[MCN-L] Difficult license provisions

[les...@copyrightlaws.com]

I am writing an article on difficult provisions in a license
agreement.  By that, I mean a term or condition which is either difficult to
comply with, or difficult to negotiate.  Any comments on or off list
would be great.  Thanks.

Lesley

Lesley Ellen Harris
http://copyrightlaws.com

[MCN-L] What to save: Policies for selecting/archiving digital assets

[Deborah Wythe]

I've been thinking all along that digital assets should be treated similarly to 
analog records when it comes to permanent retention. Let them be active for a 
given period of time and then transfer responsibility for them to the museum's 
archivist, who will appraise them and develop retention policies. 
 
Just as we don't necessarily keep all 250 slides of the Museum Ball forever, 
the archivist may decide to select the most representative digital images ... 
or keep them all. The key is going to be getting people to provide decent 
descriptive metadata on the inbound side of the DAMS, so that the archivist has 
something to work with a year or two down the road.
 
It's a case where the DAMS managers, IT, and archives need to work hand in hand 
to hammer out the workflow. But archivists know how to do this, so let them 
lead (can you tell I used to be the Museum archivist?).
 
Deb Wythe
Deborah WytheHead, Digital Collections and ServicesBrooklyn Museum200 Eastern 
ParkwayBrooklyn, NY 11238tel: 718 501 6311fax: 718 501 6145deborahwythe at 
hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:58:01 -0500> From: RealW at 
CarnegieMuseums.Org> To: mcn-l at mcn.edu> Subject: [MCN-L] What to save: 
Policies for selecting/archiving digital assets> > Have any of the institutions 
who have gone down the DAMS road also> succeeded in developing policies for 
deciding which assets to retain?> The discussions we have had here leave our 
heads spinning wondering who> would make these decisions and with what 
criteria. Like everyone else,> we have thousands of images depicting multiple 
views of an event or> gallery, multiple bracketed exposures of conservation 
treatment or> collections documentation, multiple images specific to a 
particular> initiative or campaign long past, alternate crops or edits, and so 
on.> We realized quickly that these decisions would have to be made in many> 
cases by a knowledgeable and broad-minded staff person rather than a> student 
intern or volunteer. But who has the time?> > And then there is the perhaps 
even more complex world of audio and> video. Archive the raw footage, the 
outtakes, the clips, the final> edits, etc.?> > We have a task force that is 
developing a proposal for an> enterprise-wide DAMS and the task force wants to 
include information> about the impact a DAMS would have on process and 
staffing.> > If anyone has been through this and come up with solutions for 
their> institutions, we would very much appreciate it if you could share them> 
with us. It would also be interesting to know whether the permissions> and 
policies that can be set by a DAMS administrator might also enforce> conformity 
to established standards for content selection.> > Will Real> Carnegie Museum 
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[MCN-L] Open Position: Manager of Collections Information Systems (MFA, Boston)

[Jenna Fleming]

This is a terrific job -- if you know someone, feel free to forward! 

Jenna Fleming
Manager, New Media
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

--
Manager of Collections Information Systems (Curatorial - Conservation and 
Collections Management)
http://www.mfa.org/about/sub.asp?key=63&subkey=6161

