[MCN-L] MCN vs. Museums and the Web

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Ellice and all,

I'll give this one a try. The conferences do overlap a lot in their 
topical scope and their participants. This helps to enable some key, 
face-to-face conversations about museums and technology to gear up in 
person twice a year. Because practice evolves quickly in these areas, 
it's really useful to our community to have opportunities to gather in 
the spring and in the fall, with semi-overlapping groups of attendees.

That noted, it seems to me that on balance a few differences may be:

- somewhat more presentation and publication of formal research findings 
at Museums and the Web, and somewhat more tales of hands-on, 
in-the-trenches, nuts-and-bolts implementation at MCN--but generally 
with a good mix of conceptual and practical discussions at both.

- somewhat larger attendance at MW, probably with a somewhat higher 
proportion of attendees from outside the United States and Canada.

- a strong sense of community in the moment on the ground at both, but 
perhaps differently inflected at each--with MW being more a standalone 
annual event presented (and wonderfully so) by a for-profit entity, and 
the MCN conference being the annual focus of MCN as a year-round 
membership organization and volunteer-led, not-for-profit, educational 
entity.

- possibly a tighter focus at MW on expert-to-expert knowledge sharing 
for the most part, and a broader focus at MCN both on expert-to-expert 
sharing and on sessions designed to welcome newcomers into the field.

Beyond these far-from-absolute differences of degree, a decision about 
which to attend might come down to case-specific factors of cost and 
location, and of any particularly useful-looking components of the 
preliminary program announced for one or the other in any given year.

This is just two cents on the fly from one person who highly values both 
conferences. Other participants' views may differ or simply be more 
accurate! In any case, both MW and MCN continue to evolve in exciting 
ways--so any snapshot characterization like this may soon become wrong, 
even it does happen to start out right. And that's a good thing.

cheers,

Rob (long-time participant at MW and MCN, and a former MCN president)

-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 2/1/2012 11:36 AM, Ellice Engdahl wrote:
> 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

[MCN-L] Fwd: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Fresh off another public list and perhaps of interest to some here. 
Extra credit for finding the former MCN president among the speakers.

Rob

 Original Message 
Subject: Invitation: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:43:56 +0100
From: Leo Konstantelos 
To: JISCDIGITALMEDIA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

*** Apologies for crossposting ***

Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS)

We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of 
Software Art

11-12 October 2011, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK

Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 
(HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration
Symposium Fee: Free + ?10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event)

Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, 
including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and 
interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices 
used for development.

This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to 
discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in 
the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking 
activities. The symposium will  promote discussion on such topics as:

? Implications and advances in preserving software art
? Issues of ephemerality
? Significant properties for software art
? Software art as performance
? Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving 
software art
? Interpretation and Documentation

Keynote Speakers:
? Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA
? Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK

Presenters include:
? Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth 
University, UK
? Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College 
London, UK
? Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK
? Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK

The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to 
discuss key topics in preservation of Software Art.

For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: 
http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art
Download the brochure at: 
http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf

Bookings are now open at the project website ? however, space is limited 
so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the
symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations.

We look forward to welcoming you at the event!


Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the 
JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11
--

Dr Leo Konstantelos
Principal Investigator, POCOS

11 University Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QH

Skype: l.konstantelos
T: +44 (0)141 330 7133
E: leo.konstantelos at glasgow.ac.uk
W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

[MCN-L] CFP: Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovation and Integration

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

This forwarded CFP may be of interest to some MCN-L subscribers.

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

//

Call for papers: Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: 
Innovation and Integration

SIG-AH and SIG-VIS (Arts & Humanities, Visualization-Images-Sound) of 
ASIST are joining forces to examine the digital humanities and 
information visualization with a group of papers to be published in an 
upcoming special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for 
Information Science and Technology. Geotags, participatory content, 
automatic classification methods, statistical analyses, visualization 
techniques and other technological methods have enhanced the pedagogy 
and scholarship within the humanities in recent years. With this in mind 
papers are being sought which present an overview of the digital 
humanities and information visualization, or which address the current 
and potential future intersection of the two topics. Special topics for 
your consideration include: the development of digital technologies and 
digital humanities tools, data mining applications in the humanities, 
visualization techniques, the use and re-use of historical data sets, 
and innovative practices and definitions within the digital humanities 
and information visualization. We also eagerly invite topics of your 
choosing which address any aspect of technology within humanities. 
Papers should be approximately 1000-2000 words in length and submitted 
by December 31, 2011 to: Sarah Buchanan  and Joan 
Beaudoin . We welcome you to contact either of 
us in the interim to discuss potential papers and we look forward to 
hearing from you.

[MCN-L] NYU evening teaching opportunity - forwarded from Museum-L

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

In case this evening teaching opportunity may be of interest to some 
moonlighting New Yorker on MCN-L, this is fresh off Museum-L. Between 
the subject header's "Digital Imaging Instructor Needed" and the 
description's "teaching Collections Management and Digital Technology," 
the precise nature of desired content seems a bit fuzzy; but either area 
could be a good match for many MCN members' knowledge domains.

cheers,
Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


// forwarded from Museum-L:

Subject: Digital Imaging Instructor Needed - NYC
From: Geri Thomas 
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:38:22 -0500

Dear Colleagues:  For the new Certificate in Art Collections Management,
Registration and Display at New York University, we are looking for an
experienced person who would be interested in teaching Collections
Management and Digital Technology, for 5 Thursday sessions, beginning
February 23 - March 29 (no class on March 15), from 6.20-8.20pm.
We launched the new program this September and each of the three 
required courses have been at capacity.  The purpose of the Certificate 
is to define and keep standards; encourage museums, auction houses, 
private collectors and others hire from the program, and create jobs. 
Please let me know if you are interested in learning more about the 
position or if you can recommend anyone in New York and its environs 
asap.  All best for the Holiday Season!  Geri

Geri Thomas, President
Thomas & Associates, Inc.
New York and Chicago
www.artstaffing.com

About Thomas & Associates, Inc.
With offices in New York and Chicago, Thomas & Associates, Inc.
in an innovative firm that provides consulting, staffing and professional
development training to the arts & culture community nationally and
internationally.  Our career services division services the needs of
arts & cultural professionals everywhere.  To subscribe to our
newsletter and job announcements, go to www.artstaffing.com

Cheers!

//

[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi John and all,

Not as a testimonial (I've never used these systems), but...

Adlib promises full Unicode support for content in text fields:

http://www.adlibsoft.com/products/museum-software

CollectionSpace "is built to handle Unicode from the outset":

http://www.collectionspace.org/about/faq#when

CollectiveAccess "offers support for multi-lingual cataloguing":

http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview
http://wiki.collectiveaccess.org/index.php?title=WhatsNew

Gallery Systems' eMuseum "is fully Unicode compliant" (and I'm sure TMS 
users can say whether TMS itself is; at least core fields are, I think):

http://www.gallerysystems.com/products/emuseum/features/unicode-languages

and IDEA foregrounds multi-lingual support in its marketing:

http://www.idea-alm.com/

Doubtless there are more!

Setting aside localized interface (not needed?), the key thing to seek 
(as you may know) is Unicode support for contents in all text fields.

hope this helps
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965



On 2/3/2011 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have
> approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, and
> ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer,
> English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would
> ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a
> collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets.
> Happy Tet
> -jg

[MCN-L] Google Art Project has gone live

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Probably of interest to many here: .

There's more information on the Google blog at



Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

[MCN-L] AAM 2010 Personal Conference Scheduling Tool (on behalf of Scott Sayre)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Posted on behalf of Scott Sayre:

Sandbox Studios assisted AAM in creating a personal conference 
scheduling tool to help you better navigate upcoming 2010 annual meeting 
in Los Angeles.
We want to encourage you to give it a try and share it with your friends 
and colleagues. This new tool, available at http://aam2010.sched.org or 
through the annual meeting home page at http://www.aam-us.org/am10, 
offers a wide range of features for personalizing, printing and sharing 
your conference schedule.  The schedule uses the SCHED.org as its 
foundation.

Interactive schedule features include:
1) Access to your personalized schedule through any Web browser or web 
enabled mobile device (iPhones, Android, etc.)
2) Selecting and saving your customized schedule with the option to 
share it through Facebook, Twitter and more
3) Printing your custom schedule or publish it to your iCal compatible 
calendar
4) Searching and accessing full-text descriptions of all session 
including dates, locations, presenters and endorsements
5) Filtering sessions and events by date, location, and endorsements
6) Scheduling personal appointments and more...

We hope you visit and explore this new tool at your earliest convenience 
to begin solidifying your plans for Los Angeles!

If you have not yet registered for the meeting you can still register 
on-site at the Los Angeles Convention Center in the West Concourse Lobby 
beginning May 23rd at 9:00 A.M.

All best,
Scott

Scott Sayre
Sandbox Studios / Museum411
Education ? Technology ? Art
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Check out some of our latest projects:
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http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/CC/
American Swedish Institute's Ring-a-Tour 
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=320514361

[MCN-L] Fwd: Call for Papers: Perspectives JCP: The Digital

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folk:

 Forwarded Message: 
Subject: [IVSA] Call for Papers: Perspectives JCP: The Digital
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:51:51 -0400
From: David Darts 
To: IVSA at LISTSERV.UWINDSOR.CA

Dear Colleagues,

Pamela G. Taylor and I are guest editing the "Perspectives" section of
an upcoming issue of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. It will
be entitled "The Digital" and will be published in Spring 2011. We are
accepting submissions until May 31st. Please see our call for papers
below for more details.

If you have any questions, do feel free to contact us directly. And
please help us distribute this widely!

Warmly,

David Darts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art and Art Education
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York University
darts at nyu.edu

Pamela G. Taylor, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Art Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
pgtaylor at vcu.edu


---
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!
---
JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY - ISSUE 8(1) 2011

PERSPECTIVES: THE DIGITAL

ESSAY LENGTH: Approximately 1000 words

DUE DATE: May 31, 2010

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: darts at nyu.edu

FORMAT: Both traditional and alternative forms of scholarly
representation and communication are encouraged - see below for
details

ABSTRACT:
We are surrounded by digital culture. New media and digital
technologies are increasingly embedded within the routines and
textures of everyday life. Combined with the meteoric rise of social
media networks and platforms, digital culture has transformed what it
means to speak, to create, to think, to have agency, and therefore to
teach and learn.

With the proliferation of social media networks and digital
technologies have come profoundly lower hindrances to cultural
participation and co-creation. In the span of a few short years,
social networking, citizen-based journalism, social bookmarking, video
and photo sharing networks, blogging, DIY platforms, gaming, mash-ups,
remixing, etc. have come to increasingly characterize and dominate how
knowledge and culture are produced, shared and understood in our
global networked society. With new on-line communities of practice
engaged in "DIYalogues" where knowledge and culture are shared,
co-created and remixed, what does such mass amateurization of
knowledge and cultural production mean for teachers?

At the same time, digital technologies and networked communications
have engendered new forms of surveillance, censorship and control that
threaten our privacy and challenge our individual and collective
freedoms. Dataveillance, network filtering, digital rights management
systems, closed mobile networks and locked down digital devises have
introduced emergent forms of discrimination and domination - ones that
present real risks to networked collaboration, freedom of expression,
innovation, collective action, personal autonomy, and the public
sphere. Accordingly, these developments also have important
implications for contemporary education?s preoccupation with
assessment and monitored teaching and learning.

Contributors to this issue are invited to reflect upon these and
related issues as they pertain to education and culture. With digital
culture assuming a central role in contemporary life, what
possibilities and limitations must researchers, educators, policy
makers and others address in relation to curriculum and pedagogy? How
might we begin to re-imagine traditional notions of education? How
might digital culture be meaningfully integrated into school
curriculum? And how might we provide young people with the multi-modal
literacies required to become articulate and critically engaged
citizens in a digital and rapidly changing world? And with such
profound implications for change, how does access play a role
contributing to the further disempowerment of those social groups who
already are economically marginalized?

Authors may wish to address one or more of the following topics in
relation to teaching and learning:

*Participatory culture
*Digital Culture and Preservice teacher education
*Virtual Worlds
*Read-write culture
*Multi-modal literacies
*Commons-based peer production
*Digital divides
*Collective intelligence
*Gaming and education
*Social media and learning
*Digital media literacy
*Digital censorship and filtering in schools
*Surveillance and learning
*Open and closed technologies
*Copyright and education
*DIY Education
*Remix culture
*Digital communities of practice
*Mobile communications
*Open Source and schools
*Hacking and education
*Digital citizenship


FORMAT:
Both traditional and alternative forms of scholarly representation and
communication are encouraged. Authors may consider utilizing the tools
and platforms made possible by digital technologies and social media.
For example, authors may choose to transmit their essay as a series of
text m

[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Any djatoka users out there?

We're on the brink of deciding between two candidates as open-source 
AJAX client implementations for working with navigable images served 
with resolution on demand by djatoka server and a JPEG 2000 back-end.

The two candidates are Djatoka OpenURL, based on OpenLayers, and Djatoka 
Viewer, based on IIPMooViewer. We have test pages up and running with 
both, and based on lots of search-engine-findable resources, both seem 
like good candidates based on functional needs and general factors; so I 
thought I'd ask here if anyone has actually been using either or both.

Any hands-on tales of use cases or applications in museum contexts that 
might suggest one of these tools would be preferable to the other?

thanks,
Rob

-- 
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
//
President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), 
The membership organization for museum information professionals

[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Thanks, Ethan. That's pretty much where I've been headed so far, too, in 
what seems otherwise to be close to a toss-up; the current-view outline 
box on small reference image is a big plus.

Any other comments out there?

Rob

On 9/17/2009 12:21 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I have used both.  I prefer the viewer based on IIPMooViewer purely for
> aesthetic reasons.  I like the thumbnail in the corner with the small box
> that shows one's zoomed position on the current layer and one's ability to
> navigate with that box.  There's also the button to export whatever is in
> the viewer to a downloadable jpg, so that's potentially useful to patrons.
> 
> Ethan Gruber
> University of Virginia Library
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists <
> lists at lancefield.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Any djatoka users out there?
>>
>> We're on the brink of deciding between two candidates as open-source
>> AJAX client implementations for working with navigable images served
>> with resolution on demand by djatoka server and a JPEG 2000 back-end.
>>
>> The two candidates are Djatoka OpenURL, based on OpenLayers, and Djatoka
>> Viewer, based on IIPMooViewer. We have test pages up and running with
>> both, and based on lots of search-engine-findable resources, both seem
>> like good candidates based on functional needs and general factors; so I
>> thought I'd ask here if anyone has actually been using either or both.
>>
>> Any hands-on tales of use cases or applications in museum contexts that
>> might suggest one of these tools would be preferable to the other?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Rob
>>
>> --
>> Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu)
>> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
>> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
>> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
>> 860.685.2965
>> //
>> President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), <http://www.mcn.edu>
>> The membership organization for museum information professionals
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[MCN-L] MCN SIGs - am I too clueless to participate?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Ari and all,

This is just my personal 2 cents as a former MCN SIG (Special Interest 
Group) chair, but I'd say your experience is not at all atypical and in 
no way a symptom of cluelessness--rather, a sign of accurate radar. Most 
SIGs do fall fairly dormant for most of the year, with a few exceptions.

That said, and in the spirit of transparency, inclusivity, and our MCN 
conference this week (three good things!), two thoughts I can float:

1. This cyclical slide into semi-dormancy is something the SIGs have 
struggled with forever, to a first approximation; and a SIG is really 
only as active as its members make it. (By the way, to note this isn't 
to diss our SIG chairs, but quite the opposite: they're the leaders in 
this struggle against entropy.) So, I'd encourage conference attendees 
who feel that they have common interest with any of the SIGs to drop by 
a meeting or two, speak up, and maybe spur--and run with--an idea. The 
conference schedule (see At-a-Glance, pp. 7-9, for SIGs) is online at:

 .

And for a list of all SIGs, please see:  .

2. Great ideas re: other approaches to maintaining electronic space for 
SIG content. MCN's entire assemblage of electronic services is a key 
area of reassessment and work for MCN, so I'd encourage you--and anyone 
else who may be interested--to keep sharing your ideas, so we can fold 
them into that process. The annual general meeting (Thursday, 3PM) will 
offer a chance to see who's leading MCN committee work in this and other 
areas, and to hear truly brief updates on what those areas of work are.

