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CIDOC annual meeting 2006
Gothenburg , Sweden
First Call - Call for papers
The CIDOC annual meeting and conference 2006 will take place in
Gothenburg, Sweden, September
As many of you know, I edit a print newsletter on copyright and licensing.
Many of our subscribers are from universities, museums, governments,
libraries and archives. Our readers are interested in practical ways of
dealing with copyright issues. I know that many from MCN are non-lawyers
who
You and others may be interested to know about the Rights and Reproduction
Information Network (RARIN) of the AAM Registrars Committee. Information
can be accessed from the RC website (www.rcaam.org) and clicking on
Reference. The RARIN link is the second from the bottom of the page.
janice
Dear List Members,
In the UK we have the Museum Copyright Group:
http://www.museumscopyright.org.uk
I declare an interest as MDA is both on the executive committee of
the group and hosts its website.
MDA also provides training in IPR from a museum perspective:
The legal implications, in the meantime. Stay tuned.
--
Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit.
EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann analyzes the license agreement that
accompanies Sony's rootkit DRM (that's right, a license to listen to an
audio CD!). It is unbelievably outrageous, the
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me--why would museums not publish
subject terms in their web/public versions of the catalog? Isn't the purpose
of creating subjects/keywords to make the collections more accessible --to
everyone, not just inhouse users? Museum staff are likely to be looking
Deborah,
Ordinarily, the subject keywords are in the background, not necessarily
viewable on the screen display for an object, but available for searching.
For a great example of this see the Tate website www.tate.org.uk
Cathryn Goodwin
Cathryn L. Goodwin
Collections Data Specialist
Princeton
Deborah,
I think alot of the issue is we are at the beginning of public use of
collections in the same way we search for books.
Here at the IMA we are currently working on a project with our Education
Resources departmet to include subject heading in our cataloguing of our
objects. Being a
This looks like a great place to plug social tagging, (an approach to
folksonomy, i.e., using popular terminology for subject
categorization) like what STEVE (http://steve.museum) promises.
Folksonomies are a way to address the reality that Museum and Library
professionals often use subject
Wow, thanks for passing along info on STEVE.
And yes, social tagging for enhancement of our collections database
keywords for off the street users is something that we have been
thinking of.
We were just currently in grant-writing mode to fund a project that
would update a lot of things
I just joined this group, but I wanted to discuss the subject cataloging
project currently underway at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We are still
in the development stage, but I expect that we will end up with controlled
vocabulary derived from LC's TGM, and to a lesser extent, Getty's AAT as
Matt or anyone else who knows -
For those of us who weren't able to attend the STEVE session at MCN this
year, could you give us an overview of its mechanics? Where are the
terms stored, are they reviewed by anyone, etc.? I know what it is, but
how does it work?
Jana Hill
Collection Database
Members of the list,
You might like to consider a glance at Iconclass a subject specific
international classification system for iconographic research and the
documentation of images.
See:
http://www.iconclass.nl
It uses the following 'main divisions':
0 Abstract, Non-representational
The best 'backgrounder' on steve is the article that came out of our
summer working sessions. You can find it in D-lib magazine at:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/bearman/09bearman.html
Steve isn't a deployed system yet. it's a prototype built by an
interested community to help us
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