MCN Booth @ AAM

[Guenter . Waibel]

Hi everybody,

I am looking for those amongst you who will be attending the AAM conference
in Boston this year, and who might be willing to take an hour out of their
schedule to staff the MCN Booth. All that would be expected of you is
(a) your physical presence during the hour(s) you've committed to and (b)
enough enthusiasm about MCN so you can get people excited about who we are
and about attending the annual conference. Let's just say if you've ever
been to an MCN conference, you qualify! :-)

For those of you who've never done this sort of thing before, sitting at a
booth can be quite fun since you start chatting with people whom you
otherwise would never have met! It's also a great way to get involved in
MCN and helping the organization grow and flourish. ***Please seriously
consider volunteering for an hour, we desperately need people to help us
staff the booth!***

Opening hours for the exhibit hall are as follows:
Fri April 28: 12noon - 4:00pm
Sat April 29: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Sun April 30: 10:00am - 2:00pm

Please let me know what date / time you can make, and I'll coordinate the
effort - no need to reply to the
list, just e-mail me directly.

Thanks!

Günter Waibel
MCN Board of Directors

***

Günter Waibel
Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
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Registration Open: ACRL/RBMS Conference on Libraries, Archives and Museums

[Guenter . Waibel]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
ACRL/RBMS CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
20-23 June 2006
Austin, Texas

Registration is now open for "Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the 21st
Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?," a major national
conference that will be held in Austin, Texas, on 20-23 June 2006.

Registration, program, and scholarship application information is available
 from the conference web site at: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/rbms2006.
Registration rates are $195 for members; $240 for non-members; $75 for
current, full-time students; and $85 for one-day registration. A $50
surcharge will be added to registrations after May 17. A generous grant
from
Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) will provide funding for
thirty new and aspiring professionals to attend the conference, including
at
least ten from professionally underrepresented backgrounds. The deadline
for
scholarship applications is March 30.

The conference is being organized by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
(RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA). The Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin will serve
as the primary host.

The two-and-a-half-day conference program will include a series of plenary
sessions that address a broad range of topics from comparative viewpoints,
including collecting purposes and strategies, audiences and access, legal
issues, and professional education and development. A variety of workshop
and seminar sessions and facilitated discussion groups will complement the
conference theme. Participants will also be able to enjoy evening
receptions
and special tours of the recently renovated Ransom Center and Jack S.
Blanton Museum of Art, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Bob
Bullock Texas State History Museum, and other local cultural facilities.

Lodging at the conference hotel, the Stephen F. Austin InterContinental in
downtown Austin, includes rates from $99 to $129 per night. Additional
hotel
and dormitory lodging options are also be available.

Questions may be addressed to Tory Ondrla, ACRL Meeting and Special Events
Planner at tond...@ala.org.

***

Günter Waibel
Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
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Re: Embedding metadata into digital images and Vendors fo

[Guenter . Waibel]

Hi folks,

I don't recall technical or administrative metadata being part of Perian's
original question, but since it came up: when we surveyed about 100
cultural heritage institutions a couple of years back about how they'd like
to capture their technical metadata, most wanted their cake and eat it, too
- meaning they wanted it stored within the file itself, but in a format
 from which they could export the information into a database.

In the course of the Automatic Exposure initiative, we've amassed quite
some information about the different options for storing technical metadata
in digital files, as well what kinds of metadata you can already expect to
find their courtesy of TIFF and EXIF. Just to shed a little more light on
what Adobe XMP (and by extension, any Adobe program) is doing: it extracts
all the technical metadata it can find in the file headers (tiff or exif
tags), and then writes it into the file as an XMP package. The data you see
in PhotoShops FileInfo is the data from that XMP package. Anybody can
extend the data which can be put into a file by writing a so-called XMP
panel defining new fields, and then use these fields for data capture. At
RLG, we're hoping to produce an XMP panel for NISO Z39.87 Technical
Metadata for Digital Still Images once it's been through the
standardization process. The idea is that just as you can download an IPTC
panel now and use it, you could download the Z39.87 panel and use it to
more effectively capture technical metadata.

For more info on all of this, see
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=2681

Cheers,

Günter

***

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Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461
blog: www.hangingtogether.org
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Hi.

You may want to consider the IPTC (International Press
Telecommunications Council) standard, at least for descriptive metadata.
It is compatible with the "File Info" function in Photoshop. In my
experience IPTC has more potential than "File Info" for high
productivity in terms of batch data entry via an IPTC editor. IPTC
editing capabilities have become increasingly common in off-the-shelf
image management software such as Canto Cumulus, Extensis Portfolio and
IMatch.

Some packages enable you to import information from databases into image
files in IPTC format, and/or to export embedded IPTC information to
databases.

For technical metadata you may be able to adapt the EXIF standard.  I do
know that EXIF editors exist, but have not researched the extent of
their capabilities.

If you work within those standards, incompatibility with imaging
software as mentioned below should not be an issue.

This website is a good starting point:

www.controlledvocabulary.com

Hope you find this useful.

John Poirier
Coordinator of Technical Services
Northwest Territories Archives
Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
867-920-8842


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To: mcn-l /unix
Subject: Re: Embedding metadata into digital images and Vendors for
Archiving


Gunther and Perian -
To give you an idea of some "problems."
Right now I am managing a scanning project for 19 California libraries
whose
images will reside in a digital repository of the California Digital
Library.  We are embedding tech metadata for preservation purposes:
hardware
used, vendor, owner(library), and a short descriptive field. We had
hoped to
also include color information, but have opted to scan a target with
each
object.
We are using jHOVE to validate the Tiff format, including the tiff
header
f

Re: Embedding metadata into digital images - which schema?

