[MCN-L] Website benchmarking

[Folsom, Diana]

If we contributed LACMA statistics gathered from Urchin software, would
it still be useful?

Diana 


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Christina DePaolo
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I'm in.

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Rob Stein
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I find Google Analytics to be a quite amazing tool that can go into very
forensic detail if you've got enough time to spend :-)

I think perhaps a more useful question would be why is there so little
information about web site traffic and statistics between museums?  MCN
seems to be a perfect place to trade that sort of information.  I'd be
willing to export traffic statistics from Google Analytics if others are
willing to do the same?

Perhaps we can agree on a high level set of stats that are useful for
benchmarking against peers that can be properly anonymized so as not to
be too specific to any one museum's investments in keyword optimization
and Ad campaigns?

We make some of this information available on
http://dashboard.imamuseum.org.  This is certainly less information than
what would be useful to this audience, but I'd be willing to open that
up more significantly.

Any Takers?

Rob

Robert Stein
Chief Information Officer

IMA It's My Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Oldfields--Lilly House & Gardens
Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park

T 317-923-1331, ext. 244 F 317-931-1978
E rstein at imamuseum.org
4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN 46208

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Jeff Tancil
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That seems to beg a question: what stats service is useful? As a fairly
dinky Museum, we use the best free service, GoogleAnalytics. How badly
do people think that skews?

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Nik Honeysett
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Like you say, these sites are ok for trends but do not give anything
close to accurate figures for traffic your numbers.

-nik

>>> Russ Brooks  3/11/2008 10:43 AM >>>
When we noticed a shift in our web statistics we wondered if it was just
our site or was it something that was affecting all other museums.

We found the two following sites very useful in providing us with an
opportunity to compare our performance to that of other museums.
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.compete.com/

These two sites allowed us to see the exact same patterns in traffic
affecting nearly all other museums.

These sites can also be useful when trying to determine Internet usage
trends. Is Facebook still hot? Type in their address and you can see the
results.



On 3/11/08 1:26 PM, "Leonard Steinbach"  wrote:

> I was wondering whether anyone uses any particular web traffic
statistics to
> compare the performance of their website to the websites of other
museums.
> In effect is anyone benchmarking their website against others, or know
of
> any studies or papers which address this issue?
>
> Thanks
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[MCN-L] Website benchmarking

[Christina DePaolo]

I'm in.

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Stein
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:25 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking

I find Google Analytics to be a quite amazing tool that can go into very
forensic detail if you've got enough time to spend :-)

I think perhaps a more useful question would be why is there so little
information about web site traffic and statistics between museums?  MCN
seems to be a perfect place to trade that sort of information.  I'd be
willing to export traffic statistics from Google Analytics if others are
willing to do the same?

Perhaps we can agree on a high level set of stats that are useful for
benchmarking against peers that can be properly anonymized so as not to
be too specific to any one museum's investments in keyword optimization
and Ad campaigns?

We make some of this information available on
http://dashboard.imamuseum.org.  This is certainly less information than
what would be useful to this audience, but I'd be willing to open that
up more significantly.

Any Takers?

Rob

Robert Stein
Chief Information Officer

IMA It's My Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Oldfields--Lilly House & Gardens
Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park

T 317-923-1331, ext. 244 F 317-931-1978
E rstein at imamuseum.org
4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN 46208

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Jeff Tancil
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking

That seems to beg a question: what stats service is useful? As a fairly
dinky Museum, we use the best free service, GoogleAnalytics. How badly
do people think that skews?

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Nik Honeysett
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking

Like you say, these sites are ok for trends but do not give anything
close to accurate figures for traffic your numbers.

-nik

>>> Russ Brooks  3/11/2008 10:43 AM >>>
When we noticed a shift in our web statistics we wondered if it was just
our site or was it something that was affecting all other museums.

We found the two following sites very useful in providing us with an
opportunity to compare our performance to that of other museums.
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.compete.com/

These two sites allowed us to see the exact same patterns in traffic
affecting nearly all other museums.

