[MCN-L] Digital Content Engineer job posting at The Henry Ford
ed problem-solving skills and an ability to manage change in business processes is necessary. Ability to manage multiple priorities and to think and act flexibly to achieve desired outcomes essential. Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to transform ambiguity into clarity required. PHYSICAL/MENTAL/ENVIRONMENTAL Physical: Sitting: 80% Standing/Walking: 20% Lifting: Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs. Vision: Normal; frequently requires working for long periods at computer Mental: Must be good at interpreting, problem solving, and decision making Environment: Occasional exposure to chemicals, dust, and mold . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question
Just wanted to thank all those who provided their thoughts on this question. The accessibility comments are also exceedingly welcome, so no worries about thread hijacking. :-) It's a lot to chew on, and while it's hard for me to picture a world where we totally move away from YouTube (like Google, Facebook, [insert name of giant tech platform here], it's where the most eyeballs are...), it's sounding like private hosting also has some advantages of its own. I will share all your thoughts with my colleagues and we'll see where we go from here! If others have additional/different/similar thoughts, please consider sending those my way. Thanks! Ellice ......... Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> ......... From: Ellice Engdahl Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 9:28 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Video hosting question Hello, all, While we have plenty of "modern" video out on YouTube, we currently host most our historic and collections-item videos (e.g. oral history video clips) on a private streaming platform. We don't use much of the functionality provided by the private platform, so the question has come up whether YouTube would meet our needs as a player. Some questions/potential concerns that have passed through my head: 1. Are there potentially different copyright implications to private hosting than to YouTube? What if we made the YouTube videos unlisted so we were simply using it as a player? 2. Has anyone had (or is/was concerned about having) historic video challenged or taken down as in violation of YouTube's community standards? Can anyone weigh in on these? And are there other issues to contemplate that I am missing? If the people at your institution who would make such decisions are not on the MCN listserv, I'd love it if you'd pass this along to them-I will take any and all input, on- or off-list. If you've chosen to use a private streaming service in addition to or instead of YouTube, I'd be interested to know what additional value you think it brings. Thanks! ......... Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Video hosting question
Hello, all, While we have plenty of "modern" video out on YouTube, we currently host most our historic and collections-item videos (e.g. oral history video clips) on a private streaming platform. We don't use much of the functionality provided by the private platform, so the question has come up whether YouTube would meet our needs as a player. Some questions/potential concerns that have passed through my head: 1. Are there potentially different copyright implications to private hosting than to YouTube? What if we made the YouTube videos unlisted so we were simply using it as a player? 2. Has anyone had (or is/was concerned about having) historic video challenged or taken down as in violation of YouTube's community standards? Can anyone weigh in on these? And are there other issues to contemplate that I am missing? If the people at your institution who would make such decisions are not on the MCN listserv, I'd love it if you'd pass this along to them-I will take any and all input, on- or off-list. If you've chosen to use a private streaming service in addition to or instead of YouTube, I'd be interested to know what additional value you think it brings. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Must-visit tech experiences in DC museums?
Hi all, I imagine many folks will be in Washington, DC, for AAM this week, as will a few members of The Henry Ford's Digital and Emerging Media team Any recommendations for can't-miss museums to visit in the city that are doing cool things with tech? It is totally legit to nominate your own museum. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
Re: [MCN-L] LAM interoperability SIG?
A little late to the party, but please count The Henry Ford in on discussing LAM interoperability. I touched on some of our efforts to better integrate archival materials with museum objects in my MCN 2015 presentation (link below), and was struck by how many folks responded to that. I had been thinking of a more targeted presentation for next year http://www.slideshare.net/ElliceEngdahl/which-came-first-the-data-structure-or-the-websitelessons-learned-in-building-a-new-collections-website-with-existing-collections-data Ellice Engdahl Digital Collections & Content Manager, The Henry Ford P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org -Original Message- -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:58:02 -0600 From: Stefano Cossu To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] LAM interoperability SIG? Message-ID: <564b86ca.7060...@artic.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" All, Thank you so much for your interest and for the very insightful contributions. Given the large number of interested parties, I am wondering if we should kick off a separate mailing list (Google groups or such) so we can more easily reach out to other communities. I still think that we can target the next MCN conference for an in-person meeting, while we distill ideas in the mailing list. Thoughts? Stefano On 11/17/2015 12:56 PM, mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu wrote: -- Stefano Cossu Director of Application Services, Collections The Art Institute of Chicago 116 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603 312-499-4026 ___ mcn-l mailing list mcn-l@mcn.edu http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 123, Issue 19 ** ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Artifact photography organizations or conferences?