Reporting to the Head of Collections Management, works to develop software and 
other tools to enhance the functionality of Artemis, the Museum centralized 
collections information management and access database, and provide methods to 
assure museum-wide access to collections and activity information. Act as the 
technical liaison for the division, and perform the technical work required to 
enhance functions between Artemis-related vendors and other cultural 
institutions. Work with technical personnel outside of the department to 
facilitate new Artemis-related projects and support existing projects. Hire, 
train, and supervise the Collections Information Systems Programmer, and the 
Imaging Collection Specialist. In conjunction with the Head of Collections 
Management, develops technological strategies to enrich the functionality and 
usefulness of Artemis, the Museum?s collections information system. Create 
technical design documents and initiate design reviews and code reviews. 
Develop and document middleware programs (plug-ins) to Artemis. Assist in 
installation, troubleshooting, and staff training of plug-in applications. 
Collaborate with I.S. staff on functions such as the installation and 
configuration of the database software, data migrations and upgrades, 
maintenance plans, back up routines, and nightly data transfers. Required to 
work independently, using creative problem-solving techniques and the resources 
available in an effort to continue the development of efficient technical 
procedures for managing the system in its entirety. The successful candidate 
will have experience administering Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and possess 
advanced knowledge of joins, aggregates, stored procedures, and data 
normalization. Also have experience administering TMS (The Museum Systems) 
databases, and developing and deploying desktop applications using VB 6, 
VB.NET, developing Crystal Reports using TMS data tables, Install Shield, VSS, 
and working with web technology including ASP and ASP.NET, Ajax, XML/XSLT, CSS, 
Microsoft IIS.

Class: FT
Hours: 35/week
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
Date Posted: 02/25/2007

[MCN-L] What to save: Policies for selecting/archiving digital assets

[Real, Will]

Have any of the institutions who have gone down the DAMS road also
succeeded in developing policies for deciding which assets to retain?
The discussions we have had here leave our heads spinning wondering who
would make these decisions and with what criteria. Like everyone else,
we have thousands of images depicting multiple views of an event or
gallery, multiple bracketed exposures of conservation treatment or
collections documentation, multiple images specific to a particular
initiative or campaign long past, alternate crops or edits, and so on.
We realized quickly that these decisions would have to be made in many
cases by a knowledgeable and broad-minded staff person rather than a
student intern or volunteer. But who has the time?

And then there is the perhaps even more complex world of audio and
video. Archive the raw footage, the outtakes, the clips, the final
edits, etc.?

We have a task force that is developing a proposal for an
enterprise-wide DAMS and the task force wants to include information
about the impact a DAMS would have on process and staffing.

If anyone has been through this and come up with solutions for their
institutions, we would very much appreciate it if you could share them
with us. It would also be interesting to know whether the permissions
and policies that can be set by a DAMS administrator might also enforce
conformity to established standards for content selection.

Will Real
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

[MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object

[Adele HOARAU]

Hello all,
I work in a new project of cultural museum. I'm in charge of the database.
I was wondering if we had to take high resolution images of all the 
objects of our collection or only select some of them that are really 
important and let the others in low resolution, in order to create a 
searchable database. It's rather a question of use of the database : does 
it have to render an image that would be as faithful as possible (in case 
the object disappear ?) or is the image rather a supplementary indication, 
next to other metadata.
For the moment we don't have many objects, and we should not have many 
because our people's story is recent.
Many thanks,
Ad?le Geoffroy
Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unit? R?unionnaise

[MCN-L] Intranets in Museum to improve staff communication

[Sweeting III, Floyd]

Here at the Frick Collection I have just upgraded our Intranet using
WordPress. It was quick and easy and is easy to maintain.

It is a great place to link internal stuff: useful documents relating to
HR benefits (403 B plan, health insurance forms,. etc.)  Calendars,
Organizational charts, employee database, telephone lists, IT Help Desk
and network info and technical help files on a variety of topics - like
metadata standards, image file name standards, etc., Emergency
information: security office phone numbers, emergency procedures
flipbook, bombthreat info sheet, AED videos, etc.

The homepage is used for announcements and links to frequently used
resources.



Floyd Sweeting III  Head, Information Systems Department
THE FRICK COLLECTION 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-547-6889  Fax: 212-879-2091 www.frick.org



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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:21 PM
To: mcn LISTSERV
Subject: [MCN-L] Intranets in Museum to improve staff communication


We are discussing implementing an Intranet to improve staff
communication.  I would be interested to finding out what other museums
have done along this line and how they feel they have improved staff
communication.
 
 
 
John R. Bedard
Director of Information Projects and Services
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-870-3268
Fax: 612-870-3004
Email: JBedard at artsmia.org 
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[MCN-L] MCN 2008 - The Tech Savvy Board

[Richard Urban]

More pot stirring...