Hope this may help, and that it didn't veer too far off into boosterism!

thanks,
Rob
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

On 11/10/08 3:00 PM, Ari Davidow wrote:
> As long as I am asking convoluted questions
> 
> At the last MCN conference I attended, two years ago, I was very
> interested in several SIGs and thought that I "joined". Here it is two
> years later. I can't recall any SIG discussions that I have had in the
> intervening time (other than the IP-SIG, for which Amalya posts
> frequently and noticably), and those particular SIG pages, including
> the related resource pages, do not look like they have changed since.
> 
> Is this people's general experience? Did I most likely just not make
> my interest known such that it was captured and acted on (as in, be
> part of ongoing discussions)?
> 
> And, of course, am I the only person who suspects that a wiki, perhaps
> among other CoP tools, might be a better way to capture and maintain
> information in these SIGs, as generated, rather than what appear to be
> the current static, unmaintained html pages?
> 
> Is there more we can do with SIGs that would be useful? Which ones are
> meeting at MCN (I think I noticed two or three SIG meetings--IP SIG,
> plus California and Taiwan? in the calendar)
> 
> ari

[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2007!

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi everyone,

As the MCN conference approaches, so does our annual Silent Auction.
Your donations to this event support a crucial program: all 2007 Silent
Auction proceeds will fund conference scholarships for MCN 2008.

It's not too soon to dream up novel donations and stash them away to
carry to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully accepted in person. Items
new or old, seriously useful or happily useless, that may attract bids
and be carried home on airplanes are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs,
museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are always popular. Donations
need not be tangible things--some especially popular lots have offered
free services or half-price registrations for other professional events.

Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk in the hotel when
you register; details will be announced soon. Auction volunteers also
are needed. If you'd like to help or want to know more about what this
entails, please email me off-list at .

 has more
information about the auction and a wide range of MCN 2007 events.

See you in Chicago!

Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007)
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network

[MCN-L] fwd: Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation...

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folk, from DIGLIB:

 Original Message 
Subject: [DIGLIB] Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation...
Date:   Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:42:24 +0200
From:   Jeffrey van der Hoeven 
To: 

***Apologies for cross-posting***

*Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation*

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek - national library of the Netherlands - and
the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands are proud to present the
world?s first modular emulator designed for digital preservation: Dioscuri.

Dioscuri is capable of emulating an Intel 8086-based computer platform
with support for VGA-graphics, screen, keyboard, and storage devices
like a virtual floppy drive and hard drive. With these components
Dioscuri successfully runs 16-bit operating systems like MS-DOS and
applications such as WordPerfect 5.1, DrawPerfect 1.1 and Norton
Commander. Furthermore, it is capable of running many nostalgic
DOS-games and a simple Linux kernel. And when you finally open your
long-forgotten WP5.1-files you can extract the text from the emulated
environment into your current working environment using a simple
clipboard-feature.

*Designed for digital preservation*

The design of Dioscuri is based on two key features: *portability* and
*flexibility*.

Dioscuri is portable because it is built on top of a virtual layer,
called a virtual machine (VM). By using a VM in between the real
computer and the emulated one, Dioscuri becomes less dependent on the
actual hardware and software it runs on. This approach offers better
portability to other platforms, which ensures longevity when a platform
fails to survive over time. Dioscuri has shown to run reliably on PC,
Apple and Sun computers without the need to alter anything of the
application.

Flexibility is gained by a component-based architecture. Each component,
called module, imitates the functionality of a particular hardware
component (i.e. processor, memory, hard disk, etc.). In concept,
combining these modules any computer emulation can be created.
Configuring Dioscuri is done by a user-friendly graphical interface
which stores the settings in an XML-file.

Both its portability and flexibility make Dioscuri different from any
other emulator that exist today and ensure that it is prepared for the
future.

*Developing Dioscuri*

Development of the emulator started in January 2006 and was lead by
Tessella Support Services plc. Together with emulation proponent Jeff
Rothenberg the PC-architecture was examined and translated into a
software representation, resulting in a modular emulator. Although
developing an emulator is not an easy task, the project made it clear
that with a limited resources it is possible to build one. With a total
effort of roughly two man-years, Dioscuri has been designed, developed
and tested.

Next steps are already in progress. Since July 2007 development of
Dioscuri is continued under the umbrella of the European project
*Planets*. Future work will consist of extending Dioscuri with more
components to emulate newer x86 computers (286, 386, 486 and Pentium)
which will make Dioscuri capable of running operating systems like MS
Windows 95/98/2000/XP and Linux Ubuntu.

*Download now!*

Dioscuri version 0.2.0 is now available as open source software for any
institution or individual that would like to experience their old
digital documents again. Download Dioscuri from:
http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net 

*Mailinglist and contact*

If you would like to be kept up to date about new developments of
Dioscuri, please register for the Dioscuri news mailinglist:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dioscuri-news

To get in touch with the project team, please contact:

Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
Remco Verdegem, project manager Dioscuri:
remco.verdegem at nationaalarchief.nl 

Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Jeffrey van der Hoeven, co-developer and tester:
jeffrey.vanderhoeven at kb.nl 

Tessella Support Service plc
Bill Roberts, coordinator Development Team
bill.roberts at tessella.com 

[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction - Week after Next!

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi everyone,

As the MCN conference draws nearer, so does our Silent Auction. All 2007 
Silent Auction proceeds will fund conference scholarships for MCN 2008.

If you haven't already, please dream up your donations and stash them 
away to take to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully accepted in person. 
  Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk when you register.

Any items new or old, useful or happily useless, that may attract bids 
and be carried home on airplanes are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs, 
museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are always popular. Donations 
need not be tangible things--some popular lots have offered half-price 
registrations for other professional events, or various free services.

Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help or want to 
know more, please email me off-list at .

 has more news 
about this and a wide range of MCN 2007 events.

See you in Chicago!

Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007)
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network

[MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

The barcoding study Will recalls may have been the one noted below in an 
MCN-L post from 2002 (and hey, the URL it cites still points to a live 
page!). In another, more recent thread from 2006, Perian Sully and David 
Parsell also exchanged thoughts on the topic; please let me know offlist 
if it would be useful to have that thread forwarded, also offlist.

cheers,
Rob
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network


 2002 Message 
 > Subject: Check out Barcoding for Museums
 > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:50:33 EDT
 > From: MarbleCity at aol.com
 > To:  mcn-l at mcn.edu
 >
 > ... Barcoding for Museums ...
 >
 > Friends,
 >
 > ...
 >
 > 
 >
 > The page is intended to be updated regularly.  If you see something is
 > missing or something can be better, please let me know so I can
 > address it.  If you would like to add your survey responses, by all
 > means, click on the Complete Survey hyperlink and send me your
 > responses.  If you have a great image to replace the down and dirty
 > one I created, please send it along.
 >
 > I want to thank each of the contributors, yet again, for their great
 > responses.  Sam Quigley, Bob Futernick, Johanna Humphrey,Susan
 > Fishman-Armstrong, Kate Turner Morgan, and Heather Polubinski, your
 > responses will influence my activities and I suspect they will be
 > helpful for others.  I can't thank you guys enough.
 >
 > I want to invite others, yet again, to share your experience and
 > wisdom with us.
 >
 > Ruth Bryant Power


Real, Will wrote:
> Annamaria,
> 
> We use a barcoding system here at Carnegie Museum of Art. The barcoding
> software is a third-party application developed for use with our
> collections management system (KE Emu). It functions over our wireless
> network and is used primarily for updating object locations, though it
> can also be configured for on-site data-entry and/or object accessioning
> projects. At present not all of the collection has been barcoded so the
> system is not used consistently. We have found that the biggest
> challenges, besides finding the time to complete the barcoding of the
> entire collection, are deciding how to approach barcoding for multi-part
> objects (whether at the item or part level) and how to keep track of the
> physical bar code tags of three-dimensional objects as they come on and
> off view. While we agree with others who have said that the barcoding
> system increases accuracy, there is always going to be an element of
> human or procedure error that no technology that I am aware of can quite
> overcome!
> 
> Another source to investigate: a several years ago someone, I think an
> MCN member on this list, did a survey and posted specific information on
> museum barcoding on a website. I don't have the link and don't know if
> the site is even live anymore. Does this ring a bell to anyone else?
> 
> Will Real
> Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 7:35 AM
> 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...--

[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction Next Week!

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

With the MCN conference coming up next week, our Silent Auction is just 
around the corner; and as the event draws nearer, these reminders become 
shorter (more concise? more blunt? You decide...). So, in brief:

- All 2007 Silent Auction proceeds will fund scholarships for MCN 2008.

- Please take your donations to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully 
accepted in person at the conference desk when you register.

- Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help or want to
know more, please email me off-list at .

See you in Chicago!

Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007)
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network

[MCN-L] Fwd: Call for participation: alt.chi

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

Perhaps of interest to any MCN-L subscribers who may be involved in 
computer-human interaction design for kiosks, web, or whatever:

>  Original Message 
> Subject: Call for participation: alt.chi
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:59:29 -0800
> From: Louise Barkhuus 
> To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
> 
> Call for Participation: alt.chi
> 
> Submission deadline: January 8th 2008.
> 
> Alt.chi invites controversial ideas, novel prototypes, failed but  
> valuable user studies, bold experiments, and anything else that can  
> give a fresh perspective on CHI. We invite submissions that explore  
> technical or practical limitations in technologies or methodologies;  
> that introduce promising, although currently non-viable techniques;  
> that critique the current state of the field; and that explore topics  
> outside of current discussion. We particularly welcome topics on CHI  
> 2008's theme, art.science.balance. We invite work that would  
> otherwise not have been presented at CHI 2008, because it is too  
> controversial or outside of the norm.
> 
> alt.chi Review Process:
> The alt.chi 2008 program will be selected through a non-anonymous  
> process, where all submissions and reviews are completely open. There  
> will be an open forum were anyone can register to submit and review,  
> and all submitters are required to take part in the review process.  
> All reviews and submissions will be available to anyone who  
> registers. We want to encourage discussion and debate on what makes a  
> good alt.chi (or regular CHI) submission, what makes a good review,  
> and, ultimately, what makes for a fruitful conference experience.
> 
> See details at: http://www.chi2008.org/alt.chi.html
> 
> Louise Barkhuus and Jofish Kaye, alt.chi co-chairs, 2008
> chi2008-alt at acm.org
> 
>---
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> mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request at listserv.acm.org
>For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv
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[MCN-L] Fwd: Draft Version of MIX 2.0 for review (Image Metadata)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Perhaps of interest to some on MCN-L:

 Original Message 
> Subject: [MIX] Draft Version of MIX 2.0 for review
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:45:05 -0500
> From: Morgan V. Cundiff 
> Reply-To: NISO Metadata for Images in XML (MIX) 
> To: MIX@[...]
> 
> A Draft version of the MIX Schema (Version 2.0) is now available for
> review and testing at:
> 
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/mix20/mix20.xsd
> 
> Version 2.0 is not backwards compatible with Version 1.0. A list of the
> changes is provided in the comments at the top of the schema document
> under "Change History Version 1.0 to Version 2.0". Also note that there
> are now additional discrepancies between the MIX schema and the NISO Data
> Dictionary. An effort is underway to better synchronize the Data
> Dictionary and MIX 2.0. 
> 
> A special thanks to Steve Abrams of Harvard University Libraries for
> providing the thorough review of MIX 1.1 that resulted in many of the
> changes that appear in MIX 2.0.
> 
> Please feel free to send any comments to the MIX listserv (MIX@[...]) or
> directly to me (mcundiff@[...]).
> 
> Morgan Cundiff
> Network Development and MARC Standards Office
> Library of Congress

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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] new topic [email archiving]

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Sarah and all,

One great resource for this will be a roundtable session next month at 
the MCN conference in Seattle, if you're able to be there. On Saturday, 
November 11th, Rich Cherry et al. will present "A Roundtable on Tools 
and Best Practices for Email Preservation and Access" at MCN 2012.

http://goo.gl/k0slA leads to more information about the roundtable.

http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-online-registration has registration 
information, with early-bird discounts good only through tomorrow!

hope this helps,

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 10/4/2012 1:56 PM, Sarah Puckitt wrote:
> How are others archiving their business emails?
> These days, our registrar handles most of her communication via email and has 
> saved them.
> However, we'd like to keep that correspondence within an exhibition related 
> folder, outside of or in addition to the email system. We have talked about 
> pasting all emails to be archived into a Word doc for archiving. I'm 
> wondering if there are other methods to consider.
> Thanks- Sarah
> =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =
> Sarah Puckitt
> Collections Information Specialist
> Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
> P.O. Box 230819
> Montgomery, AL 36123-0819
> 334.240.4342

[MCN-L] new topic [email archiving]

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi again all,

Make that Saturday, November 10th! All else below holds true.

Rob

On 10/4/2012 2:03 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote:
> Hi Sarah and all,
>
> One great resource for this will be a roundtable session next month at
> the MCN conference in Seattle, if you're able to be there. On Saturday,
> November 11th, Rich Cherry et al. will present "A Roundtable on Tools
> and Best Practices for Email Preservation and Access" at MCN 2012.
>
> http://goo.gl/k0slA leads to more information about the roundtable.
>
> http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-online-registration has registration
> information, with early-bird discounts good only through tomorrow!
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Rob

[MCN-L] Offering

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Maury and all,

Another prospective recipient might be the Living Computer Museum in
Seattle. Their mission is "to maintain running computer systems of
historical importance. The rest of our work flows from that premise, as we
preserve the original environments of digital documents and contribute to
fact-based discussions regarding the construction and behavior of vintage
computer systems."

Their wish list of Systems Wanted starts with some IBM equipment, so maybe
the IBM System Journal would be of interest to them. Their website is:

http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org

And since the museum in Seattle, a timely plug: this could be one more
reason to make it to MCN 2012 there next week!

http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2012-annual-conference

Rob


On Sat, November 3, 2012 10:29 am, Ed Rodley wrote:
> Maury,
>
> Have you tried the Computer History Museum in CA?
> http://www.computerhistory.org/
>
> Ed
> 
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] on behalf of maury
> friedman [maury1 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 8:20 PM
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Offering
>
> 30 years of the IBM System Journal that needs a home
> 1962 to 1991
> Would like to donate to a non-profit.
> Maurice Friedman
> Hampton, NH
>
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[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Great ideas. I'd also love to see a session on the procedures and the 
underlying technical means by which certain museums are providing Open 
Access images to end users. This would be focused more on the nuts and 
bolts (from infrastructure to user experience) of image delivery than on 
image production or management, but it sure would be interesting.

A key aim could be to learn how some Open Access image providers are 
balancing optimally efficient delivery (minimizing both friction for 
users and allocated internal staff time) with the capture of meaningful 
use metrics (i.e., anything more than a raw log of image downloads).

Having floated this, maybe I should organize a session proposal

Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 11/13/2012 2:58 PM, Jana Hill wrote:
> Hi Chris et al.,
>
> In addition to those ideas, DM SIG table #2 at the luncheon was very 
> interested in seeing some presentations on digital preservation strategies 
> for both still and moving images.
>
>
> Jana Hill
> Collection Information and Imaging Manager
> Amon Carter Museum of American Art
> 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107
> t: 817.989.5173 f: 817.665.4336
> www.cartermuseum.org
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Edwards, Chris
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:12 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: [MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
>
> To everyone I saw at MCN this year, it was great spending time with you in 
> Seattle!  We had a really good time.
>
> However
>
> One of the largest issues I had with the conference this year was the total 
> lack of presentations on imaging.  This clearly puts the ball in our court 
> and Id like to have us as a group come up with several proposals to submit 
> for next years conference. Since we are all extremely busy, it is entirely 
> appropriate to begin these discussions now.  As chair of the Digital Media 
> SIG I will do my part in officially underwriting proposals emanating from 
> this group to aid in their acceptance.
>
> A few back of the envelope ideas that were tossed around at the conference 
> for topics for next year were: 3D Imaging, Partnering with Conservation for 
> imaging (which would be a good way to draw more conservation talks into the 
> mix), and a panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral 
> imaging.  These are by no means exhaustive as a list of possible topics but 
> rather a way to get the conversation started.
>
> Please reply to this thread with any other ideas you may have and Id like to 
> get some of them pinned down and get them pitched for the conference.
>
> If you need any incentives, the conference next year will be in Montreal, 
> home of poutine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine and Molson.  I look 
> forward to good presentations on digitization and artery hardening fare!
>
> Another piece of business was a proposal to change the name of our SIG from 
> the Digital Media SIG to the Digital Imaging Group SIG as this was perceived 
> to be more appropriate to the group.  Please respond with your thoughts.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris.
> --
> Chris Edwards
> Digital Studio Production Manager
> Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University
> Tel: 203.436.4690
> chris.edwards at yale.edu
>
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[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Great, Alan. Your name on my hit list just lost its question mark!

If other MCN-L subscribers are interested in exploring the idea of 
speaking on an MCN 2013 panel on Open Access image delivery as floated 
below, please ping me off-list at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu. Thanks.

