[MCN-L] One week left to submit Best of the Web nominations for MW2015

2015-02-24 Thread Valeria Gasparotti
Best of the Web awards is an annual contest, organized each year at the Museums and the Web conference. A committee of peers reviews and recognizes the best museum work in the digital heritage space. Sites are nominated by museum professionals like you from around the world:

[MCN-L] Guided Access in iOS

2015-02-24 Thread Susan Wigodner
Hello all, Is anyone using the iOS Guided Access feature to lock a device to a particular app, for rental audio guides or otherwise? We're finding the setting doesn't always stick on our iPod touches which are using iOS7, which revert to normal mode. Would be interested in others' experiences

Re: [MCN-L] Guided Access in iOS

2015-02-24 Thread Kyle Jaebker
Susan, We have used guided access at the IMA and have similar results. Sometimes it stays in the app just fine, but if the app crashes or the iPod runs out of battery it can get out of Guided Access. Another alternative is to use Apple Configurator

Re: [MCN-L] Guided Access in iOS

2015-02-24 Thread Wendy Sporleder
Susan, We are using this feature on ipad minis. The deployment is initially set through a profile in the Meraki management tool. This sets the Guided Access but like Kyle stated, if the device locks up or needs to be hard/soft booted, it can lose the lock. Triple click is working for us.

Re: [MCN-L] Guided Access in iOS

2015-02-24 Thread Heather Marie Wells
Susan, We tried Guided Access with similar results and moved to Apple Configurator (you need a Mac to run this software). We had over 400 devices using Apple Configurator and sometimes they get stuck displaying a guided access not available contact administrator² error message. Some times if

Re: [MCN-L] Anybody using IMu for public APII

2015-02-24 Thread Kyle Jaebker
David, We use the Imu interface at the IMA. We have two nightly scripts that run to export data using Imu into our digital asset management system and into our Collection Middleware layer. The collection middleware is used to drive our online collection (http://collection.imamuseum.org) and will

[MCN-L] CFP Reminder: Classification and Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery - Lisbon, 29-30 October 2015

2015-02-24 Thread Aida Slavic
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 28 February) International UDC Seminar 2015 CLASSIFICATION AND AUTHORITY CONTROL: Expanding Resource Discovery DATE: 29-30 October 2015 VENUE:National Library of Portugal Campo Grande 83