[MCN-L] Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format
The Vatican Library http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/04/20/news/biblioteca_vaticana -3489668/ plans to digtize 80,000 manuscripts http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/archives.html and store them in the open data format FITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS , originally developed for astronomy and maintained under the IAU http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/iaufwg/ . The result is expected to be 40 million pages and 45 petabytes http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2010/03/8-vatican-m ss-to-be-digitized.html . FITS was chosen because it 'has been used for more than 40 years for the conservation of data concerning spatial missions and, in the past decade, in astrophysics and nuclear medicine. It permits the conservation of images with neither technical nor financial problems in the future, since it is systematically updated by the international scientific community.' via slashdot http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/28/1814221/Vatican-Chooses-Open -FITS-Image-Format --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il/en/ - Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitter http://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi
Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at harvard.edumailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu Harvard Art Museum 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseum.orghttp://www.harvardartmuseum.org
[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi
Originally, the impetus for installing public Wi-Fi here in Oakland was so that presenters in our big theater could access the internet easily for presentations. It was added to the restaurant at the same time as a perk. Carolyn Rissanen Registrar, Natural Sciences Oakland Museum of California 510-238-3885 www.museumca.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Steward, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:25 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at harvard.edumailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu Harvard Art Museum 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseum.orghttp://www.harvardartmuseum.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/
[MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi
Hi, For those of you who offer public wi-fi, do mind sharing how you made it happen? What were the barriers you had to address? Visitors are asking for free wi-fi at SAM but our IT department is holding back because of resource issues, I think it has to do with bandwidth. Christina -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Morgan, Matt Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:41 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi At Brooklyn Museum our philosophical rationale was largely community-based, but our funding rationale was mostly about collections database access for staff in storerooms and galleries--there was sort of a three-pronged approach of * VPN access to network from anywhere in the building * gallery technology like kiosks and handhelds and ... * general public access. Matt -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Steward, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:25 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at harvard.edumailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu Harvard Art Museum 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseum.orghttp://www.harvardartmuseum.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/ ___ 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] Reasons for providing public wi-fi
Here at the Connecticut Science Center, our wireless access points are setup with 3 SSID's. Two are hidden and one is public. We have allocated a certain about of bandwidth just for the public wireless VLAN. ** Check out our EVENTS Calendar here! Follow us on ** Nicole Schulz IT Manager Connecticut Science Center 250 Columbus Blvd. Hartford, CT 06103 860.520-2114 860.727.0850 (fax) nschulz at ctsciencecenter.org www.CTScienceCenter.org? |? (860) SCIENCE? -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Christina DePaolo Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:09 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi Hi, For those of you who offer public wi-fi, do mind sharing how you made it happen? What were the barriers you had to address? Visitors are asking for free wi-fi at SAM but our IT department is holding back because of resource issues, I think it has to do with bandwidth. Christina -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Morgan, Matt Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:41 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi At Brooklyn Museum our philosophical rationale was largely community-based, but our funding rationale was mostly about collections database access for staff in storerooms and galleries--there was sort of a three-pronged approach of * VPN access to network from anywhere in the building * gallery technology like kiosks and handhelds and ... * general public access. Matt -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Steward, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:25 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Reasons for providing public wi-fi Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at harvard.edumailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu Harvard Art Museum 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseum.orghttp://www.harvardartmuseum.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/ ___ 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/ ___ 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] Reasons for providing public wi-fi
We are not quite in the same boat, being a science museum, but I will answer anyway. We installed a wireless network mainly because we have multiple meeting rooms that we rent out to other businesses/organizations and they pretty much demanded it. As our meeting rooms along with our computer lab are scattered all over the facility, we basicly ended up with building wide coverage. I have like 8 access points now. We have this semi-open to the public. It has an encryption key, but it is just the name of the facility and anyone that asks can get it. Up to now, the bandwidth drain of public use has been negligable. We HAVE had issues with the facilities rental groups eating up everything available, especially when they get 15-20 laptops going. I am in the process now of negotiating faster internet, which I hope will cure the issues. Elton Prater Exhibits, IT, Building Mgr Science Spectrum Lubbock, TX On 4/29/2010 11:24 AM, Steward, Jeff wrote: Hello all, For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there something more to it? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Steward Architect for Applications Development 617-495-0785 jeff_steward at harvard.edumailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu Harvard Art Museum 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseum.orghttp://www.harvardartmuseum.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/