Rob

On 11/15/2012 10:11 AM, Newman, Alan wrote:
> I'm in Rob.
> I'll help with this.
> Alan
>
> Alan Newman
> NGA
>
> ---sent from mobile device---
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:08 AM, "Rob Lancefield on lists" lancefield.net>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Great ideas. I'd also love to see a session on the procedures and the 
>> underlying technical means by which certain museums are providing Open 
>> Access images to end users. This would be focused more on the nuts and bolts 
>> (from infrastructure to user experience) of image delivery than on image 
>> production or management, but it sure would be interesting.
>>
>> A key aim could be to learn how some Open Access image providers are 
>> balancing optimally efficient delivery (minimizing both friction for users 
>> and allocated internal staff time) with the capture of meaningful use 
>> metrics (i.e., anything more than a raw log of image downloads).
>>
>> Having floated this, maybe I should organize a session proposal
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> Rob Lancefield
>> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
>> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
>> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
>> rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/2012 2:58 PM, Jana Hill wrote:
>>> Hi Chris et al.,
>>>
>>> In addition to those ideas, DM SIG table #2 at the luncheon was very 
>>> interested in seeing some presentations on digital preservation strategies 
>>> for both still and moving images.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jana Hill
>>> Collection Information and Imaging Manager
>>> Amon Carter Museum of American Art
>>> 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107
>>> t: 817.989.5173 f: 817.665.4336
>>> www.cartermuseum.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf 
>>> Of Edwards, Chris
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:12 PM
>>> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
>>> Subject: [MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG
>>>
>>> To everyone I saw at MCN this year, it was great spending time with you in 
>>> Seattle!  We had a really good time.
>>>
>>> However
>>>
>>> One of the largest issues I had with the conference this year was the total 
>>> lack of presentations on imaging.  This clearly puts the ball in our court 
>>> and Id like to have us as a group come up with several proposals to submit 
>>> for next years conference. Since we are all extremely busy, it is entirely 
>>> appropriate to begin these discussions now.  As chair of the Digital Media 
>>> SIG I will do my part in officially underwriting proposals emanating from 
>>> this group to aid in their acceptance.
>>>
>>> A few back of the envelope ideas that were tossed around at the conference 
>>> for topics for next year were: 3D Imaging, Partnering with Conservation for 
>>> imaging (which would be a good way to draw more conservation talks into the 
>>> mix), and a panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral 
>>> imaging.  These are by no means exhaustive as a list of possible topics but 
>>> rather a way to get the conversation started.
>>>
>>> Please reply to this thread with any other ideas you may have and Id like 
>>> to get some of them pinned down and get them pitched for the conference.
>>>
>>> If you need any incentives, the conference next year will be in Montreal, 
>>> home of poutine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine and Molson.  I look 
>>> forward to good presentations on digitization and artery hardening fare!
>>>
>>> Another piece of business was a proposal to change the name of our SIG from 
>>> the Digital Media SIG to the Digital Imaging Group SIG as this was 
>>> perceived to be more appropriate to the group.  Please respond with your 
>>> thoughts.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>> --
>>> Chris Edwards
>>> Digital Studio Production Manager
>>> Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale 

[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Chris and all,

Great! Now I'm even sorrier I had to miss your session (I was speaking 
in another room). Also, based on the print program's short abstract, I 
had mistakenly thought you would be focusing on policy and stakeholder 
buy-in, not on delivery implementation. It's good to know that the Open 
Access implementation topic actually did surface as well in Seattle.

Chris (and John and Melissa), your Yale team was also on my shortlist of 
people to tap for a cross-institutional session proposal with this 
different targeted subtopic next year. Let's talk offlist about this!

cheers,
Rob

On 11/15/2012 10:58 AM, Edwards, Chris wrote:
> Funny, this is almost EXACTLY what John ffrench (Yale University Art
> Gallery), Melissa Fournier (Yale Center for British Art) and I presented
> on this year at MCN.
>
> http://www.mcn.edu/opening-access-works-public-domain-yale-university
>
> Chris.

[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG]

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Liz and all,

Yes, it's great to see this conversation gearing up already!

For a proposed session dialed in on implementing Open Access image
delivery, some great off- and on-list offers to speak have flowed in
today, and a proposal is in gear. It's early, but momentum is good.
Ideally we'll have people speaking from concrete experience in a good
many institutions. This will be proposed as a roundtable, with each
presentation kept very short. So, if you're interested and you have:

* Direct experience implementing delivery of Open Access images,
* A desire to share how you're doing it and what you're learning,
* And a likely ability to make it to Montreal next November 20-23,

...do let me know off-list (rlancefield at wesleyan.edu) if you haven't
already, and I'll add you to the prospects list. The draft blurb is:


Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery

Proposed roundtable session for MCN 2013, Montreal, November 20-23

A growing number of museums offer Open Access images of collections
objects for which there is no copyright holder, often placing those
images into the public domain with Creative Commons CC0 licensing.
Taking as its context more widely scoped discussions of Open Access
policy and practice, this session will home in precisely on actual
implementation of public-facing delivery: the procedures and tools
museums use to provide Open Access images to their users. This tight
focus on the nuts and bolts of delivery, from technical infrastructure
to interface and user experience, will enable attendees to learn how
Open Access image providers are developing ways to balance optimally
efficient delivery (minimizing both friction for users and allocated
internal staff time) with the capture of meaningful use metrics (that
is, more than raw logs of image downloads). [working v1, 2012-11-15]


cheers,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 11/15/2012 1:36 PM, Elizabeth Neely wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It's so exciting that you are already working on next year's topics!

[MCN-L] Jobs: DAC Imaging Project Photographer & Specialists (June-July 2013, CT)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) has
three temporary positions open for a summer project entailing rapid
photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and metadata
preparation. The six-week project will run from June 17 through July 25,
2013. Position details are in the postings, which went live today.

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer (one opening):
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/3819

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist (two openings):
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/3820

For the Imaging Project Specialist positions, we're especially interested
in hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or now are
enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields.

Application is via Wesleyan's online system (see links above). If you have
questions about the project, please email me at rlancefield at wesleyan.edu.

Please feel free to forward this announcement if and as you wish.

best regards,
Rob

-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Chris and all,

A panel on FADGI and Metamorfoze sounds really great.

Also, the open-access technical infrastructure session I'm organizing 
(Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery) will definitely be submitted, 
and it may prove to be a good fit for the DM SIG's seal of approval.

Riffing on items 2 and 3 in your list, I'd bet a session combining the 
topics of conservation and multispectral imaging would be a big hit.

Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 4/11/2013 12:21 PM, Edwards, Chris wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> Understandably, conversations have lessened about imaging specific
> presentations for 2013 MCN.  I just want to bump this back up again and
> put this back on everyone's radar, even if only for a brief period.  I
> will continue to send out such emails over the next few months just to
> keep the conversation alive.
>
> I would also add a potential topic to this list: Panel discussion on
> Metamorphoze and FADGI as color management workflows
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris.
> -- Chris Edwards
> Head, Beinecke Digital Studio
> Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
> Yale University
> Tel: 203.436.4690
> chris.edwards at yale.edu 
>
> On 11/15/12 12:53 PM, "Edwards, Chris"  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for everyone's interest!  So far heres what we have:
>>
>> Proposed topics for MCN 2013
>>
>>
>> 1.3D Imaging
>> 2.Partnering with Conservation for imaging
>> 3.Panel discussion by institutions doing multi/hyper spectral imaging
>> 4.Open Access technical Infrastructure
>> 5.Digital preservation strategies for both still and moving images ?
>> Chuck Patch
>> 6.Stitching for preservation imaging oversize materials (apertures to
>> algorithms)
>> 7.Lossless, Visually lossless, Perceptually lossless, and Lossy JP2
>> profiles, compression schemes, color management, and digital preservation
>> 8.Panel on studio production management: techniques, tracking systems,
>> metrics, cost control, etc.
>>
>> Again, these are mostly only proposed, not actual so lets keep discussing
>> and refining.  Any other ideas would be most welcome!
>>
>> Chris.
>> --
>> Chris Edwards
>> Head, Beinecke Digital Studio
>> Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
>> Yale University
>> Tel: 203.436.4690
>> chris.edwards at yale.edu

[MCN-L] Permissions

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

Since Cathryn asked for a show of hands, here's one. The Davison Art 
Center, Wesleyan University also is a case of so-far quiet adoption. Our 
open access images policy has been in effect and in use since 
12/12/2012; but until we can make an initial critical mass of images 
available for download by users (target: September), we're staying 
low-key about it. The policy and accompanying information are at:

http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

cheers,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 5/29/2013 8:58 AM, Cathryn Goodwin wrote:
> An addendum to this thread is the fact that many institutions, Princeton 
> among them, are more quietly adopting an open access to public domain images 
> policy - I'd be interested in a show of hands.
>
> Cathryn
>
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> David Green
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:48 AM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Permissions
>
> Absolutely agree, of course. And see today's NYT article about the 
> Rijksmuseum's contribution to the way forward: 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130529&_r=0
>
> "We're a public institution, and so the art and objects we have are, in a 
> way, everyone's property," said [Taco Dibbits, the director of collections at 
> the Rijksmuseum,] in an interview. "'With the Internet, it's so difficult to 
> control your copyright or use of images that we decided we'd rather people 
> use a very good high-resolution image of the 'Milkmaid' from the Rijksmuseum 
> rather than using a very bad reproduction," he said, referring to that 
> Vermeer painting from around 1660."
>
> David Green
> redgen at mac.com
> @redgen
> 203-520-9155
>
>
> On May 27, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Kenneth Hamma  wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Peter.
>>
>> It is dismaying that anyone could not imagine that  there's any way around 
>> the wide variety of charges and procedures that collections  - perhaps 
>> sometimes thoughtlessly? - interpose between themselves the public for whom 
>> they are stewards.  For those, here are some starting points.
>>
>> https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html
>>
>> http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/image-use
>>
>> http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_this_site/terms_of_use/free_image_s
>> ervice.aspx
>>
>> https://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use
>>
>> http://thewalters.org/rights-reproductions.aspx
>>
>> Knowing that it can be bothersome to visit websites and read, let me copy 
>> the simple image rights/use statement from the Walters Art Museum:
>>
>> All photography on our website(s) is governed by Creative Commons Licensing 
>> and can be used without cost or specific permission. Artworks in the 
>> photographs are in the public domain due to age. The photographs of 
>> two-dimensional objects have also been released into the public domain. 
>> Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been 
>> released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported 
>> License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> ken
>>
>> Kenneth Hamma
>>
>> Yale Center for British Art
>> kenneth.hamma at yale.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 27, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Peter B. Hirtle  wrote:
>>
>>> For a different perspective from a different field, MCN-L readers might be 
>>> interested in a forthcoming paper from John Overholt addressing the future 
>>> of special collections in libraries.  It is called "Five theses on the 
>>> future of special collections," and a preprint is found at 
>>> http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10601790/overholt.pdf.
>>>
>>> One of his five theses speaks precisely to the issue of permissions.  It 
>>> begins this way:
>>>
>>> The future of special collections is openness.
>>>
>>> We are not the creators of our collections; we are their stewards. They 
>>> were entrusted to us to preserve them, certainly, but preservation without 
>>> use is an empty victory. It ought to be our primary purpose at all times to 
>>> minimize barriers to use, so it is all the more shameful when we interpose 
>>> such barriers ourselves, not out of concern for the health of the 
>>> collections, but out of the misguided belief that we are entitled to 
>>> control, even to monetize, their use. When we claim copyright over our 
>>> digital collections, or impose permission fees or licensing terms on users, 
>>> we are arguably misrepresenting the law, and certainly violating one of the 
>>> central ethical tenets of the profession: to promote the free dissemination 
>>> of information.
>>>
>>> It would seem to me that image permissions would be much simplified if 

[MCN-L] Museums and Fair Use of Images on Websites

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Jesse,

Many museums base their policies in this regard on the "Policy on the 
Use of 'Thumbnail' Digital Images in Museum Online Initiatives" from the 
Association of Art Museum Directors. There's a link to download it as a 
PDF from this page:

https://aamd.org/standards-and-practices

Hope this helps,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 8/27/13 9:23 AM, Jesse Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am just wondering if any institutions out there (especially university
> museums) use images still under copyright for which they haven't been able
> to track down permission on their website? If so, do you have any kind of a
> Fair Use statement on your site regarding the use of the images?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
>
> --
> Jessica Henderson, MLIS
> Visual Resources Curator
> Department of Art & Art History
> Colgate University
> 13 Oak Drive
> Hamilton, NY 13346
> 315.228.7594
> jhenderson at colgate.edu
> www.colgate.edu/visualresources
> about.me/jesse.henderson

[MCN-L] Data Retention Policies?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Maggie and all,

One good general place to start for records retention on the financial 
side of any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization is this IRS brochure:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4221pc.pdf

More specifically for museums (and beyond more general financials), you 
may want to search the AAM bookstore for some of their publications:

http://www.aam-us.org/resources/bookstore

And in an even more targeted, but serendipitously timely, way, you may 
want to check out this recently announced all-day workshop coming up:

Museums and the Web Deep Dive: Assessing Tools and Best Practices for 
Email Preservation and Access in Art Museums

"A lack of robust archiving and retrieval for email correspondence in 
today?s art museums may limit the primary source materials available to 
future generations of students, scholars, and the public."

This workshop will take place as part of Museums and the Web 2014 in 
Baltimore on April 1, the Tuesday before the main MW 2014 conference 
begins. Participants will dive into the topic with a full day focused on 
policies, practices, and tools for email archiving in art museums, with 
plans to form a working group to continue momentum after that day. 
There's more information (and more links) in Rich Cherry's recent blog 
post on the Museums & the Web site:

http://goo.gl/xrYsNN

Hope this helps!

all best,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 1/6/14 2:33 PM, Maggie Hanson wrote:
> Hi, all -
> Our Museum is starting to think about a formal data retention policy (or at
> least some guidelines). Would anyone be willing to share any documentation?
> I'd appreciate anything I can share with our group about what is working
> for other museums. Thanks!
> Maggie

[MCN-L] Location base services in museums, seeking examples

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Trilce and all,

Several presentations at MCN 2013 addressed current location-aware 
projects. One such project was the subject of the first presentation in 
the session "Where to Next? Emerging Practices in Location Awareness and 
in Online Publication," which is now documented on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4wyr75jCk

There should be a few others among the MCN 2013 videos already on 
YouTube or now making their through the production pipeline, so it may 
be useful for your student to keep an eye on this page:

https://www.youtube.com/user/museumcn/videos

hope this helps,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 1/8/14 1:34 AM, Trilce Navarrete wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> An MA student is doing research on location-based services in museums and
> is looking for examples.
>
> Would you be involved in location-based services or know of a project,
> please do share with me and I'll pass it along. Much appreciated !
>
> best,
> Trilce

[MCN-L] Wholly unofficial MCN 2010 Google Calendar

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

If you use Google Calendar and will attend the Museum Computer Network
conference in Austin, this may be of interest. There's now an unofficial
MCN 2010 calendar in Google Calendar. It's a personally implemented thing,
not an MCN resource backed by our incredible volunteer team. It's accurate
as of now, but it might not reflect later-changing aspects of the program.

Caveats: Due to Google Calendar's inability to lock events to prevent
time-zone conversion, it converts times to your zone if Google thinks it
knows where you are. No matter how you access it, displayed times will
match the program *only* if Google thinks *you* are in the US Central Time
zone or no zone; thus the (redundant) times in titles. This should be a
non-issue in Austin if Calendar knows you're there. And since "locations"
are meeting rooms, ignore Google's "map" links unless you want amusement
("Barton" may send you over to Louisiana, "Capitol" up to Montana!).

MCN_2010_Unofficial is the calendar's name. Shortcut URLs to it are:

HTML: 
iCal: 
Feed: 

If anyone finds any substantive errors, please do let me know off-list.

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu

[MCN-L] Virtualization

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

We'll be running our collections management system and associated web 
software in university-supported virtual machines by the end of this 
summer--more aggregated provisioning for them, pretty much cloud to us.

Rob

-- 
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
//
President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), 

On 4/2/2009 1:16 PM, Sandy Moore wrote:
> A Quick Poll by responding to this e-mail:
>  
> What Museum's have a virtualized server environment and how many are
> looking toward virtualization?  
>  
> Sandra J. Moore
> The Toledo Museum of Art
>  
>  
> ___
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> 
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[MCN-L] Fwd: International Image Interoperability Framework API Proposal

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Forwarded from DIGLIB, probably of interest to some on MCN-L:

 Original Message 
Subject: [DIGLIB] Request for Comment: IIIF Image API Proposal
[...]
--

The International Image Interoperability Framework
(http://lib.stanford.edu/iiif) is an initiative driven by several major
research and national libraries to enable the rich and robust delivery of
digital images through common interfaces, and to spur the development of
open source and commercial software solutions in this space.

