[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

So, which WAS the first museum to have a website? At 22:13 18/12/2006, you wrote: 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

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

Interesting. I distinctly remember the Dallas Museum of Art being the first museum I found on the Web. Amalyah At 14:25 19/12/2006, you wrote: I would vote for Dallas Museum of Art - whose former IT director now works for Microsoft in Dallas He sure turned me onto the web, and when I

[MCN-L] DAMS comparisons?

Hi Perian, TASI has a comparison chart of image management systems, and other information that might be relevant. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/ims-software.html William Real Director of Technology Initiatives Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

Pardon me if I put in my two cents here, I think this discussion encourages an already too prevalent culture of firsts in the museum world. The great thing about firsts (and administration and p.r. love them) is we generally learn a whole lot about how not to do things and what we would do better

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

Amalyah: For a list of more than 200 museum and museum-related sites on-line in 1995, see: Taylor, Janet H., and Joe Ryan. 1995. Museums and galleries on the Internet. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 5 (1):80-88 jt At 3:18 PM +0200 12/19/06, amalyah keshet

[MCN-L] publishing URLS: rule of thumb?

It depends on what you are promoting. If you are talking about your website in general, use the main home page. If you are talking about something specific, send people to that specific location (this is where you want to either have human-readable URLs or build in some simple redirects). You

[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?

Hi Holly, True, I'm more interested in finding where the curve starts for museum computer gaming. Asking about firsts always seems to generate interesting discussions. This is part of the background story for my MW session on Second Life. SL often gets represented as the newest, best thing

[MCN-L] publishing URLS: rule of thumb?

From a branding standpoint you should always try to promote your domain name as cleanly as possible. The chances of anyone typing a long url correctly are slim, and ideally as Ari says, it should be memorable so that they don't need the listing to type it out. The ideal situation is to list your

[MCN-L] Systems Analyst position available at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago has a job vacancy for an experienced 4D developer. We use a large 4D application (100 seats) as our collection management system. Please see job posting below. This is a full-time, salaried position, 35 hours/week. Feel free to email me with any preliminary

[MCN-L] FW: RLG DigiNews Special Issue now available: Managing digital assets in US Museums

From: Waibel,G?nter Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:29 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: RLG DigiNews Special Issue now available: Managing digital assets in US Museums I think this is rather apropos considering the recent discussion