[Guenter . Waibel]

Hi Perian,

I'd be curious to hear what mechanism you'll use for embedding descriptive
metadata into the image files - it has been an idea often pondered and
rarely implemented, as far as I know, but I'd be happy to stand corrected
by others who have pulled it off.

There are various technical challenges in embedding the metadata (where
does the metadata sit within the file?), and various challenges of
procedure and maintenance (e.g. scalability - how do you get descriptive
records into huge numbers of files automatically; how does the data get
updated if it changes?). In theory, you could use Adobe XMP to embed any
type of metadata into a digital file, including descriptive metadata, but
at the end of the day, the logistics of getting the data in and keeping it
up to date may outweigh the obvious benefit of having such a tight link
between file and description. Maybe embedding a unique identifier within
the file which can be resolved in your database of record (your Collections
Management System, for example) makes more sense. I'd be curious to hear
 from others how they maintain the link between image file and descriptive
metadata - I suspect the identifier route, often via the filename (i.e. the
unique id is in the filename), is what most people these days practice.

As for mixing different descriptive approaches: if your goal is to have
these digitized images searchable from within one interface, you'll
eventually have to find a common denominator among different descriptions.
If you're starting from scratch in describing them, it would seem
worthwhile to consider whether you can achieve adequate description using
just one descriptive approach. If not, you'd really want to keep in mind
that these different descriptions will have to map to one another down the
road.

Cheers,

Günter

***

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Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461
blog: www.hangingtogether.org
guenter.wai...@rlg.org


   
 
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Hi again:


As I've mentioned before, I'm working on drafting our digitization
procedures here at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, a Jewish cultural history &
art museum. I'm trying to determine the best metadata schema to embed in
the digital images. I'm curious as to what, if any, schema other cultural
history & art organizations use (although we do also have some
archeological and archival objects in the collection) in their images.


For a mixed collection such as this, is it a good idea to mix schema? I
would like to use MARC for the archival objects that are mixed in (as our
archive center is already using MARC for everything), but I might end up
using Dublin Core or SPECTRA (or whatever) for the other stuff. Or is it
wiser to just pick one and "make it fit" as best I can?


Thanks, by the way, for all of your help earlier regarding your digitzation
procedures - your helpful links have caused my collection of useful guides
to grow considerably.


Perian Sully
Collection Database & Records Administrator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell St.
Berkeley, CA 94705


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IMLS OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND ACRL/RBMS CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, ANDMUSEUMS

[Guenter . Waibel]

Forwarded from the RBMS list - they'd really like to attract a good museum
showing for these grants! I think this'll be a great conference, and I
encourage you to share this information as widely as you can so museums are
well represented. Of special interested to the folks from the Young
Professionals Roundtable! - Günter

***

IMLS OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND ACRL/RBMS CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES,
ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS

The Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) has provided funding
for thirty new and aspiring professionals to attend a major national
conference organized by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of
the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the
American Library Association (ALA). Entitled, "Libraries, Archives, and
Museums in the 21st Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?,"
the conference will explore issues of mutual interest to libraries,
archives, and museums. It will be held on 20-23 June 2006 in Austin, Texas,
with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas
at Austin serving as the primary host for the expected 300 attendees.

Students currently enrolled in graduate program of library and information
science or archival or museums studies, or graduates from such programs
with less than five years of professional experience are eligible to apply
for the IMLS-funded scholarships, which are designed to cover all costs
associated with attending the conference, including registration, airfare,
lodging and meals. At least ten scholarships will be reserved for
applicants from professionally underrepresented backgrounds. Further
information and an online application form are available from the
conference web site at . The deadline
for applications has been extended to March 30, 2006.

The two-and-a-half-day conference program will include a series of plenary
sessions that will address a broad range of topics from comparative
viewpoints, including collecting purposes and strategies, audiences and
access, legal issues, and professional education and development. A variety
of seminar sessions and facilitated discussions will complement the
conference theme. Participants will also be able to take advantage of
special tours of the recently renovated Ransom Center and Jack S. Blanton
Museum of Art, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and other
local cultural facilities.

General registration will begin in February 2006, with an early-bird rate
of $195. Lodging at the conference hotel, the Stephen F. Austin
InterContinental in downtown Austin, will include rates from $99 to $129
per night. Additional hotel and dormitory lodging options will also be
available.

Questions about the IMLS scholarships may be addressed to Tory Ondrla,
Meeting and Special Events Planner (tond...@ala.org).


Günter Waibel
Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461
blog: www.hangingtogether.org
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Media & Technology Board Recruitment

[Guenter . Waibel]

Posted on behalf of Nik Honeysett, Vice-Chair of AAM's Media & Technology
Committee. - Günter

***

Dear MCN Member:

Many of you may be members of the American Association of Museum's Media &
Technology Standing Professional Committee. They have recently undergone a
strategic visioning process, and are seeking individuals to serve on their
board, five positions are available. Serving on the board is a great
opportunity to contribute to the Museum professional community, meet and
work with colleagues and peers, enhance your professional development and
raise the profile of your institution. By joining the board you would
commit time and energy to fulfill your assigned duties and tasks, and enjoy
the satisfaction of making a valued contribution. Each of the vacant
positions are two-year positions with duties to begin just prior to the AAM
Annual Meeting in Boston this April. For more information and details on
how to apply please visit
http://mediaandtechnology.org/board/recruitment.html

In order to apply you must be both a member of AAM and a member of one of
AAM's standing professional committees.

Applications will be accepted until January 31st.

