From dianezorich at comcast.net  Mon Feb  1 07:35:58 2010
From: dianezorich at comcast.net (Diane M. Zorich)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:35:58 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: January
	2010
Message-ID: <p06200705c78ca5402b76@[10.0.1.7]>

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>Subject: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: January 2010
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>Hello all,
>
>Please find January's VRA IPR News posting via the following link:
>
><http://vraiprnews.blogs.plymouth.edu/2010/02/01/ipr-in-the-news-january-2010/>http://vraiprnews.blogs.plymouth.edu/2010/02/01/ipr-in-the-news-january-2010/
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>
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>
>Jen
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From Carol at hnoc.org  Mon Feb  1 11:11:57 2010
From: Carol at hnoc.org (Carol Bartels)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:11:57 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] New online catalogue for The Historic New Orleans Collection
Message-ID: <8C37684BDA0D424E91C45A910CE6073001E3F208@royal.hnoc.loc>

The Historic New Orleans Collection has launched a new version of its
online catalogue
<http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/THNOC/scripts/MWIMAIN.DLL?get&file=%5bWWW_TH
NOC%5dsimple_search_all.htm> .  The new site makes the institution's
entire catalogued collection of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs,
art, and ephemera accessible to the public for the first time.

The online catalogue presents three ways to search: by keyword, advanced
search, and collections themes.  Researchers will also have access to
more than 17,000 images, viewable in a gallery where they can be
enlarged or compared side-by-side.  The catalogue also features
hyperlinks to PDF finding aids for manuscript collections and when
cataloging permits researchers can navigate through the hierarchy of
archival description.

The catalogue allows the bookmarking of items to create a temporary list
of items across multiple searches.  At present bookmarked items are not
saved once the catalogue is closed in your browser.

The catalogue is generated from the MINT collections management system
by MINISIS Inc.  MINT is an integrated library, archive and museum
collection management system that The Historic New Orleans Collection
helped to develop.  We invite you to experience The Collection's new
online catalogue
<http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/THNOC/scripts/MWIMAIN.DLL?get&file=%5bWWW_TH
NOC%5dsimple_search_all.htm>  and learn more about the institution and
its holdings.

 

Carol O. Bartels, CA

Director of Systems

The Historic New Orleans Collection

533 Royal Street, New Orleans, La. 70130

Phone: 504-598-7122 | Fax: 504-598-7108

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

 


From david.whaples at yale.edu  Mon Feb  1 11:12:06 2010
From: david.whaples at yale.edu (Whaples, David)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:12:06 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
In-Reply-To: <38A562F9B9615940BD347797ACD838C863EF3C@server.mada.com>
Message-ID: <C78C91B6.3641%david.whaples@yale.edu>

Dear Hanan,
By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player (http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.

I hope this helps...

Thanks,
David Whaples
Rights & Reproductions
Yale University Art Gallery



On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:

Hi,

We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
teachers in class.

http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem

Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
helps teachers with downloading our videos.

There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.

1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
update our site.

2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)

Do you know of any other option I can offer?

Thanks,

Hanan Cohen
Webmaster
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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From john.chadwick at state.nm.us  Mon Feb  1 12:18:32 2010
From: john.chadwick at state.nm.us (Chadwick, John, DCA)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:18:32 -0700
Subject: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
In-Reply-To: <C78C91B6.3641%david.whaples@yale.edu>
References: <38A562F9B9615940BD347797ACD838C863EF3C@server.mada.com>
	<C78C91B6.3641%david.whaples@yale.edu>
Message-ID: <78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210AFDAE2C@CEXMB1.nmes.lcl>

I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
on a PC. It is open source.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

John

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Whaples, David
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube

Dear Hanan,
By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
(http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.

I hope this helps...

Thanks,
David Whaples
Rights & Reproductions
Yale University Art Gallery



On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:

Hi,

We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
teachers in class.

http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem

Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
helps teachers with downloading our videos.

There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.

1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
update our site.

2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)

Do you know of any other option I can offer?

Thanks,

Hanan Cohen
Webmaster
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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From etuck at mfah.org  Mon Feb  1 13:58:17 2010
From: etuck at mfah.org (Tuck, Emily)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:58:17 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?
Message-ID: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>

Greetings:

 

I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
you have a public facing website.

 

Thank you for replying.

 

Emily Nedell Tuck

 

Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

P.O. Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

(713) 353-1523
etuck at mfah.org

 

 

 


From JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk  Mon Feb  1 14:12:49 2010
From: JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk (Ottevanger, Jeremy)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:12:49 -0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
	data?
In-Reply-To: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
References: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
Message-ID: <CBE3ED7D5509D54F9C4E1D614931DF0E06270F81@mail-mwh-2k3.museumoflondon.org.uk>

Hi Emily. 

The system we have in development at the moment uses Solr, which is
essentially a REST API wrapped around Lucene. Damn good it is too and
I'd heartily recommend it. Europeana also uses it to great effect (which
is why I wanted it too).

Cheers, Jeremy



Jeremy Ottevanger
Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
Museum of London
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Tuck, Emily
Sent: 01 February 2010 21:58
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
data?

Greetings:

 

I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
you have a public facing website.

 

Thank you for replying.

 

Emily Nedell Tuck

 

Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

P.O. Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

(713) 353-1523
etuck at mfah.org

 

 

 

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From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Mon Feb  1 14:16:03 2010
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:16:03 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
	data?
In-Reply-To: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
References: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
Message-ID: <a05f60f81002011416w7a45b837v139c43d59f125ddd@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is
built on top of Lucene.  Solr is very common throughout the library/archive
world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems.  I have worked on
several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual
collections, and have adapted Solr with great success, taking advantage of
faceted querying and TermsComponent for autosuggest.  It is the most robust
index out there that I have used, and I highly recommend it.  I wouldn't
consider using anything else, to be honest.  I'm using it for the UVA Art
Museum numismatic collection (http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/) and the
Kittredge Numismatic Foundation collection (
http://www.kittredgecollection.org).

Ethan

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:

> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From seth at whirl-i-gig.com  Mon Feb  1 14:28:08 2010
From: seth at whirl-i-gig.com (Seth)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:28:08 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
	data?
In-Reply-To: <a05f60f81002011416w7a45b837v139c43d59f125ddd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
	<a05f60f81002011416w7a45b837v139c43d59f125ddd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <04867816-89D2-4DFB-AD83-F50E06C39617@whirl-i-gig.com>

Hi,

It might be useful to mention that there is a port of Lucene for the PHP programming language that is part of the Zend framework. A lot of people think this is actually "the" Lucene, but it's not. It's just a PHP implementation that happens to use the same on-disk index format. The performance of the PHP Lucene is pretty terrible for databases of any real scale and is probably best avoided. As others have mentioned Apache SOLR is a very good, stable and scaleable Lucene option that you'd be hard-pressed to go wrong with. We've used it for museum and archive projects and have been very happy with the results.


Good luck with your project!


seth

On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is
> built on top of Lucene.  Solr is very common throughout the library/archive
> world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems.  I have worked on
> several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual
> collections, and have adapted Solr with great success, taking advantage of
> faceted querying and TermsComponent for autosuggest.  It is the most robust
> index out there that I have used, and I highly recommend it.  I wouldn't
> consider using anything else, to be honest.  I'm using it for the UVA Art
> Museum numismatic collection (http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/) and the
> Kittredge Numismatic Foundation collection (
> http://www.kittredgecollection.org).
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
>> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
>> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
>> you have a public facing website.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you for replying.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Emily Nedell Tuck
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Data Standards Manager
>> 
>> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>> 
>> P.O. Box 6826
>> 
>> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>> 
>> (713) 353-1523
>> etuck at mfah.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Mon Feb  1 22:44:07 2010
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:44:07 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Five Colleges of Ohio -- Mellon Digital Initiatives job
	opening
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF84C@mailsrv.imj.org.il>


________________________________
The Five Colleges of Ohio seeks applications for Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator, a challenging full-time, two-year position, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, cf: http://www.ohio5.org/announcements.htm
Home-base could be at any of the consortial colleges; Oberlin College is the preferred location.

Requirements: ALA accredited MLS/MLIS/MIS degree or advanced degree in related IT area; two years' academic library or related experience; experience with digitization equipment, techniques, standards; experience in metadata creation using XML schema including Dublin Core and EAD; knowledge of metadata harvesting; demonstrated ability to communicate effectively; positive record of working well with others.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience creating web-based interfaces; web-based meetings and training; DSPACE; CONTENTdm; data crosswalks.

The Five Colleges of Ohio members are The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University, cf: http://www.ohio5.org.

To Apply: See full posting at https://employment.kenyon.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50500. Application to include a cover letter, curriculum vitae or r?sum?, and contact information for three references. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Employment contingent upon a successful background check.

Five Colleges of Ohio employees are hired through Kenyon College, an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the college's policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, disability, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, political belief or activity, or status as a veteran. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from women and minority candidates.


--
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From ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org  Tue Feb  2 07:52:24 2010
From: ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org (RyanH)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:52:24 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
In-Reply-To: <78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210AFDAE2C@CEXMB1.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <C78DA658.4DB%ryan.hartman@cartermuseum.org>

Hanan,

Personally, I would suggest a Firefox extension. Though it requires a few
clicks, they are by far one of the easiest things to install, and can easily
be outlined with a few simple steps.

I would use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15002 .

You could also publish a podcast of you videos with instructions for itunes,
winamp etc... or periodically aggregate them into a downloadable archive on
your website. The latter could be done via a shell script utilizing ffmpeg
that watches your youtube rss feed.

Best,
-- 
Ryan Hartman
Web Developer
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
t: 817.989.5047
http://www.cartermuseum.org


> From: "Chadwick, John, DCA" <john.chadwick at state.nm.us>
> Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:18:32 -0700
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
> 
> I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
> on a PC. It is open source.
> 
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Whaples, David
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
> 
> Dear Hanan,
> By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
> (http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
> download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
> this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.
> 
> I hope this helps...
> 
> Thanks,
> David Whaples
> Rights & Reproductions
> Yale University Art Gallery
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
> teachers in class.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem
> 
> Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
> helps teachers with downloading our videos.
> 
> There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
> like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.
> 
> 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
> Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
> update our site.
> 
> 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
> installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
> don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
> Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)
> 
> Do you know of any other option I can offer?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hanan Cohen
> Webmaster
> Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
> www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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From cmoad at imamuseum.org  Tue Feb  2 07:51:12 2010
From: cmoad at imamuseum.org (Charles Moad)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
	data?
In-Reply-To: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
References: <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32@mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
Message-ID: <e0642a6d1002020751o7fb5d84dm560e4366c8c220ee@mail.gmail.com>

Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
our new website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
results), collection search and site search are all running on Solr,
which is a web interface to Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
post including access details:

http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas-new-website/

- Charlie

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
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From ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org  Tue Feb  2 08:07:51 2010
From: ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org (Ryan Hartman)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:07:51 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
 data?
In-Reply-To: <e0642a6d1002020751o7fb5d84dm560e4366c8c220ee@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C78DA9F7.4E0%ryan.hartman@cartermuseum.org>

I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online through
our backend Kemu software.

I haven't began research on searching the collection, but I would be
interested to learn a bit more of the technical details behind how others
are indexing their systems via solr/lucene. If it seems viable I may build a
drupal module to go hand-in-hand with the other few I'm writing for our
collection.

The drupal community has a large apache solr following.
-- 
Ryan Hartman
Web Developer
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
t: 817.989.5047
http://www.cartermuseum.org


> From: Charles Moad <cmoad at imamuseum.org>
> Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
> data?
> 
> Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
our new
> website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
results), collection
> search and site search are all running on Solr,
which is a web interface to
> Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
post including access
> details:

http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas
> -new-website/

- Charlie

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily
> <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify
> institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection
> database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted
> to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing
> website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
>
>
>
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From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Tue Feb  2 08:06:22 2010
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:06:22 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
	data?
In-Reply-To: <C78DA9F7.4E0%ryan.hartman@cartermuseum.org>
References: <e0642a6d1002020751o7fb5d84dm560e4366c8c220ee@mail.gmail.com>
	<C78DA9F7.4E0%ryan.hartman@cartermuseum.org>
Message-ID: <a05f60f81002020806m616a2a35ue50fb6b1482fb1db@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ryan,

I'd recommend joining the code4lib community (http://code4lib.org/) and
asking your question on their listserv as well.