During the reception at MCN 2007 I had a conversation with someone  
(who's card is somewhere in that stack on the dresser) about the  
involvement of board members in setting technology priorities. 
Playing off Nik's excellent session that brought directors and IT  
professionals together, we thought it might be interesting to get the  
perspective of board members and their role in setting the course for  
museum technology.

We didn't flesh it out more than that, so I thought I'd throw it out  
there to see what others thought.  What might a board-oriented panel  
might look like?

Richard
rjurban at uiuc.edu

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: February 2008

[Diane M. Zorich]

Monthly roundup of IP news from Jen Green

>Thread-Topic: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: February 2008
>Thread-Index: Ach8nWPUUAaz2TlHRAyPFKaDHQMfqA==
>Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:41:22 -0500
>Reply-To: Visual Resources Association 
>Sender:   Visual Resources Association 
>From: Jen Green 
>Subject: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: February 2008
>To:   VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>List-Help: ,
>
>List-Unsubscribe: 
>List-Subscribe: 
>List-Owner: 
>List-Archive: 
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>
>IPR-In the News?
>Compiled by Jen Green, New Hampshire Institute of Art
>-
>
>
>European Court Issues New File Sharing Directives
>by Tim Smalley, bit-tech.net, January 31, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/246bh3>
>
>The European Court of Justice decided earlier this week that EU law does not
>force the disclosure of file sharer's details in copyright infringement cases.
>In the ruling, the court was essentially asked to balance the consumer's right
>to privacy against the industry's right to protect its intellectual property.
>The court sided with the Internet user - something that could be seen as a
>massive victory for the file sharing community in Europe.
>-
>
>Blog: Deeplinks:  Savage v. CAIR: Another Year, 
>Another Attempt to Misuse Copyright Law to 
>Silence a Critic
>by Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 31, 2008
><http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/another-year-another-attempt-misuse-copyright-law-silence-critic>
>
>"EFF, along with their co-counsel, filed a 
>motion for judgment on the pleadings asking a 
>U.S. District Court judge to throw out a 
>copyright infringement suit brought by talk show 
>host Michael Savage against the Council on 
>American-Islamic Relations.  Savage sued CAIR in 
>December, alleging that CAIR infringed the 
>copyright in his show when it posted on its web 
>site brief excerpts from Savage's radio program 
>in order to criticize Savage's remarks. Savage 
>also added a federal racketeering claim stemming 
>from that alleged copyright infringement."
>
>-
>
>Blog: Deeplinks: Senate Votes on Surveillance Law This Week
>posted by Tim Jones, Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 4, 2008
><http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/senate-votes-surveillance-law-week>
>
>This week, Senators finally cast their votes on 
>amendments to the Foreign Intelligence 
>Surveillance Act (FISA). This is a critical week 
>for the privacy and civil liberties of all 
>Americans -- the amendments are the last chance 
>the Senate has to prevent handing the 
>Administration a blank check to spy on you for 
>years to come.
>
>-
>
>Blog: Enterprise Insights: Technical Protection 
>Measures (TPMs) and Educational Use of the 
>Internet
>by Russell McOrmond, IT World Canada, February 4, 2008
><http://tinyurl.com/2cy5da>
>
>"One of the most common themes you will see in the copyright debate is
>different people using the same terminology to mean entirely different things,
>and never really noticing that they aren't talking about the same thing as
>they argue. It is coming up on 7 years that I've dedicated to trying to make
>sense of this, which is why I'm writing so much about copyrightWhile I
>have hinted at language problems around the term "technical protection
>measures" or TPMs, I will talk about this confusion in the context of a debate
>you may be less familiar with: Educational use of the Internet."
>-
>
>Blog: The Crime of Selling Abandoned Copies
>by William Patry, The Patry Copyright Blog: February 7, 2008
><http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/02/crime-of-selling-abandoned-copies.html>

[MCN-L] MCN 2008 - Calendar Panel

[Richard Urban]

Hi all,

I'm not sure what my availability is going to be this fall, but I  
thought I'd try to help facilitate a few panels at the early stages.