Nik Honeysett
Vice-Chair, Media and Technology SPC




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Re: STEVE & folksonomies / was subject & keyword searching

[Guenter . Waibel]

Will et al.,

just one quick comment on the whole notion of pre-coordinated subject
headings - I'm leaning a little bit out of the window here, and if Richard
Urban has had his class on MARC cataloguing yet, he may stand ready to
correct me :-). However, here 'tis to the best of my knowledge:

In MARC, the data of the subject heading as quoted by Will as "Steel
Industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh." would actually sit in separate
subfields. It looks like this (taken from an actual MARC record):

650   ·0‡aSteel industry‡zPennsylvania‡zPittsburgh.

The ‡a indicates that what follows is a topical subject term, and the ‡z
indicates that what follows is a geographic term. However, when subject
headings get displayed in an OPAC, they usually display using the two
dashes just to make things legible. The result: now when somebody takes a
subject heading "out of context" (flippant for "not in a MARC record"),
people have also use the dashes to put an entire subject heading into one
single undifferentiated field.

Why should you care? I think you might because you're mixing apples and
oranges. Sure, all these terms pertain to a subject, but they're also
different in that one pertains to a topical subject, the other to a
geographic subject, etc. If you'd like to be able to browse your collection
by geographic location or topical subjects, having these terms in different
fields would be a prerequisite. Again, this differentiation gets lost if
you just use the entire string in a single field.

Probably more than anybody wanted to know about this, but I couldn't
resist...

Cheers,

Günter

***

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Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461
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Richard et al.,

I wanted to clarify something about my question "Does anyone have an
opinion about the value, in the networked information world, of the
hierarchical LC subject format I described ("Steel
Industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.")"?

We do buy in to the idea of using LCSH as an authority for subject terms,
for the reasons that Richard stated. What to me is questionable is the
insistence on the pre-coordinated format in all of its arcane requirements.
Recently, for example, I was asked by the cataloguer to correct some
subject headings in our database because a) the heading was missing the
period at the end, b) the second word of a two word phrase was
inappropriately capitalized (Steel Industry should have been Steel
industry), c) one of the two hyphens was missing, d) "Pittsburgh, PA"
should have been written "Pittsburgh, Pa." (with the dot at the end!).

For internal use (within the museum) these formatting subtleties are
entirely irrelevant since our collections management system is blind to
case and punctuation. It doesn't matter whether you query for PA or Pa.,
you will get the same results either way. It also does not matter to the
database whether the terms are "properly" strung together or listed
separately.

What I would like to know is, are there good arguments for maintaining this
kind of consistency in the internet environment? If there is, it would be
easier to bear the extra effort it takes to conform; if not, it seems like
a waste of time and resources, with no real payoff in the end.

If we did away with the pre-coordinated, hyper-formatted version of LCSH,
and went to a format of single terms, we would still likely use the LCSH as
a vocabulary control, to maintain consistency in the use of subject terms.
We do understand how critical that would be.

If we were ever to pursue a social tagging strategy, I would imagine that
the tags would be stored either somewhere "between" the catalogue itself
and the public interface, as I 

Re: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital ImagingGuidelines

[Guenter . Waibel]

I've taken a look at these guidelines, and I definitely see their appeal in
being extremely hands on, concrete and fairly short. I'd be curious to hear
whether anybody has taken a look at these vis-a-vis other best practice
documents such as the very detailed NARA Guidelines?
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/digitizing-archival-materials.pdf

Cheers,

Günter




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folksonomies

[Guenter . Waibel]

For those of you not done yet with folksonomies, or those who'd like a
re-cap of the discussion, I've written up a little piece on this really
great thread at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=68. Enjoy!

Günter Waibel
Program Officer/RLG
2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461
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Library, Archive and (yes!) Museum Blog

[Guenter . Waibel]

Hi everybody,

I thought you might be interested in hearing about a blog RLG staff
launched about 3 weeks ago. We thought that a blog could give those of us
who go to  a lot of conferences and visit member institutions a nice outlet
to write about the ideas and curiosities we encounter along the way. The
loose theme of the blog is the intersection of libraries, museums and
archives - recent entries have focused on digital preservation, digital
asset management, descriptive metadata, etc. Something for everyone! We've
called it hangingtogether.org after the rather infamous Benjamin Franklin
quote "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang
separately.”

If you are a regular blog reader, you might want to add HangingTogether to
your feed.  If you have not checked out the blogosphere yet, here's your
opportunity!

http://www.hangingtogether.org/

I'd also be curious to hear from anyone out there who has discovered (or is
writing?) a genuine "technology in museums" blog - I haven't seen anything
yet. Are there any other blogs out there you find helpful & informative?

Cheers,

Günter

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2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA  94043 USA
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Re: Digital Imaging Best Practices - Resolution

[Guenter Waibel]

ne question we are wrangling with is whether to increase the
minimum
> resolutions for digital images.
>
> A review of a number of other digital project  websites
shows that our current
> guidelines are still comprable to our peers, although many of
them have not
> been updated since ours were established.
>
> We'd like to hear from other projects that are exceeding the
current baseline
> targets to talk about the pros and cons of higher
resolutions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard Urban
> Operations Coordinator
> Colorado Digitzation Project
> rur...@du.edu
> http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org
>
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Head, Digital Imaging and Photography
Harvard University Art Museums
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Digital Media SIG Chair, MCN
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Re: MCN SIG (Special Interest Group) news

[Guenter Waibel]

Just to expand a little for those who are not familiar with the SIG 
format at all - you don't really need to flash a membership card in 
order to participate. You don't even need to be a member of MCN to 
participate in a SIG, although we sure hope it encourages you to 
become a member. Most of the SIGs business is done at the annual MCN 
conference, when the SIGs hold meetings to discuss projects for the 
year and plan sessions for next year's conference of particular 
interest to the SIG. All other business happens on e-mail on the main 
MCN list (this one!). If you have a message you'd like to flag for 
special attention of a particular SIG, just add the SIG to the 
beginning of your Subject line, such as in DM SIG: blah blah (DM for 
Digital Media). And, as Rob pointed out, if in doubt, alway contact 
the SIG chair...


