[MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?

2010-02-02 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Ryan, I'd recommend joining the code4lib community (http://code4lib.org/) and asking your question on their listserv as well. Ethan On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Hartman ryan.hartman at cartermuseum.org wrote: I'm currently writing a drupal module to get our collection online

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

2009-05-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
/ and the documentation section has a draft of best practices guidelines and the powerpoint presentation I recently gave. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

2009-05-15 Thread Ethan Gruber
and the powerpoint presentation I recently gave. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library ___ 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

[MCN-L] Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word

2009-08-16 Thread Ethan Gruber
Now if only a judge could order Microsoft from distributing Internet Explorer, the world would be a better place! On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il] akeshet at imj.org.il wrote: In case you were dozing off in front of your word processing program, here's

[MCN-L] THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration extended to June 10

2012-06-04 Thread Ethan Gruber
can follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA. Look forward to seeing you there! Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

[MCN-L] Reminder: THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration deadline is TODAY

2012-06-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
Recording 7. Theoretical Approaches Context of Archaeological Computing 8. Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Museums More info: http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/ Follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA or for email inquiries, use thatcampcaana at gmail.com Ethan Gruber American Numismatic

[MCN-L] Announcing THATCamp - Computational Archaeology

2012-04-30 Thread Ethan Gruber
The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeologyhttp://caaconference.org/(CAA) North American chapter http://caa-na.net/ is pleased to announce THATCamp for computational archaeology http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia Library. It will be

[MCN-L] American Numismatic Society Unveils MANTIS: A Major Numismatic Research Tool

2011-04-07 Thread Ethan Gruber
is the work of ANS Web Developer Ethan Gruber, working in close collaboration with ANS Research Scientist Sebastian Heath. Heath explains: ?The new ANS database is now positioned to become a tool for expressing all the links inherent in each individual coin. We can already see this in the powerful mapping

[MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi

2010-01-28 Thread Ethan Gruber
of service that must be agreed to before allowing a connection. Ethan Gruber On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, John Bedard jbedard at artsmia.org wrote: We are about to start installing wi-fi throughout out building and will be providing it free to visitors. I see that a lot of places like coffee

[MCN-L] EAD for artifacts: a new site

2009-09-17 Thread Ethan Gruber
. A VRA Core viewing stylesheet already exists. Since there is no accepted standard for using EAD to describe art objects, I have opted for VRA Core to describe them. -Ethan Gruber

[MCN-L] Djatoka client comments?

2009-09-17 Thread Ethan Gruber
is in the viewer to a downloadable jpg, so that's potentially useful to patrons. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists lists at lancefield.net wrote: Hi all, Any djatoka users out there? We're on the brink of deciding between

[MCN-L] Ask Slashdot: Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase?

2009-09-29 Thread Ethan Gruber
-to-XML or Microsoft Acces-to-MySQL 5 conversions people are doing now. http://www.awn.com/news/events/when-rome-rebuild-city Ethan Gruber On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Amalyah Keshet akeshet at netvision.net.ilwrote: An anonymous reader writes /I am an artist working with 3d software to create

[MCN-L] Cataloging culture/nationality for archaeological and anthropoligical artifacts

2009-06-03 Thread Ethan Gruber
schemas. Databases are too rigid to adequately describe archaeological and artifactual data. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Art Museum On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:09 PM, talita de castro miranda talita_castro at yahoo.com.br wrote: hei, Cheryl do you know Afridoc? See at: http

[MCN-L] Seeking advice on creating a storage inventory database

2009-06-04 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Peter, What information are you interested in recording about the documents and their organization and what is the general level of computer proficiency within your organization? Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Johnson, Peter pjohnson

[MCN-L] (no subject)

2009-07-29 Thread Ethan Gruber
. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Johnson, Peter pjohnson at skirball.orgwrote: Colleagues, Within the next few months, we hope to be able to select photo-management software from one of several vendors we are considering. Three of our major criteria

[MCN-L] Viewing digital architectural drawings

2009-07-31 Thread Ethan Gruber
?title=Main_Page Here's a demo: http://african.lanl.gov/adore-djatoka/ Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Cindy Mackey cmackey at currier.org wrote: We are thinking about putting digital images of architectural drawings that we have in our collection

[MCN-L] Viewing digital architectural drawings

2009-07-31 Thread Ethan Gruber
. Podesta Project Coordinator New England Economic Adventure at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 600 Atlantic Avenue, T-10 Boston, MA 02210 Tel: 617-973-3197Fax: 617-973-3511 Ethan Gruber ewg4xuva at gmail.com Sent by: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu 07/31/2009 02:51 PM Please respond