At 08:05 AM 11/22/2006, you wrote: >Hi Richard, > >Sorry for the very slow response to your on-list proposal for a Research >SIG. As you'll know from our conference chat, I am definitely up for >this and thanks for putting it forward.
I am afraid you have mistaken me for someone else. I was at no conference in the last 2 years and remember no chat about a Research SIG. Sorry. >As you suggest, it's probably a good idea to take a fairly loose >approach to what constitutes research; aside from anything else, it's >going to take a little time for the group to find an identity and settle >on a shared set of concerns and it would be a shame to deter people that >might otherwise be interested. On the one hand, I'll want to be able to >share with others going through the process of academic research in the >digital/digitised heritage sphere (small though this ball may be); on >the other, I'm of course interested in the sort of research that >focusses on specific solutions to informatic problems for museums, >although these may well have more of an applied than academic bent. But >doubtless there's plenty of overlap between the two so it could be hard >to try to disentangle them anyway. > >That being said, I'm pretty much invisible in the forums to which I am >already subscribed so I can imagine that my involvement with such a SIG >might focus mainly around face to face meetings at conferences. In other >words, I'm not volunteering to chair, I'm afraid! But, despite the warm >welcome the Taiwan SIG gave me and others at their meeting at the >conference, I'm not currently involved in any SIGs so I don't really >have a clear idea of how they operate or what they offer. > >Cheers, Jeremy > > >Jeremy Ottevanger >Web Developer, Museum Systems Team >Museum of London Group >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 > >Visit Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees - a new >thought-provoking free exhibition > >Glamour, grandeur, sleaze, disease - discover a great city in the >making at the Museum of London > >Register for regular Museum updates with enews at museumoflondon.org.uk >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l Sincerely Richard Schaffer, Registrar U.A. Museum of Art P.O. Box 210002 1031 N. Olive Tucson AZ 85721 reschaff at u.arizona.edu (520) 621-7567 The opinions or statements expressed herein are my own and should not be taken as a position opinion, or endorsement by The University of Arizona.