Cheers,
Guenter




At 9:39 AM -0400 9/24/02, Rob Lancefield wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks for asking, Jacquie. (Since this may be of interest to other 
mcn-l subscribers, I'll keep this reply on-list.) To join any of the 
SIGs, one simply contacts its chair--and that's it! These two SIGs' 
contacts are:


Standards & CV: Layna White, lwh...@ucla.edu
Digital Media:  Guenter Waibel, guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Other SIG chairs' email addresses may be found on the MCN site.

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 4:56 PM -0700 9/23/02, Jacquie Gijssen posted to mcn-l:

Perhaps you can advise, how one might sign on as a member of these and other
SIGs? Thanks! Jacquie Gijssen


Jacqueline Gijssen
Head of Museum Services
Vancouver Art Gallery
ph 604/ 662-4700
fax 604/ 682-1787
email jgijs...@vanartgallery.bc.ca

-Original Message-

Hi everybody,

FYI, here are two MCN SIG updates based on proposals developed at
SIG meetings in Toronto and recently approved by the MCN Board:

1. The Digital Imaging SIG has been renamed the Digital Media SIG
   to encompass work with audio and video as well as still images.
   (Guenter Waibel is continuing on as the renamed SIG's chair.)

2. Mary Elings of U.C. Berkeley is the Standards & Controlled
   Vocabulary SIG's new co-chair (replacing me) along with Layna
   White, who is continuing on as the SIG's other co-chair.

These changes may take a little while to appear on the MCN web
site and elsewhere, but they're actually in effect as of now.


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Digital Imaging SIG: You're invited!

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi everybody,

I'd live to invite you all to come out for the MCN Digital Imaging 
Special Interest Group meeting on Friday, September 6, from 5-6pm. 
It's just the thing you need to fill that dreary void before the 
evening mayhem starts & meet the right people to go out with 
afterwards!


For those of you haven't been to a SIG meeting yet, the Digital 
Imaging SIG is an open forum for networking with your peers, finding 
an expert for your burning questions & providing input on what kinds 
of events you'd like to see at the next MCN conference. In Toronto, 
the DI SIG co-sponsors the event "Archiving Digital Assets for the 
Long Haul," a two-part panel organized in collaboration with the 
Standards & Vocabulary SIG. The SIG also contributes a series of 
articles to MCN's online publication eSpectra on digital imaging 
issues - please see http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/resources.html.


If you'd like to get more involved with the conference, feel like 
organizing an event but don't know how to go about it or just want to 
meet some new people, please stop on by!


I'll see you there,
Guenter
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Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN 
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Re: Voyager & libraries & museums

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi Margaret,

like everybody else, I don't know anything about Voyager, but I do 
have an example of University Art Museum and Library collaboration. 
And of course it is my favorite example, because it is a project the 
Berkeley Art Museum is leading :-). Museums and the Online Archive of 
California (MOAC) provides fairly sophisticated integration of museum 
and library / archival collections through the use of various 
standards such as Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Metadata 
Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and Text Encoding 
Initiative (TEI). The museum data gets integrated into a union 
database consisting of about 6000 collections from about 60 
repositories (libraries, archives, museums) statewide. You can check 
out the project and its documentation at 
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/.


Cheers,
Guenter


Hello--

I was wondering if anyone working within a Museum collection has utilized
Voyager software to make their collections information accessible via the Web.
Any comments or info greatly appreciated!

And while I am at it, does anyone have any favorite examples of University
Museum and Library collections being linked so at least a basic search is done
across both collections? 


Thanks!

Margaret Tamulonis
Project Manager
The Robert Hull Fleming Museum
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont


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Re: Tiff Metadata reader?

[Guenter Waibel]

Title: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?


I'm extremely interested in this topic as well, so please respond
to the list if you have any brilliant insight on the matter! The only
other suggestion I can make is that I do remember that Norbert Lossau
made reference to a tiff reader in a sidebar of Oya/Rieger Moving
Theory into Practice, RLG 2000. Can't remember the details, and don't
have the book on me to verify, but maybe somebody else on the list
does?

We just recently sat down with the manufacturer of our digital
cameraback (BetterLight) to help us gather better / more extensive
metadata, and they seemed amenable to our suggestions. The idea was to
have the capture software retain more metadata than it does right now,
and maybe transport it by writing it to fileheader lines not in use
yet. This strategy would also rely on having software which can get
the entirety of that information out of the fileheader and into a
database. Especially with the advent of the new NISO Technical
Metadata for Still Images standard, I hope we'll see more manufactures
pay attention to metadata capture. One can always dream, right?

Best,
Guenter



At 3:42 PM -0500 5/20/2002, Chuck Patch wrote:
Thanks for the various
suggestions -- I'm still looking though; all of the sites that I've
been directed to, or found, that cater to PC/Wintel-oriented users
offer only source code libraries, usually in C++, that I could use to
build tiff manipulating software. Alas, that's a bit beyond
me.

I should explain that
what I'm trying to do is trace the progress of metadata keyed-in
through a couple of different versions of Photoshop, through the tiff
files output from them, into a program called Portfolio Extensis,
which we are using as a temporary holding-bin for our digitized
images. Extensis is a specialized database app that will read tiff
headers into a record structure, including the custom metadata that
one can create in Photoshop and export to a tiff header.
Unfortunately, we're having some trouble finding the data in the tiff
files and mapping it consistently to the same fields in Extensis. I
figured that if I could just read the header on the tiff file, I would
have a better idea of what's going on.

