[MCN-L] Registration Open - IMLS WebWise 2007

With all due apologies for cross-posting. I highly recommend a close look at the conference program. The theme for this year's WebWise is Stewardship in the Digital Age: Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use, and the bulk of the presentations lend themselves to

[MCN-L] IP SIG: update on orphan works (Kahle v. Gonzales)

Appeals Court Shoots Down Copyright Challenge: The case impacts how out-of-print and orphaned works may, or may not, be viewed online. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, Jan 23, 2007 http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196903040 The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

[MCN-L] Workshop announcement

Can I just draw colleagues attention to this new workshop outline just posted to the Museums and the Web conference site. Apologies if this this is not the right forum for this kind of announcementand for cross postings. Stephen Accessibility 2.0: How to avoid being sued for having an

[MCN-L] Sound clip database on a Mac

Hi everyone. This is my first posting...I hope it works. Anyway, I need to build a database for a collection of oral histories that are being stored on a Mac. All I know how to use is Microsoft Access. Can anyone suggest a common database program for Macs that hold sound files well?

[MCN-L] Metadata for You Me Workshops

Metadata for You Me: A Workshop on Shareable Metadata http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym ** Metadata aggregations such as OAIster http://www.oaister.org and

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

In the best of circumstances, most people not committed to the cutting edge will wait at least six months post release for initial bugs to be ironed out, more obscure modules to be upgraded and tested, and to learn the ins and outs of the new development environment. So, I'd say that one should be

[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools

Hi Perian, I don't honestly know if there are tools out there, but if not then you may need to look at using the API. If that's a bit forbidding you might take a look at Raymond Yee's book (Professional Mashups or some such title). He's got tons of Flickr examples in there - not that I have

[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools

I'm with Jeremy, this could easily be done with some PHP and the Flicker API. I've done similar things with Last.FM API for reporting based off a database which could be created from a CSV quite easily. -- Ryan Hartman Web Developer Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107