MCN Booth @ AAM
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 voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461 blog: www.hangingtogether.org guenter.wai...@rlg.org You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l DIGEST in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l MAIL
Registration Open: ACRL/RBMS Conference on Libraries, Archives and Museums
*** 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 voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461 blog: www.hangingtogether.org guenter.wai...@rlg.org You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l DIGEST in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l MAIL
Re: Embedding metadata into digital images and Vendors fo
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 *** 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 guenter.wai...@rlg.org John_Poirier@gov. nt.ca Sent by: To mcn-l@lists.media Multiple recipients of mcn-l trope.com mc...@lists.mediatrope.com cc 02/10/2006 03:42 Subject PMRE: Embedding metadata into digital images and Vendors for Archiving Please respond to mcn-l@lists.media trope.com 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 -Original Message- From: trudy /unix [mailto:tr...@dig-mar.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:07 PM 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,
Re: Embedding metadata into digital images - which schema?
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 *** 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 guenter.wai...@rlg.org psu...@magnes.or g To 01/27/2006 03:32 mcn-l@mcn.edu PM cc Subject Please respond to Embedding metadata into digital mcn-l@mcn.edu images - which schema? 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 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guenter.wai...@rlg.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
IMLS OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND ACRL/RBMS CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, ANDMUSEUMS
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 http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/rbms2006. 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 guenter.wai...@rlg.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Media Technology Board Recruitment
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 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching
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 *** 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 guenter.wai...@rlg.org Real, Will RealW@CarnegieMu seums.Org To mcn-l@mcn.edu 12/05/2005 07:13 cc AM Subject RE: STEVE folksonomies / was Please respond to subject keyword searching in CMS mcn-l@mcn.edu and DAMS 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
Re: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital ImagingGuidelines
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 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
folksonomies
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 blog: www.hangingtogether.org guenter.wai...@rlg.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Library, Archive and (yes!) Museum Blog
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 *** 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 guenter.wai...@notes.rlg.org��آ��y˫+.n�+���Z���jw ~'�w���_�z�^ɩ�yۓ��칻 �ޱ��i�Z�G�j)m�Wr�r��]��N6/�b�� ���'�栕��
Re: Voyager libraries museums
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 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Tiff Metadata reader?
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) www.hnoc.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: b...@nl.adlibsoft.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-description: footer --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: chu...@hnoc.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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
Re: Online Catalogue Planning
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/ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: mmisu...@sfmoma.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Definitions of terms
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 www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
DigImaging SIG - Fwd: NEDCC Off the Wall and Online Conference
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:10:26 -0500 Reply-To: IMAGELIB image...@listserv.arizona.edu Sender: IMAGELIB image...@listserv.arizona.edu From: Kim O'Leary ole...@nedcc.org 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 -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: DIG-Update
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Re: DIG IMG SIG: session for MCN 2002?
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 Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560-0152 Visit us online: www.nmnh.si.edu/naa --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jdev...@museum.gla.ac.uk To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com Jim Devine Head of Education and Digital Media Resources Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland Tel: ++ 44 (0)141 330 3691 (Direct) ++ 44 (0)141 330 2689 (Digital Imaging Studio) ++ 44 (0)141 330 4221 (Museum) Fax: ++ 44 (0)141 330 3617 email: jdev...@museum.gla.ac.uk web: http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk http://www.gla.ac.uk/museum/people/jdevine/jim.html --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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
Digital Imaging SIG: 2 articles on Digital Asset Management
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 -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
SPECTRA Digital Imaging Special Issue online - ERROR
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? --- You are currently subscribed to mcn-l as: guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn-l-5160...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn-l as: rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn-l-5160...@listserver.americaneagle.com
SPECTRA Digital Imaging Special Issue online
-- This message is being cross-posted. Apologies for duplication. -- 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, -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn-l as: rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn-l-5160...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Digital Imaging SIG: Meeting Minutes Cincinnati
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 -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn-l as: rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn-l-5160...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: fate of the MCN SIGs
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 -- ~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive 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 ~~~