Hi folks, Does anyone have recommendations on professional organizations, conferences, and/or other developmental opportunities for artifact photography staff at museums? I know of similar things for archival imaging, but we're hoping to find ways for our photo studio to get exposure to the equipment, workflows, methods, standards, etc. that other cultural organizations use in photographing artifacts (of the 3D rather than 2D variety), and also start to develop a professional network of peers. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Tiered pricing for high-res image files without asking about use
Hi all, We're investigating adding automated ecommerce delivery of high-res images as part of an overhaul of our digital collections website. As part of this process, we're hoping to revise our current practices for image delivery, moving away from asking about potential end use (we want to avoid making a legal call on how people use our material). However, we still will want to charge a fee to recoup at least some of our costs to image and catalog the material, and we'd like to make these fees fair to potential users (e.g. charging less to nonprofits than for-profits, making fees very minimal for personal use, etc.). The examples I've been able to find online for museum image delivery tier the pricing based on the end use (x for print run under 5,000, y for print run over 5,000, z for web use, etc.), which we'd like to avoid. Question: Are others delivering image files (online or off) without asking the requestor about potential use, and if so, would you be willing to share your fee structure-particularly if it's tiered? Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Flickr and digital collections
Hi all, I'm wondering how other LAMs use Flickr with their digital collections. Does anyone use Flickr in lieu of a collections site? Does anyone upload all newly digitized collections images (and metadata) both to a collections website *and* to Flickr? I'm guessing most folks use Flickr to highlight specific items or groups of items, rather than replace or duplicate a collections website, but I'm curious in any case about pros and cons of the site in relation to digitized collections. This feels like a question that could well have been discussed already on this list or elsewhere, but a quick search didn't turn anything up, so if anyone knows of anything, I'd be grateful if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: ElliceE at thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124
[MCN-L] Use of digital collections for educational purposes--particularly around innovation and design
Hi all, We're working on refining our educational initiatives strategy, and to that end are looking at the way different GLAM institutions are using their digitized collections for educational purposes. Because our collections are what they are, we're particularly interested in how institutions are telling stories about innovation and design using their digital collections assets. If your institution is doing anything along these lines, or if you have good (or bad) examples of other GLAMs that are, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Many thanks! Ellice . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl Digital Collections Initiative Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: ElliceE at thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124
[MCN-L] Digital collections data hackathon at Maker Faire Detroit this month
Here's a collections data experiment The Henry Ford, in partnership with Compuware, is trying this month--a one-day on-site hackathon using our digitized collections assets accessed via SQL database/APIs. It's happening during Maker Faire Detroit 2013. http://www.makerfairedetroit.com/2013/07/02/call-for-entries-hack-the-museum-at-maker-faire-detroit/ Would love to have any developers in the area come on down and give it a try! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Facial recognition technology and photos
Hi all, I'm curious as to whether anyone has investigated facial recognition software as a way to quickly identify people who show up in photos in large photographic collections. We're in the process of digitizing a collection of about 3500 auto racing photographs, a number of which are posed and/or have people facing the camera straight-on. We're wondering if facial recognition technology could help us identify the numerous people who recur throughout the collection in a efficient and semi-automated fashion, allowing us to add some useful metadata with relatively low effort. Has anybody tried this, or thought about it? I would love to hear your thoughts/experiences. Thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Institutional website usage v. digital collections site usage?
