[MCN-L] Registration Open - IMLS WebWise 2007
With all due apologies for cross-posting. I highly recommend a close look at the conference program. The theme for this year's WebWise is Stewardship in the Digital Age: Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use, and the bulk of the presentations lend themselves to extending deepening the conversation about asset management we had during MCN 2006. Please make sure to also take a good look at the pre-conference workshops - like the conference itself, they're free! I've signed up for Priscilla Caplan's Preserving Digital Collections (during the course of which Rick Rinehart will make a presentation on preserving digital art), and I'll also tout Sharing Images and Data Making Access to Collections Easier and Better, which Ken Hamma pulled together. I hope to see many MCN regulars there! Cheers, G?nter *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2006 Press Contacts 202-653-4628 Kevin O'Connell, koconnell at imls.gov Mamie Bittner, mbittner at imls.gov IMLS Announces Registration for 2007 WebWise Conference to be Held February 28-March 2 Washington, DC--The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announces open registration for the eighth annual WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World, to be held February 28 to March 2, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The conference is sponsored annually by IMLS and is co-hosted again this year by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the J. Paul Getty Trust. This year's theme is Stewardship in the Digital Age: Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use. The conference will feature presentations and panel discussions by library, museum, and other information experts who will address issues and emerging practices in the preservation of digital content from digitized text to born-digital art. It will also provide a forum for discussing the general state of preservation and digital preservation readiness in the nation's museums and libraries and the potential for technology to improve the management of physical collections and the documentation of cultural heritage. Demonstrations will feature online tools for disaster planning, projects that are addressing challenges such as preserving audio and visual media, and projects to document and preserve tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Preconference workshops, requiring separate registration, will be offered on February 28: 1) Preserving Digital Collections (half-day) 2) Sharing Images and Data: Making Access to Collections Easier and Better (half-day) 3) Producing Broadcast-Quality, Preservation-Worthy Video (full day). For more information about this year's conference, including the agenda and on-line registration, visit www.getty.edu/webwise2007/conference. Visit www.imls.gov/webwise for more information on past WebWise conferences. About the Institute of Museum and Library Services The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development. To learn more about the Institute, please visit www.imls.gov. G?nter Waibel Please update your address book waibelg at oclc.org RLG Programs, OCLC 2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94043 voice: +1-650-691-2304 | fax: +1-650-964-1461 blog: www.hangingtogether.org
[MCN-L] IP SIG: update on orphan works (Kahle v. Gonzales)
Appeals Court Shoots Down Copyright Challenge: The case impacts how out-of-print and orphaned works may, or may not, be viewed online. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, Jan 23, 2007 http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196903040 The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an effort by online archivists to challenge the federal law that automatically extends copyright protection for out-of-print and orphaned works. - Blog: Appeals court rejects challenge to opt-out copyright By Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1/25/2007 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070125-8704.html On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the case of Kahle v. Gonzales, which sought to challenge the U.S.'s change from an opt-in copyright system to an opt-out system between 1976 and 1992. The ruling was a setback for those seeking to free works that are no longer commercially valuable from the grips of copyright law. - Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net
[MCN-L] Workshop announcement
Can I just draw colleagues attention to this new workshop outline just posted to the Museums and the Web conference site. Apologies if this this is not the right forum for this kind of announcementand for cross postings. Stephen Accessibility 2.0: How to avoid being sued for having an inaccessible website Stephen Brown http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/bios/au_10010224.html , De Montfort University, United Kingdom http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk Brian Kelly http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/bios/au_315013492.html , UKOLN, United Kingdom http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ This workshop looks at the accessibility challenges emerging in a Web 2.0 environment and provides participants with simple rules of thumb to assess the accessibility of their web sites and inexpensive guidelines for avoiding common design faults that expose their organisation to legal action. For further details see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/abstracts/prg_32779.html Professor Stephen Brown Director, Knowledge Media Design De Montfort University Portland 2.3a The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH UK Tel +44 (0)116 257 7173 Fax +44(0) 116 250 6101 mob +44 (0)7989 948230 http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk
[MCN-L] Sound clip database on a Mac
Hi everyone. This is my first posting...I hope it works. Anyway, I need to build a database for a collection of oral histories that are being stored on a Mac. All I know how to use is Microsoft Access. Can anyone suggest a common database program for Macs that hold sound files well? Thanks, Rachel from Toronto. _ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d
[MCN-L] Metadata for You Me Workshops
