[MCN-L] ArtBytes 3 Museum Hackathon: Feb. 6-8
Technologists, innovators, scholars and artists will coalesce into teams on the Sculpture Court of the Walters Art Museum at ArtBytes 3, Friday, February 6-Sunday, February 8, 2015. Participants will collaborate to design and build technologies that enhance the museum experience for visitors and winners will be announced on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Graham Auditorium. Winners will be announced on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Graham Auditorium. Five thousand dollars in prize money will be awarded. We offer access to the information and images about our collection free to the public and are always looking for opportunities to share that data in compelling new ways, said Jim Maza, chief technology officer at the Walters. New this year, the museum will award prizes to projects that serve key audiences in categories including scholars, students and teachers, museum visitors and Internet users. ArtBytes participants can use museum's galleries for inspiration throughout the weekend while museum staff and partners from Wikimedia DC, Cheshire Software Solutions, and Alchemy Learning Project will be on hand to provide support for the projects. Leaders of the technology and innovation communities will judge which teams were most successful. Confirmed judges are Samuel Hoi, president, Maryland Institute College of Art; Jeannie Howe, executive director, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance; David McKibbin, alchemist/programmer /inventor, Firaxis Games; Sheri Parks, associate professor in American Studies at the University of Maryland and regular contributor to WYPR Midday; Murray Taylor, president, Digital Steamworks. Important technologies that are now in regular use at the museum had their start at previous years' ArtBytes events. These include the Application Program Interface, or API, that allows programmers to access data about the museum's collection and the iPhone game, Art Lies. Both were initiated as hackathon projects and then more fully produced in partnership with the Walters. The Abell Foundation has generously donated $5,000 for cash prizes. Registration is available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-bytes-at-the-walters-tickets-9534980383 . Participants can also suggest ideas online and vote on their favorite suggestions. Schedule of Events Friday, February 6, 6-9 p.m., Sculpture Court, kickoff event invites participants to propose programs and applications inspired by art to enhance the museum experience. Beer, wine and cheese will be served. Museum galleries will be open until 9 p.m. Saturday, February 7,10 a.m.-12 a.m., Sculpture Court, participants collaborate to produce their technologies. The museum's galleries will be available for participants to view until 5 p.m. Sunday, February 8, 2-4 p.m., Graham Auditorium, participants will present their creations and judges will announce which teams were most successful. ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] ArtBytes 3 Registration Link
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[MCN-L] PATCH@IUI2015
Apologies for multiple postings! === CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2015) http://patch2015.wordpress.com co-located with ACM IUI 2015, the 20th annual conference on the intelligent interfaces Atlanta, GA, USA March 29 - April 1, 2015 === January 31, 2015: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Follow us on twitter: @PATCH_workshop Spread the news: #patch2015 === PATCH workshop series are the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage research and personalization using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH in order to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience which builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains (museums, archives, libraries, and more), and personalization. This full-day workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Motivation === Cultural heritage (CH) is a privileged area for personalization research because CH sites are rich in objects and information, far more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a single visit. Moreover, the convergence between CH and the Internet has made huge amounts of information about CH readily available in electronic format. Two important challenges to be addressed are thus: - how to provide an engaging experience for the digital, mobile and traditional CH visitor before, during and after a visit, by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web? - can this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences, linked to broader lifelong learning? Not only traditional CH sites, but also cities are excellent test-beds for personalization research: modern urban planning shows an avalanche of diverse initiatives focused on creative urban development. Consequently, it has become fashionable to regard the many forms of cultural expression, like art, festivals, exhibitions, media, design, digital expression and research as signposts for urban individuality and identity and departures for a new urban cultural industry. Personalization also has a role to play in supporting collaboration that enables groups of people to take part in the preservation, enrichment and access to cultural heritage. This is because it can be an enabler for people to be both information consumers and producers, and actively involve them in the management of cultural heritage information. Methodologies and technological utilities for online communities can help them to become actively engaged in the publishing process, contribute their knowledge, and partake in a dynamic creation and conceptualization of the cultural resources will be thus central to the workshop themes. Moreover during the workshop we aim to identify the typical user groups, tasks and roles in order to achieve an adequate personalization for cultural heritage applications. Important aspects to discuss evolve around: - In-door localization, navigation and browsing patterns; - Interaction concepts with personal (mobile or desktop) and group (on-site public or desktop) displays; - Collaboration, communication and sharing aspects in the process of cultural heritage production and consumption. The sense of presence computer-mediated environmentsÕ - Information needs, information access (including visualization for various sources of information, not only textual, but also 2D and 3D objects) and search pattern; - Exploiting data from various sources, i.e., catalogues, Linked Open Data, and usage logs; - Digital storytelling, narratives, smart summaries and recommendation explanations; - Novel ICT and their impact on CH organizations and their longer-term strategies. Finally, we aim at identifying a set of requirements for personalized interaction and interfaces in the cultural heritage domain, and provide practical guidelines for
Re: [MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks
Dear Adrian, Thanks for raising this. In the UK, we tend not to have captured information about specific proportions of collections catalogued, and to what extent. Instead, we have developed a set of Performance Indicators for Collections Management which focus on outputs such as access to and use of collections and availability of expert knowledge in support of them. The Performance Indicators are freely available at http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/collections-skills/collections-management-performance-indicators in case they are useful. It will be really interesting to see how other larger collections respond - in my experience, it tends to be a moving target. At the Collections Trust, we strongly emphasise putting in place appropriate procedures for accession (to stop the problem from getting worse) and then a managed and prioritised plan for retrospective documentation, at least to inventory level. We also find that projects, particularly aggregation projects like Europeana, have a positive effect in driving improvements in the quality of the recorded information, and the application of standards for things like terminology and rights clearance. I look forward to hearing how people respond! All best, Nick Nick Poole Chief Executive Collections Trust Tel: 020 7942 6080 n...@collectionstrust.org.uk LinkedIn Join CT's Collections Management Group Visit Collections Trust online www.collectionstrust.org.uk www.collectionslink.org.uk www.culturegrid.org.uk Company Registration No: 1300565 Registered Charity No: 273984 Registered Office: Collections Trust, WC 209, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD On 21 Jan 2015, at 07:19, Adrian Kingston adri...@tepapa.govt.nz wrote: Hi all. I know there are lots of hooks around what qualifies as cataloguing, what a record is versus an object and even how to measure the size of a collection, but can anyone point be to some recent benchmarks/surveys/comparisons of percentage of collections databased (jeebus I hate that word). Asking for a friend. Well, actually, asking for our Assurance and Risk Committee. Museums Aotearoa include it in their annual survey http://www.museumsaotearoa.org.nz/research#SectorSurvey, but I'm looking for other institutions that are similar to Te Papa in terms of collections size (eg circa 2-3 million items) and/or similar collections scope (we have the full gamut: the national art collections, as well as, natural science, human history, archives, photography etc) Any help would be great! Cheers Adrian Kingston Digital Collections Senior Analyst Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa +++ Visit the Te Papa website http://www.tepapa.govt.nz The email message together with the accompanying attachments may be CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this message in error, please notify http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/onlineforms/enquiryform.aspx immediately and delete the original message. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be views of Te Papa. Te Papa employs strict virus checking measures and accepts no liability for any loss caused either directly or indirectly by a virus arising from the use of this message or any attached file. +++ __ This email has been filtered by SMX. For more information visit http://smxemail.com __ ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks
Hi all. I know there are lots of hooks around what qualifies as cataloguing, what a record is versus an object and even how to measure the size of a collection, but can anyone point be to some recent benchmarks/surveys/comparisons of percentage of collections databased (jeebus I hate that word). Asking for a friend. Well, actually, asking for our Assurance and Risk Committee. Museums Aotearoa include it in their annual survey http://www.museumsaotearoa.org.nz/research#SectorSurvey, but I'm looking for other institutions that are similar to Te Papa in terms of collections size (eg circa 2-3 million items) and/or similar collections scope (we have the full gamut: the national art collections, as well as, natural science, human history, archives, photography etc) Any help would be great! Cheers Adrian Kingston Digital Collections Senior Analyst Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa +++ Visit the Te Papa website http://www.tepapa.govt.nz The email message together with the accompanying attachments may be CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this message in error, please notify http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/onlineforms/enquiryform.aspx immediately and delete the original message. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be views of Te Papa. Te Papa employs strict virus checking measures and accepts no liability for any loss caused either directly or indirectly by a virus arising from the use of this message or any attached file. +++ __ This email has been filtered by SMX. For more information visit http://smxemail.com __ ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] managing incoming donations in a museum
Hi all I am curious to know about the number of donations museums have coming in and how you manage their receipting and assessment. At the Australian War Memorial we are offered (on average) 50,000-60,000 items each year. The majority of these come (unsolicited) from the public and collections can contain 2 items or thousands. I would like to start talking on a regular basis to other organisations on how they manage their donation offers, both physically and in their CMS. Reply in here or email me emma.jo...@awm.gov.au Emma Jones Manager, Collection Donations and Information Management team | Collection Services emma.jo...@awm.gov.aumailto:emma.jo...@awm.gov.au | t 02 62434476 Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au [AWM Logo not displayed in text email] This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, please delete this e-mail from your system and notify the sender immediately. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. E-mail information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, be incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message. ___ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Job Opportunity: Web Manager, The Autry, Los Angeles
The Autry National Center of the American West is seeking a Web Manager to be responsible for developing and maintaining the Autry's public-facing websites as well as a variety of online tools for staff (calendar, staff site, trustee site, project management, e-blasts, etc.). S/he updates content on our main public website under the direction of Communications and Marketing; and updates content on the Intranet as needed. The Web Manager reports to the Director of Information Services and Technology. For details and to apply online, please see: https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=AUTRY Rebecca Menendez Director, Information Services and Technology AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST 4700 Western Heritage Way Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 Direct: 323.495.4201 E-mail: rmenen...@theautry.orgmailto:rmenen...@theautry.org Go West: TheAutry.orghttp://www.theautry.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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
