[MCN-L] Digital Rights and Asset Manager position

[Sue Grinols]

Hi All,

We have a new job listed. Please take a look and pass along to anyone who might 
be interested:

http://famsf.snaphire.com/jobdetails?ajid=X3xJ7

Best,
Sue


Susan Grinols
Director of Photo Services and Imaging

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
De Young
Legion of Honor

Golden Gate Park | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive | San Francisco, CA 94118
P 415.750.3602 | f 415.750.2674
sgrin...@famsf.org | famsf.org

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[MCN-L] New Job: Digital Media interpretive Fellow

[Sue Grinols]

Hi All,

Excuse any cross postings. We are offering a fellowship in digital media.  See 
below.

Best,


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Susan Grinols
Director of Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679


Digital Media Interpretive Fellow (ref. 6713)




The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is seeking to provide an 
advanced level (MA, MFA, or PhD) candidate in art history, new media, digital 
humanities, or other related fields with an unprecedented opportunity to apply 
technological, museological, and pedagogical skills and knowledge to the work 
of engaging the public in our exhibitions and programming through our new 
Digital Media Interpretive Fellowship. The focal point of the 2012-2013 
Fellowship will be on the development and implementation of advanced 
multi-media presentations - including documentary photography and video 
production, mobile app, tablet computing, and Augmented Reality technologies - 
for the purpose of elucidating and documenting the restoration of an 18th 
Century period room at the Legion of Honor museum. The goal of the Fellowship 
is to encourage scholars and emerging practitioners in art history, new media, 
digital humanities, or other related fields to consider an interpretive career 
in an art museum, whether as a future educator or curator.




The Fellowship Project:

The focus of the 2012-2013 Digital Media Interpretive Fellowship will be on the 
conservation, restoration, and permanent exhibition of the Salon Dor? of the 
H?tel de la Tr?moille at the Legion of Honor. This project offers the Museums, 
and the Digital Media Interpretive Fellow, an extraordinary opportunity for the 
creation of new media tools that will enable museum visitors to connect 
meaningfully to an 18th Century period room.

Richly carved and gilded, the Salon Dor? of the H?tel de la Tr?moille was 
designed during the reign of Louis XVI as the main salon de compagnie of the 
H?tel de la Tr?moille on the Rue Saint-Dominique, and is one of the finest 
examples of French neoclassical interior architecture in any museum in the 
world. Regrettably, a long and turbulent history of relocation and 
reconfiguration has left this great room wanting. Moved no less than six times 
between 1877 and 1995, its architectural and aesthetic integrity has over the 
years been seriously compromised. The goal of the project is to restore the 
Salon Dor? to its original architectural glory, as well as to bring back the 
room's original character and purpose by reintroducing furnishings of the 
period that will elucidate its social function as a salon de compagnie.

The conservation process will be undertaken with a keen attention to detail; to 
date, no other French period room in the U.S. has been interpreted so 
precisely. Once reopened in Fall 2013, the restored Salon Dor? will be seen by 
more than 400,000 museum visitors to the Legion of Honor each year, offering 
them an illuminating and deeply contextual experience of French culture.



Fellowship Activities:

Under the supervision and mentorship of the Office of the Chief Curator, and in 
close collaboration with the Curator in Charge of European Decorative Arts and 
Sculpture and the Head of Objects Conservation, the Digital Media Interpretive 
Fellow will be responsible for the development and implementation of new media 
interpretive tools for engaging the public in the restoration and ongoing 
exhibition of the Salon Dor?.

Duties and Responsibilities:



  * Strategize about how to best document and archive the entire process of 
restoration, from conservation to permanent display.

  * Engage a sub-contracted filmmaker to script and shoot a short documentary 
film about the project development and implementation.

  * Conduct or manage photography and video of project progression, including 
time-lapse photography when appropriate.

  * Conceive of and develop an app-like multimedia interactive for educational 
purposes.

  * Design and implement an Augmented Reality environment wherein actors in 
period dress appear in a SmartPhone or iPad view looking into the actual period 
room.

