Hi Rob & Everyone, I would be willing to take part in the first of these informal gatherings. Coming from a relatively small museum I realize that there is not a lot of information out there for collections managers/curators of smaller institutions to help them build there own collections management applications if they do not already have a background in information technology. Perhaps a long term goal coming out of such a meeting would be the production of a fact sheet or guide (web based or otherwise) for those who may choose to go down the self-built application route or would more information before making that choice.
David Farrell, Collections Assistant Peel Heritage Complex 9 Wellington Street East Brampton, ON L6W 1Y1 (905) 791-4055 ext. 3628 (905) 451-4931 fax www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Rob Lancefield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: April 8, 2004 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FileMaker Pros 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 ... 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.... -- _________________________________________________________________ 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]