The IIIF Working Group invites comment and feedback on a proposed API for
the the delivery of images via a standard http request. The full
specification can be found at:

http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api

The IIIF Image API specifies a web service that returns an image in
response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the
region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the
requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic technical
information about the image to support client applications.

The IIIF Image API was conceived of to facilitate systematic reuse of
image resources, and enable their delivery through a diversity of software
applications and environments, regardless of underlying technology
platforms. The API is designed to be adoptable by any image repository or
service provider, and can be used to retrieve static images in response to
a properly constructed URL. We invite you to read this specification and
provide us critical feedback.

Please send feedback to iiif-feedback at googlegroups.com by June 22, 2012.

Once all feedback is reviewed and incorporated, we will release the
specification for adoption.

If you would like to follow future IIIF-related developments, you may be
interested in joining the initiative's announcements email list
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/iiif-announce.

If you would like to participate in IIIF's development, and/or implement
or consume the API for your image repository or image delivery software,
we encourage you to join the IIIF discussion email list
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/iiif-discuss.

With many thanks for your feedback,

The IIIF Working Group

// end forwarded message

[MCN-L] Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum, August 11-18

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

The American Association of Museums has announced ?Invite Congress to 
Visit Your Museum? Week, August 11-18, as in the forwarded text below.

If you're at a U.S. museum and your role enables you to act on this, 
please consider doing so. If you're not in a position to act on it 
yourself, please consider sharing this announcement with colleagues who 
might be able to do so at your own institution or elsewhere.

best regards,

Rob (as MCN representative on the AAM Council of Affiliates)

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


 Original Message (slightly abridged) 

AAM Announces ?Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum? Week; Set for 
August 11-18, Museums Need to Show Congress How Essential They Are

WHAT: Museums invite Members of Congress to visit their museums
WHY: Show Congress what museums are and what they do
WHEN: August 11-18, 2012

?In August, Members of Congress will be at home for nearly a month, 
looking for opportunities to connect with constituents,? said AAM 
President Ford W. Bell. ?At a time when the national debt has reached 
$15 trillion, ?sequestration? (automatically triggered cuts) could lead 
to deep cuts to all federal programs, state budgets are being squeezed, 
and non-essential funding is being slashed, museums must demonstrate 
that they are worthy of a federal investment.?

What will influence Congress the most as they make these tough budget 
choices? ?According to a recent study, constituent visits have more 
influence than any other influence group or strategy,? Bell said. ?This 
?Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum? event is the perfect opportunity 
for Congress to learn first-hand how museums provide essential community 
services. I urge every museum to participate in this event.?

AAM has made it easy to participate. Just follow these easy steps:

1. Find out who represents you in Congress:


2. Send a letter to invite them for a visit:


3. Call the local office to find the name of the scheduler and call or 
email to follow up:


4. Continue following up until a meeting can be set up (if the Member of 
Congress is not available the week of August 11, offer alternate dates).

5. Plan the visit ? See the AAM ?How To? guide to help you prepare ? 
including what to do before, during, and after the visit:


This coordinated effort will help museums demonstrate that they are not 
a luxury or just ?for the wealthy,? as the U.S. House of Representatives 
claimed in March when it passed its budget.
.

Will you get involved? If your museum is planning to participate in this 
effort, please let us know. We?d like to highlight some of the ?early 
adopters? that will be hosting visits by Congress. Please email us if 
you?ve set up a meeting (or are in the process of doing so) or if you 
have any questions about this effort.

Please visit www.speakupformuseums.org to learn more about advocacy for 
museums.

Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied
Senior Director of Government Relations and Advocacy
gsilberglied at aam-us.org
American Association of Museums
1575 Eye Street NW, Suite 400 | Washington DC 20005
www.aam-us.org

 End Original Message 

[MCN-L] Position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: TMS user with musical training

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

This is forwarded from a non-museum list, with permission of the person 
who posted it there. Although it's not a technology job, this position 
may be of interest to some MCN-L subscribers. I know there are many TMS 
users here, and I suspect there may be an even larger number of us who 
have (stealth) musical backgrounds and degrees.

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965



 Original Message 
Subject: [SEM-L] New Position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0400
From: Moore, Ken 

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART


EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES


Please send cover letter, resume, and salary history to 
employoppty at metmuseum.org with the position title in the subject line.
___

Assistant/Associate Curator- Musical Instruments


General Description:

The primary duty of this position is to interpret, display, and refine 
the collection of the Department of Musical Instruments. A strong 
background with European instruments combined with a comprehensive 
interest in all musical instruments is desired. The applicant should 
have a knowledge of the history of instruments and makers and in their 
relationship to the visual arts. The position requires an ability to 
multitask working with scholars, educators, donors, designers, and 
musicians. The position requires working with TMS database system and 
the candidate will be expected to accomplish other Departmental tasks as 
assigned.


Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
* Make recommendations concerning acquisition, deaccessioning, 
and loans; exhibitions, research and publications; performers and 
educational events
* Knowledge of collections management techniques, musical 
instrument cataloguing standards, and an acquaintance with TMS database 
system
* Basic understanding of handling, playing, and conservation 
treatment issues and ethics specific to the field
* Maintain cataloguing in keeping with current research and 
descriptive methods
* Answer correspondence and route specific questions to the 
appropriate colleague
* Build relationships with dealers, donors, etc.
* Provide collection related tours and lectures and docent training
* Other related duties

Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience and Skills:
* Strong communication skills that include writing, speaking, 
and fundraising, required
* Strong organizational, logistics, and computer skills, required
* Ability to multitask, required
* Good interpersonal relationship skills and the ability to work 
with the general public and colleagues within the Museum, required
* Some experience with the cultivation of donors is preferred
* Strong contacts with professionals in the field is preferred

Knowledge and Education:
* M.A., M.M., or Ph.D. in Music with a concentration in 
Organology, required
* Professional music background and knowledge of museology, required
* Knowledge of best practices in handling and care of 
instruments, required


The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides equal opportunity to all 
employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, 
religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, 
age, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship 
status, marital status or domestic partner status, genetic information, 
genetic predisposition or carrier status, gender identity, HIV status, 
military status and any other category protected by law in all 
employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, 
compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, 
demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other 
terms and conditions of employment.


J. Kenneth Moore
Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge
Department of Musical Instruments
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, New York 10028-0198
Tel: 212 570-3919,  Fax: 212 650-2111
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=18

[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Chuck and all,

In addition to the great resources Deb has suggested, two other leads:

The Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, has institutional 
members who do audio A-to-D in-house but occasionally outsource those 
services, and other members who provide those services as vendors. ARSC 
has an active email list, which it may be worth hitting with a query 
seeking off-list replies about prospective service providers. More at:

http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html

One lead to an audio digitization house: Sonicraft (sonicraft.com) does 
very high-quality transfers of music recordings. This recommendation is 
based on individual experience, not museum-related work. As we know, a 
key factor in whether any given shop is a good candidate for a project 
is the eternal tradeoff between transfer quality and cost, vis-?-vis the 
amount and type of source material, how much quality matters, and 
budget. Please ask me off-list if you'd like a lead to someone who may 
have ideas for a specific project. As a LinkedIn user, you might also 
see if you happen to have connections in the Audio Engineering Society 
(aes.org) via http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=71239 .

Re: storage media, in a word: yes, once audio is digital, physical 
storage-medium aspects of preserving it are like those of preserving 
other digital files. Re: metadata, the AES has developed some relevant 
standards, and LOC digital preservation pages may be useful re: what can 
be embedded in audio files of a specified format (e.g., WAV):

http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd01.shtml

hope this helps!

Rob (recording engineer in a pre-museum-person life)
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu


On 9/15/2010 7:29 PM, Chuck Patch wrote:
 > I've been asked about services that perform digitization of analog
 > audio (reel-to-reel) tapes. Has anyone used such a service that they
 > could recommend? A couple of related questions - are there digital
 > storage media for audio considered remotely archival? Or is it
 > similar to visual data that's best kept on spinning disk and migrated
 > in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider
 > of this sort to embed in the files?

[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services [audio metadata]

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Chuck (and anyone else seeking audio metadata tools/practices),

Looping back to the metadata thread below, here's another resource:

<http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/documents/wave_metadata.html>

That page links to the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines 
Initiative specification for metadata in Broadcast WAVE (BWAV or BWF) 
files, plus associated documents. A related Mac/Windows tool, BWF 
MetaEdit, is "a free, open source tool that supports embedding, 
validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) 
files, including support for the Federal Agencies guidelines." It's at 
SourceForge:

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit/>

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu



On 9/17/2010 10:46 AM, Chuck Patch wrote:
> Thanks Rob, Deborah, these are very helpful.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Rob Lancefield on lists<
> lists at lancefield.net>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck and all,
>>
>> In addition to the great resources Deb has suggested, two other leads:
>>
>> The Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, has institutional
>> members who do audio A-to-D in-house but occasionally outsource those
>> services, and other members who provide those services as vendors. ARSC
>> has an active email list, which it may be worth hitting with a query
>> seeking off-list replies about prospective service providers. More at:
>>
>> http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html
>>
>> One lead to an audio digitization house: Sonicraft (sonicraft.com) does
>> very high-quality transfers of music recordings. This recommendation is
>> based on individual experience, not museum-related work. As we know, a
>> key factor in whether any given shop is a good candidate for a project
>> is the eternal tradeoff between transfer quality and cost, vis-?-vis the
>> amount and type of source material, how much quality matters, and
>> budget. Please ask me off-list if you'd like a lead to someone who may
>> have ideas for a specific project. As a LinkedIn user, you might also
>> see if you happen to have connections in the Audio Engineering Society
>> (aes.org) via http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=71239 .
>>
>> Re: storage media, in a word: yes, once audio is digital, physical
>> storage-medium aspects of preserving it are like those of preserving
>> other digital files. Re: metadata, the AES has developed some relevant
>> standards, and LOC digital preservation pages may be useful re: what can
>> be embedded in audio files of a specified format (e.g., WAV):
>>
>> http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/
>> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd01.shtml
>>
>> hope this helps!
>>
>> Rob (recording engineer in a pre-museum-person life)
>> --
>> Rob Lancefield
>> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
>> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
>> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
>> rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
>> Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu
>>
>>
>> On 9/15/2010 7:29 PM, Chuck Patch wrote:
>>   >  I've been asked about services that perform digitization of analog
>>   >  audio (reel-to-reel) tapes. Has anyone used such a service that they
>>   >  could recommend? A couple of related questions - are there digital
>>   >  storage media for audio considered remotely archival? Or is it
>>   >  similar to visual data that's best kept on spinning disk and migrated
>>   >  in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider
>>   >  of this sort to embed in the files?
>>
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[MCN-L] Fwd: Metadata Working Group releases First Specification for Interoperability and Preservation of Metadata in Digital Photography]

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Forwarded from another list with its author's permission, the ad hoc 
report below may be of interest to MCN-L subscribers concerned with 
developments in software developer/vendor support for image metadata.

cheers,
Rob

 Original Message 
Subject: [updig] Metadata Working Group releases First Specification for 
Interoperability and Preservation of Metadata in Digital Photography
Date:   Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:32:22 -0500
From:   David Riecks 

> All:
> 
> A group going by the name of the "Metadata Working group" made a major 
> announcement at Photokina today and released a document that is designed to 
> help developers by providing best practices on how to create, read and modify 
> a set of core metadata values within digital images that use Exif, IPTC-IIM 
> and XMP. The groups involved in this initiative include a number of 
> long-standing digital imaging and metadata advocates such as Adobe Systems 
> Inc., Apple Inc., and Microsoft Corp.; as well as a few you might not expect 
> : Canon Inc., Nokia Corp. and Sony Corp.
> 
> The primary thrust of the Metadata Working group is to reveal issues 
> regarding how metadata is exchanged and preserved as it moves between 
> applications and processes (devices, platforms and services), file formats 
> and metadata standards. This document, titled, "Guidelines for Handling 
> Metadata" was released this morning (September 24th), and discusses the use 
> of a small number of current metadata fields using existing standards to deal 
> with what they feel are the key questions that most consumers have about 
> images:
> 
> -Who is involved with this image (who took it, who owns it, who?s in it)?
> -What is interesting about this image?
> -Where is this image from?
> -When was this image created or modified?
> 
> The goal of the Metadata Working Group is to provide best practices 
> specifically for these nine critical data fields (Keywords, Description, 
> Date/Time, Orientation, Rating, Copyright, Creator, Location [created], and 
> Location [shown]), with the intent of solving interoperability issues for 
> consumers.
> 
> Their model divides applications using metadata into three groups of 
> "Actors": Creators, Changers and Consumers. This roughly mirrors the vision 
> that the Stock Artists Alliance put out in their Metadata Manifesto in which 
> they talked about Image Creators, Image Distributors and Image Users. 
> However, the Metadata Working group paper takes this a step further and 
> defines the roles each device or application play when interacting with 
> metadata.
> 
> They also discuss best practices for how, when and where metadata should be 
> changed in popular consumer still image file formats using existing industry 
> metadata standards. Wide scale adoption of these best practices should solve 
> many current problems that plague the photo community.
> While this initial effort targets consumer still-imaging metadata, rather 
> than those of the professional; they do mention in their paper that "Future 
> releases of this initiative will both refine and expand the effort."  In 
> fact, Josh Weisberg, chairman and founder of the Metadata Working Group and 
> director of Microsoft's Rich Media Group said that, "We've chosen to address 
> the most common issues photographers face as we feel this will make the 
> biggest impact for the average photographer," noting that "Down the road, we 
> will expand our work to include other metadata issues relevant to 
> photographers."
> 
> So it does not appear to rule out the possibility that this may extend to the 
> professional workflow at some point. I will post a few comments in a follow 
> up to this post, but thought you might be interested to know about this 
> development.
> 
> Details will be available from their website once that is launched. 
> http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org
> 
> For now you can read more about this from the following releases:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-24PhotokinaPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases
> 
> http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/PRNEWS.20080924.AQW523/GIStory
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/5xmj9z
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David Riecks  (that's "i" before "e", but the "e" is silent)
> Need Keywords for your database? Get the Controlled Vocabulary Solution
> http://controlledvocabulary.com/products/ support for a dozen of the
> most popular imaging applications from Adobe Bridge to Photo Mechanic.

[MCN-L] Leaders in interactive museums

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello Rob, Sandy, and all,

You may also find it useful to explore the MCN Project Registry at



and filter the list of projects by the "Gallery Kiosk or Video" type; 
this could lead to some further ideas re: people or firms to contact.

Having mentioned the registry, I should encourage everyone once again to 
check it out, create records for projects or programs of work not yet 
documented there, and update as appropriate any records you may have 
submitted earlier this year. As of today there are 74 records, so we're 
really on our way towards growing it into a useful community resource.

best,
Rob
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)


On 10/7/08 9:01 AM, Sandy Kreisman wrote:
> Please share this list.
> 
> Sandy Kreisman, Education Initiatives Manager 
> skreisman at universitycircle.org 
> University Circle Inc.
> 10831 Magnolia Drive 
> Cleveland, Ohio 44106 
> (216) 707-5021 office phone
> (216) 791-3935 fax 
> (330) 221-0421 cell 
> 
> 
> Find Yourself in the Circle!
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Rob
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:07 AM
> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] Leaders in interactive museums
> 
> Hi
> I am trying to make a short list of the leaders in museum exhibition 
> interactive technology especially from an IT perspective. In this regard
> 
> I am particularly interested in the museums themselves but I am also 
> interested in names of companies who are suppliers to these museums.
> 
> Thanks
> Robert Luyt
> Curator: Exhibitions
> Local History Museums
> Durban

[MCN-L] Fwd: Position Available: Art and Art History Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

The posting below is forwarded with permission. It's from a non-museum 
space, but there's a (huge) lot of obvious overlap in qualifications

Rob

 Original Message 
Subject:[NMCTAB] Position Available: Art and Art History Academic 
Technology Specialist at Stanford University
Date:   Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:23:11 -0700
From:   Kimberly Hayworth 
To: NMCTAB at Princeton.EDU


Hi all,

We have a position available in our Academic Technology Specialist
Program. Please click the Apply Now link at the end of the email if
you're interested.

