[MCN-L] Basic rule of copyright term in the US

2010-11-22 Thread Amalyah Keshet [akes...@imj.org.il]
Eve: Many thanks not only for the summary of US term of protection, but for the heads-up about F. Scott Fitzgerald, et al., rising into the public domain on January 1. Woohoo! (And just a reminder: the original query wasn't about postcards published in 1900, but in the 1920s-1940s. The

[MCN-L] What do you know about Freebase/Refine?

2010-11-22 Thread Robin White Owen
Hi all, I posted this the other day and since I heard there was some trouble with the list serve and I didn't get any response I thought it was worth asking again: Does anyone have any experience with Freebase from Google? In their own words, Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed

[MCN-L] CALL FOR PAPERS: Classification Ontology, The Hague 19-20 September 2011

2010-11-22 Thread Aida Slavic
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Classification Ontology - Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge International UDC Seminar 2011 VENUE: The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) DATE: 19-20 September 2011

[MCN-L] Basic rule of copyright term in the US

2010-11-22 Thread James Keeline
From: Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] akeshet at imj.org.il Eve: Many thanks not only for the summary of US term of protection, but for the heads-up about F. Scott Fitzgerald, et al., rising into the public domain on January 1. Woohoo! (And just a reminder: the original

[MCN-L] What do you know about Freebase/Refine?

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Urban
Hi Robin, Apologies, there were some troubles with the list after you posted your message. I've been playing with Refine for some upcoming work on collection dashboards. So far it's doing a wonderful job identifying variations in values in the data that I have. The interface is intuitive

[MCN-L] What do you know about Freebase/Refine?

2010-11-22 Thread Jeremy Ottevanger
I've not played with Freebase itself, but like Richard I have had a go with Refine, the tool that as I understand it grew out of the Freebase community's work and which Google has developed into a really nice bit of open source software. It was very easy to install, handled a big set of data, and

[MCN-L] Personalised visitor services survey - Last call

2010-11-22 Thread Loic Tallon
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING. Dear All. Late in the summer we undertook a research project into personalised visitor services in museums: thank you to all that participated! An element of this was an online survey, and this received some 70 responses from museums across Europe, N.America and

[MCN-L] extended publishing rights for e-book

2010-11-22 Thread TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN
Hi All, We have policies and a fee-structure for rights and reproductions but they do not cover e-books. Does anyone have policy and / or fees they charge for the additional right to publish an image in the e-book version of a publication? The publisher is claiming that they don't normally pay

[MCN-L] Open Exhibits 1.0 is Now Available

2010-11-22 Thread Jim Spadaccini
Open Exhibits is a suite of open source multitouch and multiuser software modules and templates designed for use on the museum floor. We are happy to announce that Open Exhibit Core along with several modules are now available on the Open Exhibits Website. The Open Exhibits core software