[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
Hi,
CollectiveAccess also supports various scripts via Unicode, and supports
cataloguing in any number of languages simultaneously. It will display content
in the most appropriate language to end-users and will fall-back to alternative
languages if the desired field content is not available in the user's primary
language. It can also translate date and time formats automatically (Eg. a date
entered in English will automatically appear in German if the end-user's
language is German). An example of a publicly accessible site using the
multilingual cataloguing and presentation tools is
http://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de. Most content on that site is available in
German and English, with a smattering of Chinese and Russian.
Both the CollectiveAccess back-end cataloguing tool ("Providence") and
front-end presentation software ("Pawtucket") support multi-lingual
cataloguing. Both are open-source and freely available under the the GNU Public
License.
(For the record, I'm one of the developers of CollectiveAccess)
Good luck with your project!
seth
On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:42 PM, lenore wrote:
> MIMSY XG from Selago Design not only supports both Latin, Asian, Russian,
> Hebrew, Arabic, etc. but is able to support these and an unlimited number of
> different languages simultaneously throughout its entire data structure. I
> believe it is the only system that does this. Other "multi-lingual" systems
> either support only a single language at a time or a limited number of
> fields in another language. MIMSY XG also provides a set of translation
> tools that make translating basic terms from one language to another
> simple. Selago's web software (Mobius) also supports multiple languages.
>
> www.selagodesign.com
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[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
MIMSY XG from Selago Design not only supports both Latin, Asian, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. but is able to support these and an unlimited number of different languages simultaneously throughout its entire data structure. I believe it is the only system that does this. Other "multi-lingual" systems either support only a single language at a time or a limited number of fields in another language. MIMSY XG also provides a set of translation tools that make translating basic terms from one language to another simple. Selago's web software (Mobius) also supports multiple languages. www.selagodesign.com
[MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums
Hi Dana, Amazon S3, http://aws.amazon.com/s3/, is a perfect tool for setups like this. Quickly, the process involves uploading video files to an S3 bucket (there are a few solid desktop tools for this) and then telling S3 you want to create a "streaming distribution" out of that same bucket. That's basically it. You only pay for the transfer and storage you use (it's cheap). Your videos are served over Amazon's global content delivery network. This is exactly what we are using to drive ArtBabble video. On the backend they are using Adobe's Streaming Media Server which support Flash, H.264, and a whole lot more. - Charlie Charles Moad Director IMA Lab Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN 46208-3326 T 317-923-1331 x258 F 317-931-1978 cmoad at imamuseum.org http://www.imamuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Mitroff Silvers, Dana Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:42 PM To: 'MCN listserve' Subject: [MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums Hi everyone, At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we are looking into licensing an online video platform such as Brightcove to serve all of our video and audio content, and are wondering what other institutions are doing. Is your institution using an online video delivery network? Which one? What do you like and dislike about it? Currently, all of our video and audio content is Flash and is delivered from our site. The primary reason we are looking into moving all of our media to a hosted delivery network such as Brightcove is so that we can upload all our existing media to one place and let the network deliver the appropriate format to any mobile device or platform. We have considered just using YouTube, but because of rights issues with much of our content, some of our content can only appear on our own site. Would love to hear what others are doing in this space! Thanks, Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you. This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact Charlie Moad by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
Hi John and all, Not as a testimonial (I've never used these systems), but... Adlib promises full Unicode support for content in text fields: http://www.adlibsoft.com/products/museum-software CollectionSpace "is built to handle Unicode from the outset": http://www.collectionspace.org/about/faq#when CollectiveAccess "offers support for multi-lingual cataloguing": http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview http://wiki.collectiveaccess.org/index.php?title=WhatsNew Gallery Systems' eMuseum "is fully Unicode compliant" (and I'm sure TMS users can say whether TMS itself is; at least core fields are, I think): http://www.gallerysystems.com/products/emuseum/features/unicode-languages and IDEA foregrounds multi-lingual support in its marketing: http://www.idea-alm.com/ Doubtless there are more! Setting aside localized interface (not needed?), the key thing to seek (as you may know) is Unicode support for contents in all text fields. hope this helps Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 2/3/2011 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote: > Hello everyone > I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have > approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, and > ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer, > English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would > ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a > collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. > Happy Tet > -jg
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