These sites can also be useful when trying to determine Internet usage
trends. Is Facebook still hot? Type in their address and you can see the
results.



On 3/11/08 1:26 PM, "Leonard Steinbach"  wrote:

> I was wondering whether anyone uses any particular web traffic
statistics to
> compare the performance of their website to the websites of other
museums.
> In effect is anyone benchmarking their website against others, or know
of
> any studies or papers which address this issue?
>
> Thanks
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[MCN-L] Museum classifications

[Johanna Plant]

Hi Adrienne,

CARCC, the Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective, has
created gallery classifications based on institutional operating budgets.
The classifications have been agreed upon by the Canadian Art Museum
Directors Organization (CAMDO) and the Canadian Museums Association (CMA).
You can see the classifications and guiding principles here:
http://www.carcc.ca/fee_schedule_2008_1_exhibition.html

Hope this helps.

Johanna

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Resource Centre Coordinator
The New Gallery
403.440.9804
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> Institutions for E-Culture" by Guntrum Geser in DigiCULT.info 9
> (http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9_xs.pdf ).
>
> David
>
> David Farrell, Collections Registrar
> Peel Heritage Complex
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> 905-791-4055 x3628
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> Sent: February 20, 2010 7:47 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: [MCN-L] Museum classifications
>
> I am trying to find a study previously done with museums so that I
> can see how museums are classified into small, medium and large
> museums in previous studies. Does anyone know of a study that made
> this kind of distinction or is there an official formula for
> making the three distinctions?
>
> Thanks
> Adrienne
>
>
> --
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> M.AMC Department of Public Relations
> College of Journalism & Communications
> University of Florida
>

[MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article

[Mal Booth]

Here, here! It isn't an either/or situation most people are suggesting.
 
Much of the language we use and many of the assumptions we make in
museums, libraries and archives simply scares people off or bores them
to death. Folksonomies can help us.
 
Mal
 
 
 
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Read my blog http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ (
http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ )

>>> "Nick Poole"  20/11/2006 4:39 am >>>
Jeanette et al, 

I was really interested in the post around the 'Beneath the Metadata'
article. 

I actually think the article has some pretty deep flaws. First of all,
it is
not entirely clear why you would apply these philosophical constructs
to
Folksonomy in the first place and secondly I don't think it helps to
further
the understanding of what Folksonomy and 'traditional' cataloguing are
and
how they might work together. 

The article essentially says that classification is about absolutes -
this
horse is white, that box is empty - whereas Folksonomy is about
subjectivity
and relativism. It goes on to compare classification with
propositional
logic and states that Folksonomy by its nature gives rise to logical
contradiction. It strikes me that this misses a significant part of the
real
value of the approach. 

In her article, Elaine Peterson says that when we catalogue, we are
asking
the question 'What is it?'. I couldn't disagree more. What we are
really
asking is 'What are we going to call this thing (and things relevantly
similar to it)?'. In this sense, 'traditional' classification is an act
of
collective relativism, and is equally subject to the flaws of
subjectivity
as Folksonomy.

I have no doubt that the wave around Folksonomy will eventually pass,
and I
very much hope that what will be left is an enriched approach to
professional classification.

There is considerable strength in a hybrid approach which retains the
intellectual rigour of ontological standardisation but which equally
recognises the additional potential value of large-scale subjective
term-attribution. For example, would it not validate our professional
beliefs if the subjective interpretations of tens of thousands of
people
translated up into patterns of meaning which confirmed them? And
similarly,
if they don't, wouldn't there be considerable value in asking why not?


Finally, whatever the linguistic consistency or validity of
folksonomic
thesauri, we must never underestimate the importance of letting people
in.
The act of tagging is only partly to do with classification. It is an
affirmative act which says 'I want to be involved' and for that alone,
it is
of tremendous value. 

