design. We are mostly thinking of a template that would simulate the
museum gallery, where we could drag and move things to get some feeling
of what the exhibition gallery would look like with the art works,
painted walls, etc.
included.

I have been playing around with Google's SketchUp, but I would be
interested in any software that you may be using, that could maybe be
easier for curators to use when they lack the availability of an
installation designer, and they just want to have a gallery simulating
interface...

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

thank you in advance,
Ilias Kyriazis

--
Ilias Kyriazis, BMus, MLS
Fulbright Alumnus
PhD Student in Information Science
School of Library and Information Science Indiana University, USA

"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been
solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."
Piet Hein
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:10:21 -0600
From: "John Bedard" <jbedard at artsmia.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
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Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:12:37 -0500
From: webmaster at mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt
Subject: [MCN-L] altera??o de endere?o
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Este endere?o foi alterado. Por favor consulte
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:54:55 -0500
From: Richard Anderson <richard at rnaphoto.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:10 AM, John Bedard wrote:

> Peter,
>
> We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved 
> productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It 
> certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will 
> eventually end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may 
> want to consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved 
> from the images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
>
> Here is a link to a case study they did on us
>
>
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
>
> I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with 
> them about a year after we went live.
>
> Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our 
> experience.
>
> John
>


John,

Does Media Bin read and write XMP/XML metadata? Can it read DNG files?

Thanks,

Richard Anderson


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:50 -0800
From: "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	and	software
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID:
	<2A6CDDE8F1CB5D428E7CA6014794A58201EA4CE7 at scc-mail.skirball.org>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


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John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:24:37 -0800
From: "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
	andsoftware
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Oh for garsh sakes! Apologies for posting that to the list.

Peter

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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
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Many thanks John, I will check it out.

Best,

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
John Bedard
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:10 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databasesand
software

Peter,
 
We use Media Bin, a full DAM system.  It has really improved
productivity and is probably the most used system in the Museum.  It
certainly costs more than some systems, but I think you will eventually
end up moving into a full DAMS in the future, so you may want to
consider eliminating intermediate solutions.  And we moved from the
images stored on a server right to the full DAMS
 
Here is a link to a case study they did on us
 
http://www.interwoven.com/media/collateral/casestudy/cs_mia_singlepgs_WE
B.pdf
 
I think that they also still have available a webcast that I did with
them about a year after we went live.
 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about our
experience.
 
John


>>> "Johnson, Peter" <pjohnson at skirball.org> 2/26/2009 1:45 PM >>>
Colleagues,

We are a small cultural center and museum, and we are taking preliminary
steps toward creating a database to manage our digital photography, most
of which currently resides on individual hard-drives or on the shared
network.

I would be interested in hearing from you regarding software and vendors
you do or don't recommend, and why. (I'm well versed in the issues
surrounding the retention and preservation of digital objects, btw.)

We don't have a lot of money to throw at a solution, but we want to do
the best job we can given those restraints, so I'm particularly
interested in solutions that will provide the most bang for our limited
means. Also, this is purely an in-house project -- we do not foresee
sharing our photo resources outside the organization.

If you would be so kind as to share your expertise, please reply
privately to this e-mail address, and I thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-4707
pjohnson at skirball.org 


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From director at neenahhistoricalsociety.org  Sat Feb 28 11:20:22 2009
From: director at neenahhistoricalsociety.org (director at neenahhistoricalsociety.org)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:20:22 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Recommendations for photo management databases
Message-ID: <W482342780271661235848822@webmail23>

We are a very small historical society and museum. We have been using a photo cataloging program called iView Media Pro (now owned by Microsoft and called "Microsoft Expression Media"). We purchased it from TechSoup -- along with an entire suite of Microsoft software -- for $160. It allows great flexibility in searching for individual items (it's not limited to photographs) and creating catalogs on the fly. The catalogs can easily be uploaded to the Web. It is easy to use and doesn't require a tech person (which we don't have) to help you figure out how to use it.?
Dave Dexter
Neenah Historical Society
Neenah, WI


From kamoroso at mainehistory.org  Sat Feb 28 17:47:33 2009
From: kamoroso at mainehistory.org (Kathy Amoroso)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:47:33 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] data storage & backup
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1235851202.19471.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
References: <mailman.1.1235851202.19471.mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <fc.007ea64d005717e33b9aca000741d629.5717e6@agdog.com>

At Maine Memory Network (project of Maine Historical Society) we have a
RT-5 (1.2TB Raid array) and backup through our network to another building
on our campus to an external 1TB drive. We take that drive and switch it
out every couple weeks. We keep one in our office and one in the other
building on our campus. Not really "offsite" backup but it's out of the
building that we are in. We are upgrading to an other RAID with 4TB of
space and will backup to another RAID configuration (I don't know the
specs).

Kathy

************************
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Director of Digital Projects 
kamoroso at mainehistory.org or kathy at mainememory.net
Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207)774-1822 x227 |  www.mainehistory.org | www.mainememory.net