Thanks,

-Kim


*Academic Technology Specialist Department of
Art and Art History, Stanford University Libraries*

*Job ID*
  32321
*Job Location*
  University Libraries
*Job Category*
  Information Technology Services
*Salary*
  4P3

*Date Posted*
  Oct 15, 2008


The Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) collaborates with faculty and
graduate students in Studio Art, Art History and Film, developing and
deploying innovative technological solutions in support of research,
teaching, and art practice. The ATS must demonstrate a fundamental
understanding of the ideas that form the foundation of instruction,
practice, and research in the arts, holding an MFA in Studio Art or
Design, an MS in Computer Science, or a PhD in Art History. The position
requires a deep understanding of both the analog and digital realms;
appreciating the value of traditional slides, for example, as well as
the opportunities afforded by digital media.

The ATS will be physically housed within the Art and Art History
department in order to assure proximity and availability to faculty, but
will report to a manager in the Academic Technology Specialist Program
(ATSP). The ATSP is part of Academic Computing, a unit of Stanford
University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. Stanford's
Academic Technology Specialists work in alignment with the University's
commitment to excellence in education and its general vision to improve
teaching, learning, and research by implementing and developing new
technologies.

*Responsibilities:*
The ATS will be required to bring the leadership and technical expertise
necessary to envision and execute exceptional, innovative projects.
Though the nature of the collaborations will vary, the ATS is expected
to research, analyze and evaluate potential projects; provide advice and
consultation on technical matters relating to teaching, research and
studio practice; and design, develop and execute project plans in
coordination with faculty and graduate students. Achieving these goals
will often require the ATS to partner with other campus entities.
In addition to project-based work, the ATS will evaluate the technology
needs of the department overall. This evaluation will serve as a guide
both in making personalized recommendations to faculty and in planning
for the new Art & Art History building. The ATS will consult with
faculty on discipline-specific technology needs to help them acquire and
use technology and digital resources, liaising as needed with campus
resource providers and campus-wide applications.
In addition to working with faculty and staff in Art and Art History,
the ATS will spend one day per week participating in activities
sponsored by the Academic Technology Specialist program. Integral to the
work of the ATS is engaging professionally in related scholarship
through publication and/or presentation of research.

*Qualifications:*

 * A Master's degree in Studio Art, Design or CS, or a PhD in Art
   History, plus 3 years experience in academic computing or related
   industry
 * Experience teaching color theory or the principles and
   implementation of digital color management
 * Expert knowledge of digital media standards and metadata
 * Expert digital imaging skills
 * Expertise with non-linear digital video editing tools
 * Expert knowledge of video codecs, video transfer, video formats
   and encoding compatibility issues
 * Demonstrated applications of relevant programming/scripting
   languages (such as Python, Ruby, Perl, ActionScript, Processing or
   MEL) and functional expertise with UNIX
 * Demonstrated experience addressing issues related to intellectual
   property rights (copyright) as they pertain to image-based
   curricular and research operations
 * Excellent time and project management skills demonstrated by
   specific experience managing projects and a complex workload
 * Demonstrated success participating in collaborative academic projects
 * Excellent verbal and written communication skills









*Apply Now*

[MCN-L] MCN-L spam postings

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello, fellow MCN-L subscribers:

In case anyone is wondering, we list-admin folks are aware of the spam 
that has made it out to MCN-L on occasion in recent weeks (but really, 
doesn't anyone want to buy a watch?). Our list management software 
actually is intercepting the vast majority of these attempted posts, but 
a small percentage are sneaking through with forged "From" headers.

Sorry for the low-level nuisance; at least you know we care

cheers,
Rob
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] [DM SIG] Fwd: Sound Directions publication (audio preservation)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

For anyone involved in preservation of audio materials, the report 
announced below (fresh off the digipres list) may be of interest. A 
quick glance at its text and appendices suggests that it will be a key 
resource with a usefully broad scope encompassing transfer practices, 
metadata, file formats, and a wide range of related factors.  --Rob

>  Original Message 
> Subject: [digipres] Sound Directions publication
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:42:19 -0500
> From: Casey, Michael T 
> To: digipres at ala.org 
> 
> 
> Dear Digipres List members,
> 
> The Sound Directions project team is pleased to announce that the publication 
> of our findings is now available on the web. Below you will find the official 
> "press release" with details on access to the document. It is our sincerest 
> hope that you find the document useful and well worth the wait.
> 
> Mike Casey
> 
> --
> Mike Casey
> Associate Director for Recording Services
> Archives of Traditional Music
> Indiana University
> 
> (812)855-8090
> 
> Co-Chair, ARSC Technical Committee
> 
> 
> The Sound Directions project at Harvard University and Indiana University 
> announces the publication of Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio 
> Preservation, which is available as a PDF from the Sound Directions website 
> at www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/. This 168-page publication 
> presents the results of two years of research and development funded by the 
> National Endowment for the Humanities in the United States. This work was 
> carried out by project and permanent staff at both institutions in 
> consultation with an advisory board of experts in audio engineering, audio 
> preservation, and digital libraries.
> 
> Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation establishes best 
> practices in many areas where they did not previously exist. This work also 
> explores the testing and use of existing and emerging standards. It includes 
> chapters on personnel and equipment for preservation transfer, digital files, 
> metadata, storage, preservation packages and interchange, and audio 
> preservation systems and workflows. Each chapter is divided into two major 
> parts: a preservation overview that summarizes key concepts for collection 
> managers and curators, followed by a section that presents recommended 
> technical practices for audio engineers, digital librarians, and other 
> technical staff. This latter section includes a detailed look at the inner 
> workings of the audio preservation systems at both Harvard and Indiana.
> 
> This first phase of the Sound Directions project produced four key results: 
> the publication of our findings and best practices, the development of much 
> needed software tools for audio preservation, the creation or further 
> development of audio preservation systems at each institution, and the 
> preservation of a large number of critically endangered and highly valuable 
> recordings. All of these are detailed in this publication, which provides 
> solid grounding for institutions pursuing audio preservation either in-house 
> or in collaboration with an outside vendor.
> 
> For further information on the Sound Directions project: soundir at 
> indiana.edu

__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] [IP SIG:] NYTimes.com - "If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the Original?"

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

Since Amalyah hasn't passed this one along today, here goes; some 
interesting perspectives on image appropriation and attribution:



cheers,
Rob
__
Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] Fwd: "Re-thinking Technology in Museums, " Limerick, May 2011

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Fresh off another list (don't think I've seen this yet on MCN-L):

- Original Message 
Subject: "Re-thinking Technology in Museums": registration now open!
From:"Luigina Ciolfi" 
Date:Tue, March 8, 2011 6:42 am
To:  CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
--

Hi All,

Registration is now open for "Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011" to
be held at the University of Limerick and hosted by the UL Interaction
Design Centre and the Irish Museums Association, with the support of IxDA
Limerick

University of Limerick, Ireland
May 26-27, 2011

To register: http://techmuseums2011.eventbrite.com/

Themes of the Conference
The conference will focus on the theme of Emerging Experience, and will
further the discussion on novel approaches for understanding people's
experiences in museums and galleries, and for designing interactive
technologies to support these experiences.
In recent years, the increased presence of mobile smart appliances such as
smart phones, and the growth of social media and social networks have
impacted on the strategies deployed by museums and exhibition sites to
invite, engage and connect with visitors and stakeholders.
It's important to reflect on how museums/galleries and visitors have been
affected from an experiential point of view: what have museums and galleries
become? And what about the role of visitors? How are meaningful and
rewarding experiences emerging in this context?

The conference will comprise of paper presentations, a workshop session
hosted by the Irish Museums Association and an "Innovation Forum"
featuring industry projects organised by IxDA Limerick.

We want this event to be as inclusive as possible with an affordable
registration fee of ?130 ( that includes access to workshop and all
conference sessions, industry showcase, refreshments, copy of the book of
proceedings and Conference Banquet at Thomond Park Stadium)
You can register online at: http://techmuseums2011.eventbrite.com/

For more information:
Queries should be directed to techmuseums11 at gmail.com
Web: http://www.idc.ul.ie/techmuseums11/
Twitter: @techmuseums2011
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Re-Thinking-Technology-in-Museums-2011/157655174266141
Registration: http://techmuseums2011.eventbrite.com/


Conference Chair
Luigina Ciolfi, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

Organising Committee
Luigina Ciolfi, Mikael Fernstr?m, Marc McLoughlin, Anne Murphy UL IDC
Katherine Scott, Irish Museums Association

Webmaster and Technical Support
Fabiano Pinatti, UL IDC



Dr. Luigina Ciolfi
Lecturer & Senior Researcher
Interaction Design Centre, ER1 005
Dept. of Computer Science & Information
Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland
Tel. +353 61 213530
Fax. +353 61 213484
Skype: luigina.ciolfi
web: http://www.idc.ul.ie
http://limerick.academia.edu/LuiginaCiolfi

[MCN-L] Fwd: "Re-thinking Technology in Museums, " Limerick, May 2011

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Tamsen and all,

Yes, that struck me as curious, too. And as a near-miss, at least both 
events start the day after AAM ends. Transatlantic dash from Houston?

Rob
-- 
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965


On 3/8/2011 2:11 PM, TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN wrote:
> It is worth noting that the conference on technology and social media you 
> posted is the EXACT same two days as MuseumNext in Edinburgh. Same topic.
>
> http://www.museumnext.org/2010/

[MCN-L] Lossy compression artifacts example (I Am Sitting in a Video Room)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

If you ever need a demonstration of the cumulative effects of multiple, 
non-bit-for-bit compression/decompression cycles on an image, the video 
below is really something. The artifacts are from 1,000 passes through 
whatever codec YouTube uses, rather than still-image lossy algorithms; 
but the same conceptual point remains, and might be useful as a tiny 
piece of a case somewhere for having sufficient storage infrastructure 
("why not just archive [lossy-compressed] JPEGs on a smaller array?").

And it's a pretty amazing 38 seconds, besides.



There's more at .

cheers,
Rob

-- 
Rob Lancefield, Ph.D.
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu

[MCN-L] MCN-L Subscribers, please join MCN!

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello, MCN-L Subscribers:

I hope each of you finds MCN-L to be an excellent source of information 
relevant to your professional life, and a great place to ask questions.

The Museum Computer Network offers MCN-L as a service to our wider 
community, including members and people who haven't yet joined MCN.

If you're not yet a member and you find MCN-L to be a useful resource, 
or if you're a member and haven't *quite* gotten around to renewing, I 
urge you to deepen your connection to this community by joining today.

Membership benefits include discounts for our annual conference next 
month in Portland, Oregon; the ability to join MCN Special Interest 
Groups (SIGs); access to the members-only section of the MCN website; 
voting privileges; and the knowledge that you personally are a key part 
of MCN--and thus a supporter of vital resources including MCN-L.

If you're a student or have worked in the museum field for no more than 
three years, our special Emerging Professionals rate gives you a more 
than 50% discount relative to our already modest membership fees.

Please visit  and become a member today!

best regards,
Rob

Rob Lancefield, President
Museum Computer Network (MCN), 
The membership organization for museum information professionals

[MCN-L] MCN 2009 Online Conferencing Starts Tomorrow!

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Howard (and all),

Excellent question. We do intend to make the webcasts' content available
later as video podcasts, on a timeline to be determined. Once they're
online, we'll announce it via MCN-L and other channels.

all best,
Rob

On Wed, November 11, 2009 7:46 pm, Howard Brainen wrote:
> Will the webcasts be available after the conference is over?
>
>
> Howard Brainen
> *TWO CAT DIGITAL INC.*
> 14719 Catalina Street
> San Leandro, CA 94577 USA
> 510-483-1220  X201
> howard at twocatdigital.com
> www.twocatdigital.com
>
> *Digitization Services and Consulting*
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Richard Urban
> wrote:
>
>> == on behalf of info at mcn.edu ==
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Details are now online regarding webcasts of selected sessions
>> tomorrow and Friday, November 12 and 13, at the Museum Computer
>> Network's 2009 conference.
>>
>> The webcast URL and special Twitter hashtag for incoming questions,
>> along with a link for making a donation to MCN if you wish, are on the
>> MCN website at:
>>
>> http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2009online
>>
>> MCN 2009 sessions to be webcast* free of charge will be:
>>
>> Museum Data Exchange
>> Thursday 12 November, 1:30-3:00
>>
>> Tweets to Sweeten Collaborations for Archives, Libraries, and Museums
>> Thursday 12 November, 3:30-5:00
>>
>> Libraries, Archives, and Museums: From Collaboration to Convergence
>> Friday 13 November, 11:15-12:45
>>
>> Ramping Up while Scaling Down: Strategic Innovation in Challenging Times
>> Friday 13 November, 2:00-3:30
>>
>> 2009 Conference Roundup Roundtable
>> Friday 13 November, 4:00-5:30
>>
>> We hope you can join us online even if you can't be here in Portland!
>>
>> Rob Lancefield
>> President, MCN
>>
>> *All times are PST (UTC/GMT-8). Webcast availability is subject to
>> change.
>> Please feel free to forward this announcement and share it with
>> colleagues.

[MCN-L] Fwd: New tool available: File Information Tool Set (FITS)

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

This may be of interest to some of us on MCN-L:

 Original Message 
Subject: [Digipres] New tool available: File Information Tool Set (FITS)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:40:18 -0400
From: Andrea Goethals 
To: digipres at ala.org, diglib at infoserv.inist.fr, padiforum-l at nla.gov.au

File Information Tool Set (FITS):  http://fits.googlecode.com

With the increase in web archiving and other born-digital projects
that introduce new formats and genres to our digital preservation
repositories, it is becoming more important that our tools support a
wide range of file formats. In particular, our file format
identification, validation and metadata extraction tools should work
with a broad range of formats and genres. There are a number of these
file tools in existence, but none of these tools individually can both
support a wide range of formats and extract the technical metadata
necessary to fully characterize digital content.

In the fall of 2008 Harvard University Library began development on
the File Information Tool Set (FITS) in response to this need. FITS
acts as a wrapper around multiple open source file format
identification, validation and metadata extraction tools. FITS invokes
and manages the output of these tools. The native output from these
tools is converted into a common format, "FITS XML", compared to one
another and consolidated into a single XML output file. The tools
currently wrapped by FITS are:

* JHOVE
* Exiftool from Phil Harvey
* National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor
* DROID from the UK National Archives
* Ffident from Marco Schmidt
* File Utility

In addition, FITS includes two original tools: FileInfo and
XmlMetadata. There are a number of tools that will be evaluated for
incorporation into FITS in the future, including:

* Apache Tika
* JHOVE 2
* Aduna Aperture
* MediaInfo

FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.5 or higher.
FITS can be invoked by its command-line interface or through its Java
API.

FITS produces a ?status? value for each format identification it
makes. When the status is SINGLE_RESULT, all tools that were able to
identify the format agree on the file?s format. When the status is
CONFLICT, there is more than one purported format identified for the
file. Because FITS combines the output of multiple tools it has to be
able to handle conflicts among the tool?s output when they don?t
agree. It handles this conflict in many ways:

* Tool output is normalized before it is compared for conflicts. For
example, one tool might report for a file format that it is ?PNG?,
while another tool may output it as ?Portable Network Graphics?. In
another example, one tool might output the resolution unit as ?2?;
another tool might output it as ?inches?. These values are normalized
in the XSLT file that converts the tool?s native output to FITS XML
before the FITS XML for each tool is compared to each other.
* Users configure a tool ordering preference. In cases of format
identification conflicts, the format identified by the preferred tools
will determine the format FITS reports.
* Tools can be excluded from reporting on particular formats and/or on
particular metadata elements if its output is found in testing to be
incorrect or buggy. This is very useful for incorporating a tool into
FITS because it is good at some things without having to accept known
unreliable information from the tool.
* FITS consults a configurable ?format tree? to know when two reported
formats for a file are not really conflicts because one of the formats
is a more specific form of the other format. For example the format
tree documents that the OpenDocument Text format is a more specific
form of the Zip format. If a file is identified as being in both of
these formats by FITS tools it is not reported as a conflict because
technically they are both correct. Instead the more specific format,
OpenDocument Text, is reported as the format.

FITS is available to the public under the LGPL license. Harvard
University Library (HUL) plans to use FITS in production in 2010
within its ingest service, but is making an early release of it
available now for testing at http://fits.googlecode.com. Additional
tools are being written at HUL to convert FITS XML into MIX, textMD,
documentMD and other technical metadata schemas.

We invite you to download and try using FITS. Any issues using it can
be reported on the FITS website on the Issues web page
(http://code.google.com/p/fits/issues/list). For more information
please see the FITS website (http://fits.googlecode.com) or contact me
directly.

