[MCN-L] IP SIG, et al.: Happy Public Domain Day

It seems that yesterday was Public Domain Day: http://www.copyrightwatch.ca/ It's January 1st, the day on which the calendar rolls over, and with it, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of books, articles, photographs, works of art, unpublished documents, and other works, in all areas of

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

Tom, Ari... thanks. Tom, the site has a rudimentary CMS but most of the email addresses come from sources other than the website class registrations, ecommerce, on-site signups etc. The daunting task is consolidating all of these and eliminating duplicates. Ari, I'll look into

[MCN-L] Folksonomy as Symbol

At 5:03 PM -0500 12/26/06, Mike Rippy wrote: Sounds like an agenda driven article. Mike Rippy Mike, I'm not sure what you mean by that evaluation... are you saying that's bad? Do you agree/disagree with the general point of the article? Just parts of the article? Does it miss the boat

[MCN-L] Digital Directions, June 10-12 Jacksonville, FL - Register Online Now!

ONLINE REGISTRATION Now Open! www.nedcc.org http://www.nedcc.org/ DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections The NEW School for Scanning June 10 - 12, 2008 Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Jacksonville, Florida A conference presented by the

[MCN-L] wikis

We've used Wikispaces (wikispaces.com) which is a $5/month subscription site. Plug and play, very easy - - especially for extranet-type deployments. We also set up an instance of jspwiki (jspwiki.org) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an Intranet. I think it's very successful. A much

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Hi Perian, I think Brewster Kahle was using some sort of a system he developed for the Internet Archive that ended up being inexpensive to use - probably because of volume.. . I'd be curious to know of any other scanners or systems people have had luck with. Thanks, Sue -- Susan Grinols

[MCN-L] Digital distribution as PDF with e-signature

We are currently investigating the possibility of distributing contracts licenses as secure encrypted PDFs and I was wondering if anyone had experiences to share and / or recommendations. We are particularly interested in workflows around e-signature, especially since the documents in

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

Perian, Sue, and all, ...and by coincidence, yesterday Wired posted an annotated, play-by-play slide show of the Internet Archive's book-scanning process online at: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive Rob Perian Sully wrote: Hi Sue: The

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Let me just jump in without addressing any one post to say how much I appreciate everybody's feedback on the Drupal/WordPress MU question--this has all been great food for thought! The museum computer community is amazing. (And please don't let this message deter anybody else from

[MCN-L] Last Chance to Register for Pop Culture in Libraries with Robin Brenner and Sara Sogigian

(Please excuse cross-posting) *Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education* *Pop Culture in Libraries* March 1 - 31, 2010 (online asynchronous) $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) PDPs: 15 Students will be introduced to the important place pop culture has in libraries. Instructors will present on a

[MCN-L] Call for papers

Dear Colleagues, The 2^nd workshop on *Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology ACVA'10 -- Vision, Visualization, and Computational Methods to Cultural Heritage Needs*, http://acva2010.cs.drexel.edu, will be held on Sunday June 14^th in San Francisco, in conjunction with the IEEE

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Does anyone happen to know when Wordpress 3.0 comes out, or Drupal 7? I've heard of both of them being in development for some time now, but have never been able to get a clear picture of when. Thanks! ~P Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley,

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

Following on many good comments about how Drupal compares to Wordpress MU I'll throw in some comments about my team's experience, most of which has been with Drupal 6 over the past 18 months, though we have built a few small sites with WordPress. We've certainly found that Drupal holds up well

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

The release date for WordPress 3.0 is early May. http://wordpress.org/development I've stayed out of this conversation (for reasons that Eric is aware of!) but since the conservation seems to of value to the community. My two cents. We've built a lot of Web sites over the years with various CMS

[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems

WordPress 3.0 is due out 5/1/10 - the alpha is out and very impressive, public beta will be 3/15/10. As mentioned the main changes are the merge with WP MU and a flexible taxonomy structure allowing it to function much more like Drupal. To add to the discussion some thoughts: whether you use