Ann, Rob and Richard, As co-chair of the Stds&Controlled Vocabulary SIG, I think a get together at MCN would be great.
And, Ann, any time you want to meet in the Bay Area, I'd be happy to get together! There are a few good projects using FMP in our area. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library, UCB Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 [email protected] Ph 510-643-2273 At 09:29 AM 4/7/04 -0600, Richard Urban wrote: >Rob, > >Sounds like a great idea! I think I might broaden the question beyond FileMaker and ask what "open-source" projects for museum functions are out there. The digitization community is developing tools like DSpace and Fedora as open-source models. Who's going to develop and support the equivelent "MSpace" (museum space?) and will it be something that museums will be able to implement without a gaggle of programmers? > >Interoperability between commercial software packages seems to be improving. Something for the Metadata SIG to consider is which, metadata standards should be used when developing home-grown FMP or Access databases. > >Cheers, > >Richard Urban >Operations Coordinator >Colorado Digitization Program >[email protected] > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob Lancefield <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 7, 2004 7:44 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: FileMaker Pros > >Hi all, > >Interesting idea; we manage our collection--and friends-organization >mailing list, etc.--in systems developed in-house with FileMaker. > >Maybe an informal get-together at the MCN conference in Minneapolis >could be another venue for kicking ideas around (over beverages?). > >Rob > >At 19:50 -0700 4/6/04, you wrote: >>Would anyone be interested in creating a user group for discussing FileMaker >>Pro adaptations in museums? We could share ideas and questions on line >>and/or at occasional meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area. If interested, >>please contact me. (I'm the former director of a small college art museum, >>now doing moderate-cost consulting to museums and other clients.) >> >>Ann Harlow >>[email protected] >>(510) 559-3616 > >-- >_________________________________________________________________ >Rob Lancefield [email protected] Wesleyan University >Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services >Davison Art Center www.wesleyan.edu/dac >301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 >Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] > > --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
