Hi everyone,
All the ideas in this thread sound great. I'm wondering if two very
informal gatherings in Minneapolis might be useful for two nested
groups of us--something like:
- one in which we could share ideas about conceptual aspects of
home-built museum data management tools, as a broadly scoped
conversation about whatever open-source software or shrink-wrapped
development environments we're using, and especially about how
standards figure concretely in what we're doing (or might do) with
them; and
- one in which (following Ann's initial idea) folks who are using
FileMaker could share knowledge and ask each other questions about
using it to serve museum needs, since many real nuts-and-bolts
aspects of doing so are wholly specific to that software.
The key issue of standards bears strongly on both topics, but we
could steer them towards the first gathering (that way everyone
interested could take part in that discussion, but people who don't
use FileMaker wouldn't be subjected to tales of FileMaker-specific
techniques--and those do use it would have more time to talk about
such things).
If this makes sense, are there volunteers to serve as point people by
collecting initial ideas for discussion (and checking with the
conference planners to see about scheduling windows when we could
plan to gather informally without crashing into other things)?
just thinking out loud,
Rob
At 21:33 -0700 4/7/04, Mary Elings wrote:
As co-chair of the Stds&Controlled Vocabulary SIG, I think a get together
at MCN would be great....
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