Metadata for You Me: A Workshop on Shareable Metadata http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym ** Metadata aggregations such as OAIster http://www.oaister.org and the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project (http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu ) have shown that metadata designed for diverse local environments may fall short in providing the information needed for useful discovery in the aggregated environment. Metadata for You Me workshops assist metadata planners in analyzing and implementing the changes that need to be made to local metadata to prepare it for sharing with aggregations and other institutions. Topics to be covered include: * the current state of metadata aggregations * the six Cs and lots of Ss framework for shareable metadata * an analysis of shareable properties for various classes of metadata elements * practical advice for implementing these principles. The content of workshops is based on the Best Practices for Shareable Metadata, an initiative of the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library, that provides guidance for creating metadata that can be easily understood, processed and used outside of its local environment. Registration is now open for the following workshops: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym/register.html Online: May 5 - June 13, 2008 Fee: $150/person (Scholarship Deadline: April 18, 2008) (Registration Deadline: April 25, 2008) Onsite: INCOLSA, Indianapolis, IN (http://www.incolsa.net) June 24 or 25, 2008 Registration Fee: $130/person (includes lunch) (Scholarship Deadline: May 23, 2008) (Registration Open Until Filled) Online: July 7-August 15, 2008 Fee: $150/person (Scholarship Deadline, June 20, 2008) (Registration Deadline, June 25, 2008) Pre-requisites *** Metadata for You Me is intended for professionals engaged in sharing metadata resources with colleagues, regional and state-wide consortia, Open Archives Initiative harvesters and service providers, or other metadata sharing partners. It is not intended as a basic training program in metadata. Ideally participants should have: * Familiarity with metadata standards such as Dublin Core, VRACore, MARC, MODS, etc. * Familiarity with the concepts of metadata aggregation or federation, such as Z39.50, Open Archives Initiative, metasearch, etc. (technical knowledge of the protocols is not required.) * Familiarity with your local metadata, such as standards and controlled vocabularies used, systems employed, etc. * Online participants should expect to spend between 2-3 hours per week reading course materials and participating in weekly discussions and exercises. Scholarships *** Metadata for You and Me is now offering a limited number of scholarships for upcoming workshops. Visit the Scholarships page (http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym/scholarships.html) to find out if you qualify. Richard Urban Metadata for You Me http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym/ rjurban at uiuc.edu
[MCN-L] Drupal vs. WordPress MU as content management systems
In the best of circumstances, most people not committed to the cutting edge will wait at least six months post release for initial bugs to be ironed out, more obscure modules to be upgraded and tested, and to learn the ins and outs of the new development environment. So, I'd say that one should be looking at D7 for a new site today only if the site is more than a year forward (3/4 year if you feel terribly oppressed). It is going to be exciting if all goes well (and it looks like much will definitely go well, at the least), but it will also introduce lots of major paradigm changes--for the better, I think--in how Drupal works and is maintained. But that's coming. D6 is now ;-). ari On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Keeline james at keeline.com wrote: When you visit http://drupal.org/project/Modules and search individual third-party modules that you might be using, you will see pledges by many developers to have their module(s) ready on the day that Drupal 7 is released. ?Smaller modules and internally-developed modules could be delayed, of course. Having worked with Drupal since late 2006 (4.7), I agree that some major version upgrades have seen a delay in the availability of key modules. ?However, I think the Drupal folks are working to remedy this for D7. I think the plan is to make the release after DrupalCon in SF. James Keeline San Diego, CA --- On Thu, 2/25/10, Andrew Fox afox at famsf.org wrote: Drupal 7 is in alpha right now. I think they're planning on releasing it some time in the second quarter of this year. Of course then you have to wait for all the modules to catch up, too, so my guess is that we're probably looking at the fall for a viable Drupal 7 installation. AF Andrew Fox ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools
Hi Perian, I don't honestly know if there are tools out there, but if not then you may need to look at using the API. If that's a bit forbidding you might take a look at Raymond Yee's book (Professional Mashups or some such title). He's got tons of Flickr examples in there - not that I have actually used any of them in anger! All the best, Jeremy -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Perian Sully Sent: Thu 25/02/2010 21:16 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools Hi everyone: I'm trying to find a nice and easy method for exporting data into Excel (or some CSV file), then use some Flickr tool to import the metadata so I can link those records to their images before uploading to Flickr. Does anyone know of a Flickr uploading tool that can handle Excel or CSV imports? ~P Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes 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 ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ H
[MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools
I'm with Jeremy, this could easily be done with some PHP and the Flicker API. I've done similar things with Last.FM API for reporting based off a database which could be created from a CSV quite easily. -- Ryan Hartman Web Developer Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t: 817.989.5047 http://www.cartermuseum.org From: Ottevanger, Jeremy JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk Reply-To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:53:18 - To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools Hi Perian, I don't honestly know if there are tools out there, but if not then you may need to look at using the API. If that's a bit forbidding you might take a look at Raymond Yee's book (Professional Mashups or some such title). He's got tons of Flickr examples in there - not that I have actually used any of them in anger! All the best, Jeremy -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu on behalf of Perian Sully Sent: Thu 25/02/2010 21:16 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools Hi everyone: I'm trying to find a nice and easy method for exporting data into Excel (or some CSV file), then use some Flickr tool to import the metadata so I can link those records to their images before uploading to Flickr. Does anyone know of a Flickr uploading tool that can handle Excel or CSV imports? ~P Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes 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 ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ H ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