Nick Poole
Director
Museum Documentation Association 






Nick Poole
Director
MDA

The Spectrum Building, The Michael Young Centre, 
Purbeck Road, Cambridge, CB2 2PD

Telephone: 01223 415 760
http://www.mda.org.uk ( http://www.mda.org.uk/ )
http://www.collectionsforall.org.uk (
http://www.collectionsforall.org.uk/ )

The revised edition of SPECTRUM, the UK museum documentation standard,
is
now available. Download it for free at:

http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm 
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Thanks for forwarding this.  Good article.

Amalyah Keshet


At 20:33 17/11/2006, you wrote:

> >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:44 -0800
> >Sender:   Visual Resources Association

> >From: Jeanette Mills 
> >Subject: folksonomy article
> >To:   VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 
> >Hello everyone -- Considering the recent discussions of folksonomy,
> >I thought this article in the most recent issue of D-Lib might be
of
> >interest.  I don't think it's been mentioned yet.
> >
> >Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
> >Elaine Peterson, Montana State University
> >http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html 
> >
> >Jeanette
> >
> >=
> >Jeanette C. Mills, MA + MLIS
> >Director of Visual Services & Newsletter Editor
> >School of Art, University of Washington
> >jcmills at u dot washington dot edu
> >206-543-0649
> >=
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[MCN-L] Website benchmarking

[Rob Stein]

I find Google Analytics to be a quite amazing tool that can go into very
forensic detail if you've got enough time to spend :-)

I think perhaps a more useful question would be why is there so little
information about web site traffic and statistics between museums?  MCN
seems to be a perfect place to trade that sort of information.  I'd be
willing to export traffic statistics from Google Analytics if others are
willing to do the same?  

Perhaps we can agree on a high level set of stats that are useful for
benchmarking against peers that can be properly anonymized so as not to
be too specific to any one museum's investments in keyword optimization
and Ad campaigns?

We make some of this information available on
http://dashboard.imamuseum.org.  This is certainly less information than
what would be useful to this audience, but I'd be willing to open that
up more significantly.

Any Takers?

Rob

Robert Stein
Chief Information Officer 

IMA It's My Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Oldfields--Lilly House & Gardens
Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park

T 317-923-1331, ext. 244 F 317-931-1978
E rstein at imamuseum.org
4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN 46208 

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Jeff Tancil
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking

That seems to beg a question: what stats service is useful? As a fairly
dinky Museum, we use the best free service, GoogleAnalytics. How badly
do people think that skews?

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Nik Honeysett
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:53 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Website benchmarking

Like you say, these sites are ok for trends but do not give anything
close to accurate figures for traffic your numbers.
 
-nik

>>> Russ Brooks  3/11/2008 10:43 AM >>>
When we noticed a shift in our web statistics we wondered if it was just
our site or was it something that was affecting all other museums.

We found the two following sites very useful in providing us with an
opportunity to compare our performance to that of other museums.
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.compete.com/ 

These two sites allowed us to see the exact same patterns in traffic
affecting nearly all other museums.

These sites can also be useful when trying to determine Internet usage
trends. Is Facebook still hot? Type in their address and you can see the
results.



On 3/11/08 1:26 PM, "Leonard Steinbach"  wrote:

> I was wondering whether anyone uses any particular web traffic
statistics to
> compare the performance of their website to the websites of other
museums.
> In effect is anyone benchmarking their website against others, or know
of
> any studies or papers which address this issue?
> 
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[MCN-L] Net Neutrality

[Beth Kanter]

There's an "open source documentary" going around about Net Neutrality
The first cut was created with clips found on YouTube, Blip.TV, etc.  Folks
are downloading it, remixing it, and spreading it as a sort of exquisite
corpse advocacy effort.  I have the first and second versions plus some
links to good materials for nonprofits:

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/11/net_neutrality_.html 

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"fortunately" this article was written in April. The new Democratic congress
will try again when it convenes

Perian Sully
Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley, CA

Mike Rippy wrote:
> Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal
>  
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6058223.html
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[MCN-L] Museum classifications

[Farrell, David]

Hi Adrienne - Take a look at "Assessing The Readiness of Small Heritage 
Institutions for E-Culture" by Guntrum Geser in DigiCULT.info 9  
(http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9_xs.pdf ).