Hi John, I'm sure there are a number of systems that do this, and I would check with those operating out of that side of the planet, including K-Emu and Vernon. I would also check Minisis Inc. (www.minisisinc.com) which I've worked with and know offers very strong support for a huge number of character sets and languages (i.e., doesn't just recognize a character set, but can sort on the language/character set). Chuck On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote: > Hello everyone > I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have > approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, and > ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer, > English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would > ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a > collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. > Happy Tet > -jg > > ___ > 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/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-366-3613
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
I believe, but not absolutely certain, that KeEmu supports Asian and other Character sets On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote: > Hello everyone > I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have > approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, > and > ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer, > English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would > ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a > collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. > Happy Tet > -jg > > ___ > 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] Brooklyn Museum Split-Second project
The Brooklyn Museum has just launched a new project -- check it out, participate online! http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/labs/splitsecond/ This is an experiment to explore how our initial reaction to a work of art is affected by what we know, what we're asked, and what we're told about the object in question. By participating, you're helping determine the content of an installation opening in July 2011. Deb Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
Hello everyone I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, and ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. Khmer, English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. Happy Tet -jg
[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database
I hope EMu has launched their unicode support. At this time last year, it was still in development, but I haven't checked back since then. IDEA (www.idea-alm.com) does offer special characters and multilingual capabilities. It worked great for the Hebrew/Russian/Chinese/Hindi characters that are represented in the Magnes collection. Plus translation, transliteration and synonym indexes. ~Perian On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Chuck Patch wrote: > Hi John, > > I'm sure there are a number of systems that do this, and I would check > with those operating out of that side of the planet, including K-Emu > and Vernon. I would also check Minisis Inc. (www.minisisinc.com) which > I've worked with and know offers very strong support for a huge number > of character sets and languages (i.e., doesn't just recognize a > character set, but can sort on the language/character set). > > Chuck > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Gordy, John wrote: > > Hello everyone > > I have a question on behalf of the National Museum of Cambodia. They have > > approximately 17,000 objects, mostly sculptural including bronze, stone, > and > > ceramics. They need to store collection information in 3 languages. > Khmer, > > English, and French. They have imagery for all the objects and would > > ultimately like to put it online. We are interested if anyone?s found a > > collection engine that supports Latin and Asian Character sets. > > Happy Tet > > -jg >
[MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums
Hi Dana. We're moving to Brightcove soon, but I don't have a report on it yet. You can use Vimeo for things that can only be viewed on your site. They have a function for allowing embedding only in particular places, and not allowing direct viewing even on their site. We use it for that--not so much for the reason you identify but for video content that doesn't stand alone but only makes sense in the context of a web page with other info. I think you have to have a paid account to make this work, but it's cheap. --Matt -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Mitroff Silvers, Dana Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:42 PM To: 'MCN listserve' Subject: [MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums Hi everyone, At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we are looking into licensing an online video platform such as Brightcove to serve all of our video and audio content, and are wondering what other institutions are doing. Is your institution using an online video delivery network? Which one? What do you like and dislike about it? Currently, all of our video and audio content is Flash and is delivered from our site. The primary reason we are looking into moving all of our media to a hosted delivery network such as Brightcove is so that we can upload all our existing media to one place and let the network deliver the appropriate format to any mobile device or platform. We have considered just using YouTube, but because of rights issues with much of our content, some of our content can only appear on our own site. Would love to hear what others are doing in this space! Thanks, Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you.
[MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums
Hi everyone, At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we are looking into licensing an online video platform such as Brightcove to serve all of our video and audio content, and are wondering what other institutions are doing. Is your institution using an online video delivery network? Which one? What do you like and dislike about it? Currently, all of our video and audio content is Flash and is delivered from our site. The primary reason we are looking into moving all of our media to a hosted delivery network such as Brightcove is so that we can upload all our existing media to one place and let the network deliver the appropriate format to any mobile device or platform. We have considered just using YouTube, but because of rights issues with much of our content, some of our content can only appear on our own site. Would love to hear what others are doing in this space! Thanks, Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you.
