[MCN-L] Professorship of Information Science and Culture vacancy
Dear all, The University of Amsterdam is looking for a Professor of Information Science and Culture (dl December 12th). It is a unique position because it deals with information in the broad sense of the word (the products of human thought and action) and with culture (information of and about culture). Here the link with information about the position, the department, the application, etc. Some information is in Dutch but please don't feel intimidated and ask to get materials in English, we are also looking for international candidates ! http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/6FBDE8C6-42FF-486F-80C09E9EC564D91F For further information, please contact the secretary of the selection committee, Ms J.H.J. Kuiper, tel. 020 525 2006, email J.H.J.Kuiper at uva.nl, or the committee chairman, Prof. P.P.R.W. Pisters, tel. 020 525 4593, email P.P.R.W.Pisters at uva.nl. -- :..::...::..::...::..: Trilce Navarrete PhD researcher and lecturer University of Amsterdam -Digital Heritage. Masters in Cultural Economics -Digital Museum Collections. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Masters in Arts Administration -Museum Studies. University of Oregon. m: +31 (0)6 244 84998 e: trilce.navarrete at gmail.com a: Turfdraagsterpad 9 (room 1.03) NL 1012XT Amsterdam s: trilcen w: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/t.navarretehernandez/
[MCN-L] websites from Mimsy
On 25/10/2011 02:53, lenore wrote: You might be interested, though, in a survey of the 200 or so AAMD websites that Willoughby has undertaken over the past 3 years. This survey has focused on the online access to collections offered by museums and, disappointingly, almost all of the online access to collections offered by these museums are replete with flaws, both conceptual and technological. If you'd like a copy of the report (which includes a critique of the problems as well as suggestions for improvements) -- it's scheduled for publication later this year or early next year -- please let me know. Lenore, I'm sure that the whole group would be interested in this report. Please tell the list when it's available. Do failure to publish as Linked Data and failure to tell stories feature in the critique? Best wishes, Richard -- *Richard Light*
[MCN-L] upcoming board meeting: do you have agenda ideas?
Hi everyone, If you have items for the annual board meeting agenda, please send me your ideas by Friday. I will be working on the agenda and plan to get it out to you next week. Thanks. Christina DePaolo Director of New Media Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plaza San Diego, CA 92101 Tel (619) 630-9600 Fax (619) 819-8230 Cell (206) 919-3013 http://www.balboapark.orghttp://www.balboapark.org/
[MCN-L] upcoming board meeting: do you have agenda ideas?
HI MCN-L: Apologies for this post. It was a mistake. Christina DePaolo Director of New Media Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plaza San Diego, CA 92101 Tel (619) 630-9600 Fax (619) 819-8230 Cell (206) 919-3013 http://www.balboapark.org http://www.balboapark.org/ On 10/25/11 9:43 AM, Christina DePaolo cdepaolo at bpoc.org wrote: Hi everyone, If you have items for the annual board meeting agenda, please send me your ideas by Friday. I will be working on the agenda and plan to get it out to you next week. Thanks. Christina DePaolo Director of New Media Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plaza San Diego, CA 92101 Tel (619) 630-9600 Fax (619) 819-8230 Cell (206) 919-3013 http://www.balboapark.orghttp://www.balboapark.org/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] California law concerning resale of artwork
I had not heard of this before: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-grotjahn-valentine-20111025,0,5885749.story Perhaps some who are more familiar with the details of this law and US Copyright in general can weigh in on it.? As described in the article, sale of certain classes of artwork in California require the seller to pay the artist 5% of the sale price based on a 1976 law signed by Gov. Gerry Brown in his original term. ? James D. Keeline
[MCN-L] websites from Mimsy
Hi Ariel, The University of Alberta Museums consortium has twenty-two different collections using Mimsy XG. Of those, we have developed nine online search sites in-house. Our newest site was developed for the Clothing Textiles Collection and will be the model for the other sites as they are created or redeveloped. You can find a listing of all the sites we've developed here: http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/en/MuseumCollections/SearchCollectionDatabases.aspx I would be happy to field any questions you may have! Jim Whittome Information Management Advisor University of Alberta Museums Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ariel Weinberg Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 2:28 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] websites from Mimsy Hello, I'm interested in looking at examples of public access catalog websites from other museums who are using Mimsy, whether they're using Mobius or some other web design to present the information. Thanks for any suggestions, Ariel Weinberg Curatorial Associate, Science Technology Collections MIT Museum, Building N52 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 tel: 617-253-3378 fax: 617-253-8994 http://web.mit.edu/museum ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] websites from Mimsy
Dear List Members, I've been overwhelmed by the number of requests that I've received off-list for our report on museums' online access to collections. The report will not be ready until late this year or early next but I thought you might be interested in some details of our work. We will definitely announce when it becomes available on mcn-l. For those of you who asked for more details about our survey: Over a 4-year period, we visited each of the AAMD members' sites (plus another dozen or so or European and non-art museums) each year at the same time, focusing on how each provided on-line access to their collections. If a museum provided on-line access to its collections (surprisingly, an amazing number of major museums do not), we spent an average of 7 hours testing and reviewing each element as well as capturing screen images and annotating these with comments. We looked at over 50 separate elements. This meant that each year's survey entailed about 700 hours or more of work adding in the time to record our findings and mull them over. We decided on a multi-year approach as museums we