[MCN-L] Website benchmarking

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Nik, Len, and all,

Great point re: effects of different tools' filtering efficacy on the 
traffic they report. Last year our main analysis tool changed over from 
a leading web analytics product* to AWStats. For one illustrative month 
of overlap, reports derived from the same raw Apache log files suddenly 
showed 23% fewer unique visitors, 45% fewer visits (!), 28% fewer page 
views, and 16% fewer hits--that most useless, if biggest, of metrics.

So, by concrete anecdote: different tools can produce apples and oranges 
(and uneasy feelings about past metrics formerly cited in public...).

Rob

*one which rhymes, kind of, with "deep end" or "head spins"


Nik Honeysett wrote:
> We attempted to do this at one point, but found it to be a real challenge. 
> Aside from issues like every metrics software having a different notion of 
> what constitutes a visit, we found that some institutions either didn't or 
> didn't want to filter out unwanted traffic such as bots and spiders, which 
> are significant numbers. In the pursuit of accuracy, we went through one 
> significant upgrade of our metrics software NetGenesis (web log processing) 
> and recently switched to Omniture (page tagging). Both changes resulted in 
> decreases in our traffic due to improvements in filtering. We previously 
> concluded that the only way to accurately benchmark with others, was for all 
> to use a centralized system like this and match all parameters. So, good luck 
> with that...
>  
> -nik
>  
> Nik Honeysett
> Head of Administration
> J. Paul Getty Museum
> tel: 310-440-7346
> fax: 310-440-7751
> nhoneysett at getty.edu 
> 
 "Leonard Steinbach"  3/11/2008 10:26 AM >>>
> I was wondering whether anyone uses any particular web traffic statistics to
> compare the performance of their website to the websites of other museums.
> In effect is anyone benchmarking their website against others, or know of
> any studies or papers which address this issue?
> 
> Thanks

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Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] Fwd: CFP: IEEE IS Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L subscribers.

cheers,
Rob

 Original Message 
Subject: CFP: IEEE IS Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:07:42 +0200
From: Lora Aroyo 
To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

IEEE Intelligent Systems
Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage

http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/content/CulHerCFP.html

Cultural heritage is transforming as fast as the digital age. While once
we collected objects such as books, sculptures, statues, and paintings,
we now also face the preservation and archival of digital artifacts.
These might be digital representations of physical objects or digital
creations, such as interactive works of art, blogs, or even the World
Wide Web itself, that are in their own right culturally significant and
worthy of preservation.

This special issue seeks to explore the problems and solutions of
cultural heritage in the digital age. To what extent can computers, and
particularly knowledge-based technologies, facilitate the processes of
authentication, preservation, and archiving of physical and digital
artifacts?

Topics for which we invite submissions include, but aren?t limited to,
these:

* Knowledge representations and reasoning ? for example,
? combining heterogeneous collections;
? integration or evolution of vocabularies, metadata schemas, and
ontologies;
? syntactic and semantic interoperability issues;
? reasoning strategies (for example, context, temporal, or spatial); and
? novel applications of the Cidoc Conceptual Reference Model (CRM),
SKOS, and VRA

* Intelligent interface support for professional and lay users, for
example:
? annotating digital (representations of) artifacts,
? techniques for exploring and interacting with repositories of digital
(representations of) artifacts,
? trust and provenance issues,
? personalization issues, and
? integration of semantics with audiovisual media.

* Feature detection techniques for analyzing digital artifacts, for
example:
? determining physical artifacts? authenticity (handwriting or
brushstroke recognition, x-ray analysis, and so on),
? automatic creation of annotations,
? automatic ontology extraction from collections, and
? use of machine learning and natural language processing techniques.

However, all submissions must contain some form of knowledge-based
technologies (including the Semantic Web) and directly involve some
aspect of cultural heritage.


Important Dates

* Submissions due for review: 15 Aug. 2008
* Notification of acceptance: 17 Dec. 2008
* Final version submitted: 29 Dec. 2008
* Issue publication: Mar. 2009


Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure
or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine?s style and
presentation guidelines (see
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc/author.html).
References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript,
access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central,
at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee.


Questions?

Contact Guest Editors Lynda Hardman, lynda.hardman at cwi.nl;
Lora Aroyo, l.m.aroyo at cs.vu.nl; Eero Hyv?nen, eahyvone at cc.hut.fi; or
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, jacco.van.ossenbruggen at cwi.nl

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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] PDF 1.7 is now an ISO standard

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

News of the day for file-format/standards-oriented folks:
PDF (current version 1.7) is now officially an ISO standard.
More details are offered in today's press release from the ISO:

, including:

> The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used 
> formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International 
> Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems 
> Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to 
> relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the 
> specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing 
> future versions.

cheers,
Rob
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] wikis for project management

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Perian, Leslie, and all,

And if you're curious to try Trac without configuring your own server or
paying for it, there are free Trac and Subversion services such as
assembla (assembla.com); see also
www.subversionary.org/hosting/hosting-services.*

Rob

PS: not pitching assembla here, and I have no connection to it other than
being a free account user; just offering the lead for your assessment
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)


On Fri, July 18, 2008 3:03 pm, Leslie Johnston wrote:
> Perian,
>
> We use Trac ??? http://trac.edgewall.org/ ??? for project management.
> It's a combination issue-tracking system and wiki (you can use the wiki
> features with or without the issue/task tracking) and also provides an
> interface to a subversion repository you can use to manage documents and
> code check in.  We find it useful to have this combination of wiki pages
> and an integrated way to manage and view tasks and status in the wiki.
> I also store related documents there (which you can browse in the wiki),
> and our developers use it to check-in code so we can always find clean
> copies of scripts and programs outside the deployment environment.
>
> Leslie
>
> --
> Leslie Johnston
> Digital Media Project Coordinator
> Office of Strategic Initiatives
> Library of Congress
> 202-707-2801
> lesliej at loc.gov
>
 "Perian Sully"  7/18/2008 12:42:42 PM >>>
> Hi all:
>
>
>
> Ok, I'm feeling a few days late to the party, given that there was
> just
> a discussion on this topic at VSA, but since I didn't go, I'm hoping
> someone here went and can give me some ideas for how we can use our
> new
> internal wiki to help keep discussions OUT of email and onto the
> static/fluid format which is the wiki.
>
>
>
> We're moving our website into a content management system and I'm
> hoping
> I can collect all of the information from the seven workgroups into
> one
> location, especially for our collective sanity as we move forward. But
> I'm kind of stumped as to the format, and with getting buy-in. Many of
> the staff are not familiar with using wikis, so I need to train them.
> Plus I'm having a bit of trouble conceptualizing how the organization
> of
> the information should work.
>
>
>
> Does anyone use a wiki for project management and would be willing to
> share information about organization? and how did you get everyone
> using
> it?
>
>
>
> 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

[MCN-L] Fwd: [DIGLIB] "JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community"

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Perhaps of interest to MCN-L subscribers who haven't seen it elsewhere,
this just out from the UK. A quick glance at the report (URL below)
suggests that it offers a quite well-grounded and up-to-date synopsis of
JPEG 2000's technical "fit" with institutional image repositories of
many sorts (not solely preservation repositories in a strict DP sense).

cheers,
Rob
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)


 Original Message 
Subject: [DIGLIB] JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community
Date:   Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:14:18 +0100
From:   Carol Jackson 

***Apologies for Cross Postings***

JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community

The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report
published today.  The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great
stride forward for the archival community.  The format now allows for
greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually
lossless.

The findings come as the Digital Preservation Coalition launch its
latest ?Technology Watch Report? written by Dr. Robert Buckley, a
Research Fellow with Xerox, ?JPEG 2000 ? a practical digital
preservation standard??.  The report looks in-depth at the new format
and the challenges it has to cope with.  JPEG 2000 is widely used to
collect and distribute a variety of images from geospatial, medical
imaging, digital cinema, and image repositories to networked images.
Interest in JPEG 2000 is now growing in the archival and library
sectors, as institutions look for more efficient formats to store the
results of major digitisation programmes.

The report is aimed at organisations involved in the management and
storage of digital information.  The in-depth report will help archives,
libraries and other institutions make informed decisions about JPEG 2000
format and their future storage needs.

JPEG 2000 can reduce storage requirements by an order of magnitude
compared to an uncompressed TIFF file.  Dr. Buckley says, ?This new
format has come at a time of heightened awareness about the access to
digital documents.  Any format that can assist archives and libraries to
do this is welcome.?

The format will also enable users to open as much of the file as they
need at that time.  This means a viewer, for example, could open a
gigapixel image almost instantly.   This is achieved by retrieving a
decompressed low?resolution display sized image from the JPEG 2000
codestream.  Coupled with this, the users? ability to zoom, pan and
rotate an image have been enhanced.

Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation, The National Archives said:
?This is a very timely addition to the DPC's Technology Watch Report
series as many organisations are themselves reviewing the JPEG2000
format. This concise, comprehensive and clear guide will be of interest
to practitioners across the digital preservation community.?

The report concludes that JPEG 2000 offers much more flexibility and
features than JPEG, but at the cost of greater complexity.  It is
however a great stride forward, and of major significance for the
information management community.

To download a pdf of the report please go to:
www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0801


For further information please contact, Tim Matthews,
tim.matthews at nationalarchives.gov.uk
, or 020 8392 5277.

For further information on the DPC  please contact, Frances Boyle,
fb at dpconline.org  or 01904 435320.

*_ _*

*About The Digital Preservation Coalition  (DPC)*

The Digital Preservation Coalition  (DPC) is a cross sectoral member
organisation established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the
urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in
the UK and to work with others internationally



Carol Jackson
Administration and Events Manager
Digital Preservation Coalition
Innovation Centre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
e-mail: carol at dpconline.org 
tel: +44 (0) 1904 435 362
https: www.dpconline.org 

*

[MCN-L] Searching Listserv Archive

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Chris and all,

Sorry the archive interface is so minimal; it's on MCN's list of things 
to make better! You can try this kludgy, low-tech workaround on Google:

   search_term  site:http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/

...which does only a partial job, since Google hasn't indexed all mcn-l 
archive pages. But hey, it's great at October 2007 posts, at least

hope this (partially) helps,

Rob

PS: the currently accessible mcn-l archive reaches back as far as May 
2006, when we went live with new list-management software and host.


Chris Alexander wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to search the archive of the MCN listserv?  I hate to
> trouble people with something that might have been discussed before.
> 
> Chris Alexander | Manager of Interactive Technology
> San Jose Museum of Art
> 110 South Market Street
> San Jose, CA  95113
> 408-271-6875 ph.
> 408-294-2977 fx.
> calexander at sjmusart.org  
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Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] [DM SIG] Digital photographic images able to be refocused after capture

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

This may be of interest to people involved in imaging three-dimensional 
live scenes or objects for certain Web delivery contexts.

An apparent startup called Refocus Imaging, , 
is working on cameras able to capture not just a plane of focus, but a 
three-dimensional field of light with a third axis perpendicular to the 
usual plane (imagine a z-axis projecting from the face of a camera's CCD 
sensor, creating a capture zone shaped like a rectangular solid). This 
enables Web viewers of resulting images to pull focus interactively back 
and forth as they wish. Part of the firm's marketing blurb reads:

"A Refocus Imaging camera captures the entire light field entering the 
lens, not just an ordinary image. Our computational photography 
processes the light field to produce pictures, implementing in software 
what the conventional camera and lens must do physically in hardware."

Many of us have heard this idea kicked around in concept before, but 
their online gallery of example images suggests that implementation is 
actually moving along well; see .

Of course, this is basically irrelevant to repro shooting of flat work, 
and it has lots of open questions and perhaps little relevance re: most 
museum imaging, since technical parameters of all sorts are unspecified; 
but in principle, it looks pretty cool for some targeted applications. 
Could be fun for oblique views of gallery walls or reception shots


Rob (who has no connection of any kind to Refocus Imaging)
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] New image search engine: TinEye

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folks,  is an image 
search engine that moved out of invitation-only beta a few days ago; it 
accepts an uploaded image file or image URL as its search argument. It 
doesn't yet have a large pool of indexed images, but seems intriguing.

cheers,
Rob
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] Fwd: CFP: ...Workshop on Digital Media...in Museums & Heritage

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

Fresh off another list and perhaps of interest to some MCN-L subscribers:

 Original Message 
Subject: CFP: DMAMH 2007, 2nd Workshop on Digital Media and its
Applications in Museums & Heritage
From:"Nuno Correia" 
Date:Fri, August 24, 2007 6:21 am
To:  CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
--

Call for Papers --  DMAMH 2007
2nd Workshop on Digital Media and its Applications in Museums & Heritage

Dec.10-12, 2007, Chongqing, China
(http://dmamh.cqit.edu.cn/)

Organized by: VR Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics
Hosted by: Chongqing Institute of Technology, Chongqing, China
Co-Sponsored by: Natural Science Foundation in China
IS&T Society (pending)

General Information:
The 2nd Workshop on Digital Media and its Applications in Museums & Heritage
(DMAMH?2007) will be organized by the VR Committee, China Society of Image
and Graphics. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for
researchers in digital media, museum, multimedia community to describe
recent advances, to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experiences,
and to debate their views on future research and developments. Keynote
speeches will be delivered by world-renowned experts in the field.
Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE publisher (EI index).
High-quality papers will be published by international journals in digital
media, image, and multimedia fields, we will have two special issues on
Journal of Computational Information Systems (EI index, published in USA),
International Journal of Virtual Reality (published in USA).

Topics include but are not limited to:

Artificial Reality/Virtual Reality
Teleoperation/Telexistence/Tele-presences
Multimedia
Real Time Computer Simulation
Ubiquitous/Wearable Computing   Geographic Information system (GIS)
Digital Museum
Software Architecture for VR
Immersive Projection Technology
Tools and Techniques for Modeling VR Systems
Virtual Heritage
Image/model retrieval
Communication with Realistic Sensations
Image/Model/Video Watermarking
Multi-modal Human Interfaces
VR Interaction and Navigation Techniques
Artificial Life and Games
Modeling and Rendering for Heritage
Digital content
VR Input and Output Devices
Interactive Art and Entertainment
VR and Media Art

Papers Submission
Authors are requested to submit full papers (in English) of no more than
eight (8) pages (including text, figures and references) describing the
original results of their research work. Submissions should be in IEEE
format on A4 or 8 1/2" x 11" paper using a single column and 10 to 12 point
Times font. Each copy of the paper should have a cover page containing the
title of the paper, the names and addresses (including fax and E-mail) of
the authors, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. All papers will be
reviewed by at least two referees. The selection criteria will include the
accuracy and originality of ideas, the clarity and significance of results,
and the quality of the presentation.

Please send your paper to dmamh2007 at sina.com.

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: Sept. 15, 2007
Early registration: Nov. 15, 2007
On site registration: Dec. 10-12, 2007


Conference Organization

Honorary Co-chairs
Quanli Liu (Chongqing Institute of Technology, China)
Martin Reiser (IMK, Germany)
Adrian Cheok (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Conference Co-chairs
Xiaonan Luo (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
A Elrhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China)

Program Co-chairs
Nuno Correia (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Jee-In Kim (Konkuk University, Korea)
Jinyuan Jia (Tongji University, China)

Financial Chair
Mingmin Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

Publicity co-chairs:
Jim Chen, USA
Xuelong Li, UK
Huagen Wan, China

Publication chair:
Mingyong Pang (Nanjing Normal University, China)

Organizing Co-Chairs
Yue Wang (Chongqing Institute of Technology, China)
Zhuang Chen (Chongqing Institute of Technology, China)

General Secretary
Jianxun Zhang (Chongqing Institute of Technology, China)

Program Committee Members

Adrian Cheok, Singapore National University, Singapore
Alexander A. Pasko, University of Bournmouth, UK
Alexei Sourin, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore
Caroline Frick, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Chang Geun Song, Hallym University, Korea
Charlie C. L. Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Chunhong Pan, Automation Institute of Chinese Academia, China
Frederick R. B. Li, Durham University, UK
Galina Pasko, IT Institute of Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Gerard Kim, Korea University, Korea
Gheorghita Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
Gordon Clapworthy, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Hannes Kaufmann, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Huiqiong Wang, City University, Hong Kong, China
Huiyu Zhou

[MCN-L] Book scanners?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Perian, Sue, and all,

...and by coincidence, yesterday Wired posted an annotated, play-by-play 
slide show of the Internet Archive's book-scanning process online at:



Rob

Perian Sully wrote:
> Hi Sue:
> 
> The Internet Archive has a number of scanners that they loan out to
> institutions, complete with support and software and the like. When I
> met with them, they also suggested partnering with other institutions or
> contacting those with one of their scanners already installed.
> 
> After scouring Google some more, I finally found the product I was
> remembering: http://booksnap.atiz.com/ It's a $2000 book cradle (though
> you'd also have to get two cameras along with it). It comes with the
> software to output the images to PDF and also has OCR software built in.
> A far less expensive solution than the $30,000 on up scanners I've seen.
> Granted, this one doesn't have automatic page turning capability, but
> since many of our books are incredibly old and fragile, we wouldn't want
> the automatic turning anyway.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Perian Sully
> Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
> Judah L. Magnes Museum
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Sue Grinols
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:11 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Book scanners?
> 
> 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 
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Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu)
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
860.685.2965
Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)

[MCN-L] Fwd: Sound and Audio Visual Archives Survey

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Forwarded with permission, this may be of interest to those among us who 
work with time-based media collections in museum contexts:

 Original Message 
Subject: Sound and Audio Visual Archives - Preservation Survey - Public 
Accessibility
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:15 +

If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form [deleted from email 
as forwarded here to MCN-L], you can fill it out online:


Sound and Audio Visual Archives - Preservation Survey - Public Accessibility

Dear Media Collection Specialist,

I am a current member of the International Association of Sound and 
Audiovisual Archives (IASA) writing a research proposal on sound 
archiving and public accessibility. Many audio archives within the 
museum sector are at risk of becoming inaccessible due to changing 
technology and irrelevant to a public whose expectations for easy access 
are growing with the release of each new gadget. In order to get a 
better understanding of the needs for the preservation and accessibility 
of audio collections today, I am sending you a brief survey to complete.
Your input will help us determine the key factors for ensuring optimum 
audio collections management processes, and will contribute to a better 
understanding of the public access challenges faced by audio 
collections. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at 
514.524.2490.