David

David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

IMAGINE | new exhibits new space new connections

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Adrienne Fletcher
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Subject: [MCN-L] Museum classifications

I am trying to find a study previously done with museums so that I
can see how museums are classified into small, medium and large
museums in previous studies. Does anyone know of a study that made
this kind of distinction or is there an official formula for
making the three distinctions?

Thanks
Adrienne


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College of Journalism & Communications
University of Florida

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[MCN-L] FW: From Reading to Writing Textbooks

[akes...@imj.org.il]

I'm forwarding something that has nothing to do with museums, but everything to 
do with the wiki phenomenon, which is pretty much up our alley. If this article 
presciently predicts the demise of the texbook publishing industry, remember, 
you read it here first.

Amalyah Keshet

===
From:  <-- The Filter --> October 2006
Your regular dose of public-interest Internet news and commentary from 
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.




>From Reading to Writing Textbooks
By David Weinberger

In the mid 1990s I moderated a panel at some conference with Bruce 
Tognazzini as a panelist. Tog, as he likes to be called, was the lead 
designer of the Macintosh's user interface. He was working on the "Star" 
project for Sun at the time. On the topic of education, Tog said 
something that seems to be more true every day: students shouldn't be 
reading textbooks -- they ought to be writing them.

At the time I thought this was a clever thing to say with some but not 
enough truth to it. It smacked of a denigration of learning that I find 
both attractive and repulsive. But now that we have wikis, I find it 
mainly attractive.

Textbooks serve an important purpose in many classes. As a professor of 
writing at University of Houston Downtown said at a breakout session I 
was at last week, they can enunciate a vocabulary that enables 
conversation. They organize (and commoditize) knowledge according to the 
experience of an expert in the field. Students cannot reasonably be 
expected to write a textbook that competes with a published one.

But, textbooks also often present a field as, well, a field that one is 
going to conquer by marching through it, one turn of the page at a time. 
And, because they're paper, all the links are broken. Every one of them.

So, in some fields, I'm now with Tog. Give the shared vocabulary in 
class, and then send your students out to build a wiki that by the end 
of the course expresses what they've learned together. Let them argue 
about how to organize it. Keep the discussion pages up. Keep the 
differences visible. Let them fill it with links. Let them connect with 
other students in other schools creating related wikis.

A class's wiki is not going to be as complete, well-grounded or 
well-written as a good textbook. But students will learn more by writing 
one than by cribbing and cramming from a professional textbook. And they 
may learn something that few textbooks manage to convey: why the people 
in that field are in the field. If all you know about the study of 
history is what you read in your history text, how the study of history 
can grab a person and throw her through the rest of her life will remain 
a mystery. But, if your class is doing the work of history -- or at 
least meta-history -- by writing a wiki textbook on, say, the 
Renaissance, you may get an inkling. You may.

Of course, this messes with the grading system. How do you grade 
students individually for social knowledge? But how sad is it that when 
it comes to education, our measurement techniques shape what is to be 
measured...

Read more:

* Tog: 
* O'Reilly on-demand textbook project (Safari U): 
* CNN on interactive, social textbooks: 

* Wiki textbook project: 





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[MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article

[Nick Poole]

Jeanette et al, 

I was really interested in the post around the 'Beneath the Metadata'
article. 

I actually think the article has some pretty deep flaws. First of all, it is
not entirely clear why you would apply these philosophical constructs to
Folksonomy in the first place and secondly I don't think it helps to further
the understanding of what Folksonomy and 'traditional' cataloguing are and
how they might work together. 

