[MCN-L] Job Posting: Web Developer and Digital Collections Technical Administrator

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
(Posting for a non-subscriber - please see address at end to apply. This would be an excellent opportunity for an experienced web developer to deploy those skills while developing new skills in digital collections and archives. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you,

Re: [MCN-L] Maker spaces and 3D printing

2016-03-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
You may have already investigated these, but in case not, there are some aggregator/locator services, of which makexyz and 3dhubs seem to be the leaders, see e.g. https://www.makexyz.com/3dprinters/Paris-IDF-FR https://www.makexyz.com/3dprinters/San-Diego-CA

Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

2015-02-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 10/02/2015 20:15, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: And so very many more that it might be worth thinking about turning this effort into a community-sourced wiki or some such resource, which could have certain advantages: ease of updating, wide accessibility A GLAM version of the Urban

Re: [MCN-L] FW: CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts

2015-02-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Diane (and Melissa) for bringing this to the list's attention. I note with a sigh that while the Code says (p12) Museums... - Downloadable images made available online should be suitable in size for full-screen projection or display on a personal computer or mobile device, but

Re: [MCN-L] Links in TMS notes field

2015-01-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Veering slightly off topic, but if you do anything en-masse based on the TextEntryHTML field of the TextEntries, be prepared for some hidden horrors - if users paste text in directly from Word or similar programmes, you can get some really unpleasant mark-up in there. In many applications you

[MCN-L] Media Player/App for iPad for in-gallery installation

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 08/09/2014 22:45, Margaret Collerd wrote: We are looking to have a listening station in a gallery for an upcoming special exhibition. The goal is to load a selection of music for visitors to listen to via headphones. I'm struggling with determining a method to load the music on the an

[MCN-L] Whatever happened to MuseTechCentral?

2013-03-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Does anyone know what became of http://musetechcentral.org/ ? I was following an old link to a resource there and was distressed to find it seemed to have been taken over by a bunch of financial scammers (or advisers). Is this a known thing? The Internet Archive was able to display some of

[MCN-L] VA report on visitor attitudes to using mobiles in museums - available to download now

2013-03-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/03/2013 16:29, Andrew Lewis wrote: Trying to cope with the effects of changes caused by the rapid growth of mobile web? You might find useful the report of a recent VA survey of museum visitors and their attitudes to using mobile devices in museums. The full report is now openly

[MCN-L] Instant image uploading to Facebook?

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 19/01/2012 16:12, Morgan, Matt wrote: There are wifi-enabled cameras and phones that have share to facebook buttons, so it's all one step (I suppose it might be more than one, since maybe you have to pick and album, etc.). They're probably not great cameras, but you wouldn't have to drag

[MCN-L] websites from Mimsy

2011-11-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, or David Saywell at the NPG could talk more specifically about their arrangements. Ben -- Ben Rubinstein Technical Director Cogapp address: Lees House, 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3FE, England tel: +44 (0)1273 821600 fax: +44 (0)1273 829988 web: http://www.cogapp.com

[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2010 home stretch

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Dear MCN delegates, Last year Cogapp donated a website usability session to the silent auction, which was purchased by Rich Cherry of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. My colleague Cathy Pierce will be presenting the results at Austen as part of Rich's session on The Collaborative

[MCN-L] image file names

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, and hence to an object ID in the collections management system; but also has a more human readable indication of the accession number. So computers and humans can both recognise immediately what it is; and there's a bit of redundancy. The disadvatage is that it's a rather unwieldy filename! Ben

[MCN-L] Heading to Denver for MW2010? Got an iPhone?

2010-04-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
If you can answer 'yes' to at least two of the above questions, you might want to take a look at this app, which lets you search papers and view them by speaker, session or keyword, and mark favourites: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mw2010/id348377811?mt=8 It's a first cut, and done in a

[MCN-L] Embark and Gallery Systems

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
-04-10.htm for more information - and contact Robb for more info if it seems of interest (though I happen to know he's floating down a canal in England this week, and trust that means he's offline...). Ben -- Ben Rubinstein Technical Director email: benr at cogapp.comdirect: +44 (0)1273

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

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
My daughter's very fond of We're back! : a dinosaur's story (Hudson Talbott) which features the NY Museum of Natural History, but she's not convinced it's fiction. There are also the Katie and the... series, but I'm sure you have those. (Your attachment didn't make it through the list - is