Thank you for participating in this survey.

Sincerely,

John Wilson (Audio Engineer/Sound Preservationist/Audio Data
Archivist/IASA Member)

[inline Google Docs form deleted before forwarding to MCN-L]

[MCN-L] Google Open Gallery or Google Cultural Institute, anyone?

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Lenore and all,

This should work:



best regards,
Rob

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Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
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301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
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On 1/23/14 4:30 PM, Lenore Sarasan wrote:
> The link doesn't seem to work -- message says that it can't access the
> blog.  If you can send me some other way of getting to the information, I
> would be very interested in learning more about it.
>
> Lenore Sarasan
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Ari Davidow  wrote:
>
>> I am exploring ways to pull LOD together. Someone at the delightful
>> #drinkingaboutmuseums:BOS last night pointed me to Google Open Gallery.
>>
>> At first glance, it appears to be a less capable Omeka--a way to dump some
>> data online, but without any underlying linked data? From the Google blog
>> post on the subject,
>>
>> http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2013/12/online-exhibitions-made-easy-with.htmlI
>> get the impression that this is an extension of the existing Google
>> Cultural Institute, but now open to the public.
>>
>> To find out more, it looks like I have to request an account--it's not yet
>> automated. Has anyone already worked with either of these tools? Anything
>> to report, good/bad/indifferent? (If not, I'm prepared to be the
>> reporter-back)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ari
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[MCN-L] [IT SIG:] Password Needed for Files

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Hi Jeff (and all),

It looks as though that page has an error regarding the email address. 
I'll ping you off-list in a few minutes after checking on that.

best regards,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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On 2/19/14 9:08 AM, Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> Can anyone provide me with the password for the Information Technology SIG 
> files located at www.mcn.edu/itsig?  I have emailed 
> the address on the page a couple of times and have received no response.  I 
> am in the middle of researching a new ticketing system for my museum and 
> would like to reference that info.  Thank you.
>
> - Jeff L. Kennedy
> Director of Technology, Kentucky Derby Museum
> jkennedy at derbymuseum.org
> (502) 992-5908
> 704 Central Avenue - Louisville, KY 40208
>
> The Kentucky Derby Museum is an independent 
> 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

[MCN-L] Simplifying Museum Content Contribution - open discussion at AAM

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Hello all,

As part of an ongoing conversation about ideas that could make it easier
for museums to contribute digital images and metadata to multiple
aggregators of such content, there will be an open meeting this Sunday,
May 18, 2014, at AAM in Seattle. This follows on conversations at WebWise
and Museums & the Web.

Under the rubric of "Simplifying Museum Content Contribution," this next
gathering will take place from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. this Sunday at the AAM
2014 MW Pavilion in the Washington Convention Center, on the same floor as
AAM registration. General information about the MW Pavilion is online
here:

http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/aam2014mwpavilion/

Thanks to Museums & the Web for their hospitality in providing such a
convenient space for this conversation in Seattle.

If you'll be at AAM, please join us; or if you know someone who will be
there and may be interested, please share this.

best regards,
Rob

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Re: [MCN-L] Crowdfunding at MCN 2014

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Len and all,

A recent one that springs to mind is Portland's Newspace Center for 
Photography--not strictly a museum, but maybe close enough here as a 
nonprofit focused on art education and exhibition in a public gallery. 
They just ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to launch a curatorial 
position:


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376884822/newspace-curatorial-program

I don't know of anyone there being connected to MCN, by the way; but 
crowdfunding to actually bootstrap a new position at an exhibiting 
organization may still make it of interest. Caught my eye, anyway!


all best,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
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On 11/10/14 2:38 PM, Leonard Steinbach wrote:

Hello all,

I will presenting:

Big, Small, Create--Maybe It's Even More Fun if It's Crowd-funded (Thurs
330)

at the MCN 2014 Conference next Thursday afternoon.  I look forward to
discussing many aspects of museum crowd-funding, and presenting many
examples.

I would really like to highlight (give a shout out to), briefly, examples
from museums which will be present at the conference, or those who are
present on this list and would like to be acknowledged for their.

If interested, please just respond to this list or email me at
lensteinb...@gmail.com and if you have some comment or something you
learned that you would like to share, let me know that, too (full
acknowledgment or anonymity, as preferred promised if I cite your
contribution).

Finally, let me know if you are planning to attend the session, so that I
can reach out to engage you in the conversation.

thanks

Len

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[MCN-L] Proposal deadline today for IS&T Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 2015)

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Hi all,

Just a reminder that abstract submissions are due today for the next 
IS&T Archiving conference (Getty Center, Los Angeles, May 19-22, 2015).


Relevant topics involve original work in technical areas related to 
digital archiving, including:


* Digital Preservation

* Infrastructure, Repositories, Web Harvesting and Archiving

* Creating and Preserving Dynamic Media

* Sound, Film, Digital Art

* Imaging Technology (including digital documentation and forensic 
analysis of art)


* Using Tools, Systems, and Services (quality assurance, managing file 
formats including image compression, digital forensics)


* Managing Content and Digital Curation (policies, processes, metrics 
for services, illustrating value and ROI, systems, access rights 
management, data privacy and personally identifiable information)


* Share Economies and Partnerships

* Innovative Software, Projects, and Services

Please see http://goo.gl/wNE7k4 for more information.

best regards,
Rob

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Re: [MCN-L] Proposal deadline [now Jan. 5] for IS&T Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 2015)

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Hello all,

It's just been announced that the abstract submissions deadline for IS&T 
Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, May 19-22) has been extended to January 
5th. For the announcement, please see:


http://goo.gl/z6hk7M

best regards,
Rob

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On 12/8/14 12:35 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote:

Hi all,

Just a reminder that abstract submissions are due today for the next
IS&T Archiving conference (Getty Center, Los Angeles, May 19-22, 2015).

Relevant topics involve original work in technical areas related to
digital archiving, including:

* Digital Preservation

* Infrastructure, Repositories, Web Harvesting and Archiving

* Creating and Preserving Dynamic Media

* Sound, Film, Digital Art

* Imaging Technology (including digital documentation and forensic
analysis of art)

* Using Tools, Systems, and Services (quality assurance, managing file
formats including image compression, digital forensics)

* Managing Content and Digital Curation (policies, processes, metrics
for services, illustrating value and ROI, systems, access rights
management, data privacy and personally identifiable information)

* Share Economies and Partnerships

* Innovative Software, Projects, and Services

Please see http://goo.gl/wNE7k4 for more information.

best regards,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

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Re: [MCN-L] Digitizing Photographs

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Matt and all,

As two cents from a non-conservator who cares for a collection of works 
of art on paper (including their digital imaging), these days 
camera-based capture does most often tend to be best--safe, accurate, 
fast--with these materials, but each situation can be different.


Your one specific factor of light intensity and duration actually may or 
may not be a concern with flatbed scanning of original photographic 
prints, depending on the specific scanner and the settings used with it, 
as well as the specific photographic media involved--for example, 
well-processed gelatin silver prints, versus more fugitive media.


That said...in most museum contexts, other preservation concerns make 
digital photographic capture vastly preferable to flatbed scanning for 
works on paper that are considered part of the collection as such, as 
distinct from photographs considered to be internal documents, etc.


These concerns arise from the need to place original works face-down in 
physical contact with the scanner, and one after another. Depending on 
the physical attributes of each photo (its surface, condition, etc.), 
that contact can raise concerns about causing subtle surface damage, as 
well as about any possible transfer of unseen contaminants--e.g., mold 
spores--from object to object, if one early in a run has such an issue.


(Also, if any of the photographs are matted, the significant handling 
risks of flipping them over and down onto a flatbed while matted, or of 
unmatting and rematting each photograph, could both raise more acute 
preservation concerns and seriously slow down your capture workflow.)


So, depending on your situation, it may well be much faster and safer to 
run rapid, camera-based capture instead, especially by the time you 
factor in the need to assess any object-by-object risks of scanning.


But over to the conservators! (Is Dale Kronkright in the house?)

hope this helps,
Rob
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On 1/22/15 4:05 PM, Matt Wheeler wrote:

Good afternoon. We have a collection which consists mostly of black and
white photographic prints and are beginning to digitize them using flatbed
scanners. However, I spoke to a conservator who advised that they be
rephotographed with a digital camera instead due to the intense light
exposure on a flatbed. Is this a legitimate concern? Will the scanners
cause degradation of the originals, and would this degradation be
considerable? Thanks in advance.
__

Matt Wheeler,
Photography Archives,
Penobscot Marine Museum
Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211
5 Church Street, PO Box 498
Searsport, Maine 04974

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[MCN-L] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-July 2015, CT)

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Hello all,

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) 
has just opened three temporary positions for a summer imaging project 
entailing rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated 
image and metadata preparation. Position details are in the postings, 
which just went live. This collection digitization work is funded by a 
grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).


Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/4756
One opening, six weeks of work, June 15 - July 23, 2015

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/4757
Two openings, five weeks of work, June 22 - July 23, 2015

Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either 
position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in 
hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or now are 
enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields.


Application is via Wesleyan's online system via the links above. If you 
have questions, please email me at rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu.


Please feel free to forward this announcement if and as you wish.

best regards,
Rob

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Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

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Hi Carissa and all,

Okay, I'll bite, starting with a key one that's not tech-specific:

ROI, BI, CRM (CRM in the Constituent Relationship Management sense), 
LIDO, CIDOC-CRM (this CRM in the different, Conceptual Reference Model 
sense), FADGI, AAT, ULAN, TGN, DAM, and CMS--with both meanings of CMS 
teased out in regard to Web CMS versus Collection Management System, an 
ambiguity which has led more than one conversation seriously astray!


And so very many more that it might be worth thinking about turning this 
effort into a community-sourced wiki or some such resource, which could 
have certain advantages: ease of updating, wide accessibility


cheers,
Rob

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On 2/10/15 2:59 PM, Carissa Dougherty wrote:

Hi, all...

I'm trying to compile a list of tech-related acronyms that might be
important for museum staff to know and understand -- or at the very least,
recognize.  Right now, I'm just gathering EVERYthing I can think of -- file
extensions (PDF, JPG), emerging technologies (BLE, NFC), web-related (HTML,
PHP)...

So...

- Are there any that you think are particularly relevant/important?

- What terms do you frequently toss around during museum tech meetings?

- Are there any that are often misunderstood/misinterpreted?

I'd be happy to share my "final" list when I've got it ready...

FIRE AWAY!!

Thanks...

Carissa

Head of Knowledge Management

The Morton Arboretum  |  4100 Illinois Route 53  |  Lisle, Illinois 60532
T  *630-725-2136* |*cdoughe...@mortonarb.org *
|  mortonarb.org



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Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

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And then there are the "justa" acronyms (apocryphal retronyms or real):

JAVA (once upon a time, wrongly rumored by some to stand for "Just 
Another Vague Acronym," but it's not an acronym at all*)


JBOD (real: Just a Bunch Of Disks: multiple drives not configured as a 
RAID** array)


Rob

* 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3042854/what-is-the-abbreviation-of-java-language


** Hey, RAID. There's another for the endless list.


On 2/11/15 8:55 AM, Marc Check wrote:

Okay, I couldn't resist this call-out.

Back in the day I had a brief foray at Eastman Kodak Company before their 
ill-fated attempt to move to digital.

As the TWAIN API is probably still used in Museums for digital imaging, and while 
arguable there is general consensus that intended or not, TWAIN is considered an acronym 
for "Technology Without An Interesting Name".  One of my all-time favs  : )

Marc E. Check
Associate Vice President
Information and Interactive Technology
Museum of Science
1 Science Park
Boston, MA 02114
617.589.4279 (office)
585.755.8622 (mobile)

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Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

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Thanks, Matt. Great work!

Just for the record, everyone, the content we folded in from my saved
postings from the earliest years is somewhat selective, based on pruning I
did for a personal email migration long ago; so there are fewer
announcements and such than were actually posted to MCN-L back in the day.

That said, it gives a good sense of what topics were in play in the list's
early years--back when, for example, having an "Internet SIG" made sense,
and when locking down Netscape Navigator for kiosks was a thing, and so
on.

And it does have the MCN-L ur-message!

cheers,
Rob

On Sat, May 30, 2015 11:27 am, Matt Morgan wrote:
> For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by
> search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to
> fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
> fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be

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Re: [MCN-L] Artifact photography organizations or conferences?

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Hi Ellice,

First to mind is ImageMuse, which I'd recommend highly:

http://imagemuse.org/
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ImageMuse/info

Hope this helps!

Rob

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On 10/15/15 12:58 PM, Ellice Engdahl wrote:

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

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[MCN-L] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-July 2016, CT)

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Hello all,

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) 
has opened three temporary positions for a summer project entailing 
rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and 
metadata preparation. Details are in the postings. This collection 
digitization work is funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum 
and Library Services (IMLS).


Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5284
One opening, six weeks of work, June 13 - July 22, 2015

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5285
Two openings, five weeks of work, June 20 - July 22, 2015

Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either 
position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in 
hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or are 
enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields.


Application is via Wesleyan's online system via the links above.
If you have questions, please email me at rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu.

Please forward this announcement if and as you wish.

best regards,
Rob

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[MCN-L] Happy 20th Birthday, MCN-L!

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Hi everyone,

Just for fun, it's worth noting that today is MCN-L's 20th birthday. The 
list launched on March 9, 1996: back when HTML 2.0 was the latest, 
greatest version, as were Macintosh System 7.5.3 and Windows 95. 1996 
also was the year when the first significant number of museum websites 
launched in all their initial glory,* some using what was then 
cutting-edge, table-based layout.** Which is to say, it was a long time 
ago--so long ago that it still made sense to have an MCN Internet SIG!


If you're curious about the inaugural MCN-L post, it's in the archive:



It's pretty remarkable how much knowledge the MCN community has shared 
on this list over the years, how many helpful leads so many people have 
suggested and harvested here, and how useful the list continues to be as 
we move forward--even as other information-sharing channels, spaces, 
apps, and platforms flow and ebb, and often fade away. Imagine all the 
things thousands of people have accomplished more effectively over two 
decades with peer-to-peer, collegial help from this list.


Happy birthday, MCN-L, and many more.

cheers,
Rob

* Several museum websites from 1996 are represented on this page: 



** This was so early in the history of the Web that the formal RFC for 
HTML Tables actually wouldn't be published for another two months, but 
tables were coming into use: 


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[MCN-L] AAM 2017 session proposals deadline is September 2

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Hello everyone,

For another ten days (ticking clock!), the American Alliance of Museums 
will be accepting session proposals for AAM 2017 (St. Louis, May 7–10). 
The AAM 2017 Program Committee aims to populate twelve program tracks 
with a wide range of topics, interactive session formats, and engaging 
presenters who represent diverse perspectives.


http://annualmeeting.aam-us.org/proposals

Proposal submissions will close September 2, a week from this Friday. 
Topics central to many of our conversations in MCN figure prominently in 
AAM 2017's session tracks, which include Forces of Change; Media & 
Technology; Education, Audience Research, & Evaluation; Marketing & 
Community Engagement; Career Management; and more:


http://annualmeeting.aam-us.org/proposals/tracks

best to all,
Rob (MCN representative on AAM Council of Affiliates)

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Re: [MCN-L] Internal image use policies

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Hi Perian and all,

With images of public domain works here in the Davison Art Center 
collection, anyone (museum staff, parent university staff, or public) is 
free to do whatever they want under our open access images policy.