I had a number of different replies both on and off list about  
requirements for calendar systems from our conversation last month.

Is there interest in a panel on different calendaring systems?And  
if so, would you like to talk about your process for selecting and  
implementing a calendaring system at your museum?  How about  
integration with ticketing and other systems?How do you share  
calendar information with local, regional, state tourism bureaus or  
other marketing venues?

Cheers,

Richard Urban
rjurban at uiuc.edu

[MCN-L] Intranets in Museum to improve staff communication

[John Bedard]

We are discussing implementing an Intranet to improve staff communication.  I 
would be interested to finding out what other museums have done along this line 
and how they feel they have improved staff communication.
 
 
 
John R. Bedard
Director of Information Projects and Services
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-870-3268
Fax: 612-870-3004
Email: JBedard at artsmia.org 
www.artsmia.org 
www.artsconnected.org

[MCN-L] Student research on museum education topics

[Christine Castle]

March 5, 2008

Do you know a student working on museum education-related research?

To celebrate March Break, MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly
e-newsletter, is compiling a list of museum education/interpretation
research projects currently being undertaken by students at any level of
higher education. This could include research being done for a major
paper, an honours-level thesis, masters thesis, dissertation,
internship, etc. 

Of course, we also continue to welcome research listings by museum
workers, faculty, and others in related fields.  

If you wish to share your research or evaluation with colleagues around
the world, please send an e-mail to mem at mccastle.com that includes:
- name of project
- research/evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words/labels to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please.
For possible labels from past listings, sign in to the MEM blog, "FORUM:
Research and Resources in Museum Education" at www.mccastle.com ] 

All listings are free of charge and displayed in their language of
origin. Deadline for the MEM March issue is Friday March 14, 2008

FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, February 2008:

- Evaluation of the Museum Experience with an Emphasis on the Exhibit:
Women, Power, and Politics (USA)
- Institutional challenges in implementing new approaches to programming
(Canada)

And updates on:
- ArtsConnectEd II (USA)
- Canadians and their Pasts (Canada) 
- Visitor Study in "What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the
Collection" - Museum of Modern Art, NYC (USA)
- Museum of London Inclusion Program Evaluation (UK) - Downloadable PDF 

A complimentary copy of this Museum Education Monitor, February 2008, or
a guest research pass to the MEM Archives to review back issues are both
available upon request to mem at mccastle.com .  

Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss
your research. I look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor 
mem at mccastle.com 
For more information about Museum Education Monitor or to subscribe see
http://www.mccastle.com  

(Please excuse cross-postings. I try to extend the call as widely as
possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
patience is appreciated. CC.}

[MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object

[Ari Davidow]

You don't =have= to do anything (and shouldn't do anything that doesn't meet
your needs) in specific. The sine qua non is probably that you want to
ensure that you are presenting images that your audience can see on the web;
there is a lot of discussion about whether or not you should gather higher
resolution images at the same time as yo are doing web-utile versions (I
believe yes, but there are reasons to argue otherwise). But how you provide
access, and to what you provide access, is entirely dependent on your means
and your actual audience needs.

ari

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Adele HOARAU 
wrote:

> Hello all,
> I work in a new project of cultural museum. I'm in charge of the database.
> I was wondering if we had to take high resolution images of all the
> objects of our collection or only select some of them that are really
> important and let the others in low resolution, in order to create a
> searchable database. It's rather a question of use of the database : does
> it have to render an image that would be as faithful as possible (in case
> the object disappear ?) or is the image rather a supplementary indication,
> next to other metadata.
> For the moment we don't have many objects, and we should not have many
> because our people's story is recent.
> Many thanks,
> Ad?le Geoffroy
> Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unit? R?unionnaise
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[MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object

[jessica bushey]