  * As appropriate, output content about the progress of the period room 
restoration via social media channels.

  * Use sound analytic solutions and best practices to establish metrics by 
which to evaluate the success/failure of new media interpretive tools, and make 
recommendations for continued improvement.

  * Take part in educational and outreach programming and the day-to-day 
activities of the Education department.

  * Attend the lectures hosted by the Fine Arts Museums that are related to the 
changing exhibitions as well as curatorial exhibition talks whenever possible.

  * Give a one-hour talk on your work at the Museums to the large and active 
Docent Council. This presentation will be open to the public and advertised in 
our Museum Calendar.

  * Expand and condense the talk into a paper for presentation at a 

[MCN-L] IP SIG - fees ebook

[Sue Grinols]

Hello IP Gurus,

I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share their ebook fee schedule. I 
was hoping this had been discussed but couldn't find anything in the archives.  
Feel free to respond off list.

Thanks!

Sue

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Susan Grinols
Director of Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679

[MCN-L] DM SIG: Reflectance Transformation Imaging

[Sue Grinols]

Hi all,

I?ve registered a new project in the MCN Project Registry:

It?s a Kress funded study of Reflectance Transformation Imaging. RTI is a
technology whereby an object can be photographed multiple times with raking
light  from different angles. The resulting image files are combined, and
when viewed in a specific (open source) viewer, details not otherwise seen
are revealed. 

Check it out! 

Thanks, Sue


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679

[MCN-L] Release form

[Sue Grinols]

Hi All,

One of our departments put on a symposium here at the museum, and taped it.
Does anyone have a model release form they?d be willing to share?  We?re
looking for something that would allow us to post the content of the video
and lecture (intellectual property) on our web site. Feel free to respond to
me directly.

Thanks,

Sue


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679
  

[MCN-L] Website surveys - the good, the bad, the ugly

[Sue Grinols]

Hi Ari,


Check out  www.createwithcontext.com. This sort of thing is right up their 
alley. They're based in the SF area and if they can't help you I'm sure they 
can provide a referral. 

Best,

Sue Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums San Francisco






-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Ari Davidow
Sent: Wed 5/27/2009 2:19 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv; nten-discuss at groups.nten.org
Subject: [MCN-L] Website surveys - the good, the bad, the ugly
 
I apologize for the cross-posting.

We really want to get a sense of how well people feel our website
serves them. (Don't get me started on what serves them well means.)
I'd like to find someone, preferably based in Boston, who can help us
put together a good survey so that we can better understand site
visitor satisfaction, and perhaps, understand a bit better what draws
the people currently visiting our site there. We don't need
technology--we can use Survey Monkey, or put together something in our
CMS--but I want someone who understands statistics and what questions
to ask to best solicit useful information for a non-profit online
site.

Any suggestions? War stories?

Many thanks,
Ari
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[MCN-L] Digital Imaging Services Available

[Sue Grinols]

Hi,

Does this person work only in LA?

Thanks,


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Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679



On 5/12/09 2:11 PM, Montgomery, Renee ReneeM at lacma.org wrote:

 I am circulating this advertisement for a friend and colleague:
 
 Digital Imaging Services for Archival Collections
 
 Professional photographer providing
 
 Efficient, reliable, meticulous
 
 On-site services for all your reproduction needs
 
 Paper documents, books, photographs, 3D objects
 
 Per current industry standards
 
 Editing, creating derivatives, file  server management
 
 Carisa Kaplan, Phone (310) 612 - 3011
 
  
 
  
 
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[MCN-L] Department name question.

[Sue Grinols]

Hi Jeff,

We are the Photos Services and Imaging Department. We are made up of two
photographers and myself. I Manage the department/photogs and handle RR
requests for the museum.

Our official titles are:

Director Photo Services and Imaging
Museum photographer
Image Production Technician

Sue

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Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679



On 2/18/08 8:00 AM, Jeff Evans jfevans at Princeton.EDU wrote:

 All,
 
 We are renaming a Photo Services department here.  Please reply with
 both department names as well as manager titles that you may have
 generated at your institution.
 
