Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

[Susan Edwards]

We use Bright Sign https://www.brightsign.biz/
It hits most/all of your requirements. We use the BrightAuthor CMS. Ease of
use is subjective of course. It can be a little challenging to schedule
multiple files to the screens.  We manage 5 screens and are pushing video
regularly.

s

Susan Edwards
Associate Director, Digital Content

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 209-7921
www.hammer.ucla.edu

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Shane Richey <
shane.ric...@crystalbridges.org> wrote:

> We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that
> we use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been
> using SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but
> we’re getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age.
> Breaking down, crashing, shutting down unexpectedly. We would like to
> replace the hardware and the content management system that we use and was
> wondering if anybody had any systems that they’ve had good luck with. The
> functions that we are looking for are:
>  - ability to schedule content and power on/off screens
>  - central CMS that can control multiple screens
>  - easy to use (the SMP-WEBDUO is a bit complicated and cumbersome to
> update/change settings)
>  - we’re fine with browser based systems, but would like them to be modern
> browsers (anything requiring IE6 gets struck from the list, and probably
> ridiculed)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane Richey
>
> Digital Media Manager
>
> Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
>
> 600 Museum Way
> Bentonville, AR 72712
>
> 479-418-5735 (direct)
> 479-409-0275 (cell)
> 479-418-5700 (main)
> CrystalBridges.org
>
>
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Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

[Desi Gonzalez]

My museum uses Industry Weapon. http://industryweapon.com/

I'm new here, but so far so good. Seems like there's a lot we can do with
it. It meets all of your requirements; the CMS could always be better
designed, but it works.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Hegley  wrote:

> We've had decent luck with Xibo, an open source solution.
> http://xibo.org.uk/
> Although we've been hesitant to push its boundaries in terms of video, it
> works great with all kinds of other file types and managing multiple
> screens.
> Would be great to have some colleagues using it too, then we could trade
> tips and tricks, etc.
> It's not the only option out there, of course.
> http://www.concerto-signage.org/why-concerto
>
> http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/News/Marketing/5-open-source-digital-signs-for-small-businesses.html
> All the best,
> Douglas
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Shane Richey <
> shane.ric...@crystalbridges.org> wrote:
>
> > We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that
> > we use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been
> > using SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but
> > we’re getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age.
> > Breaking down, crashing, shutting down unexpectedly. We would like to
> > replace the hardware and the content management system that we use and
> was
> > wondering if anybody had any systems that they’ve had good luck with. The
> > functions that we are looking for are:
> >  - ability to schedule content and power on/off screens
> >  - central CMS that can control multiple screens
> >  - easy to use (the SMP-WEBDUO is a bit complicated and cumbersome to
> > update/change settings)
> >  - we’re fine with browser based systems, but would like them to be
> modern
> > browsers (anything requiring IE6 gets struck from the list, and probably
> > ridiculed)
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Shane Richey
> >
> > Digital Media Manager
> >
> > Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
> >
> > 600 Museum Way
> > Bentonville, AR 72712
> >
> > 479-418-5735 (direct)
> > 479-409-0275 (cell)
> > 479-418-5700 (main)
> > CrystalBridges.org
> >
> >
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> Minneapolis Institute of Art
> 2400 Third Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55404
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[MCN-L] Present at DPLAfest 2016, April 14-15 in Washington, DC

[Mark A. Matienzo]

The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/) is currently seeking
session proposals for DPLAfest 2016
, taking place on
April 14-15, 2016 in Washington, DC.

DPLAfest is an annual series of workshops, presentations, and discussions
bringing together librarians, archivists, and museum professionals,
developers and technologists, publishers and authors, educators, and many
others to celebrate DPLA and our community of creative professionals.
DPLAfest will appeal to those working/interested in the cultural heritage
sector, as we'll be discussing everything from technology and development,
to content, law, and education (and a lot more).

The hosts for DPLAfest 2016 are the Library of Congress, the National
Archives and Records Administration, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Review proposal requirements and submit a session
.* The
deadline to submit a session proposal is Friday, January 22, 2016.*

To review topics and themes from previous DPLAfests, check out the agendas
from 2015  and 2013
.

For more information about this year’s DPLAfest, visit the DPLAfest 2016
homepage . Hope to see
many of you in April! If you have questions, don't hesitate to email
i...@dp.la.