The article essentially says that classification is about absolutes - this
horse is white, that box is empty - whereas Folksonomy is about subjectivity
and relativism. It goes on to compare classification with propositional
logic and states that Folksonomy by its nature gives rise to logical
contradiction. It strikes me that this misses a significant part of the real
value of the approach. 

In her article, Elaine Peterson says that when we catalogue, we are asking
the question 'What is it?'. I couldn't disagree more. What we are really
asking is 'What are we going to call this thing (and things relevantly
similar to it)?'. In this sense, 'traditional' classification is an act of
collective relativism, and is equally subject to the flaws of subjectivity
as Folksonomy.

I have no doubt that the wave around Folksonomy will eventually pass, and I
very much hope that what will be left is an enriched approach to
professional classification.

There is considerable strength in a hybrid approach which retains the
intellectual rigour of ontological standardisation but which equally
recognises the additional potential value of large-scale subjective
term-attribution. For example, would it not validate our professional
beliefs if the subjective interpretations of tens of thousands of people
translated up into patterns of meaning which confirmed them? And similarly,
if they don't, wouldn't there be considerable value in asking why not? 

Finally, whatever the linguistic consistency or validity of folksonomic
thesauri, we must never underestimate the importance of letting people in.
The act of tagging is only partly to do with classification. It is an
affirmative act which says 'I want to be involved' and for that alone, it is
of tremendous value. 

Nick Poole
Director
Museum Documentation Association 






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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
amalyah keshet
Sent: 18 November 2006 11:00
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article

Thanks for forwarding this.  Good article.

Amalyah Keshet


At 20:33 17/11/2006, you wrote:

> >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:44 -0800
> >Sender:   Visual Resources Association 
> >From: Jeanette Mills 
> >Subject: folksonomy article
> >To:   VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> >Hello everyone -- Considering the recent discussions of folksonomy,
> >I thought this article in the most recent issue of D-Lib might be of
> >interest.  I don't think it's been mentioned yet.
> >
> >Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
> >Elaine Peterson, Montana State University
> >http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html
> >
> >Jeanette
> >
> >=
> >Jeanette C. Mills, MA + MLIS
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[Jacqueline Vincent]

Hello Ana,

Depending upon your specific situation and set-up, Adobe Photoshop Bridge
CS2 and particulary Bridge CS3 is excellent for dealing with metadata when
needing to batch insert data that is the same for multiple images.  One way
you can to do this is to create a metadata template within Bridge for
specific batches of images and apply it as you edit each image.

Another way is to batch enter a whole folder of images either with a
template or simply by highlighting all images in Adobe Bridge thumbnail
window and right-clicking on one thumbnail to bring up a list of items, one
being File Info, to open the XMP metadata window, and then entering the
appropriate metadata either by typing or, once it is typed, then the next
time, choosing from any drop-down selection for each metadata option you
wish to autofill without retyping. This way you could batch enter any
metadata that is the same across many images.  Bridge then updates all
selected thumbnails and inserts the metadata.

I hope this helps and offers you a possible solution.

Regards,
Jacqueline

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To: 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: [MCN-L] (no subject)


> We continue to add our collection to our online site. We want to begin
> adding metadata to our images. But, we do not want to add an additional
> step to an already time consuming process of getting each image online.
> Can I set a preference so that it will automatically populate the fields
> from here on out? I am editing our images through Photoshop.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ana.
>
>
>
> Ana M. Gutierrez
>
> Assistant Project Manager
>
> Smithsonian National Postal Museum
>
> 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE MRC 570
>
> Washington, DC 20013-7012
>
> 202-633-5517 * fax 202-633-9393
>
> gutierreza at si.edu
>
> www.arago.si.edu
>
> www.postalmuseum.si.edu 
>
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[MCN-L] (no subject)

[Richard Anderson]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Gutierrez, Ana wrote:

> We continue to add our collection to our online site. We want to begin
> adding metadata to our images. But, we do not want to add an  
> additional
> step to an already time consuming process of getting each image  
> online.
> Can I set a preference so that it will automatically populate the  
> fields
> from here on out? I am editing our images through Photoshop.


