[MCN-L] Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format

The Vatican Library http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/04/20/news/biblioteca_vaticana -3489668/ plans to digtize 80,000 manuscripts http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/archives.html and store them in the open data format FITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS ,

[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi

Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at

[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi

Originally, the impetus for installing public Wi-Fi here in Oakland was so that presenters in our big theater could access the internet easily for presentations. It was added to the restaurant at the same time as a perk. Carolyn Rissanen Registrar, Natural Sciences Oakland Museum of California

[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi

Hi, For those of you who offer public wi-fi, do mind sharing how you made it happen? What were the barriers you had to address? Visitors are asking for free wi-fi at SAM but our IT department is holding back because of resource issues, I think it has to do with bandwidth. Christina

[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi

Here at the Connecticut Science Center, our wireless access points are setup with 3 SSID's. Two are hidden and one is public. We have allocated a certain about of bandwidth just for the public wireless VLAN. ** Check out our EVENTS Calendar here!

[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi

We are not quite in the same boat, being a science museum, but I will answer anyway. We installed a wireless network mainly because we have multiple meeting rooms that we rent out to other businesses/organizations and they pretty much demanded it. As our meeting rooms along with our computer

[MCN-L] Reminder: Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) Webinar

Reminder: On Tuesday, May 4th, at 11:30 EDT, MCN is conducting its very first Webinar, thanks to Gallery Systems and colleagues at the J. Paul Getty Trust. Please join us for an informative look at the Getty's new vocabulary currently under development, Cultural Objects Name Authority? (CONA).

[MCN-L] Deadline Approaching for The Tectonics of Digital Curation Symposium, May 25-26 at MIT

Don't Miss this opportunity to . . . NETWORK with key leaders of the digital preservation community. KEEP CURRENT on digital preservation and access trends and issues. EXPLORE STRATEGIES for building a digital collection on the Web. LISTEN, LEARN, AND BRING BACK information to colleagues. DEVELOP

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 26

The Carlos uses a 1 way connection between TMS and Insight (soon to be Luna Browser). Luna designed a script for us that extracts object data from TMS, and an Emory programmer later modified the script to also pull TMS constituent data for artist information. Rather than extracting images