 Thanks in advance,
 
 JEFF
 
 
 Jeffrey Evans
 Digital Imaging Specialist
 Princeton University Art Museum
 609.258.8579
 
 
 
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[MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects

[Sue Grinols]

Hi Anamaria,

We also use a barcoding system. It works well with our homegrown CM/DAM
system. We use it to track the artwork as it physically moves around the
museum. We also use it to link the image files to the database system. We
find it very useful.

Sue



Susan Grinols
Director, Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Legion of Honor and de Young Museums
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fax. 415.750.2679
www.famsf.org





 From: Annamaria Poma-Swank annamaria.pomaswank at gmail.com
 Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:34:36 +0100
 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Subject: [MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects
 
 Dear all,
 I would like to know :
 1. how many museums are using the
 barcoding objects inventory system
 2. if the CMS they use support the system
 3. A feedback on the use of this tool
 Annamaria Poma Swank
 Rinascimento Digitale project consultant
 pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
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[MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devices in museums

[Sue Grinols]

Hi Will,

We're using a BetterLight 6K, and a Phase One P25, although our photographer
is itching to upgrade to a P45. We use these cameras for publication quality
photography. We use the Phase One more than the Betterlight due to work flow
issues.  We have phased out transparency photography (no pun intended).

We also use a Cannon EOS 5D for our imaging project (lower quality database
images).

Best,

Sue


Susan Grinols
Director, Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Legion of Honor and de Young Museums
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fax. 415.750.2679
www.famsf.org 



 From: Real, Will RealW at CarnegieMuseums.Org
 Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:19:33 -0400
 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Subject: [MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devices in museums
 
 As the time for submitting budget requests for our next fiscal year approaches
 I am curious to know what digital photography devices are being used in the
 museum community. Would any of you be willing to volunteer whether you are
 using any of the following for photography of collections? Please be as
 specific as you can. (respond offline directly to me if you wish to remain
 anonymous: realw [at] carnegiemuseums.org)
 
 Nikon D1X, D200, D2X
 Canon 5D, EOS 1Ds Mark II
 Leaf Aptus 75
 Phase One P 45, etc.
 BetterLight 6000 etc.
 Sinar Bron 44, 54, emotion75, etc.
 Others (Imacon, Jenoptik, etc.)
 
 I would also be interested to know if you have switched to all-digital capture
 or not.
 
 Thanks, 
 
 Will
 
 William Real 
 Director of Technology Initiatives
 Carnegie Museum of Art
 4400 Forbes Ave 
 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 412.622.3267 
 412.622.3112 (fax)
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[MCN-L] Book scanners?

[Sue Grinols]

Hi Perian,

I think Brewster Kahle was using some sort of a system he developed for the
Internet Archive that ended up being inexpensive to use - probably because
of volume.. .

I'd be curious to know of any other scanners or systems people have had luck
with.

Thanks, Sue 


-- 
Susan Grinols
Director Photo Services and Imaging
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ph. 415.750.3602
Fx. 415.750.2679



On 3/19/08 2:00 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote:

 Hi all:
 
  
 
 We're trying to determine what other digitization equipment we should
 look into getting and one of the things I'm requesting is some sort of
 book scanner. I remember there being a news article about a very
 inexpensive automatic book digitizer, but I can't find it now. Does
 anyone remember what the brand was for that scanner or have a link to
 the article?
 
  
 
 Also, if anyone has any information about non-automatic and other types
 of book scanners, I'd love to hear about your experiences!
 
  
 
 Much thanks,
 
  
 
 Perian Sully
 
 Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
 
 Judah L. Magnes Museum
 
 2911 Russell St.
 
 Berkeley, CA 94705
 
 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
 
 Fax: 510-849-3673
 
 http://www.magnes.org
 
 http://www.musematic.org
 
 http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
 
  
 
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