Ethan

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Hartman <ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org
> wrote:

> I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online through
> our backend Kemu software.
>
> I haven't began research on searching the collection, but I would be
> interested to learn a bit more of the technical details behind how others
> are indexing their systems via solr/lucene. If it seems viable I may build
> a
> drupal module to go hand-in-hand with the other few I'm writing for our
> collection.
>
> The drupal community has a large apache solr following.
> --
> Ryan Hartman
> Web Developer
> Amon Carter Museum
> 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
> t: 817.989.5047
> http://www.cartermuseum.org
>
>
> > From: Charles Moad <cmoad at imamuseum.org>
> > Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
> collection
> > data?
> >
> > Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
> our new
> > website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
> results), collection
> > search and site search are all running on Solr,
> which is a web interface to
> > Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
> post including access
> > details:
>
> http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas
> > -new-website/
>
> - Charlie
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily
> > <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to identify
> > institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> > search a collection
> > database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> > MFA Houston, but I wanted
> > to find out who else is using it especially if
> > you have a public facing
> > website.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for replying.
> >
> >
> >
> > Emily Nedell Tuck
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Data Standards Manager
> >
> > Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
> >
> > P.O. Box 6826
> >
> >
> > Houston, Texas 77265-6826
> >
> > (713) 353-1523
> > etuck at mfah.org
> >
> >
> >
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From museumpods at gmail.com  Tue Feb  2 08:21:55 2010
From: museumpods at gmail.com (museumpods at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:21:55 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
References: <C78DA658.4DB%ryan.hartman@cartermuseum.org>
Message-ID: <FDB9FB53067D4C9FACEFE1B7C5DC3D3F@harvardugddap5>

Another way to download directly from a YouTube page or any page is make a 
link like this http://bit.ly/bvxltm  and post it on your YouTube home page 
it is a Bloomfield Science Museum YouTube video and can be made to download 
one or a variety of videos --just click and download...

Let me know if you want to learn how to do it.

Kurt
Museumpods 


From museumpods at gmail.com  Tue Feb  2 11:51:53 2010
From: museumpods at gmail.com (museumpods at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:51:53 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube (video tutorial)
References: <38A562F9B9615940BD347797ACD838C863EF3C@server.mada.com><C78C91B6.3641%david.whaples@yale.edu>
	<78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210AFDAE2C@CEXMB1.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <3F318B40E1904AACBB0659EB549E9E4B@harvardugddap5>

A few people asked me how to make a link to download videos like I posted 
ealier.   I made a short video demonstrating from my desktop how to create 
RSS podcasts and then make the video download link with little or no 
technical skill in just a few minutes.  http://bit.ly/bWfHaO (.avi file)

Kurt Stuchell
MuseumPods


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chadwick, John, DCA" <john.chadwick at state.nm.us>
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube


>I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
> on a PC. It is open source.
>
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Whaples, David
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
>
> Dear Hanan,
> By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
> (http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
> download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
> this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Thanks,
> David Whaples
> Rights & Reproductions
> Yale University Art Gallery
>
>
>
> On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
> teachers in class.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem
>
> Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
> helps teachers with downloading our videos.
>
> There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
> like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.
>
> 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
> Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
> update our site.
>
> 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
> installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
> don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
> Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)
>
> Do you know of any other option I can offer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hanan Cohen
> Webmaster
> Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
> www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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From GuntherA at si.edu  Tue Feb  2 13:46:58 2010
From: GuntherA at si.edu (Gunther, Andrew)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:46:58 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Solr in museums
Message-ID: <8DBD70C22FA27E4693307150B23AA4248DF4083E4E@SI-MSEV03.US.SINET.SI.EDU>

Smithsonian has been slowly aggregating a central solr/lucene index that
is driving our metadataDeliveryService. I think we are exceeding 3million records at this stage.
Having used it for about 3 years, I also give it a big thumbs up.

Andrew Gunther
Application Developer
Smithsonian
gunthera at si.edu
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   1. Re: Downloading from Youtube (Chadwick, John, DCA)
   2. Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?
      (Tuck, Emily)
   3. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Ottevanger, Jeremy)
   4. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Ethan Gruber)
   5. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Seth)
   6. FW: Five Colleges of Ohio -- Mellon Digital Initiatives job
      opening (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet at imj.org.il])
   7. Re: Downloading from Youtube (RyanH)
   8. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Charles Moad)
   9. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Ryan Hartman)
  10. Re: Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
      data? (Ethan Gruber)
  11. Re: Downloading from Youtube (museumpods at gmail.com)
  12. Re: Downloading from Youtube (video tutorial)
      (museumpods at gmail.com)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:18:32 -0700
From: "Chadwick, John, DCA" <john.chadwick at state.nm.us>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID: <78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210AFDAE2C at CEXMB1.nmes.lcl>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"

I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
on a PC. It is open source.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

John

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Whaples, David
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube

Dear Hanan,
By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
(http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.

I hope this helps...

Thanks,
David Whaples
Rights & Reproductions
Yale University Art Gallery



On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:

Hi,

We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
teachers in class.

http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem

Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
helps teachers with downloading our videos.

There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.

1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
update our site.

2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)

Do you know of any other option I can offer?

Thanks,

Hanan Cohen
Webmaster
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:58:17 -0600
From: "Tuck, Emily" <etuck at mfah.org>
Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
        data?
To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Message-ID:
        <128692D10E069046A3158305E82EDE1C09CE0F32 at mfah-exmail.mfah.local>
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Greetings:



I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
you have a public facing website.



Thank you for replying.



Emily Nedell Tuck



Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

P.O. Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

(713) 353-1523
etuck at mfah.org









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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:12:49 -0000
From: "Ottevanger, Jeremy" <JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection      data?
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hi Emily.

The system we have in development at the moment uses Solr, which is
essentially a REST API wrapped around Lucene. Damn good it is too and
I'd heartily recommend it. Europeana also uses it to great effect (which
is why I wanted it too).

Cheers, Jeremy



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Museum of London
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Subject: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
data?

Greetings:



I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
you have a public facing website.



Thank you for replying.



Emily Nedell Tuck



Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

P.O. Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

(713) 353-1523
etuck at mfah.org







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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:16:03 -0500
From: Ethan Gruber <ewg4xuva at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection      data?
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hello,

At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is
built on top of Lucene.  Solr is very common throughout the library/archive
world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems.  I have worked on
several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual
collections, and have adapted Solr with great success, taking advantage of
faceted querying and TermsComponent for autosuggest.  It is the most robust
index out there that I have used, and I highly recommend it.  I wouldn't
consider using anything else, to be honest.  I'm using it for the UVA Art
Museum numismatic collection (http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/) and the
Kittredge Numismatic Foundation collection (
http://www.kittredgecollection.org).

Ethan

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:

> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:28:08 -0500
From: Seth <seth at whirl-i-gig.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection      data?
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hi,

It might be useful to mention that there is a port of Lucene for the PHP programming language that is part of the Zend framework. A lot of people think this is actually "the" Lucene, but it's not. It's just a PHP implementation that happens to use the same on-disk index format. The performance of the PHP Lucene is pretty terrible for databases of any real scale and is probably best avoided. As others have mentioned Apache SOLR is a very good, stable and scaleable Lucene option that you'd be hard-pressed to go wrong with. We've used it for museum and archive projects and have been very happy with the results.


Good luck with your project!


seth

On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hello,
>
> At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is
> built on top of Lucene.  Solr is very common throughout the library/archive
> world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems.  I have worked on
> several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual
> collections, and have adapted Solr with great success, taking advantage of
> faceted querying and TermsComponent for autosuggest.  It is the most robust
> index out there that I have used, and I highly recommend it.  I wouldn't
> consider using anything else, to be honest.  I'm using it for the UVA Art
> Museum numismatic collection (http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/) and the
> Kittredge Numismatic Foundation collection (
> http://www.kittredgecollection.org).
>
> Ethan
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>>
>>
>>
>> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
>> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
>> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
>> you have a public facing website.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for replying.
>>
>>
>>
>> Emily Nedell Tuck
>>
>>
>>
>> Data Standards Manager
>>
>> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>>
>> P.O. Box 6826
>>
>> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>>
>> (713) 353-1523
>> etuck at mfah.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:44:07 +0200
From: "Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet at imj.org.il]" <akeshet at imj.org.il>
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Five Colleges of Ohio -- Mellon Digital
        Initiatives job opening
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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________________________________
The Five Colleges of Ohio seeks applications for Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator, a challenging full-time, two-year position, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, cf: http://www.ohio5.org/announcements.htm
Home-base could be at any of the consortial colleges; Oberlin College is the preferred location.

Requirements: ALA accredited MLS/MLIS/MIS degree or advanced degree in related IT area; two years' academic library or related experience; experience with digitization equipment, techniques, standards; experience in metadata creation using XML schema including Dublin Core and EAD; knowledge of metadata harvesting; demonstrated ability to communicate effectively; positive record of working well with others.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience creating web-based interfaces; web-based meetings and training; DSPACE; CONTENTdm; data crosswalks.

The Five Colleges of Ohio members are The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University, cf: http://www.ohio5.org.

To Apply: See full posting at https://employment.kenyon.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50500. Application to include a cover letter, curriculum vitae or r?sum?, and contact information for three references. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Employment contingent upon a successful background check.

Five Colleges of Ohio employees are hired through Kenyon College, an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the college's policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, disability, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, political belief or activity, or status as a veteran. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from women and minority candidates.


--
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Associate Director of Libraries
Oberlin College Library
148 W. College St.
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:52:24 -0600
From: RyanH <ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hanan,

Personally, I would suggest a Firefox extension. Though it requires a few
clicks, they are by far one of the easiest things to install, and can easily
be outlined with a few simple steps.

I would use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15002 .

You could also publish a podcast of you videos with instructions for itunes,
winamp etc... or periodically aggregate them into a downloadable archive on
your website. The latter could be done via a shell script utilizing ffmpeg
that watches your youtube rss feed.

Best,
--
Ryan Hartman
Web Developer
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
t: 817.989.5047
http://www.cartermuseum.org


> From: "Chadwick, John, DCA" <john.chadwick at state.nm.us>
> Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:18:32 -0700
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
>
> I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
> on a PC. It is open source.
>
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Whaples, David
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
>
> Dear Hanan,
> By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
> (http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
> download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
> this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Thanks,
> David Whaples
> Rights & Reproductions
> Yale University Art Gallery
>
>
>
> On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
> teachers in class.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem
>
> Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
> helps teachers with downloading our videos.
>
> There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
> like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.
>
> 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
> Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
> update our site.
>
> 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
> installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
> don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
> Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)
>
> Do you know of any other option I can offer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hanan Cohen
> Webmaster
> Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
> www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
From: Charles Moad <cmoad at imamuseum.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection      data?
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
our new website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
results), collection search and site search are all running on Solr,
which is a web interface to Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
post including access details:

http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas-new-website/

- Charlie

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:07:51 -0600
From: Ryan Hartman <ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection data?
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online through
our backend Kemu software.

I haven't began research on searching the collection, but I would be
interested to learn a bit more of the technical details behind how others
are indexing their systems via solr/lucene. If it seems viable I may build a
drupal module to go hand-in-hand with the other few I'm writing for our
collection.

The drupal community has a large apache solr following.
--
Ryan Hartman
Web Developer
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
t: 817.989.5047
http://www.cartermuseum.org


> From: Charles Moad <cmoad at imamuseum.org>
> Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection
> data?
>
> Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
our new
> website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
results), collection
> search and site search are all running on Solr,
which is a web interface to
> Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
post including access
> details:

http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas
> -new-website/

- Charlie

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily
> <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
>
>
> I am trying to identify
> institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> search a collection
> database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> MFA Houston, but I wanted
> to find out who else is using it especially if
> you have a public facing
> website.
>
>
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
>
> Emily Nedell Tuck
>
>
>
>
> Data Standards Manager
>
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>
> P.O. Box 6826
>
>
> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>
> (713) 353-1523
> etuck at mfah.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:06:22 -0500
From: Ethan Gruber <ewg4xuva at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
        collection      data?
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Hi Ryan,

I'd recommend joining the code4lib community (http://code4lib.org/) and
asking your question on their listserv as well.

Ethan

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Hartman <ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org
> wrote:

> I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online through
> our backend Kemu software.
>
> I haven't began research on searching the collection, but I would be
> interested to learn a bit more of the technical details behind how others
> are indexing their systems via solr/lucene. If it seems viable I may build
> a
> drupal module to go hand-in-hand with the other few I'm writing for our
> collection.
>
> The drupal community has a large apache solr following.
> --
> Ryan Hartman
> Web Developer
> Amon Carter Museum
> 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107
> t: 817.989.5047
> http://www.cartermuseum.org
>
>
> > From: Charles Moad <cmoad at imamuseum.org>
> > Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:12 -0500
> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search
> collection
> > data?
> >
> > Good timing.  We (the Indianapolis Museum of Art) are "soft" launching
> our new
> > website today.  The live search (Apple-like real-time
> results), collection
> > search and site search are all running on Solr,
> which is a web interface to
> > Lucene.  You can find more at this blog
> post including access
> > details:
>
> http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/02/02/behind-the-scenes-with-imas
> > -new-website/
>
> - Charlie
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily
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> >
> >
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> > institutions that are using Lucene to index and
> > search a collection
> > database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
> > MFA Houston, but I wanted
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> > you have a public facing
> > website.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for replying.
> >
> >
> >
> > Emily Nedell Tuck
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Data Standards Manager
> >
> > Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
> >
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> >
> >
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:21:55 -0500
From: museumpods at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Another way to download directly from a YouTube page or any page is make a
link like this http://bit.ly/bvxltm  and post it on your YouTube home page
it is a Bloomfield Science Museum YouTube video and can be made to download
one or a variety of videos --just click and download...