[MCN-L] Reminder: Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) Webinar
Reminder: On Tuesday, May 4th, at 11:30 EDT, MCN is conducting its very first Webinar, thanks to Gallery Systems and colleagues at the J. Paul Getty Trust. Please join us for an informative look at the Getty's new vocabulary currently under development, Cultural Objects Name Authority? (CONA). The Museum Computer Network (MCN), Gallery Systems, and the J. Paul Getty Trust are pleased to offer a free Webinar on a new vocabulary under development, the Cultural Objects Name Authority? (CONA). Introducing the Getty?s new Cultural Objects Name Authority? (CONA) Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT The Cultural Objects Name Authority? (CONA) is a new Getty vocabulary currently under development. It is scheduled for introduction to the contributor community in 2011. CONA will join the other three Getty vocabularies, the Art Architecture Thesaurus? (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names? (TGN), and the Union List of Artist Names? (ULAN), as a tool for cataloging and retrieval of art information. CONA will contain titles, current location, and other core information for cultural works. The scope of CONA will include architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, ceramics, textiles, furniture, and archaeological artifacts. Murtha Baca, Head of Digital Art History Access at the Getty Research Institute, and Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program, will present an introduction to CONA and will be available for questions. To register for this free Webinar, please go to: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/307938058
[MCN-L] Deadline Approaching for The Tectonics of Digital Curation Symposium, May 25-26 at MIT
Don't Miss this opportunity to . . . NETWORK with key leaders of the digital preservation community. KEEP CURRENT on digital preservation and access trends and issues. EXPLORE STRATEGIES for building a digital collection on the Web. LISTEN, LEARN, AND BRING BACK information to colleagues. DEVELOP A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING of the challenges of preservation and access. MEET WITH COLLEAGUES who are involved in similar digital curation and preservation efforts. ** THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape MAY 25-26, 2010 The Ray and Maria Stata Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center HOSTED BY the MIT Libraries THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION explores the sustainability of cultural collections created for and maintained on the Web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will examine the forces at play in our increasingly networked society. Join us in the discussion - KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive COPYRIGHT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Peter Hirtle, Cornell University PRESERVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION, Martin Halbert, University of North Texas OPEN ACCESS, Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries VIDEO GAMES AND THE CULTURAL RECORD, Megan Winget, University of Texas at Austin FEDERATED ACCESS, Gregory Jackson, Educause And MORE . . . WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Librarians, archivists, museum professionals, IT professionals, CIOs, administrators, corporate records archives managers, scientists, architects, students, and scholars - anyone interested in creating, managing, or preserving digital resources that are accessed via networked systems COST: $325; students: $275 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, May 14, 2010 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: Visit www.nedcc.org * SAVE A TREE / STAY INFORMED: Join NEDCC's E-Announcement list. You will receive grant opportunity reminders, updates on the Center's educational programs, and other preservation news. To view examples of recent announcements, go to: http://www.nedcc.org/about/newsletter.php. FIND US ON FACEBOOK.
[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 26
The Carlos uses a 1 way connection between TMS and Insight (soon to be Luna Browser). Luna designed a script for us that extracts object data from TMS, and an Emory programmer later modified the script to also pull TMS constituent data for artist information. Rather than extracting images from TMS, our Luna installation pulls the source images directly from our server. The metadata is uploaded from TMS, and then Emory's Insight application manager maps the images from the server to their Insight records using a spreadsheet prepared by the Carlos that lists the TMS Object ID followed by the image filename. New records are added in batches of a few hundred at a time ad hoc. Our Luna collection is currently available only to the Emory University community and is authenticated by Emory's LDAP server, but we plan to make a subset of it available to the general public via the Carlos website in the near future. The purpose of our interface is two fold: to share high quality images and metadata about the Carlos's collection with the students and faculty and, ultimately, to grant the public access to a searchable collections database via the Carlos's website. Our website currently only has static views of our collection. Emory provides budget for Luna license fees, maintenance, and server hardware. Emory has a 1/2 time paid Insight/Luna application administrator, and numerous other IT staff provide as needed assistance on the back end. The Carlos has no staff dedicated to Insight/Luna maintenance. We manage it collaboratively between the Registrar's and Curatorial offices. Unfortunately, I have no reliable way to estimate either how much staff time or money has been invested at this point. Lots of each, but never enough of either. -- Todd Lamkin Registrar Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University From: mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu Reply-To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:00:02 -0400 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: mcn-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 26 Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:26:58 -0400 From: Sandy Moore smo...@toledomuseum.org Subject: [MCN-L] Luna and The Museum System To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Message-ID: 4BD87DF202475B95 at toledomuseum.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII An inquiry: Who out there is utilizing an interface between Luna and The Museum System, what is the purpose of that interface, and what amount of resources (time/staff/money) was put into it to make it happen? As always, thanks! Sandy Moore The Toledo Museum of Art This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).