Hi all, I'm curious if anyone tracks or has statistics they'd be willing to share about how often your institutional website gets visited vs. the site/page for your digital collections. I'm not so much interested in exact numbers as the ratio-e.g. your site overall gets five visits for every one visit your digital collections gets. As a follow-up, does anyone have goals/thoughts on what that ratio should ideally be, or are you happy wherever it currently falls? Many thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Agile PM tools
Ari, with your metaquestion, I think you've hit on one of the things I had the hardest time reconciling when using Agile for software development at a for-profit company. Yes, in theory it sounds good to keep the focus on small iterations of always-releasable software, and decide on a weekly basis whether or not to send the code to production. On the other hand, in the real world, you often have hard deadlines and a firm set of features that is not negotiable. I always found it difficult to show the same dependencies and long-tail paths that you mention. Even worse, we were a big shop with many shared services, managed by other teams, so when we needed changes to any shared service, we would submit stories to the team or teams that needed to address them--but then would fall victim to that team's own schedules and other priorities. It was very difficult to estimate timeframes on complex features that had many of these interdependencies, so it was hard to tell a product manager when it would be done (or even estimate cost)--or when a whole set of features would be done. While it was very helpful in many ways, and still is my favorite methodology, it did not necessarily improve our on-schedule release rate. In two years of doing Agile on a large scale (~100 developers at our location on 5-10 teams), we never really managed to solve these issues, and it did always cause some tension between our "pure Agile" evangelists and those who owned delivery on time, on scope, and on budget. If you find some tools that help bring that MS Project type of "need x features by y date" planning/tracking to Agile projects, I would love to hear about it. Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org -Original Message- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:26:10 -0400 From: Ari Davidow To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Agile PM tools Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks, all. It sounds like I have a double task, which may not be resolvable until I know Agile project tools as well as I know MS Project and its ilk. Those of us who know Agile development (or are trying to get there) need to experiment with Pivot Tracker, Jira/Grasshopper, and the like to see what fits. But, for the schedule/resource dependent, traditional projects and the people who have hacked Outlook and the rest of MS Office to tie things together, I'll need to look at short-term tools, training, and/or affordances. There is a meta question here, as well. The Agile development tools that I have worked with so far are great for developing stories, digging into the backlog, setting up sprints, and even tracking the sprints. What I'm not finding are the ways to handle some essential issues (time milestones--events rely on these in spades; dependencies, critical paths--that long-term, "X must be accomplished in Y time" stuff that ceases to be as direct a focus when we are evolving new products/maintaining old ones/keeping an ongoing development effort going. But there must be such tools, or related best practices, or something, since Software lifecycles don't go away just because we use Agile methods to develop the software. Although, if we're talking "Software as a Service," SaaS, then maybe the traditional software lifecycle doesn't make sense and isn't the appropriate metaphor as different from, "this exhibit needs to open on this date, and it ends on another date." ari
[MCN-L] Agile PM tools
In my former life as an Agile PM outside the museum industry, I used both VersionOne and JIRA/Greenhopper. VersionOne was the first software we tried as the business started to move from waterfall/RUP to Agile. It was a bit hard to customize and clunky to use (plus pricey). I had a really hard time creating tracking reports out of it, which seemed to defeat one of the big purposes of Agile--big and visible communication. When we finally decided VersionOne was not for us, we moved to JIRA with integrated Greenhopper. We had already been using JIRA for QA testing/bug tracking and Confluence (also an Atlassian product) as our wiki, so there was some nice integration there, and a relatively low learning curve for the team. It turned out Greenhopper worked pretty well for us. In general, too (shameless plug to follow), JIRA is fantastic software all around--very intuitive, with great searching and reporting. In fact, it is my hands-down favorite software tool as a PM. As a potential plus I *think* Atlassian offers free JIRA/Greenhopper licenses to non-profits. I think these products would be among the easiest Agile PM tools to pick up and start using for a team relatively new to Agile/Scrum. If you have more questions, feel free to shoot me a note--I can go on about Agile tracking for quite some time. :-) Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of mcn-l-request at mcn.edu Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:00 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: mcn-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 16 Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mcn-l-request at mcn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at mcn-l-owner at mcn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of mcn-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Agile PM tools (Ari Davidow) 2. Re: Agile PM tools (Ari Davidow) 3. Re: Agile PM tools (Mark A. Matienzo) 4. Re: Agile PM tools (Christina DePaolo) 5. Re: Displaying TGN terms (ddwiggins at historicnewengland.org) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:48:11 -0400 From: Ari Davidow To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Agile PM tools Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We're at a point at our organization where two things are happening. A couple of us are moving more deeply into Scrum, and the rest of the organization is moving beyond spreadsheets as the sole project management tool. I know that I don't want to introduce anything as heavyweight as Microsoft Project (much as I love it). I need a way to help break stories down so that realistic time planning can be done. The tool has to make it possible to assign resources (esp. people) so that we can tell when someone has been given three person's worth of work all due the same week. What are other people using that works well enough that whole teams are comfortable? The ideal tool probably helps us manage this by looking at stories, story grooming, backlogs, and sprints, but I could be wrong. Maybe other approaches work better at this level of expertise ... what works for other Museums and Archives? What makes it work? Thanks, ari
[MCN-L] MCN vs. Museums and the Web
Hi all, I just attended the MCN conference for the first time in 2011, and haven't yet attended Museums and the Web. As we're looking at our 2012 budget, we're trying to narrow down which conferences might be the most useful to send staff to (esp. since both are on the West Coast this year). I'm wondering if those who have attended both MCN and Museums and the Web could share their impressions of the differences and similarities between the two, and thoughts on what different departments/roles would benefit most from each. If you had to pick one over the other for budget reasons, which one would you attend and why? Many thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