Let me know if you want to learn how to do it.

Kurt
Museumpods



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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:51:53 -0500
From: museumpods at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube (video tutorial)
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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A few people asked me how to make a link to download videos like I posted
ealier.   I made a short video demonstrating from my desktop how to create
RSS podcasts and then make the video download link with little or no
technical skill in just a few minutes.  http://bit.ly/bWfHaO (.avi file)

Kurt Stuchell
MuseumPods


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chadwick, John, DCA" <john.chadwick at state.nm.us>
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube


>I have used VLC media player for downloading and saving youtube videos
> on a PC. It is open source.
>
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Whaples, David
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
>
> Dear Hanan,
> By accident, I discovered that the latest Real player
> (http://www.real.com/) has a download manager and that it allows you to
> download flash files - which includes content from YouTube.  I know that
> this works on a mac, but I am not sure if it works on a PC.
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Thanks,
> David Whaples
> Rights & Reproductions
> Yale University Art Gallery
>
>
>
> On 1/31/10 9:00 AM, "Hanan Cohen" <hanan at mada.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by
> teachers in class.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem
>
> Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that
> helps teachers with downloading our videos.
>
> There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't
> like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies.
>
> 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and
> Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and
> update our site.
>
> 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and
> installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I
> don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for
> Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE)
>
> Do you know of any other option I can offer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hanan Cohen
> Webmaster
> Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
> www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
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From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Tue Feb  2 14:19:08 2010
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:19:08 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Mobi21 FREE Webinar > Mobile Learning In The Real World >
	February 18 2010 > 1-2 PM EST
Message-ID: <1546c3f81002021419x229005bm56aa4191688d90be@mail.gmail.com>

[1] Mobile Learning Fundamentals: Innovation Showcase and Real-World
Examples /  Presented by A.J. Ripin  / With Special Guest > Dr. David
Metcalf

The way that we live, work, play, and learn is being impacted by the
increasing mobility of our global society. As leaders, it is our
responsibility to design for the needs of our changing audience. Learn the
key trends and technologies that are fast emerging to meet the challenges
and changes of today and tomorrow. Come hear this conversation as we explore
advanced concepts like mobile performance support, compliance, games and
simulations, location awareness, transcoding, mobile social networking and
collaboration. Learn firsthand how world leaders from industry, academia,
military and organizations like Google, Microsoft, Tyco International, Tufts
University and others are delivering value through Mobile Learning content.

[2] Mind Over Technology ? The Value Of Content Design In Mobile Education
/  Presented by Supra Manohar /  EVP Emantras

The discussion of mobility in education has primarily focused on technology
and devices. It is critical to understand that the maturation of the market
is driving the need for understanding content design and why it is probably
one of the most critical aspects of any mobile learning initiative.
Understanding how we learn in specific environments is critical to learning
design. Using online content without pedagogical modifications within mobile
environments probably does not work. The primary thrust of mobile education
must be the design of the content and utilization of technology to deliver
this content. This presentation will explore learning design for mobile
environments and critical factors that need to be considered for a
successful initiative (relative to content).

Links To Source / Registration / Etc Available At

[ http://tinyurl.com/yhx5sff ]

EnJOY !!!

/Gerry

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

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

>>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

From g.durbin at vam.ac.uk  Wed Feb  3 07:40:55 2010
From: g.durbin at vam.ac.uk (Gail Durbin)
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:55 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application
Message-ID: <4B699907.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>

The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta attached to Search the Collections:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ 
This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We would be very interested in your responses.

Please send any feedback to Mark Hook at mark.hook at vam.ac.uk 

Gail Durbin
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From deborahwythe at hotmail.com  Wed Feb  3 10:44:38 2010
From: deborahwythe at hotmail.com (Deborah Wythe)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:44:38 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application
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Interesting.
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> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application
> 
> The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta attached to Search the Collections:
> http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ 
> This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We would be very interested in your responses.
> 
> Please send any feedback to Mark Hook at mark.hook at vam.ac.uk 
> 
> Gail Durbin
> Head of V&A Online
> 
> 
> 
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> In partnership with SAP
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From rcherry at balboaparkonline.org  Wed Feb  3 19:55:29 2010
From: rcherry at balboaparkonline.org (Rich Cherry)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:55:29 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Spotlight Mobile offers two travel scholarships to
 "Going mobile: Planning for audience,
 content and technology in the Museum" in sunny San Diego
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Reminder that Friday is the deadline for this travel scholarship.
Rich

From: Rich Cherry
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:16 PM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: Spotlight Mobile offers two travel scholarships to "Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and technology in the Museum" in sunny San Diego

MCN'rs

In case your travel budget is a little low this year and you still need to get your mobile fix:

Spotlight Mobile, a leader in mobile interpretation for museum, parks, and cities is proud to offer two travel scholarships to Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and technology in the Museum<http://bit.ly/5gt3g0>, to be held at Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. For consideration, please submit a 500 word description of an innovative way you would deploy mobile technology in your museum. The scholarships are available to any non- San Diego County resident and good for reimbursement of $250 in travel expenses. Please submit your request to info at spotlightmobile.com with "Going Mobile" in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is Feb 6th and winners announced on Feb 8th..




About Spotlight Mobile
Spun out of research on ubiquitous computing at Cornell University in the late nineties, Spotlight Mobile was founded to deliver the highest quality experiences to users on mobile devices. After almost 50 enterprise deployments for some of the worlds largest museums and companies, Spotlight Mobile introduces Tours App; the latest generation of our mobile interpretation software suite and the first to be targeted directly at visitors own devices. Built on software used by millions of people every day, Tours App is a completely hosted solution that can be available for no cost to museums. More at SpotlightMobile.com and ToursApp.com


From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb  3 22:11:24 2010
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:11:24 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Preservation of Photographic Materials,
 (Live Online) 03/4-5/2010
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF878@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Forwarded:



Please excuse cross-posting.

Registration still available for the following upcoming preservation class:

Preservation of Photographic Materials, (Live Online) 03/4-5/2010

This four-hour online introductory class is designed to help cultural institutions develop strategies for preserving photographs: photographic identification, handling guidelines, and storage conditions for photographic collections that provide protection, security, and access.

This class is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access.

For more information, or to register, please visit www.lyrasis.org (keyword Classes and Events, browse or search by class title).

Join LYRASIS Preservation Services on Facebook! As a thank you for being a part of our social networking, you can take $25.00 off any of our classes through June 30th, 2010. Just enter promotional code PFB2010 when registering.









From trose at ucsd.edu  Thu Feb  4 10:05:20 2010
From: trose at ucsd.edu (Rose, Tricia)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:05:20 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] VRA Core surey
Message-ID: <82C967D6FFB3824DBC01CAE67E893072043A918D@LIB-EXCHANGE.AD.UCSD.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Data Standards Committee of the Visual Resources Association (VRA)
invites you to participate in a brief survey about the VRA Core data
standard.  This survey is meant to assess the current adoption of the
VRA Core data standard in terms of the types and number of organizations
using it, how it is being implemented, and challenges to its use. 

 

The survey is geared towards the following groups: 

 

a) organizations using VRA Core 4.0 

b) organizations using VRA Core versions 1, 2, or 3 

c) organizations who have considered but not adopted the Core. 

 

Only a subset of the questions apply to groups b & c.  The survey
consists of 14 questions and requires approximately 5-10 minutes to
complete.

 

Please click on the following link to access our survey <
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/vracore> .  You will also find a link to
the survey posted on the VRA home page ( http://www.vraweb.org/). We
request your response by Monday March 1, 2010 at 5pm PST.

 

 

Please forward this announcement to other colleagues who may be
interested in this survey.  

We thank you in advance for your willingness to complete the survey.
Your feedback will help the future development of the VRA Core data
standard. 

 

 

Data Standards Committee Co-chairs -  Johanna Bauman (ARTstor), Trish
Rose-Sandler  (University of California, San Diego)

 


From psully at magnes.org  Thu Feb  4 10:10:17 2010
From: psully at magnes.org (Perian Sully)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:10:17 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: MONDAY 2/8 @ 12: Professor Pamela Samuelson on "Google
	Book Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books"
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D1759@jlm-net.jlm.local>

For you Bay Area folks.
 
Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
Berkeley, CA
 
From: Colin Dingler [mailto:cding at berkeley.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:09 AM
To: thl at lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: MONDAY 2/8 @ 12: Professor Pamela Samuelson on "Google Book
Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books"
 
This event is free, wheelchair accessible and open to the public.
Please forward widely.  We apologize for any cross-postings!
 
Professor Pamela Samuelson: Google Book Search and the Future of Access
to Scholarly Books
Townsend Center Forum on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship
Monday, February 8, 12-1 in the Geballe Room, 220 Stevens Hall
 
The Townsend Center for the Humanities is excited to announce the first
lunch forum in our spring series on Digital Technology in Humanities
Scholarship.  Please join the conversation about Google Book Search next
Monday with Pamela Samuelson.  Joint professor at Berkeley's School of
Law and School of Information, as well as director of the Berkeley
Center for Law and Technology, Samuelson offers a critical viewpoint
about the consequences of Google Books for academic researchers and
libraries:
 
"The proposed settlement of the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit which
charged Google with copyright infringement for scanning books from major
research libraries would bring about much greater access to books.
However, there are several reasons to be deeply worried about the
settlement because of inadequate privacy protections, risks of
price-gouging for institutional subscriptions, and antitrust problems.
Beyond this, serious questions exist about whether a complex
transformation of the market for digital books such as that envisioned
in the proposed settlement can be achieved through a class action
lawsuit when it is deeply legislative in nature."
 
 
Prof. Samuelson's short talk on the subject will be followed by audience
Q&A, and a general discussion of the issues.  This is a brown bag lunch
event, with light refreshments provided.  Future lunch forums in the
series will be on March 8, and April 15.
 
 
 

From museumpods at gmail.com  Thu Feb  4 12:10:48 2010
From: museumpods at gmail.com (museumpods at gmail.com)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:10:48 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] iPhone app video demonstration
References: <38A562F9B9615940BD347797ACD838C863EF3C@server.mada.com><C78C91B6.3641%david.whaples@yale.edu>
	<78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210AFDAE2C@CEXMB1.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <84315C04E98747168F2C71865398E38F@harvardugddap5>

Hello,

There are a lot of museums starting to develop iPhone and mobile apps.  I am 
just finishing an iPhone app and wanted to share the video of how it works 
on iPhones.  I thought maybe it would give some ideas on how to integrate 
social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, blogs...on iPhone apps to 
more fully leverage your social media.  You will notice when I go to my blog 
posts a media player will appear.  It didn't capture the content on this 
video for some reason but it is a 'live' media stream I have set up through 
my blog so I can stream live content using iPhones, webcams or cameras.

Direct download link at: http://bit.ly/iphone-video-avi  (.avi file 12MB)

Kurt Stuchell
MuseumPods




From MCOCK at thebritishmuseum.ac.uk  Fri Feb  5 03:43:49 2010
From: MCOCK at thebritishmuseum.ac.uk (Matthew Cock)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:43:49 -0000
Subject: [MCN-L] British Museum website - new children's section and games
Message-ID: <F95B72EEAD5E1C48AD94F87D4EFB49E5058889B9@blmbmbex1.local>

Collect facts and save the day - become an online Time Explorer with the
British Museum

 

Time Explorer is the new British Museum online game that invites brave
souls to travel back in time to Aztec Mexico, Imperial China, Ancient
Rome and Ancient Egypt, where dangers, puzzles and traps lie in wait.

 

In this interactive adventure game, players become junior curators whose
knowledge of the past, skill and courage are all needed when they're
sent back in time to help the local population rescue a treasured object
from certain destruction.

 

Alongside four other new online games, Time Explorer forms part of the
new British Museum website section for children: Young Explorers. The
first phase is now live and will continue to grow, offering visitors
aged 6-12 a chance to explore the collection and cultures, head behind
the scenes for a look at what we get up to, and get creative with loads
of new activities.