Ana-

Create a metadata template- or a set of templates which you can apply  
to images. If you do it in Bridge- you can batch process. You'll need  
to be using CS2 or CS3.

Richard Anderson
http://www.rnaphoto.com

[MCN-L] (no subject)

[Gutierrez, Ana]

We continue to add our collection to our online site. We want to begin
adding metadata to our images. But, we do not want to add an additional
step to an already time consuming process of getting each image online.
Can I set a preference so that it will automatically populate the fields
from here on out? I am editing our images through Photoshop.

 

 

Thank you in advance, 

Ana.

 

Ana M. Gutierrez

Assistant Project Manager

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

2 Massachusetts Ave, NE MRC 570 

Washington, DC 20013-7012

202-633-5517 * fax 202-633-9393

gutierreza at si.edu

www.arago.si.edu

www.postalmuseum.si.edu  

  

 

[MCN-L] CNet article of the recent New Media and Social Memory Symposium at BAM

[Perian Sully]

Dear list:

For those of you who did not attend the New Media and Social Symposium 
about preserving digital art at the Berkeley Art Museum last week, CNet 
just released an article about it: 
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6151389.html - "Digital archivists look 
to porn, Flash for tips" (yes, the article is much more than just its 
title, and thus I forward it to the list as a link of interest)


Of course, this was picked up by BoingBoing as "Web art archivists look 
to porn for guidance." I would like to note that although the topic of 
looking to the porn industry as leaders in distributed archiving is a 
clever and interesting model (in my opinion), that particular suggestion 
was presented in *one or two* sentences near the end of a long day.

Perhaps the other lesson we could learn from the pornography industry is 
that in order to increase the visibility of our work, we merely need to 
invoke the dreaded "P-word"


-- 
Perian Sully
Collection Database and Records Administrator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell St.
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-549-6950 x 335

[MCN-L] Help Us Tailor MCN 2007 To Your Needs!

[Holly Witchey]

 Dear MCN Members and Friends: 

 

We need your help!  The call for proposals for MCN 2007 in Chicago opens
in two weeks, on February 5, and we want to make sure that this year's
conference provides you with the information and resources you need, in
a conference format (session, workshop, keynote, etc.) that is most
appropriate to the topic. 

 

Below are three questions. We hope that your feedback in answering them
will make the session and workshop proposal submission process in
February run smoother and result in a satisfying conference experience
for you.

 

1) Based on last year's conference and evaluations conference attendees
defined the following topics as important: 

 

Opportunities for New Professionals; 

Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability; 

Building Content, Building Communities; 

Superior Content, Superior Delivery

Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability; 

Museum Information Standards; 

Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums; 

Copyright Issues in the New Millennium  

 

Given that the theme of this year's conference is "Building Content,
Building Community: 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology," what
have we forgotten?   Let us know if there are other key topics we have
missed. 

 

 

2) What topics do you feel merit a workshop format rather than a
traditional session?  What are you interested in learning "how to do? " 

 

 

3) Based on this year's conference theme, who do you think would be a
great keynote speaker (or speakers) for MCN 2007?

 

 

Thank you for taking time to respond to our questions; go ahead and
reply to the list serv so we can get some conversation going.

 

 

Marla Misunas

Collections Information Manager

Collections Information and Access

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

415-357-4186 (voice)

Check out SFMOMA Collections Online

www.sfmoma.org

 

[MCN-L] publishing URLS: rule of thumb?

[Christina DePaolo]

Hi,

I have a question for web manager types, like me. 

 

Do you have a standard for promoting your website in your organization's
print publications? For example, do you promote your homepage URL only?
Or do you promote specific URLS? People here like to direct our visitors
to specific pages, so they like to add direct urls to their print copy.
However, I don't think it is a widely used standard anymore. I will
create virtual URLS to use in print, but I don't feel that confident
about them either. 