Chuck

-Original
Message-
From: Guenter Waibel [mailto:guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:29 PM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?


If you're on a Mac and
looking for a pretty cheap & diry solution
which will give you access to some, but not all tiff
file header
fields, check out iViewMultimediaPro at
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/.
This nifty little asset management
program also lets you export the information of your
choice to
tab-delimited text so it can be imported into another
database
system. It doesn't let you look at the actual tagging
of the image
file, though, if that's the prime concern - only at
the content.

Best,
Guenter

>Chuck,
>
>Maybe this link is usefull:
>
>http://picturemetadata.sourceforge.net/
>
>Bert
>
>
>  
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
>   Van: Chuck
Patch [mailto:chu...@hnoc.org]
>   Verzonden: ma
20-5-2002 19:28
>   Aan:
mcn-l@mcn.edu
>  
CC:
>   Onderwerp:
Tiff Metadata reader?
>
>
>
>   Does anyone
know of a simple (preferably free) tiff file
>reader that shows the metadata tags? I don't even
care if I can't
>see the image -- I'd just like to be able to
read-out the metadata
>and see how it's tagged.
>
>  
___
>   Chuck
Patch
>   director of
systems
>   The Historic
New Orleans Collection
>  
(504)523-4662
>   (504)598-7108
(fax)
>  
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Re: Online Catalogue Planning

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi all,

the Berkeley Art Museum has a digital asset management database which 
enables us to publish to the web via the Union Catalog administered 
through the Online Archive of California (OAC). Or, to disentangle 
that statement somewhat :-), the database does not export html, or 
hook up directly to the web; it exports Encoded Archival Description 
(EAD) xml, Making of America 2 (MOA2) xml and Text Encoding 
Initiative (TEI Lite) xml, which serve as file exchange formats for 
upload to the OAC. Once we've uploaded the files, our collections 
data can be searched in the context of collections from 60 other 
repositories and growing (museums, archives, libraries) statewide. We 
also present all that xml collections mark-up locally on our own 
website. The database was developed in the context of a project 
called MOAC - Museums and the Online Archive of California 
(http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/)


The benefit of this approach is that we get the best of both worlds - 
data integration with other institutions, which among many other 
things means researchers / cultural tourists who don't even know we 
exist will stumble across our data; and local control over our 
presentation on our own website.


We'll also join the club of folks with work-in-progress (is anything 
ever really finished these days?) - we're in the process of writing a 
consortial grant to professionally re-develop the database, adding 
support for a host of new file exchange formats such as Metadata 
Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and NISO Technical Metadata 
in XML (MIX), and support for AV materials. The project aims to 
produce a community tool which museums can use to submit data to 
various online portals such as OAC, RLG, AMICO etc as well as present 
them locally; support for management of digital assets is also part 
of the specification.


Cheers,
Guenter


Hi all,
Maybe we should create a still-working-on-it-club of museums.  We are also
in the planning stages--though we have a database & a web component (which
we use in-house), our current web component needs a lot of development
before it is ready for the public.  So we are starting to talk about the
interface and whether we can pull info from other databases simultaneously.
I look forward to hearing more on the list!

Marla Misunas
Manager, Collections Database
Collections Information and Access
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
415 357 4186 voice
415 947 1186 fax
http://www.sfmoma.org
Board Member, Museum Computer Network
http://www.mcn.edu


-Original Message-
From: stephanie_parr...@aismail.wustl.edu
[mailto:stephanie_parr...@aismail.wustl.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:21 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Online Catalogue Planning



Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem, the Gallery of Art at Washington University
in St. Louis is also in the planning stages of developing an online,
searchable catalogue of its collection (we recognize we are behind the
times).  I too am interested in learning about end-user studies and other
helpful resources to guide us in the planning process.

Stephanie Parrish

Washington University Gallery of Art
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
http://galleryofart.wustl.edu/


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Re: Definitions of terms

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi David,

since your post followed mine, and I did throw around some acronyms, 
I thought I'd just give a very brief belated explanation for them. 
I'm sorry I got carried away and didn't provide this information in 
the original post - it's a really bad habbit. I'm glad you spoke up, 
and I promise to mend my ways. :-)


EAD - Encoded Archival Description, an xml dtd for marking up 
archival finding aids. More at http://www.loc.gov/ead/
METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, an xml schema for 
encoding digital objects. More at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
OAIS - Open Archival Information System, a high-level description put 
together by a NASA subcommittee on how to archive both physical and 
digital objects; for applications to the cultural heritage community, 
see http://www.rlg.org/pr/pr2001-presmeta.html
SIP - Submission Information Packet, one of the data documents 
defined by the OAIS; the data submitted from a contributor to an OAIS 
compliant archive. See link above.


I know my short explanations probably won't go all that far in 
elucidating the subtle mysteries behind the acronyms, but in case 
you're interested, just explore the links. One of the panel proposals 
for MCN 2002 includes a speaker on OAIS, so the conference itself 
will also be a good place to learn more about these elusive acronyms, 
and we'll probably also have a speaker on METS. If in doubt, another 
good resource for deciphering acronyms is the Standards & Controlled 
Vocabulary SIG page at 
http://www.mcn.edu/SIGS/StandardsAndVocab/stand_subscribe.htm.


Cheers,
Guenter



Some of the recent threads on this list serve have been very pertinent from
a collections management point of view. On the other hand a couple of recent
messages have used acronyms which may not have been understood by all
readers of the list serve. I come from a collections management background
rather than a software background but I am not unfamiliar with database
concepts since I have designed a collections management system myself. The
main reason for my subscribing was to educate myself further on the use
software in a collections management context. But I need to know what some
of the more specialized software terms refer to. If there is a resource for
finding definitions of the terms used on this list serve please post it. It
would probably be of great use to more people than just myself.