That said, if a given use were to be for a public-facing institutional 
publication under our own auspices, it would eventually go through our 
general proofing flow in design stage, and approving the treatment of 
images (regardless of their sources) would be part of that process.


Hope this helps,
Rob

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On 10/19/16 6:53 PM, Perian Sully wrote:

Hi everyone:

I'm looking for a few examples of internal use policies for images,
especially for public domain or orphan works. Do you allow free cropping
and editing by staff or do you require curatorial approval before each use?
what kinds of materials have restrictions, if any?

Thanks in advance,

~Perian

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[MCN-L] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-July 2017, CT)

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Hello all,

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) 
has opened three temporary positions for a summer project entailing 
rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and 
metadata preparation. Details are in the postings. This collection 
digitization work is funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum 
and Library Services (IMLS).


Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5760
One opening, six weeks of work, June 12 - July 20, 2017

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/5761
Two openings, five weeks of work, June 19 - July 20, 2017

Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either 
position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in 
hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or are 
enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields.


Application is via Wesleyan's online system via the links above.

If you have questions, please email me at rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu.

Please forward this announcement if and as you wish.

best regards,
Rob
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Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

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Hi Perian and all,

Good morning (there, still). For our open access images and the other 
such resources that spring to mind, open means open: clear for any use.


http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

Segueing from policy to think about how we refer to things that are 
framed by policy, using the word "open" to name and promote resources 
subject to a tiered or capped policy could risk public confusion and 
pushback. If at present some limits on use are necessary (as they can be 
in some institutions), it could be valuable to take a step back and 
think about how most accurately to characterize the real-world uses for 
which the assets *will* be made freely available, and then to work from 
that concrete base in thinking about how best to refer to the resource 
without using the word "open." This could be significantly clearer for 
many users, and probably more likely to foster genuine appreciation for 
the significant (partial) step that such moves toward openness can be.


That said, stakeholders' desire to be *able* use the word "open" in an 
accurate way can, at times, be a useful lever when helping them decide 
to embrace--or not obstruct--the provision of truly open content, even 
if they have concerns about lost revenue (which in many cases can prove 
to be an illusion anyway, in regard to net, not gross, revenue...).


all best,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 2/22/17 12:40 PM, Perian Sully wrote:

Good morning everyone (on the West Coast at least),

For those of you who are pursuing open access initiatives, do you carve out
an exception for publishers? Obviously, publishers can grab whatever they
want if assets are offered at full-resolution, and it's hard for us to
police, but publication fees are still (?) a quantifiable source of
additional income. So I'm guessing honor system is mostly in play here.

What restrictions do you still have? Print run limitations before a fee
kicks in? Type of publication? Don't worry about it at all?

Thanks all,

~Perian



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Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

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Hi all,

+1 for "applicable fees are calculated based on the work requested."

As Peter and Amalyah point out, it's important to separate out the 
question of (1) licensing fees as such (if open access, =zero) from (2) 
service charges if special services are needed to fulfill the request. 
An example here would be a request for an image of a public domain 
object not yet shot, and wanted sooner than we could shoot it as part of 
systematic imaging; in that situation, we'd have it shot as a rush 
one-off, charge the requestor a (cost recovery) fee for that rush work, 
and then still provide the image with no licensing fee as such.


Regarding publishers wanting a traditional license document, we try to 
help publishers and authors understand that if they simply print out our 
open access policy along with a screenshot of the relevant object record 
page (which has a thumbnail, object identification, and open access 
notice and links) for their files, they're good to go. This can take 
repeated reassurance at first ("That's really all I have to do?" "Yes." 
"Really?" "Really."); but once they're assured that it is that easy, 
they're happy--and ready to use that self-serve model next time.


Rob
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On 2/23/17 2:53 AM, Amalyah Keshet wrote:

Perian:

"Open Access but fees" is a non-starter. Open Access = free.

Previous comments have hit the major points:  there is the "free for personal 
use" model (and of course Fair Use), but you must
realize in advance that some commercial publishers/producers/clients will also take 
"free" literally and it certainly will not be worth the cost of pursuing them.

Some publishers, however, need to license:  they need that document for their 
own internal legal requirements. What you charge for is for providing that 
service, whether you send them the image file or they download it for free.

Each museum has its own business model and its own experience with income 
generated from image licensing. The income isn't an illusion in all cases and 
one can't generalize.  Even providing Open Access costs money.

The most salient point, however, is that made by Peter:  " ...applicable fees are 
calculated based on the work requested, not who is requesting the work."  Even with 
Open Access, there will always be clients with special requirements, and you will be 
providing professional services for them.  You need to cover your costs for that.  It 
doesn't matter who they are, a publisher or an advertiser or a  school art department. 
You are not so much selling the image files as the service.

It reminds me of something I have pointed out many times:  the traditional practice of 
charging different fees to commercial and "non-profit" clients doesn't hold up 
to scrutiny.  Non-profit clients almost always require more work on our part; sometimes 
researching  their questions and completing their orders adds up to weeks or drags out 
over months, not including the wait for payment.  Obviously they cost us far more in time 
and work, and when you think about it, they should be charged more than the typical 
commercial client whose order can be completed in an hour or two.

Again (thank you Peter): it's the work requested, not who is requesting the 
work.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Dueker, 
Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:42 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

Hi Perian,

My advice is to keep things as simple as possible.

The National Gallery of Art does not charge use, permission, or image access 
fees to download or use works of art available through Open Access.

We do charge processing fees to offset costs of providing additional imaging 
services, such as creating guide prints, making new photographs or customizing 
and formatting existing photography.

We don’t make any special fee schedules for publishers or other types of users. 
If someone can utilize the image available on NGA Images, great. If they need 
to order special processing the applicable fees are caclulated based on the 
work requested, not who is requesting the work.

Open Access and NGA Images (5 years old in March!) have been a great success 
for us institutionally. Glad to hear you are looking at this.

Peter Dueker
Head of Web and Imaging Services
National Gallery of Art, Washington

On 2/22/17, 12:40 PM, "mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Perian Sully"
 wrote:


Good morning everyone (on the West Coast at least),

For those of you who are pursuing open access 

Re: [MCN-L] Collections Database Remote Access Policies

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi Rob and all,

We don't allow remote access to our collection database, for reasons 
much along the lines you note. Regardless of trust in staff, in our 
assessment doing so would still entail unacceptable risk.


Let's say a staff member's access credentials were unknowingly 
compromised by a visitor peering over a shoulder during one careless 
login. With remote access, those authentication credentials could then 
be used by unknown parties at their leisure. With on-premises access 
only, the risk of compromise to sensitive data would be mitigated to 
some degree by the need to access the system from within the museum. 
Noting that spoofing, etc. could still be a factor (depending on how 
this aspect of access control is implemented), it can still be one among 
various useful layers of reducing the risk of intrusion.


Most of our use cases for remote access by staff can be covered by using 
our public-facing collection search, and those that can't can wait until 
the staff person is back on premises--or occasionally can be handled by 
human proxy, as it were, via a known colleague on premises.


That's our take on the question, anyway. Convenient as it would be on 
occasion to be able to do data cleaning from home during an ice storm!


Rob

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On 2/23/17 3:17 PM, Rob Morgan wrote:

Hello MCN Listserv,

Does your institution allow remote access to your collections database?
For example, can a Curator check your collections database from home via a
Remote Desktop Connection/Terminal Server, or something similar?

If so, does your institution have a policy in place regarding remote access
to your collections database?  If so, can you share it with me?

FYI, we allow remote access to our collections database.  However, there is
concern about losing control over who can see sensitive information (e.g.,
values, locations, etc.) when the database is accessed outside the museum
(e.g., a non-employee could see sensitive data in an employee’s home).  Of
course, the argument is that staff should be trusted regardless of where
they’re working.

Thanks,

Rob Morgan
Collections Database Administrator
The Baltimore Museum of Art


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[MCN-L] IIIF Museums Community Group letter to go out to DAMS vendors

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Hello all,

The IIIF* Museums Community Group has finalized a letter that will go 
out to Digital Asset Management (DAM) software vendors, urging adoption 
of IIIF in DAM products. More details, and instructions for signing on 
if your institution wishes to do so, are in a post by Sheila Rabun in 
the IIIF Discuss Google Group, on which this MCN-L post is based.


The letter has been initially reviewed and signed by the J. Paul Getty 
Trust, and we are now seeking more institutions who would like to sign 
on to the letter before April 28. While museums have taken the lead with 
this letter, other types of institutions are also welcome to sign on. 
For more, please see Sheila's full post on IIIF Discuss:


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/iiif-discuss/MJPbtqHLLTc/mIyYnMucBAAJ

best regards,
Rob

*IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework, http://iiif.io

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Re: [MCN-L] Imaging opinions on the Equalight 3 Tool

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Hi Liz and all,

Equalight is one of several well-regarded tools for what's often call
"flat-fielding" exposure across the full extent of an image: in effect,
pixel-mapping any uneven illumination or lens-based falloff based on
reference to an exposure made of an unvaried sheet of (nearly) white board
or other smooth, non-shiny material, and then using that reference shot to
compensate for that variance across the captured field in an identically
configured shot of an object. This is, as you note, an algorithmic
process, but it's useful also to note that this is in the sense of
algorithmic addition/subtraction of pixel exposure values based on an
actual reference shot, as distinct from algorithmic processing based on
software modeling of how a certain lens is believed (but perhaps not
definitively known) to behave in a given context; so in that sense, it's
especially closely grounded in shot-specific empirical data.

Provided it's used properly, this can be an excellent post-capture way to
remove artifacts of real-world uneven lighting and imperfect lens
performance, when those factors can't be fully or sufficiently dealt with
in the physical world before and during capture. A key thing here is
"properly": for example, because the applied compensation is based on a
reference shot captured with one particular focal distance, field of view,
aperture, light positions, etc., any change to any of those or certain
other shooting parameters requires a new reference capture--without which,
the software would be modifying an actual capture by applying compensation
based on an irrelevant reference shot, and for that reason effectively
corrupting rather than correcting the shot you care about. As another
example, it's important to apply blur (with appropriate parameters) to the
reference shot before feeding it to Equalight, so you don't end up (mis-)
"compensating" based on spatially tiny exposure variances that are in fact
due to how the reference board's surface (tooth) catches
light...whoops...not so good to apply that to object images!

Whether Equalight is a good thing to use depends on factors ranging from
how even the actual lighting can be made, how the lens performs (e.g., in
regard to any falloff or incipient vignetting) at the specific settings to
be used, how rigorous the photographer is about using these tools well,
etc. As a starting point, though, I'd tend to take a photographer's
familiarity with it as a promising indicator of experience with, and care
for, accurate and consistent capture, and I'd then ask how she or he
typically uses it, to ensure that it is indeed in ways that will reduce
artifacts and increase accuracy, rather than the reverse.

Hope this helps!

all best,
Rob

Rob Lancefield (mobile)

On Mon, October 22, 2018 7:55 pm, Liz Neely wrote:
>  Hi MCN-L (especially imaging pals),
>
>  While I know what I want as outcomes from my collection imaging
projects, I
>  admit not to be an expert on the ins and outs of all the tools
available in
>  the digital capture process.
>
>  We at the O'Keeffe are embarking on some collections imaging with a
>  contract photographer who uses a tool called Equalight (3) from Robin
Myers
>  Imaging (http://www.rmimaging.com/equalight.html) to algorithmically deal
>  with light fall off.
>
>  We want to use the images from this project for print reproductions,
>  banners and signs, online collections, and for scholarly digital
publishing
>  (through our in-progress IIIF server). (all the usual stuff - in print and
>  online)
>
>  Knowing the museum's various desires for outcomes from this photography --
>  do the imaging experts on this list have opinions / experiences they'd
>  share about using this type of tool?
>
>  If you'd rather share opinions with me off-list, email me directly!
>
>  Thank you!
>  Liz
>
>  Liz Neely
>  Curator of Digital Experience
>  Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
>  Santa Fe, N.M.
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[MCN-L] Jobs: Davison Art Center Project Photographer & Specialists (June-August 2019, CT)

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Hello all,

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) 
has opened three temporary positions for a summer project entailing 
rapid photography of works of art on paper, with associated image and 
metadata preparation. Details are in the postings. This collection 
digitization work is funded by a grant from the US Institute of Museum 
and Library Services (IMLS).


Davison Art Center Imaging Project Photographer:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6762
One opening, ten weeks of work, June 10 - August 15, 2019

Davison Art Center Imaging Project Specialist:
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6763
Two openings, nine weeks of work, June 17 - August 15, 2019

Qualified emerging professionals are encouraged to apply for either 
position. For the Specialist positions, we're especially interested in 
hearing from applicants who recently have graduated from, or are 
enrolled in, graduate programs in museum studies or related fields.


Application is via Wesleyan's online system at the links above. 
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis beginning March 26, 
until the positions are filled.


If you have questions, please email me at .

Please forward this announcement if and as you wish.

best regards,
Rob

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Chair, AAM (American Alliance of Museums) Council of Affiliates
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[MCN-L] Job: Davison Art Center Registrar and Collections Manager

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

The position of Davison Art Center Registrar and Collections Manager, a 
university art collections registrar/manager (and collections 
information manager) job, has just posted at Wesleyan University. (I'm 
not involved in hiring for the position, by the way; it's a recrafted 
successor role to a position in which I currently serve). The collection 
is managed in EmbARK, which will be the main platform for much of the 
work to be done by the successful applicant.


https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/6985

Please feel encouraged to repost and share this, especially if someone 
could please pass the link along into the Association of Registrars and 
Collections Specialists, where I imagine there may be some interest.


all best,
Rob

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Re: [MCN-L] Institutional policy on stalking/harassing/DV

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Hello Meredith and all,

There's information about Yale's and Wesleyan's relevant policies at the 
links below. These policies apply fully to the museums and other nested 
institutions at those universities.






I hope this may be useful.

all best,
Rob

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Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, PO Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520
+1 (203) 432-4290  |  robert.lancefield [at] yale.edu
https://britishart.yale.edu


On 2019-09-20 10:12, Meredith L. Steinfels wrote:

Greetings MCN Community,

This isn't a question about musetech, but I hope it's okay to ask in
this forum.  I'd like to hear from those of you whose institutions
have a formal policy on addressing stalking, harassment, and domestic
violence in the workplace- especially from private universities.  And
if your institution does, do they make their policy electronically
available?  What sort of digital safeguards are implemented for those
who need them (e.g., call blocking or rerouting of phone calls,
removal of contact information from web directories, etc.)?  How much
onus is placed on the victim to request these services vs. what will
your institution proactively do?

Thanks, and if you'd rather share offline due to personal experience,
that's fine. I won't be making any of this publicly available.

--Meredith

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[MCN-L] Fellow COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum users?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hello all,

If your institution uses COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum to extract, 
transform, and/or serve your collections data, and if you'd like to 
connect informally with people in other institutions that also use those 
tools at present, please let me know on- or off-list.


We're interested in learning who else is currently using one or both, 
especially (but not only) in connection with TMS, with the thought that 
we may all find this useful in evolving contexts of TMS versions, OS 
versions, etc.


all best,
Rob

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robert.lancefi...@yale.edu
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Re: [MCN-L] Fellow COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum users?

[Rob Lancefield on lists]

Hi all,

As followup to the post below, there's now a Google Group for people 
involved in keeping COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum running in evolving 
technical environments. Please join if you wish (invitations have gone 
out to people I heard from off-list). Because topics with implications 
for systems security might arise there, the group currently requires 
approval to join; we may revisit that if it seems needlessly cumbersome. 
You can request access here:


https://groups.google.com/d/forum/coboat-oaicatmuseum

all best,
Rob

On 2019-11-18 17:08, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote:

Hello all,

If your institution uses COBOAT and/or OAICatMuseum to extract,
transform, and/or serve your collections data, and if you'd like to
connect informally with people in other institutions that also use
those tools at present, please let me know on- or off-list.

We're interested in learning who else is currently using one or both,
especially (but not only) in connection with TMS, with the thought
that we may all find this useful in evolving contexts of TMS versions,
OS versions, etc.

all best,
Rob

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Rob Lancefield
Head of Information Technology
Yale Center for British Art
PO Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
robert.lancefi...@yale.edu
britishart.yale.edu

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