To My MCN Colleagues in search of a reading diversion today, especially those snowbound in the U.S. northeast…
If you are of a certain generation and cultural experience, #WHENIM64 is an obvious time for personal reflection thanks to the soundtrack and permanent #TODO etched in our brains thanks to The Beatles. The two pieces I want to share with you were among the things I was pleased to reflect upon as I experienced this uniquely "Beatles Generation" Rite of Passage on Sunday. The fact that these pieces were written, and the activity they reflect, are all part of the first year of my post-cancer battle Bonus Round activity made my Sunday night reflections all the sweeter (#NOTYETREAPER): * "FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project starring in…'Where Facts Live': Exploring the Metamodel Subgraph of a FactMiners Fact Cloud" - http://goo.gl/gS2FJk. This is the "GraphGist Edition" (kind of like a Director's cut) of my #MCN2014 presentation. An enhanced version of the MCN "talking slide" video is wrapped in a Neo4j-based graph database "live document" (AKA a GraphGist) to let you play with the metamodel subgraph described in my talk. No software is installed on your computer. You only need a browser and curiosity to delve into this one. This one is definitely "museum tech stuff." * "Owed to Odell - Lexington Virginia, the 70's, & Old-Time Music — How Lil’ Dobson Got to Swim with The Duhks" - http://goo.gl/m4Lzfh. This is my first Medium.com publication and the first non-technical/non-computer creative writing that I have done since I can't remember when. To give this a museum informatics context so you can justify reading it on the job, I'll describe this piece in #cidocCRM terms as a gripping tale written as E10 Transfer of Custody provenance data about a delightful E24 Physical Man-Made Thing -- Lil' Dobson, a rare 1880's banjo -- and its travels through E2 Temporal Entities of E5 Events and E7 Activities during an E4 Period in my life before the E63 Beginning of Existence of my E4 Period career in computers. (If you even chuckled at this last bit, please see http://goo.gl/vynP3J as visual #cidocCRM humor is in relatively short supply.) I especially will appreciate your reading my Medium.com piece as its writing has emboldened my inner Storytelling Self. I plan to let him out on parole from his locked closet in the basement during year two of my Bonus Round activities. I have a corker of a short tale brewing, "Mata and the Methodist -- Moonshine, Psychedelics, and Banjos: How I Learned the Awesome Power of Alka-Seltzer at an Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention." If you follow me on Medium.com, you'll be sure to know when that one hits a browser or app near you! :-) And I would be remiss to not offer a big "Thank you!" to Robert Stein and all the talented contributors to CODE|WORDS whose brilliant writing introduced me to the potential of Medium.com as a possible venue on which to unleash my Storytelling parolee. Regardless of your need for reading material, a belated Happy New Year! And, again, a heartfelt “Thank you!” to MCN -- and to my scholarship's corporate sponsor PICTION -- for the Emerging Professional scholarship that made it possible for me and my soulmate/wife Timlynn Babitsky to attend #MCN2014. We look forward to growing our new Kindred Spirit network through our involvement in MCN. Happy-Healthy Vibes, -: Jim :- and Timlynn, too Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky Twitter: @Jim_Salmons, @TimlynnBabitsky, @FactMiners, @Softalk_Apple _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