David Farrell, Collections Assistant
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 2108
(905) 451-4931 fax
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Re: Part/Whole Relationships in Museum Collections PLUS

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi everybody,

thanks for the interesting discussion on CMS and accessioning objects 
with a parts to whole relationship. I'd like to tease out some issues 
that Roland Dreyer's post has alluded to.


He essentially talks about accession numbers as the basic building 
block for a filenaming convention. In and of itself, using accession 
numbers in filenames is a worthy topic for discussion - I know a lot 
of museums who create their unique filenames by using the accession 
number, and I also know from a session at VRA San Francisco I 
attended in 2000 that there are those who are up in arms against this 
practise. The pro of using the accession number as part of a digital 
filename is the instantaneous identification effect - without any 
further ado, I know what object this file represents. The cons are 
that using accession numbers in filenames amounts to embedding 
descriptive metadata in the filename, and that this type of metadata, 
even something as seemingly stable as an accession no, may change; 
plus what Roland outlined, namely that certain accession numbers may 
not be fit to be used as a filename. At BAM/PFA, we still believe 
that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, and we're using a 
convention that goes like this: 
InstAcronym_AccessionNo_SequentialNo_VersionNo.FiletypeExt, or 
bampfa_1992.4.234_1_1.tif. The Sequential Number is counting off the 
digital images taken of the same object; Version Number is referring 
to whether a file is a master, sub-master, access or thumbnail file.


However, back to the topic at hand. Whether you're dealing with a 
parts-to-whole relationship in your CMS or not, you'll have to deal 
with it once you digitize your collections. Even if your tea-set has 
one accession number in your CMS, you may want to take individual 
surrogate images of each (sub)item in it. Furthermore, objects for 
which no registrar would create several entries or a groupentry or 
subentries in a CMS will yield more than one master image file, for 
example the various views of a sculpture; the individual pages of an 
artist's book; the front and back of a painting (if the back has a 
historical interesting inscription) etc.


To come full circle, I do believe that a discussion about issues of 
how to create records for these "complex" objects (and potentially 
*any* object is a complex object) has to tie in with a discussion 
about creating digital surrogates and managing them. One of the most 
basic challenges of managing digital assets is to keep the link 
between the surrogate and the descriptive metadata pertaining to the 
physical object intact.


Just to give a brief example of how the decision to accession the 
tea-set may influence online access to the digital surrogate - if you 
were to create separate records for each part of the tea-set as in 
option 1 William outlined, you'd wind up with a situation where it 
would be hard for your access architecture / strategy to know that 
those objects should really be presented as one group with individual 
children. You probably wouldn't be able to preserve the meaningful 
grouping of the items in your presentation. If you follow strategy 2 
and catalogue in a parent-child manner, you've definitely mad more 
explicit that those items should be presented together, but then when 
it comes time to digitize them, you may find out that the divisions 
the CMS makes can not be "replicated" in digital images - the CMS may 
have one entry the cup and saucer, whereas the photographer feels 
that they need to be shot separately because there's something on the 
saucer the cup covers if you shot them together.


I realize this is getting pretty ridiculous :-), but I think you get 
the general drift - databases managing digital images and collections 
management system have to be tightly integrated to operate 
efficiently, and the parent / child question is one of the many 
delicate issues in this integration - where is this relationship 
hosted? In the CMS, or in the Digital Asset Managemeny System? At 
BAM/PFA, we use our Digital Asset Management Database to provide 
parent/child relationships for digital files - we go from the one 
record in the CMS to the many records which might be required for the 
digital surrogates. However, whenever I encounter objects with many 
different records in the CMS, it breaks my system as described above. 
I think we need to have a discussion between curators / registrars 
and digital archive managers on how digital imaging might impact 
current practises of acessioning the physical objects, and how we 
think about CMS.


Just my humble 2c's. Thanks for listening - you've made it to the end!

Cheers,
Guenter
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DigImaging SIG - Fwd: NEDCC Off the Wall and Online Conference

[Guenter Waibel]

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:10:26 -0500
Reply-To: IMAGELIB 
Sender: IMAGELIB 
From: "Kim O'Leary" 
Subject:  NEDCC Off the Wall and Online Conference
To: image...@listserv.arizona.edu

The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents
Off the Wall and Online:
Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
May 30-31, 2002

If you have time for only one conference this year, opt for Off the Wall and
Online at The National Heritage Museum (formerly The Museum of Our National
Heritage) in Lexington, Massachusetts.  This cutting-edge conference from
the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover, Massachusetts
is designed to serve institutions that are digitizing or planning to
digitize collections and also those who simply want to make their Websites
more interesting.  As the emergence of the World Wide Web has made the world
smaller, museums and their online audiences have grown tremendously.  This
event will address the questions and challenges facing both large and small
institutions that are undertaking digitization projects and putting images
from their collections online for educational purposes, research, and public
relations.

The NEDCC conference will bring together museum educators, technical
experts, and administrators to discuss the new access opportunities as well
as often perplexing issues of quality versus cost and longevity of the
digital files.  A keynote address by Beverly Sheppard, Deputy Director of
IMLS will focus on outreach to diverse communities.  New evaluation data
will be presented to help define the online audience and determine what
sorts of programs are most effective in engaging this audience.