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Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

[Douglas Hegley]

We've had decent luck with Xibo, an open source solution.
http://xibo.org.uk/
Although we've been hesitant to push its boundaries in terms of video, it
works great with all kinds of other file types and managing multiple
screens.
Would be great to have some colleagues using it too, then we could trade
tips and tricks, etc.
It's not the only option out there, of course.
http://www.concerto-signage.org/why-concerto
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/News/Marketing/5-open-source-digital-signs-for-small-businesses.html
All the best,
Douglas




On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Shane Richey <
shane.ric...@crystalbridges.org> wrote:

> We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that
> we use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been
> using SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but
> we’re getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age.
> Breaking down, crashing, shutting down unexpectedly. We would like to
> replace the hardware and the content management system that we use and was
> wondering if anybody had any systems that they’ve had good luck with. The
> functions that we are looking for are:
>  - ability to schedule content and power on/off screens
>  - central CMS that can control multiple screens
>  - easy to use (the SMP-WEBDUO is a bit complicated and cumbersome to
> update/change settings)
>  - we’re fine with browser based systems, but would like them to be modern
> browsers (anything requiring IE6 gets struck from the list, and probably
> ridiculed)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane Richey
>
> Digital Media Manager
>
> Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
>
> 600 Museum Way
> Bentonville, AR 72712
>
> 479-418-5735 (direct)
> 479-409-0275 (cell)
> 479-418-5700 (main)
> CrystalBridges.org
>
>
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Minneapolis, MN 55404
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[MCN-L] Digital Signage options

[Shane Richey]

We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that we 
use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been using 
SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but we’re 
getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age. Breaking 
down, crashing, shutting down unexpectedly. We would like to replace the 
hardware and the content management system that we use and was wondering if 
anybody had any systems that they’ve had good luck with. The functions that we 
are looking for are:
 - ability to schedule content and power on/off screens
 - central CMS that can control multiple screens
 - easy to use (the SMP-WEBDUO is a bit complicated and cumbersome to 
update/change settings)
 - we’re fine with browser based systems, but would like them to be modern 
browsers (anything requiring IE6 gets struck from the list, and probably 
ridiculed)


Thanks

Shane Richey

Digital Media Manager

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR 72712

479-418-5735 (direct)
479-409-0275 (cell)
479-418-5700 (main)
CrystalBridges.org

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Re: [MCN-L] "easy" file duplication cleanup

[Josh McDonald]

As Matt implies above, this isn't too difficult with standard *nix
utilities if the files are actually duplicates.

I use a tip from Jim McNamara to do this in single directories; compare
checksums and dump dupes into a file for review, then delete known
duplicates:

cksum  *.jpg | sort -n > filelist

#you can use md5 instead of cksum
#now review the contents of filelist and make sure it's getting rid of the
right stuff, then

old=""
while read sum lines filename
do
  if [[ "$sum" != "$old" ]] ; then
old="$sum"
continue
  fi
  rm -f "$filename"

done < filelist

Combined with "find -exec" you shouldn't be far from a workable shell
script that can iterate through multiple directories. Careful with
wildcards when you're working out the exact syntax for the find.

-Josh


On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Matt Morgan 
wrote:

> You could do this with a shell script. One way: write a `find -exec ...`
> that runs through all the files, outputting the md5sums in some usable way.
> Sort the list and look for multiples (double-checking with diff on matches,
> if you're worried), and replace duplicates with symlinks if/where you need
> them, chmodding as necessary. But if multiple versions of the same file
> have different perms, that's a problem in the first place, most likely.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On 12/07/2015 06:32 PM, Perian Sully wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I know this is possibly something of a fool's errand, but I'm hoping
>> someone has come up with some magic tool or process for more-easily
>> cleaning up file storage than going through 12 years of files one-by-one.
>>
>> As part of our DAMS project, I've run some TreeSize Pro scans on three of
>> the 20-25 or so network storage directories. Just in those three, there
>> are
>> approximately 66,467 duplicate files. We initially thought about creating
>> hardlinks for the duplicates, which will at least help the server access
>> files more efficiently, but it won't solve the problem of actually having
>> files all over the place that the DAMS will ultimately ingest.
>>
>> Another thought was to do symlinks, but as far as I know, there aren't
>> easy
>> tools to automagically create these for Windows desktops or servers. Plus,
>> it might create havoc for all of the file permissions.
>>
>> So does anyone have any other ideas that I might try? Or are we really
>> just
>> stuck with all of this junk until someone manually goes in and cleans it
>> up?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~Perian
>>
>>
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