 

For Young Explorers, visit
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers1.aspx

 

For Time Explorer, visit
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers/play/time_explorer.
aspx

 

The Web team commissioned GR/DD to design and build the games, but it
wouldn't have been possible (or we think so good) without a lot of input
from curators across the Museum, our Schools and young audiences team
and our own developers and the IS team for doing hidden wonders to get
it on our site.

 

We're still building up content, and ironing out a few things in the
games, so do send us any comments. Or we'll simply see you on the
scoreboard!

 

Thanks,

Matthew

mcock at britishmuseum.org

 

 

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From psully at magnes.org  Fri Feb  5 10:37:42 2010
From: psully at magnes.org (Perian Sully)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:37:42 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application
In-Reply-To: <4B699907.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>
References: <4B699907.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D17AA@jlm-net.jlm.local>

Hi Gail:

Once again, you and your team have done a fabulous job. I've spent an
hour or so having a lot of fun playing with the app and I'm curious
whether you'll be studying the responses and reporting results back to
the community? For example:

Do people like extreme close-ups for the thumbnails or do they prefer
full views? 
Do they want the professional, black backdrop images or are they
selecting the brightly lit, informal images?
Angled or head-on shots?
Opened or closed (for things like decorative boxes and the like)
Are they selecting contextual group shots, or individual items when the
record pertains to the individual (like a bowl from a set)?
Are people selecting full views for the crops, or detailed shots that
cut out a lot of detail but makes for a more interesting image?
Frames or no frames?
Offset up or down, or left or right?

I think this app would be a great opportunity to determine what people
are really looking for from our photographs, even when we don't have a
program to help us crop and adjust our images.

Thanks and congratulations!

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
Gail Durbin
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:41 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application

The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta attached
to Search the Collections:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ 
This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We would
be very interested in your responses.

Please send any feedback to Mark Hook at mark.hook at vam.ac.uk 

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online



- --------------------------------------------------------------
Decode: Digital Design Sensations
In partnership with SAP
The Porter Gallery
8 December 2009 - 11 April 2010 at V&A South Kensington
Book now on www.vam.ac.uk 

Sit Down: Seating for Kids
6 February - 5 September 2010 at V&A Museum of Childhood
Admission free

Keep in touch - visit www.vam.ac.uk and sign up for our regular
e-newsletter

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From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Fri Feb  5 17:18:12 2010
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:18:12 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] NITLE > Teaching With Mobile Devices: Smartphones /
	February 24 2010 / 4:00pm - 5:15pm / Eastern
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National Institute For Technology In Liberal Education

For faculty, instructional technologists, and others interested in using
smartphones for student projects including digital storytelling, mapping,
polling, and in-field data collection.

Delivered Online In Our Virtual Auditorium

Program Description

Mobile phones present a familiar challenge as an instructional technology:
Since everyone has them, there must be a way to use them for teaching and
learning. Seton Hall University has been exploring possible uses through its
mobile initiative.

In this session Michael Taylor, Assistant Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Center for Mobile Research and Social Change at Seton Hall
University, will discuss the uses of smartphones in the classroom across
multiple disciplines. Taylor will present the use of mobile devices in
student projects including digital storytelling, mapping, polling, and
in-field data collection. These projects highlight the functionality of
smartphones to improve classroom communication, collaboration, and
connectivity. Discussion will also cover the diverse pedagogical goals that
were addressed in these mobile projects, as well as some of the challenges
encountered in piloting these mobile projects.

The ?Special Topics in Digital Teaching? series offers a sequence of
interactive discussions showcasing how faculty are using digital technology
for teaching and learning. The series is delivered online via NITLE?s
multipoint interactive videoconferencing environment and is designed to help
faculty make the transition from learning a new technology to using it
effectively for teaching and learning. Participants are invited to join
these lively discussions from the convenient location of their campus
offices.

Registration

Please register by sending an e-mail to participate at nitle.org.

> Network participant fee (early registration by February 12): $48

> Network participant fee (after February 12): $50

> Out-of-Network participant fee: $65

Questions

For more information about this event or the ?Special Topics in Digital
Teaching? series, please contact Rebecca Davis at rdavis at nitle.org .
Suggestions for series programming are welcome.

Links To Source / SHUmobile (Seton Hall University Mobile) Project Available
At

[ http://tinyurl.com/yjh9xvs ]

!!! Thanks To / Nancy Proctor / Head of New Media Initiatives / Smithsonian
American Art Museum  / For The HeadsUp !!!

EnJoY

/Gerry

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

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

>>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

From seonaidm at gmail.com  Sun Feb  7 14:44:12 2010
From: seonaidm at gmail.com (Seonaid McArthur)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:44:12 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases
Message-ID: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>

Subject: Donor Management Databases

 

I would like to ask your suggestions for donor databases. 

We need to manage all aspects of contributions, from recording basic data,
and individual donor history/potential prospect information, to the ability
to generate reports/accounting, and, if possible, link to our website so
donations can be received via the website, along with generating
acknowledgement letters.

Thank you.

For the Board of Directors, American Friends of the Mus?e d?Orsay

Seonaid McArthur

5666 La Jolla Blvd

La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

cell 858-405-2439

 <mailto:seonaidm at gmail.com> seonaidm at gmail.com

 


From kburtonjones at comcast.net  Sun Feb  7 14:57:58 2010
From: kburtonjones at comcast.net (Katherine Burton Jones)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:57:58 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases
In-Reply-To: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
References: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
Message-ID: <005e01caa848$fed4a1a0$fc7de4e0$@net>

The Raiser's Edge from Blackbaud is one used by many museums but there are
others depending on the size of the organization.  If you can afford it, The
Raiser's Edge is a good choice.

Kathy

-----Original Message-----
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Seonaid McArthur
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 5:44 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases

Subject: Donor Management Databases

 

I would like to ask your suggestions for donor databases. 

We need to manage all aspects of contributions, from recording basic data,
and individual donor history/potential prospect information, to the ability
to generate reports/accounting, and, if possible, link to our website so
donations can be received via the website, along with generating
acknowledgement letters.

Thank you.

For the Board of Directors, American Friends of the Mus?e d?Orsay

Seonaid McArthur

5666 La Jolla Blvd

La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

cell 858-405-2439

 <mailto:seonaidm at gmail.com> seonaidm at gmail.com

 

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From dlewisarfm at aol.com  Sun Feb  7 15:17:57 2010
From: dlewisarfm at aol.com (dlewisarfm at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:17:57 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases
In-Reply-To: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
References: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
Message-ID: <8CC7662EB49732A-1FD0-1C1FF@webmail-m027.sysops.aol.com>


Don't forget to check out "TechSoup" (www.techsoup.org) for all manner of computer-type questions.....  

They have several helpful discussions about member/donor software:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/databases/page4795.cfm
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/databases/archives/page10127.cfm
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/databases/page5957.cfm
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/databases/archives/page10169.cfm

...and of course they are able to offer HUGE discounts on lots ofsoftware titles.  For example, I happened to notice they've gotGiftworks Standard on sale for $25 to $99!  


- David - 
David Lewis, Curator
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org
 

 

 

 

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From: Seonaid McArthur <seonaidm at gmail.com>
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 4:44 pm
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases


Subject: Donor Management Databases

 

I would like to ask your suggestions for donor databases. 

We need to manage all aspects of contributions, from recording basic data,
and individual donor history/potential prospect information, to the ability
to generate reports/accounting, and, if possible, link to our website so
donations can be received via the website, along with generating
acknowledgement letters.

Thank you.

For the Board of Directors, American Friends of the Mus?e d?Orsay

Seonaid McArthur

5666 La Jolla Blvd

La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

cell 858-405-2439

 <mailto:seonaidm at gmail.com> seonaidm at gmail.com

 

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From rcherry at balboaparkonline.org  Sun Feb  7 15:22:42 2010
From: rcherry at balboaparkonline.org (Rich Cherry)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:22:42 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases
In-Reply-To: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
References: <505386A58AD34601862168C54F80BA44@Shonalaptop>
Message-ID: <0758790FE14FAD4FB84FE71572FD910C028238D5E2@MAILR005.mail.lan>

Since you are in San Diego I suggest you check out this local resource http://www.goodmancapone.com/community.html  who helps local non-profits with developing a development plan and with the deployment of a free version of SalesForce: www.salesforce.com 


Rich Cherry
Director
Balboa Park Online Collaborative
A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation
2131 Pan American Plz
San Diego, CA 92101
B: (619) 819-8331
F: (619) 819-8230
rcherry at balboaparkonline.org


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Seonaid McArthur
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:44 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Donor Databases

Subject: Donor Management Databases

 

I would like to ask your suggestions for donor databases. 

We need to manage all aspects of contributions, from recording basic data,
and individual donor history/potential prospect information, to the ability
to generate reports/accounting, and, if possible, link to our website so
donations can be received via the website, along with generating
acknowledgement letters.

Thank you.

For the Board of Directors, American Friends of the Mus?e d'Orsay

Seonaid McArthur

5666 La Jolla Blvd

La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

cell 858-405-2439

 <mailto:seonaidm at gmail.com> seonaidm at gmail.com

 

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From jdyki at cranbrook.edu  Sun Feb  7 15:41:47 2010
From: jdyki at cranbrook.edu (Judy Dyki)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:41:47 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Call for Papers: ART DOCUMENTATION
Message-ID: <4B6F096C020000B100010927@ceccluster_cecgwia_server.cranbrook.edu>

Editors are inviting articles for both the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
issues of ART DOCUMENTATION, the semiannual peer-reviewed journal of the
Art Libraries Society of North America.  The 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.  

For the Fall 2010 issue, papers should be close to completion; the first
draft deadline is April 1, 2010.  Many articles have already been
accepted for this issue, but there is still space for a few more. For
the Spring 2011 issue, please send your abstracts now for articles
concerning research or projects that you are still developing. The first
draft deadline for this issue is September 1, 2010.    

Have you recently given a presentation at a conference or prepared a
poster session that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article?
 Please send an abstract if the subject falls within the scope of ART
DOCUMENTATION.

For additional information and a description of the review process, ART
DOCUMENTATION contributor guidelines may be found at
http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/contrib_guidelines.html. 

I look forward to hearing from you!


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 g.durbin at vam.ac.uk  Mon Feb  8 04:05:33 2010
From: g.durbin at vam.ac.uk (Gail Durbin)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:05:33 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application
In-Reply-To: <AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D17AA@jlm-net.jlm.local>
References: <4B699907.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>
	<AD775DE5635C2042BF1DCB7EED36A83B7D17AA@jlm-net.jlm.local>
Message-ID: <4B6FFE0C.A9F8.0072.0@vam.ac.uk>

Dear Perian,
Thank you for responding and I am glad you enjoyed the crowdsourced cropping activity.

You ask a lot of very interesting questions.  Whilst it would be nice to be able to say that we will be able to use this to report back on people's preferences we have not set up the back end to do this. Our aim has been to improve our crops and engage with users. Because we wanted to set this up to work automatically we are unable to quantify types of crops. We will be able to report back on changes we make to the Beta version. It may be possible to get a sense of the choices by looking at the browse wall but even that is quite difficult as what appears each time changes.

Sorry if this is disappointing news,
Best wishes
Gail

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online
>>> "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> 05 February 2010 >>>
Hi Gail:

Once again, you and your team have done a fabulous job. I've spent an
hour or so having a lot of fun playing with the app and I'm curious
whether you'll be studying the responses and reporting results back to
the community? For example:

Do people like extreme close-ups for the thumbnails or do they prefer
full views? 
Do they want the professional, black backdrop images or are they
selecting the brightly lit, informal images?
Angled or head-on shots?
Opened or closed (for things like decorative boxes and the like)
Are they selecting contextual group shots, or individual items when the
record pertains to the individual (like a bowl from a set)?
Are people selecting full views for the crops, or detailed shots that
cut out a lot of detail but makes for a more interesting image?
Frames or no frames?
Offset up or down, or left or right?

I think this app would be a great opportunity to determine what people
are really looking for from our photographs, even when we don't have a
program to help us crop and adjust our images.

Thanks and congratulations!

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
Gail Durbin
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:41 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu 
Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application

The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta attached
to Search the Collections:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ 
This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We would
be very interested in your responses.

Please send any feedback to Mark Hook at mark.hook at vam.ac.uk 

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online



- --------------------------------------------------------------
Decode: Digital Design Sensations
In partnership with SAP
The Porter Gallery
8 December 2009 - 11 April 2010 at V&A South Kensington
Book now on www.vam.ac.uk 

Sit Down: Seating for Kids
6 February - 5 September 2010 at V&A Museum of Childhood
Admission free

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From NHoneysett at getty.edu  Mon Feb  8 09:23:57 2010
From: NHoneysett at getty.edu (Nik Honeysett)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:23:57 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Call For Proposals: AAM Technology, Interpretation,
	Education	 Online Conference
Message-ID: <4B6FD82D0200001D000C7D49@mail.getty.edu>



 
Are you developing new exhibitions, interpretive programs, or public
spaces that involve technology? Do you have a technology success story
you?re eager to tell or a project failure you?re willing to share?
Contribute your skills and experience by presenting a virtual session
during AAM Technology, Interpretation, and Education 2010 (TIE 2010),
June 23 ? 24. 
 