Topics will include:

- The Changing Role of Museums
- Attracting Visitors to a Website
- Cooperating to Build Virtual Collections
- Reaching Out to Diverse Audiences
- Designing a Website
- Quality of Scanned Images
- Web-based Education
- Image Capture for Preservation & Access

The conference will be held on May 30-31, 2002 at The National Heritage
Museum (formerly The Museum of Our National Heritage) in Lexington,
Massachusetts.  A National Museum Leadership Grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports this high-profile event.  IMLS
is an independent, federal, grant-making agency that fosters leadership,
innovation and education learning through museums and libraries.
Co-sponsors are the New England Museum Association and The National Heritage
Museum.  NEDCC also receives financial support for its field service
activities from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Registration information is available on NEDCC's Web site at www.nedcc.org
or contact Ginny Hughes at ghug...@nedcc.org


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Re: DIG-Update

[Guenter Waibel]

LA
Image Integration
The Digital Imaging Guide
7 Third Ave., SF, CA 94118 415/750 1274
Images are information - Manage them
http://www.DIG-Mar.com

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Re: DIG IMG SIG: session for MCN 2002?

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi everybody,

as Rob has already mentioned, Amalyah's post (and the subsequent 
ideas) started very successful negotiations behind the scenes between 
the Standards & Vocabulary SIG and the Digital Media SIG about 
co-sponsoring a session about longevity. The current discussion again 
confirms the interest in the topic - it also came up in the Digital 
Imaging SIG meeting in Cincinnati as one of the requested session 
topics.


If anybody has suggestions for speakers, Rob and I'd be glad to 
receive them. I'd be especially interested in having speakers who 
will talk about DVD-R storage in the hardmedia realm, and DIG35 and 
the soon-to-be NISO Standard on digital still images in the realm of 
metadata.


And somebody convince Jim to ship that exhibit on media storage from 
Glasgow to Toronto...:-)


Cheers,
Guenter



Hi Amalyah et al,

I think this would be an important session for anyone involved in digital
archiving.  Perhaps we could even have a mini exhibition of media storage
in the exhibition hall?  We had an exhibition here some years back which
dealt with 40 years of computing at the University of Glasgow and one of
the most commented on exhibits was the range of storage devices we had,
from giant 4 foot disks which in the 60s stored 250K to Jaz cartridges etc,
which were then one of the lateest things.

Cheers,

Jim.

At 3:39 pm +0200 26/2/02, Amalyah Keshet wrote:

Just a  thought:   Perhaps the Digital Imaging SIG could  propose a
session on the longevity (or lack thereof) of digital storage  media, for
the 2002 annual conference?   The theme of the conference will be "In it
for the  long haul --- technology programs that go the distance,"  so this
would be  an appropriate issue.  Each SIG is to come up with at least one
session  proposal -- and proposals are due on April 5.  See: 
http://www.mcn.edu/2002cfp.htm amalyah keshet

head of image resources &  copyright management
the israel museum, jerusalemwww.imj.org.il
board of directors, museum  computer network   www.mcn.edu (From
ImageLib):   > I thought the Kodak Gold Ultima disks were  virtually
indestructible and was disappointed when Kodak stopped distributing  them.
After looking around for a replacement, I switched to Mitsui, the only
other manufacturer I could find that offered a disk with Phthalocyanine
dye and  a gold reflective layer. They're supposed to be coated for
durability. Mitsui  will send you samples on request and they've been very
fast with shipments.  <http://www.mitsuicdr.com/>


 At one point, Mitsui offered an "archival" gold disk, but their
representative tells me that those were discontinued and now all Mitsui
gold  disks are manufactured to the same standard.

 I think Mitsui  claims 100 years for their disks, but I think people
also need to know how a  disk stands up under every day use and abuse. So
for the past few years, I've  handed out Kodak disks (with digital images
on them) on the first day of my  digital imaging class. I would ask
students to "stress test" them, and then a  few weeks later, when we
discussed the longevity of digital media, we'd pull  them out and compare
notes.

 The Kodak disks survived 25 days  under water (which I thought would
open their laminated surfaced). They've been  buried  in a garden, placed
on the rear package shelf under a car window  (which is hot!), tied to
car bumpers, played with all day in a kindergarten  class  .. you name
it.  The only things that never failed to  destroy  the disks were deep

 >>scratches and nail polish remover (no surprise  there).
 >>
 >> I'll let you know how the Mitsui disks fare later this  year.
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> Robert Leopold
 >> Archives &  Collections Information Manager

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Digital Imaging SIG: 2 articles on Digital Asset Management

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi Digital Imaging SIG,

there are two articles in this month's Digital Imaging Guide 
newsletter which are of potential interest - Paula Hardin, Curator 
Visual Resources Library, University of North Carolina, discusses her 
workflow and how she uses Portfolio and Filemaker in conjunction to 
manage digital images, and one of the other columns (called "Gert 
Says") discusses basic features to look for in a Digital Asset 
Management system. Both are linked from the very bottom of the DIG 
homepage at http://www.DIG-Mar.com/.


Enjoy!
Guenter
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SPECTRA Digital Imaging Special Issue online - ERROR

[Guenter Waibel]

I've gotten a number of messages complaining about an error in the 
link to the pdf file. The link works fine on my Mac running  Internet 
Explorer 5. It doesn't work when I try to open it in Navigator, 
though. This also seems to be true in a PC environment from what 
people tell me. I've notified the proper authorities :-), and I hope 
the issue will be resolved soon. For those of you who just can't 
wait, try *hand-typing* 
http://www.mcn.edu/pdf/MCN_Spectra_%20Fall00.pdf  into Navigator. 
Somehow that seems to get around the problem. Otherwise, please try 
the link again in a day or two!


I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope I didn't spoil anybody's 
Thanksgiving by witholding vital reading materials :-). Please bear 
with us!


Guenter


I keep getting error 404. Could you check?


