[MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article

Thanks for forwarding this. Good article. Amalyah Keshet At 20:33 17/11/2006, you wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:44 -0800 Sender: Visual Resources Association VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU From: Jeanette Mills jcmills at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: folksonomy article

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright: The Only Certainty is Uncertainty” February 15, 2007

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:15:54 -0500 From: Deidre Hoguet dhoguet at metro.org Subject: RE: Museum IP UPDIG Conferences Sender: musip at yahoogroups.com Hello, I would like to add that the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) will host a symposium titled ?Copyright: The Only

[MCN-L] Need for controlled vocabularies

Check out the Australian Pictorial Thesaurus: The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) is a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images. The APT uses contemporary Australian terminology to describe objects, people, places and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image.

[MCN-L] Need for controlled vocabularies

Good Morning everyone! Although not exactly articles, there are two UK resources which could be useful in this context. The MDA publish a number of white papers as part of our SPECTRUM Terminology service. These include a paper on Terminology for Museum Managers which goes into the business

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

With thanks to Christine L. Sundt for forwarding this: Subject: Gowers Review of Intellectual Property Gowers: A step in the right direction The British Academy welcomes the publication of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. The intellectual property regime is crucial for the

[MCN-L] Need for controlled vocabularies

The TASI website always has good articles. One I found quickly. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/vocabs.html I think your best bet is to look at library resources. Ill try to find some myself and send them out. The biggest obstacle with these types of projects is the lack of pre-planning for

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

This message is a request to all those wise souls who have been around for a while. We've had the conversation about who was the first museum to have a web site. Here's mine. Do we know who was the first museum to install public computers for the purpose of gaming/ virtual environments

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

Hi Richard, I think I have a fairly complete file of all the Spectra issues in paper going back to the beginning. If you know what issue(s) might have your info - let me know, I will scan and send... But I don't have the time to dig through them for references until February, I believe

[MCN-L] Need for controlled vocabularies

I'll second that! I came on board 4 years after record entering started here with anyone able to add any term they chose to the supposedly controlled fields in our system. The result is chaos. Not only do you have to consider every possible term that someone might have used when searching for

[MCN-L] DAMS comparisons?

Hi again everyone: I'm wondering if anyone has developed a comparison of various DAMS systems from the museum perspective, much like CHIN has done for Collection Management systems? I'm finding some from a business perspective, or for individuals, but nothing that applies to museum-specific

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 20, Issue 2

I will be out of the office the week of June 25th. If you require immediate assistance contact Dennis McFadden at dmcfadde at wellesley.edu Jim Olson Coordinator of Technology Davis Museum

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