TIE 2010 is a two-day, multi-session online conference that provides an
interactive forum for museum professionals at all levels to explore
current technology trends and practices in museum education,
interpretation, exhibition, public programs, and outreach. Participants
will engage with technologists, education/interpretation specialists,
and other expert practitioners to examine technology and new media
projects that support the interpretation of collections and enhance
learning experiences. 
 
Deadline for proposals is February 26. For more information and
proposal form, visit:
http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/learn/interpretation2010.cfm
 
-nik
 
 
Nik Honeysett
Head of Administration
J. Paul Getty Museum
tel: 310-440-7346
fax: 310-440-7751
nhoneysett at getty.edu

From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Mon Feb  8 12:19:25 2010
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:19:25 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Bob And Teg's Most Excellent Adventure > The College Campus
	of Tomorrow
Message-ID: <1546c3f81002081219i5d753e1eg584b9d7129fb67e@mail.gmail.com>

Colleagues/

"Global, Mobile, Virtual, and Social: The College Campus of Tomorrow"

A Great Article From A Future Issue Of _The Futurist_ [:-)

IMHO > Most Prescient Insights From The Late Sixties / Early Seventies [OMG]
[:-)

BTW: Ony Tag Had The Adventure [:->

/Gerre

Global, Mobile, Virtual, and Social: The College Campus of Tomorrow

John Dew / The Futurist / Washington / Mar/Apr 2010 / Vol. 44 /  Iss. 2 /
pg. 46 / 5 pgs [snip]

An educator and strategic planner outlines the trends leading to a
long-forecast future for colleges and universities: Global standardization
of education content and accreditation, greater diversity in the student
body, and more options for where, when, and how learning takes place.

In 1972, visionary futurists Robert Theobald and J. M. Scott wrote one of
the most interesting works related to education in the field of future
studies, Teg's 1994: An Anticipation of the Near Future. Like many
significant studies of the future, Teg's 1994 was written as a work of
fiction, in this case about a college student named Teg and her experiences
as an "Orwell Scholar" in the year 1994.

What makes Teg's 1994 significant is the nature of the future of higher
education that Theobald and Scott envisioned and how much of it has come to
pass. In many ways, Teg's 1994 can also provide valuable insights into the
future of higher education that this fictional student's own children and
grandchildren might encounter over the next 25 years.

Theobald and Scott were able to fairly accurately describe many of the
trends in higher education that have actually occurred over the intervening
37 years. This includes a description of a worldwide computer system that
provides Teg with opportunities to conduct her own research, as well as
communicate with her peers; campus locations around the world that enable
her to conduct her studies in different geographical settings; a faculty
member who serves as a mentor, with whom she corresponds by e-mail; and ...
.

[more]

Links TO Additional Excerpts and To Full Text Option(s) Available At

[ http://tinyurl.com/yfluej5 ]

>From A Very/Very Snowy Central Iowa

Regards,

/Gerry

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

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

>>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

From JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk  Mon Feb  8 15:10:32 2010
From: JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk (Ottevanger, Jeremy)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:10:32 -0000
Subject: [MCN-L] Logging in to museum websites: when is it anything other
	than an unnecessary pain in the neck?
Message-ID: <CBE3ED7D5509D54F9C4E1D614931DF0E0420B9B8@mail-mwh-2k3.museumoflondon.org.uk>

Dear all,

 

I've been mulling over the question of when it's a good thing to enable
or oblige people to log in to do things on museum websites - and why
it's not seen in that many places. It led me to write a set of posts
about what stops registration/login working for users and organisations,
about the sort of things that it could be good for, a radical
(preposterous?) way to make it better, and some speculation on how to
build more value on top for all parties. If you've got the stomach, the
pontification starts here: http://bit.ly/mupport0. 

 

I was hoping to recruit your assistance in a quick survey to support
these posts. If you work on a museum site, I'd love it if you could take
a few minutes to let me know whether your site has any
registration-dependent functionality, and what it is. There are other
questions but that's the heart of it so it won't take long! It's here:
http://bit.ly/aGDcn7

 

That's it. Thanks!

 

Jeremy

 

[apologies for cross-posting]



Jeremy Ottevanger
Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
Museum of London
46 Eagle Wharf Road
London. N1 7ED
Tel: 020 7410 2207
Fax: 020 7600 1058
Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

Spectacular new ?20 million Galleries of Modern London opening at Museum of London on 28 May 2010.

Find out more at www.museumoflondon.org.uk 

Before printing, please think about the environment




From akeshet at imj.org.il  Tue Feb  9 08:18:19 2010
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:18:19 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] NASA Images and the Internet Archive
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC410C735@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

>From MCN 2009 speaker Peter Brantley:


LA Times has a brief mention of the partnership
between NASA and the Internet Archive to make available
NASA's extraordinary trove of images and video online, at
nasaimages.org -

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/art-center-college-of-design-looks-to-the-final-frontier.html

"The project is hosted on NASAImages.org, which is a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive. Curated shows will use images from the website, which contains close to 50 years of NASA-related media.
The project, "Guest Showcase," kicked off in January, with [Stephen] Nowlin's work as the inaugural installment. Future virtual exhibitions will include work by invited professionals from science, education, art, entertainment, business and academia."

From maureen at openmuseum.org  Tue Feb  9 12:21:13 2010
From: maureen at openmuseum.org (Maureen Doyle)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:21:13 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] On museum visitor login
Message-ID: <622fd7571002091221m16ee72efte52c357433207310@mail.gmail.com>

Jeremy,

Thanks for the invitation to Doofercall.  Enjoyed it very much, so added it
to my RSS feed.

Personally & professionally, I hope that more museums will go the route of
some university museums I am working with  by offering free wifi to their
visitors.  Besides being a nice perk (available in most cafes) and an
essential learning tool (imagine a library without it!), wifi means museums
can offer web-based services (such as visitor mobile tours) to enhance the
visitor experience.   Wifi means you can connect your online services to the
in-gallery experience, integrating the range of real and alternatively real
museum offerings and treating the visitor like a guest not intruder.

I think it's a question of figuring out how to make wifi available not if.

Maureen

-- 
Maureen Doyle
Heritance, Executive Director
Open Museum, Team Member
maureen at openmuseum.org
www.openmuseum.org

Connect with people, objects and museums at www.openmuseum.org

From s-sarraf at nga.gov  Tue Feb  9 13:02:08 2010
From: s-sarraf at nga.gov (Sarraf, Suzanne)
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:02:08 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] ANN: Survey: Visiting museums with families
In-Reply-To: <C795C10C.B174%s-sarraf@nga.gov>
Message-ID: <C7973780.B265%s-sarraf@nga.gov>

Survey: Visiting museums with families

If you are a parent/grandparent/carer can I please ask you to fill in this
survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KJC6SRD but just as importantly can you
send it on to others families too.

We are interested in how museum visitors with children find their
experience. The survey is designed to be short, quick and easy - 8 questions
and a couple of minutes maximum. We're hoping to use it as a basic starting
point to understand/discuss how families use museums, rate museum
experiences and use mobile phones during our focus groups.

We're happy to share the results so if you're interested please email me at
lindsey at franklyandgreen.com

Lindsey Green
Frankly + Green



From rcherry at balboaparkonline.org  Tue Feb  9 13:24:36 2010
From: rcherry at balboaparkonline.org (Rich Cherry)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:24:36 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Going Mobile in San Diego: Spotlight Mobile Travel
 Scholarship awardees
Message-ID: <0758790FE14FAD4FB84FE71572FD910C028238DB5B@MAILR005.mail.lan>

MCN'rs,

We would like to thank everyone for their submissions to the Spotlight Mobile Travel Scholarship. After much consideration we have selected our awardees:

Eileen Gillette of the University of British Columbia
Christian Adame of the Crocker Art Museum

It was clear that the recipients spent a good deal of time considering the needs of their visitors and have thought about how to accomplish their goals. Their projects address clear needs within the community or introduce new ideas that help visitors interact directly with the museum; leaving feedback or augmenting exhibits. BPOC and Spotlight Mobile is  very excited to award this travel scholarship in hopes they can share their ideas with the community at large and look forward to the seeing how these projects develop.

Congratulations to the awardees.

Rich

Rich Cherry
Director
Balboa Park Online Collaborative
A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation
2131 Pan American Plz
San Diego, CA 92101
B: (619) 819-8331
F: (619) 819-8230
rcherry at balboaparkonline.org<mailto:rcherry at balboaparkonline.org>


About The Balboa Park Online Collaborative
The Balboa Park Online Collaborative is a partnership of 17 museums, performing arts, and science institutions located in San Diego's Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park in the United States. Formed in 2009, the Collaborative seeks to improve public access to the diverse institutions and their collections through investments in software and infrastructure, collaborative software and web development, and training opportunities.

About Spotlight Mobile
Spun out of research on ubiquitous computing at Cornell University in the late nineties, Spotlight Mobile was founded to deliver the highest quality experiences to users on mobile devices. After almost 50 enterprise deployments for some of the world's largest museums and companies, Spotlight Mobile introduces Tours App; the latest generation of our mobile interpretation software suite and the first to be targeted directly at visitors own devices. Built on software used by millions of people every day, Tours App is a completely hosted solution that can be available for no cost to museums. More at SpotlightMobile.com and ToursApp.com





From sweaver at experienceology.com  Tue Feb  9 16:14:07 2010
From: sweaver at experienceology.com (Stephanie Weaver)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:14:07 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] What digital natives want...
Message-ID: <0F448D10-B675-49BE-8A68-D17E4BB73002@experienceology.com>

... from libraries, and undoubtedly from online museum digital  
projects. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zzPBbXjWs


Stephanie Weaver
Visitor experience consultant
experienceology?: Because happy visitors return.
San Diego, CA
Ph/Fax:   619-284-5473
Cell:        619-279-6779
E-news:   http://www.experienceology.com/newsletter/

For information on our book, blog, podcast, upcoming classes, and e- 
news, visit www.experienceology.com or follow me on twitter.com/ 
experienceology. See samples of my classes here: www.youtube.com/experienceology 
. Watch the free archived version of my class on the visitor  
experience here: http://bit.ly/NlunE

Upcoming presentations:
California Association of Museums/CERA Salon: March 3, 2010
Tijuana Estuary docent training: April 28, 2010
American Association of Museums: May 26, 2010
Western Museums Association: October 2010

Past presentations:
Ass'n of Partners for Public Lands: February 2010
UCLA Extension: January 2010
Orange County Public Libraries: February 2010


From JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk  Wed Feb 10 02:42:35 2010
From: JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk (Ottevanger, Jeremy)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:42:35 -0000
Subject: [MCN-L] On museum visitor login
In-Reply-To: <622fd7571002091221m16ee72efte52c357433207310@mail.gmail.com>
References: <622fd7571002091221m16ee72efte52c357433207310@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CBE3ED7D5509D54F9C4E1D614931DF0E063B890D@mail-mwh-2k3.museumoflondon.org.uk>

Hi Maureen, 

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Blog posts have been very thin on
the ground for a few months and may remain so for a while but this was
an idea I really wanted to write up and I'll try to follow it up before
too long with a digest of survey responses and blog comments.

The wifi question I can't respond to with any real depth of knowledge,
but I do agree that if it enables what might be a fair sized slice of
real-world visitors to gain quick, free and reliable mobile access to
your web-based resources, it could be a liberating thing for both
parties. The perennial debate over whether to tailor something to work
beautifully on one platform or to get it to work adequately on lots will
need to be had on a case by case basis, but for reasons of cost
(hardware and software) and access I imagine that we'll see ever more
decisions made in favour of building cross-platform web enabled apps
that suit access by wireless mobile devices, as you suggest, as well as
by at-their-desk computer users, instead of beautiful but constrained
device- and context-specific gallery tours etc. These will always have
their place too, though (see Koven Smith's review of the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum iPod tour for a great discussion of this
http://kovenjsmith.com/archives/311).

And then if we are taking people onto the web whilst their strolling our
galleries, there are still more use-cases for universal
registration/login, and for a means to pool what you've done in one
museum with what you did in another (which might be the motivation to do
what you wouldn't bother doing if it was limited to one institution). So
I rather like the wifi-to-fewer-silos rationale!