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SPECTRA Digital Imaging Special Issue online

[Guenter Waibel]

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Hi Everybody,

I am pleased to announce that a Special Digital Imaging Issue of
"Spectra" is now available from http://www.mcn.edu/spectra.htm. 
Please follow the link "2000 Summer/Fall Issue" for the free pdf 
download. Let leaders in the

field give you an update on state of the art digital imaging in a
museum or archival setting!

As the guest editor of this issue, I'd especially like to point your
attention to an article by photographer Ben Blackwell investigating
the light exposure of sensitive objects during direct digital
capture, and a piece by renowned photoshop expert Bruce Fraser
discussing color management in archival image files. However, I think
you'll find all of the contributions rewarding and well worth your
attention.

The complete list of articles:

Jill Marie Koelling - Digital Imaging: The New Photographic Research Tool
Carol Hernandez & Robin Lilien - Building a Digital Archive
Dr. S.K. Hastings - What are Digital Image Managers?
Ben Blackwell - Light Exposure to Sensitive Artworks During Digital
Photography
Dr Norbert Lossau & Martin Liebetruth - Conservation Issues in Digital
Imaging
Guenter Waibel - A Holistic Approach to Digital Assets Management
Eileen C. Mathias - The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Imaging Center
Andrew S. Long - Practical Approach to Color Management
Trudy Levy - Do you See What I See?
Bruce Fraser - Issues in Digital Archiving
Colin C. Venters and Dr. Mathew D. Cooper - Content Based Image Retrieval


Please feel free to distribute this announcement as appropriate.

Thanks,
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guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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Digital Imaging SIG: Meeting Minutes Cincinnati

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi everybody,

please find the minutes of the Digital Imaging SIG meeting in 
Cincinnati at the SIG webpage 
(http://www.mcn.edu/SIGS/Digital/visig_subscribe.htm). Thanks to all 
who came out and made the meeting the smashing success it was! We had 
a very lively discussion on session and workshop proposals for MCN 
2002, on local behind-the-scenes tours as a conference event in 
Toronto, and various other topics. Please swing by and give it a 
read. As always, feedback is very much appreciated.


Cheers,
Guenter

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Re: fate of the MCN SIGs

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi everybody,

I've polled the Digital Imaging SIG twice on the topic of the 
dedicated SIG list, and the first time (about a year ago), there were 
quite some voices in favor of keeping the individual lists. I think 
people felt we hadn't given it a fair try yet (the lists were still 
fairly new), and eventually the list would have the momentum to 
sustain worthwhile discussions. We even appointed a list moderator at 
MCN Las Vegas, but we still couldn't get people to adopt the list in 
a significant way. When I asked again about a month ago, I didn't get 
a single defender for the SIG list. I think it's sound judgement at 
this point to fold the SIG lists back into the general list - a nice 
side-effect of which would be that it may re-vitalize the general 
list.


Cheers,
Guenter
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Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
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Phone   510-643-8655
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Digital Imaging SIG MCN 2001 activities

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi MCN list,

I just posted an update for possible Digital Imaging SIG activities 
at MCN 2001to the dedicate SIG list, and I thougth I'd also post to 
the general list - maybe people who haven't subscribed to the Digital 
Imaging SIG may want to chime in, too.


At MCN 2000 Las Vegas, we identified three possible areas of interest 
for events (workshops or sessions):

- Color Management & Color Correction
- Digital Assets Management Databases
- Digital Imaging Metadata

In addition, I already have some good leads for a session on zoomable 
file formats (such as FlashPix, MrSid, VFZoom, etc) for high-end 
image delivery.


If you have any comments, ideas, or maybe even possible leads for 
presentors, please post them to the general mcn list, to the Digital 
Imaging SIG list at visual-informat...@listserv.mcn.edu, or contact 
me directly.


Thanks!

Guenter
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Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
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guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Phone   510-643-8655
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SPECTRA Special Issue on Digital Imaging

[Guenter Waibel]

Hi Everybody,

I am pleased to announce that a Special Digital Imaging Issue of 
"Spectra" will be shipping on November 22nd.  Let leaders in the 
field give you an update on state of the art digital imaging in a 
museum or archival setting!


As the guest editor of this issue, I'd especially like to point your 
attention to an article by photographer Ben Blackwell investigating 
the light exposure of sensitive objects during direct digital 
capture, and a piece by renowned photoshop expert Bruce Fraser 
discussing color management in archival image files. However, I think 
you'll find all of the contributions rewarding and well worth your 
attention.


The complete list of articles:

Jill Marie Koelling - Digital Imaging: The New Photographic Research Tool
Carol Hernandez & Robin Lilien - Building a Digital Archive
Dr. S.K. Hastings - What are Digital Image Managers?
Ben Blackwell - Light Exposure to Sensitive Artworks During Digital Photography
Dr Norbert Lossau & Martin Liebetruth - Conservation Issues in Digital Imaging
Guenter Waibel - A Holistic Approach to Digital Assets Management
Eileen C. Mathias - The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Imaging Center
Andrew S. Long - Practical Approach to Color Management
Trudy Levy - Do you See What I See?
Bruce Fraser - Issues in Digital Archiving
Colin C. Venters and Dr. Mathew D. Cooper - Content Based Image Retrieval

If you are already a member of MCN, you will automatically receive a 
copy of SPECTRA.  Non-members may order the individual issue for $20 
from:


Membership Services Office
1550 S. Coast Hwy Suite 201
Laguna Beach, CA 9265
phone: (877) 626-3800
fax: (949) 376-3456

Thanks,

Guenter Waibel
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Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN http://www.mcn.edu/visig_subscribe.taf
guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Phone   510-643-8655
Fax 510-642-4889
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