contacted at the start of our survey indicated their sites were in flux. Additionally, in the first year of the survey we found that more than 1/2 of the AAMD members' web sites did not offer any access to collections, not even a highlights display, and we knew this would change over time. Interestingly, though many changes and upgrades have been made to the AAMD members' sites over the past 4 years, most of the flaws that were there to begin with are still there. This includes sites using the out of the box software provided by cms vendors that dovetails with their systems, as well as sites that have invested in customized solutions. For example, if a site offers the ability to sort by artist name on the results of a search, many sites sort on what we assume is an underlying single field wherein the artist name is recorded in natural order so that the results not only are sorted by first name rather than last -- Edgar Degas before Paul Cezanne -- but also Attributed to Gilbert Stuart comes up under A for Attributed. A second widespread problem that has persisted over the years is that museums that provide a search by keyword feature are using too many data fields in their indexing specification with the result that when a user searches on Picasso, he/she may get dozens of hits, none of which is by Picasso or has anything to do with Picasso. The word Picasso does not appear in the several fields that display for a record making the user believe he/she has made some sort of an error. If you dig deep enough, though, you'll find Picasso buried in the description but not relevant to the object or in bibliographic records, etc. And don't get me started on the pointlessness (is that a word?) of providing a user with a List of Our Artists and then giving him/her a list of hundreds of artist names, one to a line, beginning with C (and then you have to return to the first screen to select a different letter) without any nationality, life dates, or hints of the type of art produced (painting, sculpture, prints, furniture, etc.) not to mention that when you click on some of the names, the system returns 0 hits. Or a category pull down list containing over a hundred categories. Or a Help menu item that pulls up a 100 page help manual, starting on the first page. But I digress Another survey currently underway investigates how easy or hard it is for a visitor to find out key information such as hours, fees, address, phone number of an institution they wish to visit. On some AAMD members' sites, it takes more than 10 minutes to track down this information which ideally would be on the first screen. What IS now on a number of first screens though, is a very noticeable solicitation for donations which we believe most online visitors find off-putting. Particularly those online visitors that have to labor to find out when the museum is open or where it is located. Lenore Sarasan CEO Willoughby Associates, Limited 266 Linden Street WInnetka, Illinois 60093 lsarasan at willo.com On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Richard Light richard at light.demon.co.ukwrote: On 25/10/2011 02:53, lenore wrote: You might be interested, though, in a survey of the 200 or so AAMD websites that Willoughby has undertaken over the past 3 years. This survey has focused on the online access to collections offered by museums and, disappointingly, almost all of the online access to collections offered by these museums are replete with flaws, both conceptual and technological. If you'd like a copy of the report (which includes a critique of the problems as well as suggestions for improvements) -- it's scheduled for publication later this year or early next year -- please let me know. Lenore, I'm sure that the whole group would be interested in this report. Please tell the list when it's available. Do failure to
[MCN-L] EUscreen portal launches on World Day of Audiovisual Heritage
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear all,* * EUscreen is a unique showcase of Europe?s television heritage. The portal www.euscreen.eu is officially launched on Thursday, Oct. 27th, in celebration of UNESCO?s World Day of Audiovisual Heritage. Major audiovisual archives in Europe have joined forces to offer unified access to the history of television in Europe. Thousands of video?s and images are available for free online consultation, and additional content is added on a daily basis. The EUscreen portal has been accessible in beta testing mode since early 2011, but received an entirely new layout.* *The new layout has been extensively tested* *and accounts for the needs of the various user groups EUscreen focuses on in the fields of education, research, and for the general public. The portal provides a wide variety of functionalities to search and browse the collection, which can be used in different contexts such as curricula and research programmes, for remix, and for leisurely dives into popular history. Additional tools for curated exhibitions and an academic e-journal which researches *significant trends *in over 60 years of European television with the help of original programme sources will become available in 2012. *EUscreen *is a three-year project and started in October 2009. With the support of FIAT/IFTA, the European Broadcasting Union and the Europeana Foundation, the EUscreen *Best Practice Network* aims at achieving a highly interoperable digitised collection of television material. The project brings together 28 partners from 19 countries. The project is supported by the European Commission as part of the e-Contentplus Programme. Content will also become available through Europeana, the gateway to Europe?s vast heritage collections that currently provides access to over 20 million objects from libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual archives. * * For more information about the project and the scope of the portal, see http://blog.euscreen.eu The *UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage* is celebrated annually since 2007. On this year?s 5th Annual World Day, the theme is Audiovisual Heritage: See, Hear and Learn. The theme corresponds with the aim of EUscreen to be a multimedia resource for the general public, pupils and scholars alike. * * -- *Erwin Verbruggen* Research Development *T* +31 35 - 677 16 91 *M* +31 6 - 15 360 371 * * Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Park, Sumatralaan 45, Hilversum Postbus 1060, 1200 BB, Hilversum www.beeldengeluid.nlhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeldengeluid.nl%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeYY4n4jf6_kMuxEiAUu6jGk81HxA