On another topic, I don't know why I've not looked into Open Museum
before but it's a really interesting project. Very cool.

Still welcoming further responses to the survey (http://bit.ly/aGDcn7). 

All the best,

Jeremy



Jeremy Ottevanger
Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
Museum of London
46 Eagle Wharf Road
London. N1 7ED
Tel: 020 7410 2207
Fax: 020 7600 1058
Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

Spectacular new ?20 million Galleries of Modern London opening at Museum of London on 28 May 2010.

Find out more at www.museumoflondon.org.uk 

Before printing, please think about the environment



-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Maureen Doyle
Sent: 09 February 2010 20:21
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] On museum visitor login

Jeremy,

Thanks for the invitation to Doofercall.  Enjoyed it very much, so added
it
to my RSS feed.

Personally & professionally, I hope that more museums will go the route
of
some university museums I am working with  by offering free wifi to
their
visitors.  Besides being a nice perk (available in most cafes) and an
essential learning tool (imagine a library without it!), wifi means
museums
can offer web-based services (such as visitor mobile tours) to enhance
the
visitor experience.   Wifi means you can connect your online services to
the
in-gallery experience, integrating the range of real and alternatively
real
museum offerings and treating the visitor like a guest not intruder.

I think it's a question of figuring out how to make wifi available not
if.

Maureen

-- 
Maureen Doyle
Heritance, Executive Director
Open Museum, Team Member
maureen at openmuseum.org
www.openmuseum.org

Connect with people, objects and museums at www.openmuseum.org
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Wed Feb 10 06:09:30 2010
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:09:30 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] Orphan works - UK proposal
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF8F5@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

 
via Peter Brantley:

Leading UK cultural organizations press for passage of a bill that would ultimately enlarge their ability to serve their missions by enhancing access to valuable historical materials to the public -

via Gary Price, ResourceShelf -

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/03/dealing-with-orphan-works-in-the-uk-several-libraries-and-museums-directors-work-for-passage-of-clause-42-of-digital-economy-bill/

"Perhaps 40% of some of our national institutions' collections are orphan works. [our emphasis] Restricting the digitisation of these works limits access and will leave a huge volume of historically important collections 'in limbo'. A significant proportion of these were never originally intended for commercial use and should not be treated in the same way as commercially produced in-copyright orphan works.

"In the view of these signatories, copyright collecting societies do have a major role to play in managing the copyright of known and commercially published rights holders. However, they are not the only institutions capable of acting responsibly in relation to Orphan Works.

"The educational and cultural sectors also have a long history of respecting rights holders in the provision of access, combined with an unrivalled knowledge of the unique material that sits within their collections. The suggestion of an Orphan Works licence for such institutions, put forward under the Digital Economy Bill, would offer a flexible system enabling access to collections to be improved for the benefit of education and research around the world."

______________________________________________




From ewg4xuva at gmail.com  Wed Feb 10 06:29:23 2010
From: ewg4xuva at gmail.com (Ethan Gruber)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:23 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Orphan works - UK proposal
In-Reply-To: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF8F5@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
References: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF8F5@mailsrv.imj.org.il>
Message-ID: <a05f60f81002100629q10253788jea47062f2f97ec93@mail.gmail.com>

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

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] <
akeshet at imj.org.il> wrote:

>
> via Peter Brantley:
>
> Leading UK cultural organizations press for passage of a bill that would
> ultimately enlarge their ability to serve their missions by enhancing access
> to valuable historical materials to the public -
>
> via Gary Price, ResourceShelf -
>
>
> http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/03/dealing-with-orphan-works-in-the-uk-several-libraries-and-museums-directors-work-for-passage-of-clause-42-of-digital-economy-bill/
>
> "Perhaps 40% of some of our national institutions' collections are orphan
> works. [our emphasis] Restricting the digitisation of these works limits
> access and will leave a huge volume of historically important collections
> 'in limbo'. A significant proportion of these were never originally intended
> for commercial use and should not be treated in the same way as commercially
> produced in-copyright orphan works.
>
> "In the view of these signatories, copyright collecting societies do have a
> major role to play in managing the copyright of known and commercially
> published rights holders. However, they are not the only institutions
> capable of acting responsibly in relation to Orphan Works.
>
> "The educational and cultural sectors also have a long history of
> respecting rights holders in the provision of access, combined with an
> unrivalled knowledge of the unique material that sits within their
> collections. The suggestion of an Orphan Works licence for such
> institutions, put forward under the Digital Economy Bill, would offer a
> flexible system enabling access to collections to be improved for the
> benefit of education and research around the world."
>
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>
>
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From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Wed Feb 10 13:53:35 2010
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:53:35 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Aves 3D > A Three Dimensional Database Of Avian Skeletal
	Morphology
Message-ID: <1546c3f81002101353v11b1c203l20a6b9ff248e5dcb@mail.gmail.com>

Colleagues

FYI

 /Gerry

Aves 3D >  A three dimensional database of avian skeletal morphology

[ http://aves3d.org/<https://exchange.iastate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=5d660d3e8a81495fb461225f2d9f2373&URL=http%3a%2f%2faves3d.org%2f>
 ]

Aves 3D is a National Science Foundation funded online database of
three-dimensional digital surface models of the various bones that make up
the skeleton of birds. Aves 3D aims to provide as wide of a representation
of living and extinct bird species as possible, and we are adding new scans
to the database on a weekly basis. Scans are generated through non-contact
laser surface scanning at the College of the Holy Cross, and onsite at the
various institutions whose collections are being scanned for the database,
including the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Peabody Museum
of Natural History at Yale University.

The three-dimensional digital models of bird bones and skeletons are
accessible to scientists, educators, and the public at large. The Aves 3D
database allows for the rapid global dissemination of three-dimensional
digital data on common as well as rare and potentially fragile species, in a
format ready for a variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses,
including geometric morphometric analysis and finite element analysis. We
hope that the anatomical data available on Aves 3D will facilitate a
diversity of research and educational projects, and will lead to a greater
understanding and appreciation of bird anatomy, diversity, function, and
evolution. In addition, the Aves 3D database serves as an online digital
archive of museum collections, which helps to both increase the use of these
important resources, and at the same time helps to diminish the physical
handling of these often fragile and unique resources for analytical purposes
that are served well enough by the database.

A unique aspect of the Aves 3D database is that its digital holdings are
largely produced through undergraduate student research. Scans are
generated, edited, and analyzed by students at Holy Cross, supervised by the
PIs, scanning technician, and external affiliated researchers, for a wide
variety of functional and phylogenetic studies. Skeletal scans generated for
each of these research projects are deposited in Aves 3D, and contribute to
database growth.

 [ http://aves3d.org/about<https://exchange.iastate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=5d660d3e8a81495fb461225f2d9f2373&URL=http%3a%2f%2faves3d.org%2fabout>
 ]

 Heads Up To A PLoS Tweat !

 [ http://twitter.com/PLoS<https://exchange.iastate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=5d660d3e8a81495fb461225f2d9f2373&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fPLoS>
 ]

 EnJoY !!!

 /Gerry

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

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>>> "The Future Is 3-D" >>>

From maureen at openmuseum.org  Wed Feb 10 15:41:33 2010
From: maureen at openmuseum.org (Maureen Doyle)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:33 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] visitor Log in
Message-ID: <622fd7571002101541y6b13660ese8b00f0e9d6b42d8@mail.gmail.com>

Jeremy,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

I completely agree with you when you say: "The wifi question... I do agree
that if it enables what might be a fair sized slice of real-world visitors
to gain quick, free and reliable mobile access to your web-based resources,
it could be a liberating thing for both parties."

I hope you are right when you predict: "The perennial debate over whether to
tailor something to work beautifully on one platform or to get it to work
adequately on lots will need to be had on a case by case basis, but for
reasons of cost (hardware and software) and access I imagine that we'll see
ever more decisions made in favour of building cross-platform web enabled
apps that suit access by wireless mobile devices"

At Open Museum we are up to our ears in creating a cross-platform service,
for the simple reason that there is no way to predict how (on which mobile
device) a visitor will receive a link to the site. Open Museum  supports
both desktop and mobile browsers and provides a distinct but integrated
visitor mobile tour ("Mobeum").  The tour is a playlist, easily constructed
from the same back end server/content as the browser collections.  Still in
public alpha release, there is much left to do both in terms of design,
code, content, but it is up, running and serving a dozen or so museums.

Now you can see why I care so deeply about the question of free wifi access
in museums (besides feeling it's better for the world).  If a museum has
wifi, it has the potential to create a museum tour that ties together the in
gallery and online experiences in a way that makes sense and enhances the
visitor experience.

The Open Museum site does not yet present have an "About Mobeum" (nor a
decent "About Open Museum" for that matter), but we're working on it. We
have written a paper for Museums in the Web on our first Mobeum pilot with
the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth and will be presenting in Denver.

So as you now see (I hope!), Open Museum isn't on another topic at all.  But
right in the thick of the cross-platform question.

Maureen

-- 
Maureen Doyle
Heritance, Executive Director
Open Museum
P.O. Box 1564
Norwich, Vermont 05055 USA
+1(802)649-1945
maureen at openmuseum.org
www.openmuseum.org

Connect with people, objects and museums at www.openmuseum.org

* * *

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:42:35 -0000
From: "Ottevanger, Jeremy" <JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] On museum visitor login
To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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Hi Maureen,

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Blog posts have been very thin on
the ground for a few months and may remain so for a while but this was
an idea I really wanted to write up and I'll try to follow it up before
too long with a digest of survey responses and blog comments.

The wifi question I can't respond to with any real depth of knowledge,
but I do agree that if it enables what might be a fair sized slice of
real-world visitors to gain quick, free and reliable mobile access to
your web-based resources, it could be a liberating thing for both
parties. The perennial debate over whether to tailor something to work
beautifully on one platform or to get it to work adequately on lots will
need to be had on a case by case basis, but for reasons of cost
(hardware and software) and access I imagine that we'll see ever more
decisions made in favour of building cross-platform web enabled apps
that suit access by wireless mobile devices, as you suggest, as well as
by at-their-desk computer users, instead of beautiful but constrained
device- and context-specific gallery tours etc. These will always have
their place too, though (see Koven Smith's review of the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum iPod tour for a great discussion of this
http://kovenjsmith.com/archives/311).

And then if we are taking people onto the web whilst their strolling our
galleries, there are still more use-cases for universal
registration/login, and for a means to pool what you've done in one
museum with what you did in another (which might be the motivation to do
what you wouldn't bother doing if it was limited to one institution). So
I rather like the wifi-to-fewer-silos rationale!

On another topic, I don't know why I've not looked into Open Museum
before but it's a really interesting project. Very cool.

Still welcoming further responses to the survey (http://bit.ly/aGDcn7).

All the best,

Jeremy



Jeremy Ottevanger
Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
Museum of London
46 Eagle Wharf Road
London. N1 7ED
Tel: 020 7410 2207
Fax: 020 7600 1058
Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

From jbedard at artsmia.org  Thu Feb 11 13:46:48 2010
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:48 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] texting donations
Message-ID: <4B74266802000031000492C2@MIA1.artsmia.org>

Has anyone evaluated or implemented the ability to text donations.  We are starting to see some organizations announce that donors can text a donation and are starting to research this.
 
 
 
 
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

From SMoore at toledomuseum.org  Thu Feb 11 14:44:12 2010
From: SMoore at toledomuseum.org (Sandy Moore)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:44:12 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] texting donations
Message-ID: <4B7441ED02000047000030D8@toledomuseum.org>

We started to look into text donations, but it doesn't seem to be cost effective for us at this time. It would need to be a large
campaign for it to break-even for us. 

I'm also intrigued by communicating with our donors/members via text messaging. Is anyone doing that or looking into it?

Sandy Moore
Information Technology Manager
The Toledo Museum of Art
smoore at toledomuseum.org

>>> "John Bedard" 02/11/10 4:48 PM >>> 
Has anyone evaluated or implemented the ability to text donations. We are starting to see some organizations announce that donors can text a donation and are starting to research this. 




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 
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From kate at mediatrope.com  Thu Feb 11 14:57:33 2010
From: kate at mediatrope.com (Kate Regan)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:57:33 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] texting donations
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We would be very interested in hearing the community's thoughts and
experiences with this as well. Please reply to the list.

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On 2/11/10 1:46 PM, "John Bedard" <jbedard at artsmia.org> wrote:

> Has anyone evaluated or implemented the ability to text donations.  We are
> starting to see some organizations announce that donors can text a donation
> and are starting to research this.
>  
>  
>  
>  
> John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
> Minneapolis Institute of Arts
> 2400 Third Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55404
> 
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From MorganA at Warhol.Org  Fri Feb 12 06:22:40 2010
From: MorganA at Warhol.Org (Morgan, Amber)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:22:40 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] New Report, "Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share"
Message-ID: <04EFDDC9208D114890720783D4924BEB187DF3B9@EXCHANGE-4.Private.CarnegieMuseums.Org>

Just passing this along...