Greetings,

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia is undergoing 
an enormous digitization process of their 35,000 ethnographic objects for the 
purpose of research images. If you would like to take a look at how these 
images might be used for detail research please view our microsite at 
 

Regards,
Jessica Bushey
Digital Imaging Head
UBC Museum of Anthropology
Vancouver, BC



-Original Message-

> Date: Wed Mar 05 08:07:26 PST 2008
> From: "Perian Sully" 
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object
> To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" 
>
> I agree with Ari. As an image which will only be used as a visual guide to 
> the object, you don't need to make a really great photograph. But if you're 
> planning on sharing images with researchers or putting them on the web, it 
> may be more time/cost effective to photograph them at high enough resolutions 
> that they can be read and studied in detail, instead of using the real 
> objects. 
> 
> Many of our objects at the Magnes aren't terribly valuable or pretty, but 
> everything is photographed fairly high enough resolution. Since we are 
> constantly sending out images with lots of text to researchers, this has 
> proved invaluable, since the researchers need to be able to read the works. 
> But that's just us.
> 
> Perian Sully
> Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
> Judah L. Magnes Museum
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Ari Davidow
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:55 AM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object
> 
> You don't =have= to do anything (and shouldn't do anything that doesn't meet
> your needs) in specific. The sine qua non is probably that you want to
> ensure that you are presenting images that your audience can see on the web;
> there is a lot of discussion about whether or not you should gather higher
> resolution images at the same time as yo are doing web-utile versions (I
> believe yes, but there are reasons to argue otherwise). But how you provide
> access, and to what you provide access, is entirely dependent on your means
> and your actual audience needs.
> 
> ari
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Adele HOARAU 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > I work in a new project of cultural museum. I'm in charge of the database.
> > I was wondering if we had to take high resolution images of all the
> > objects of our collection or only select some of them that are really
> > important and let the others in low resolution, in order to create a
> > searchable database. It's rather a question of use of the database : does
> > it have to render an image that would be as faithful as possible (in case
> > the object disappear ?) or is the image rather a supplementary indication,
> > next to other metadata.
> > For the moment we don't have many objects, and we should not have many
> > because our people's story is recent.
> > Many thanks,
> > Ad?le Geoffroy
> > Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unit? R?unionnaise
> > ___
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[MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object

[Perian Sully]

I agree with Ari. As an image which will only be used as a visual guide to the 
object, you don't need to make a really great photograph. But if you're 
planning on sharing images with researchers or putting them on the web, it may 
be more time/cost effective to photograph them at high enough resolutions that 
they can be read and studied in detail, instead of using the real objects. 

Many of our objects at the Magnes aren't terribly valuable or pretty, but 
everything is photographed fairly high enough resolution. Since we are 
constantly sending out images with lots of text to researchers, this has proved 
invaluable, since the researchers need to be able to read the works. But that's 
just us.

Perian Sully
Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
Judah L. Magnes Museum

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari 
Davidow
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:55 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Image of Collection Object

You don't =have= to do anything (and shouldn't do anything that doesn't meet
your needs) in specific. The sine qua non is probably that you want to
ensure that you are presenting images that your audience can see on the web;
there is a lot of discussion about whether or not you should gather higher
resolution images at the same time as yo are doing web-utile versions (I
believe yes, but there are reasons to argue otherwise). But how you provide
access, and to what you provide access, is entirely dependent on your means
and your actual audience needs.

ari

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Adele HOARAU 
wrote:

> Hello all,
> I work in a new project of cultural museum. I'm in charge of the database.
> I was wondering if we had to take high resolution images of all the
> objects of our collection or only select some of them that are really
> important and let the others in low resolution, in order to create a
> searchable database. It's rather a question of use of the database : does
> it have to render an image that would be as faithful as possible (in case
> the object disappear ?) or is the image rather a supplementary indication,
> next to other metadata.
> For the moment we don't have many objects, and we should not have many
> because our people's story is recent.
> Many thanks,
> Ad?le Geoffroy
> Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unit? R?unionnaise
> ___
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