 

Has anyone seen any marketing articles on this issue or have an opinion
to share with me? Thanks.  

 

Christina DePaolo

New Media Manager

1109 First Avenue, Suite 406

P 206.654.3165

F 206.654.3250

seattleartmuseum.org  

 

[MCN-L] collecting, consolidating and managing email addresses from patrons

[Ari Davidow]

It is very rare that you just want email addresses devoid of other context.

I would suggest that using Raisers Edge is an excellent idea--maintaining
the email addresses in context with any other information about the
subscribers. The overhead of having subscribers about whom you know nothing
(or little) beyond email address, or who have little or no connection to
your development efforts is minor compared to having one place where email
addresses and subscriptions are kept up to date, and where synergies with
other organizational data can occur. Exporting a periodic email address
report from Raisers Edge would not be nearly as much a bother as trying to
integrate data the other way.

I am speaking from intent, not from experience, however, so other folks may
be able to present better experiential data, for or against. Our
organization is in the process of moving to a single system after
experiencing the joys of maintaining mailing lists in one system, volunteers
in a second, development in a third, etc.

ari



On 12/29/06, Patrick  wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>   I've been tasked with putting together a plan for collecting,
> consolidating and managing email addresses from our patrons. We've
> implemented the more obvious collection points- web site, newsletter
> subscriptions, membership applications, e-commerce, etc.- but the challenge
> now is sorting through all these various email sources located in different
> places, matching them to existing email addresses, eliminating duplicates,
> cleaning the data, etc.
>
>   We use parts of Raisers Edge to manage membership data but it sounds
> like overkill for this. I need to consolidate the various email address
> repositories, verify the data, eliminate any duplicates already in our
> membership database, and provide a means for editing/updating. Does anyone
> have any wisdom to share on this?
>
>   Thanks in advance, and happy new year to all.
>
>   Patrick Clancy
>   Director of Information Technology
>   The New York Botanical Garden
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[MCN-L] collecting, consolidating and managing email addresses from patrons

[Tom]

Hi Patrick,

Is your site based on a CMS or is it put together via various scripts  
tied into HTML pages?


On Dec 29, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Patrick wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>   I've been tasked with putting together a plan for collecting,  
> consolidating and managing email addresses from our patrons. We've  
> implemented the more obvious collection points- web site,  
> newsletter subscriptions, membership applications, e-commerce,  
> etc.- but the challenge now is sorting through all these various  
> email sources located in different places, matching them to  
> existing email addresses, eliminating duplicates, cleaning the  
> data, etc.
>
>   We use parts of Raisers Edge to manage membership data but it  
> sounds like overkill for this. I need to consolidate the various  
> email address repositories, verify the data, eliminate any  
> duplicates already in our membership database, and provide a means  
> for editing/updating. Does anyone have any wisdom to share on this?
>
>   Thanks in advance, and happy new year to all.
>
>   Patrick Clancy
>   Director of Information Technology
>   The New York Botanical Garden
>
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[MCN-L] collecting, consolidating and managing email addresses from patrons

[Patrick]

Hi folks,
   
  I've been tasked with putting together a plan for collecting, consolidating 
and managing email addresses from our patrons. We've implemented the more 
obvious collection points- web site, newsletter subscriptions, membership 
applications, e-commerce, etc.- but the challenge now is sorting through all 
these various email sources located in different places, matching them to 
existing email addresses, eliminating duplicates, cleaning the data, etc.
   
  We use parts of Raisers Edge to manage membership data but it sounds like 
overkill for this. I need to consolidate the various email address 
repositories, verify the data, eliminate any duplicates already in our 
membership database, and provide a means for editing/updating. Does anyone have 
any wisdom to share on this?
   
  Thanks in advance, and happy new year to all.
   
  Patrick Clancy
  Director of Information Technology
  The New York Botanical Garden

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