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-02-11.htm 

 

the warhol:
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From mkroll at hammer.ucla.edu  Fri Feb 12 12:31:44 2010
From: mkroll at hammer.ucla.edu (Morgan Kroll)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:31:44 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Multimedia Fellowship at UCLA's Hammer Museum
Message-ID: <C87F0D44BFE0714DB59A9EF9A5AD180A1722A4CC28@HM02>

http://hammer.ucla.edu/about/employment.html

Multimedia Fellowship

The Gilbert Foundation 2010 Multimedia Fellowship is a year-long, part-time (2 days/week), paid position tasked with helping to expand the online educational offerings for the Hammer Museum. Reporting to and working closely with the Web Associate, the Gilbert Fellow will be responsible for post-production duties for the Hammer website including the digitization, editing, rendering, and exporting videos and MP3s for video and audio podcasts. The Fellowship is geared toward recent undergraduates and graduate students. This position requires an intermediate understanding of Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Logic, and Photoshop. The candidate will be well organized, communicative, and proactive. Several years working in professional multimedia environment is highly preferred and a working knowledge of art and art history is a plus.

To apply please e-mail cover letter and resume, with "Multimedia Fellow" in subject line, to:
Amanda Law
Web Associate
alaw at hammer.ucla.edu<mailto:alaw at hammer.ucla.edu>


Morgan Kroll
HAMMER MUSEUM
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 443-7016
mkroll at hammer.ucla.edu<mailto:mkroll at hammer.ucla.edu>


From dmitroff at SFMOMA.org  Fri Feb 12 13:29:18 2010
From: dmitroff at SFMOMA.org (Mitroff Silvers, Dana)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:29:18 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
Message-ID: <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>

I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various
forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest
answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of
social media and museums!

 

Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager?
If so, in which department does that position live? 

 

Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one
person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those
distinctions?

 

Many thanks for your input!

 

Dana

 

......................................
Dana Mitroff Silvers
Head of Online Services
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA  94103-3159
dmitroff at sfmoma.org
www.sfmoma.org



 

 

 

 


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From brubakerconsulting at gmail.com  Fri Feb 12 14:45:46 2010
From: brubakerconsulting at gmail.com (Julie Brubaker)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:45:46 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
In-Reply-To: <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>
References: <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>
Message-ID: <e69cfb9b1002121445hf4f8147sc3fb378ee404c5b3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dana,
We discussed the best practice for the organizational placement of social
media in a Museum at the Conscience Un-Conference this past December at the
Holocaust Museum.   The best practice we arrived at was that social media
should be a collective effort, between multiple departments.  A strategy to
govern the use/implementation of social media is critical to the success of
this approach, though.  Check out page 3 of this presentation for more
information:
http://www.slideshare.net/JulieBrubaker/conconf-nutsbolts-session Of course,
as you say, things are changing quickly, and there are many ways for a
Museum to be successful!
Best,
Julie
________________________________
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Founder, Brubaker Consulting
Executive Technology and Strategy Consulting
for Museums, Non-Profits, and Universities
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Mitroff Silvers, Dana
<dmitroff at sfmoma.org>wrote:

> I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various
> forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest
> answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of
> social media and museums!
>
>
>
> Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager?
> If so, in which department does that position live?
>
>
>
> Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one
> person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those
> distinctions?
>
>
>
> Many thanks for your input!
>
>
>
> Dana
>
>
>
> ......................................
> Dana Mitroff Silvers
> Head of Online Services
> San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
> 151 Third Street
> San Francisco, CA  94103-3159
> dmitroff at sfmoma.org
> www.sfmoma.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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From matt.morgan at metmuseum.org  Sat Feb 13 19:05:14 2010
From: matt.morgan at metmuseum.org (Morgan, Matt)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:05:14 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
In-Reply-To: <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>
References: <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448@monet.SFMOMA.ORG>
Message-ID: <EC1B75770E3CCF47A3A3410D2FE8BDF7046CB2F496@SMAILPRODBE.metmuseum.org>

Our Senior Manager for Online Strategy and Marketing, a member of the Web group in the Digital Media Department, manages our social media efforts. Actual production and individual tasks are handled by members of her staff and others in the Web group.

We're working on a plan now that may lead to wider participation in social media, but we'd expect it still to be managed centrally, and for projects involving social media to be developed, reviewed, and approved (or rejected) like other online projects.

Good luck,
Matt

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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Mitroff Silvers, Dana
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:29 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?

I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various
forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest
answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of
social media and museums!

 

Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager?
If so, in which department does that position live? 

 

Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one
person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those
distinctions?

 

Many thanks for your input!

 

Dana

 

......................................
Dana Mitroff Silvers
Head of Online Services
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA  94103-3159
dmitroff at sfmoma.org
www.sfmoma.org



 

 

 

 


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From gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com  Sat Feb 13 19:18:00 2010
From: gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com (gerrymck)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:18:00 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] =?windows-1252?q?OverDrive_Media_Console_Mobile_for_Andro?=
	=?windows-1252?q?id=99_/_Windows_Mobile=28R=29?=
Message-ID: <1546c3f81002131918h4f759192x9548942a4f35b991@mail.gmail.com>

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> Play & Navigate.Parts are divided into logical sections (i.e., chapters
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When you click on a Part, the MediaMarkers associated with that Part are
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From akeshet at imj.org.il  Sat Feb 13 23:02:25 2010
From: akeshet at imj.org.il (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet@imj.org.il])
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:02:25 +0200
Subject: [MCN-L] FW: Preserving Video Games and Virtual Worlds
Message-ID: <9844AFCBFFF93540889F30E865CEFD781FC40DF918@mailsrv.imj.org.il>

Thought this might be of interest.


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Preserving Video Games and Virtual Worlds

February 10, 2010
Assistant Professor Jerome McDonough's research is featured in the March 2010 issue of The Atlantic.

Preserving Virtual Worlds, a grant funded by the Library of Congress, is a multi-institutional grant that is exploring methods to preserve digital games and interactive fiction. McDonough is working with research partners at the University of Maryland, Stanford University, Rochester Institute of Technology and Linden Lab, creator of Second Life.

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From jbedard at artsmia.org  Sun Feb 14 16:30:55 2010
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:30:55 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
Message-ID: <4B78415F.50A4.0031.1@artsmia.org>



John R. Bedard
Director of Information Projects and Services
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-870-3268
Fax: 612-870-3004
Email: JBedard at artsmia.org
www.artsmia.org
www.artsconnected.org

>>> On 2/12/2010 at  4:52 PM, Garnette Kuznia wrote:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has a staff member that oversees its social media initiatives, but this is not a full-time position nor is it devoted solely to social media. This position, Brand Communications Specialist, lives in the Marketing & Communications department.  However, there is a Social Media team currently comprised of twelve staff, which has representatives from all of the MIA's divisional areas. The MIA's Flickr site is managed by its Visual Resources staff, the MIA YouTube site is managed by its Interactive Media department, and all members of the MIA's social media team make posts to the its Facebook and Twitter sites. 



>>> On 2/12/2010 at 3:29 PM, in message <FE4932E414474E4B9B19C4A4B43CEC0F04BBF448 at monet.SFMOMA.ORG>, "Mitroff Silvers, Dana" <dmitroff at SFMOMA.org> wrote:

I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various
forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest
answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of
social media and museums!



Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager?
If so, in which department does that position live? 



Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one
person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those
distinctions?



Many thanks for your input!



Dana



......................................
Dana Mitroff Silvers
Head of Online Services
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA  94103-3159
dmitroff at sfmoma.org
www.sfmoma.org ( http://www.sfmoma.org/ )












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From g.durbin at vam.ac.uk  Mon Feb 15 09:44:28 2010
From: g.durbin at vam.ac.uk (Gail Durbin)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:44:28 +0000
Subject: [MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
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Dear Dana,
We have no full time social media manager. Someone in our Marketing dept manages Twitter and Facebook on a very part-time basis and a colleague on the the web team deals with policy and our research community. Others on the team run projects using the kinds of sites such as Flickr that deal with content. I think we could do with a community manager on the web team. We would benefit enormously from having someone whose whole job it was to think of ways of keeping, for example, upload activities moving and also to actively encourage dialogue. 
Gail

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online

>>> "Mitroff Silvers, Dana" <dmitroff at SFMOMA.org> 12 February 2010 >>>
I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various
forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest
answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of
social media and museums!

 

Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager?
If so, in which department does that position live? 

 

Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one
person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those
distinctions?

 

Many thanks for your input!

 

Dana

 

......................................
Dana Mitroff Silvers
Head of Online Services
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA  94103-3159
dmitroff at sfmoma.org 
www.sfmoma.org 



 

 

 

 


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From HR at pam.org  Mon Feb 15 16:41:21 2010
From: HR at pam.org (HR)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:41:21 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Hiring Collections Information Manager (Portland, OR)
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Apply online at www.portlandartmuseum.org/join
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Collections Information Manager

Portland Art Museum, Oregon

 

The Portland Art Museum invites applications for the position of
Collections Information Manager. The Collections Information Manager is
responsible for managing information related to the collection, its
documentation, and exhibition using the Museum's collections information
system. Under the leadership of the Director of Collections Management,
she/he works collaboratively to oversee the management of the museum's
digital assets and establish accuracy and consistency in their
associated metadata; facilitate the ongoing development and
administration of the collection information system; and prepare
collections information for publication.

Founded in 1892, the Portland Art Museum is one of the oldest art
museums in the United States and the oldest in the Pacific Northwest.
The Museum's collection of 42,000 objects reflects the history of art
from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its
holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America; modern and
contemporary art; Asian and American art; photographs, prints, and
drawings; and English silver.

Essential Functions:

*         Integrate collections data into the museum's centralized
Collections Information System. Assess and implement local preferences
and selected community-based standards and best practices for
description and authority control to ensure information consistency and
exchangeability. Accountable for verification of information before
delivery in resources such as Mobius.

*         Manage use of the collections information system: oversee
museum-wide training and user support in system procedures and
functions; establish data entry and update responsibilities among
collections information stakeholders; manage ongoing development of
in-house manuals and training materials; lead user group meetings;
proactively collaborate with staff to resolve issues related to and
outside of the collections information system, perform data import and
replacement functions; and use internal scripting language to create and
oversee updating of reports. 

*         Administer collections information system: develop quality
assurance and quality control methods to sustain data integrity,
including database reports, worksheets, and workflows for database
editing; perform systems utilities, upgrades, and procedures for
software maintenance, manage user permissions; maintain software in good
working order with the assistance of Information Technology staff as
needed; serve as liaison between staff, IT manager, and vendor for
troubleshooting and coordinating further developments and upgrades to
the system.

*         Explore and coordinate internal and external uses of
information, such as publications, or web-based exhibitions. Establish
and maintain routines for updating external views of collections
information via the museum's online catalog.

*         Supervise the Digital Asset Manager and collaborate in the
selection and implementation of metadata schemes for digital asset
management; integrate and maintain process interconnections between the
collections information system, the museum's digital asset management
programs, and the online catalog.

*         Research and answer inquiries from the public related to
acquisitions, exhibitions, loans, and museum practices; or forward
inquiries to the appropriate Museum department.

*         Participate in long range planning as it relates to the
creation, management, and use of information, digital assets, and other
collection-related assets.

*         Represent the Museum at professional conferences and continue
professional development through committee participation, research, and
publications.

Requirements:

*         BA or equivalent in Art History, History or Humanities.
Advanced degree, preferably MLIS with archival focus, or Museum Studies
with Collections Information Management focus highly preferred; or
equivalent combination of education and experience.

*         The incumbent will be familiar with current cataloging best
practices and standards, including Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO),
CDWA, AAT, ULAN and other systems as appropriate.

*         The incumbent will be familiar with descriptive metadata,
including CDWA Lite, and Dublin Core.

*         The incumbent will be familiar with database design principals
and be able to formulate basic database queries in SQL. Knowledge of
Crystal Reports is preferred. 

*         The incumbent will possess good verbal and written
communication skills.

*         The incumbent will possess the ability to work well with
diverse people.

To apply please visit us online at: www.portlandartmuseum.org/join
<http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/join> .  Please follow the link to
create a profile, and upload a resume and cover letter.  The Portland
Art Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please do not submit
multiple application packages. Resumes received without completed
employment application will not be considered. For questions regarding
this opportunity please contact hr at pam.org <mailto:hr at pam.org> . 

Deadline: March 12, 2010

 


From sgrinols at famsf.org  Tue Feb 16 10:03:55 2010
From: sgrinols at famsf.org (Sue Grinols)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:03:55 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Release form
Message-ID: <C7A01E0B.BCF0%sgrinols@famsf.org>

Hi All,

One of our departments put on a symposium here at the museum, and taped it.
Does anyone have a model release form they?d be willing to share?  We?re
looking for something that would allow us to post the content of the video
and lecture (intellectual property) on our web site. Feel free to respond to
me directly.

Thanks,

Sue


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679
  

From goldsmithstudios at att.net  Tue Feb 16 16:30:26 2010
From: goldsmithstudios at att.net (Bruce Goldsmith)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:30:26 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] Release form
In-Reply-To: <C7A01E0B.BCF0%sgrinols@famsf.org>
Message-ID: <C7A0A2D2.54A4%goldsmithstudios@att.net>

Hi Sue,
ASMP has a release that you can use.
http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html
Bruce


On 2/16/10 1:03 PM, "Sue Grinols" <sgrinols at famsf.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> One of our departments put on a symposium here at the museum, and taped it.
> Does anyone have a model release form they?d be willing to share?  We?re
> looking for something that would allow us to post the content of the video
> and lecture (intellectual property) on our web site. Feel free to respond to
> me directly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sue
> 


From sgrinols at famsf.org  Tue Feb 16 16:45:46 2010
From: sgrinols at famsf.org (Sue Grinols)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:45:46 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Release form
In-Reply-To: <C7A0A2D2.54A4%goldsmithstudios@att.net>
Message-ID: <C7A07C3A.BD41%sgrinols@famsf.org>

Thanks Bruce!

Sue


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679



On 2/16/10 4:30 PM, "Bruce Goldsmith" <goldsmithstudios at att.net> wrote:

> Hi Sue,
> ASMP has a release that you can use.
> http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html
> Bruce
> 
> 
> On 2/16/10 1:03 PM, "Sue Grinols" <sgrinols at famsf.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> One of our departments put on a symposium here at the museum, and taped it.
>> Does anyone have a model release form they?d be willing to share?  We?re
>> looking for something that would allow us to post the content of the video
>> and lecture (intellectual property) on our web site. Feel free to respond to
>> me directly.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Sue
>> 
> 
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From jbedard at artsmia.org  Wed Feb 17 11:17:23 2010
From: jbedard at artsmia.org (John Bedard)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:17:23 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] texting donations
In-Reply-To: <4B7ABB7C0200004700003311@toledomuseum.org>
References: <4B74266802000031000492C2@MIA1.artsmia.org>
	<4B7ABB7C0200004700003311@toledomuseum.org>
Message-ID: <4B7BEC630200003100049879@MIA1.artsmia.org>

>From another listserv I got the following reply
 
 highly recommend listening to this pod cast presented by The Chronicle of Philanthropy.  The moderator interviews those that were directly involved in the Red Cross texting plan.  They talk about the high's, low's, etc. and how it can apply to smaller non-profits.  A couple of things that really grabbed me:

               - M-Give is the conduit.  They have an upfront set up cost of $3-10K.  They require the non-profit have a certain level of income ($500K+ annually).  Also, there is a 5-10% processing fee.
               - You are looking at a 60-90 day return on the text "pledge" - for it to appear on the user's cell bill, then the bill paid, then a check funneled to you.
               - Even the Red Cross is not sure how effective it will be in the future.  It clearly captured a moment.  The moderator says it was the perfect combination of urgency + convenience.

They also talk about social media and the effect it has had on fund raising.  All-in-all a great investment of your time, if you are in the business of fund raising.

http://philanthropy.com/article/A-Balanced-Look-at/64102/
 
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


>>> On 2/16/2010 at 2:36 PM, in message <4B7ABB7C0200004700003311 at toledomuseum.org>, "Sandy Moore" <SMoore at toledomuseum.org> wrote:

John, Curious.  Did you get any other feedback on this off the listserv?  Regards, Sandy Moore

>>> On 2/11/2010 at 4:46 PM, in message <4B74266802000031000492C2 at MIA1.artsmia.org>, "John Bedard" <jbedard at artsmia.org> wrote:

Has anyone evaluated or implemented the ability to text donations.  We are starting to see some organizations announce that donors can text a donation and are starting to research this.




John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

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From evan.robb at sos.wa.gov  Wed Feb 17 17:08:05 2010
From: evan.robb at sos.wa.gov (Robb, Evan)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:08:05 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] Western CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (June 3-4,
	2010) accepting proposals
Message-ID: <A0ACCB9F4405C943A48F7D66142B7E20017DEA28@secstatemxlib01.secstate.wa.pri>

The Western CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting is now accepting proposals
through the conference website at http://conference.library.utah.edu

The conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the
newly-renovated J. Willard Marriott Library on the University of Utah
campus.  Proposals may be submitted electronically through the
conference website.  Conference registration is also open, and
accommodation information is currently available.

 


From waibelg at oclc.org  Thu Feb 18 09:59:33 2010
From: waibelg at oclc.org (Waibel,Guenter)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:59:33 -0500
Subject: [MCN-L] New Report,
	"Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share"
In-Reply-To: <04EFDDC9208D114890720783D4924BEB187DF3B9@EXCHANGE-4.Private.CarnegieMuseums.Org>
References: <04EFDDC9208D114890720783D4924BEB187DF3B9@EXCHANGE-4.Private.CarnegieMuseums.Org>
Message-ID: <AA3DCFAA4E87BD40BBAA507B1C36CC3D037E7898@OAEXCH4SERVER.oa.oclc.org>

Amber, thanks for sharing. (I've been traveling while the report was released, otherwise I would have posted a note to MCN-L last week.)

 

A little more context: the Museum Data Exchange, a Mellon funded project, engaged 9 museums in creating tools for extracting data in CDWA Lite XML out of collections management systems; making records available for harvesting in OAI-PMH; creating a research aggregation of 900K records; and analyzing the records for standards compliance / coherence.

 

The Museums participating in this activity were: Cleveland Museum of Art; Harvard Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; National Gallery of Art; National Gallery of Canada; Princeton University Art Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Yale University Art Gallery

 

The report (http://bit.ly/aU3nkP) as well as data sharing as an activity has many ties to MCN: it acknowledges MCN's emergence in the early 70s around aspirations of data sharing; it cites the session at MCN 2005 when the Getty first announced CDWA Lite XML and the OAI-PMH sharing strategy; and it takes its sub-title from a double-session at MCN 2007 I moderated which highlighted data sharing in art museums and natural history. You may have also caught the session at MCN 2009 moderated by Cathryn Goodwin, which presented outcomes from this project.

 

Cheers,

 

G?nter Waibel

OCLC Research

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

 

Just passing this along...

 

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-02-11.htm 

 

 

 

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From NHoneysett at getty.edu  Thu Feb 18 14:34:37 2010
From: NHoneysett at getty.edu (Nik Honeysett)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:34:37 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] AAM Technology, Interpretation,
	and Education 2010 Web	 Conference
Message-ID: <4B7D4FFD0200001D000C92D5@mail.getty.edu>

Call For Proposals
 
Are you developing new exhibitions, interpretive programs, or public spaces that involve technology? Do you have a technology success story you're eager to tell or a project failure you're willing to share? Contribute your skills and experience by presenting a virtual session during AAM Technology, Interpretation, and Education 2010 (TIE 2010), June 23 24.

TIE 2010 is a two-day, multi-session online conference featuring 60-minute sessions that provides an interactive forum for museum professionals at all levels to explore current technology trends and practices in museum education, interpretation, exhibition, public programs, and outreach. Participants will engage with technologists, education/interpretation specialists, and other expert practitioners to examine technology and new media projects that support the interpretation of collections and enhance learning experiences.

Each day of the two-day TIE 2010 web conference will consist of a plenary session and a series of one-hour presentations, followed by allotted break times, showcases from a variety of institutions (a virtual marketplace of ideas), and opportunities to interact with and learn from each other. At the end of each day, presenters and participants are invited to a "virtual happy hour" for a daily recap and discussion.

There is still time to submit a proposal. You can even present in your slippers and smoking jacket, we'll never know. C'mon, you know you want to...

See the website at http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/learn/interpretation2010.cfm.

-nik




 
 
Nik Honeysett
Head of Administration
J. Paul Getty Museum
tel: 310-440-7346
fax: 310-440-7751
nhoneysett at getty.edu

From sgrinols at famsf.org  Thu Feb 18 15:03:04 2010
From: sgrinols at famsf.org (Sue Grinols)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:03:04 -0800
Subject: [MCN-L] DM SIG: Reflectance Transformation Imaging
Message-ID: <C7A30728.BE1D%sgrinols@famsf.org>

Hi all,

I?ve registered a new project in the MCN Project Registry:

It?s a Kress funded study of Reflectance Transformation Imaging. RTI is a
technology whereby an object can be photographed multiple times with raking
light  from different angles. The resulting image files are combined, and
when viewed in a specific (open source) viewer, details not otherwise seen
are revealed. 

Check it out! 

Thanks, Sue


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679




From Jennifer.DeMartino at crystalbridges.org  Fri Feb 19 09:05:12 2010
From: Jennifer.DeMartino at crystalbridges.org (Jennifer De Martino)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:05:12 -0600
Subject: [MCN-L] Job Posting for Collections Database Coordinator
Message-ID: <0A13E62E3FAC4944975C226ECF9072A906F725B66B@cbmail.nwacc.arvest.com>

Collections Database Coordinator
Position Summary
Under the general supervision of the Registrar, the Collections Database Coordinator manages The Museum System (TMS) database and ensures the proper and consistent entry and maintenance of all data related to the Permanent Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (CBMAA). The Collections Database Coordinator also works closely with the IT Department to ensure effective use of TMS institution-wide. The Collections Database Coordinator may serve as supervisor to one or more positions and/or volunteers.

Principal Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

?         Manage and maintain TMS on a daily basis

?         Ensure proper and consistent entry and maintenance of TMS data

?         Establish guidelines for TMS data entry

?         Work closely with the IT Department to ensure the overall integrity, functionality and security of TMS and the data stored within

?         Provide museum-wide support for TMS

?         Manage Crystal Reports related to TMS, develop new reports as needed by collections management or as requested by other museum departments

?         Maintain a working knowledge of TMS and Crystal Reports and inform staff of changes or updates in both programs

?         Develop and maintain a TMS User?s Manual for use museum-wide

?         Develop training procedures to insure effective use of TMS by other museum departments

?         Assist in the implementation of TMS on the web

Secondary Responsibilities

?         Assist with registrational duties as needed

?         Perform general administrative duties as required

?         Act as courier, as assigned, to accompany exhibitions and loans worldwide

?         Complete special projects and basic research as assigned

?         Complete all other duties as assigned within the scope of responsibility and skill required for the job.

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Training, and Traits:

?         Bachelor?s degree from an accredited college or university in IT, art, art history, or museum studies

?         Knowledge of SQL and ability to write SQL required

?         Demonstrated expertise in database and database standards

?         Enthusiasm about being a member of a team developing a major new art museum with a strong visitor-centered community dynamic

?         Ability to understand and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality

Work Experience:

?         Minimum two years of experience in museum related employment

?         Experience using complex collections database applications, The Museum System (TMS) and Crystal Reports required

Licenses and Certifications:

?         Ability to obtain valid passport.

Skills and Abilities

?         Strong written and verbal communication skills

?         Excellent attendance and punctuality

?         Strong organizational skills and analytical skills.

?         Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment

?         Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with strong attention to accuracy and detail

?         Ability to multi-task and think critically

?         Ability to work independently and with initiative

Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


?         Physical demands: In the work environment described below, position requires verbal and written conversation with others, sitting, standing, walking, bending, reaching and climbing. Position requires sitting at a desk and utilizing a computer for prolonged periods of time and good eye/hand coordination. Vision abilities required by the job include close vision. Position requires use of hands to safely handle and move collection objects according to the most current approved museum standards.

?         Work Environment: The majority of work will be performed in an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. Work requires periodic transport of packed library objects to and from local off-site storage facilities. Work requires occasional independent travel to and from these local off-site library and art storage areas as well as performance of inventory-related activities in these storage areas. Periodic travel as a courier to accompany exhibitions and loans worldwide may be required. Occasional weekend, evening and night work hours also required.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of a person in this position.

Compensation
Crystal Bridges offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Application Procedure
To be considered for candidacy for this position, submit cover letter and resume online at www.crystalbridges.org/careers<http://www.crystalbridges.org/careers> or to Human Resources, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, P.O. Box 1169 Bentonville, AR 72712-1169. If submitting by mail, please reference Collections Database Coordinator position opening. No phone calls please.

The successful applicant will be required to pass a routine background and consumer credit check and drug screening.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER