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On Fri, May 7, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Eric Longo wrote:
> Dear MCN-L subscribers
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> *On June 1, 2021, the MCN-L listserv will be retired and replaced with
> Groups.io.*
> What does this mean?
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> After June 1, 2021:
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If you haven't tried it, there are several in the MCN-L archives:
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=digital+content+manager&l=mcn-l%40mcn.edu
unfortunately, many postings are links to pages that probably don't
exist, but at least a few job descriptions were sent into the list.
Best,
Matt
If you're saying that you're setting up a system where images you don't want to
be public are on a public server, you can be sure they will get out sooner or
later. Probably more or less immediately, especially if you're not black belts
in robots.txt fu. What is this system?
This is a tough one for a couple reasons:
1) Most browsers right now aren't very willing to play that old Flash
app, for security reasons. I can't see it. I think this is probably
happening to a lot of us.
2) You can spend more or less any amount of money on an online
exhibition component.
r for embeds and
sharing, plus the pro accounts give you control over all the little things
(junk promoted at the end etc).
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, at 8:25 AM, Bryan Kennedy wrote:
> Don't mean to take this thread in a new direction, but cielo24 is
, if they're serious. But what they're really saying
is "we want to control what software you use to make our jobs minimally
easier." What they could be saying is "IT is about empowering the staff
with tech, even when it's hard."
Matt Morgan
CTO
Curtis Insti
What is the value of doing this on the server side? I.e. what kiosky
thing would WP actually be doing here?
It's been a long time but many of us have done kiosks on the client side
with browser plugins--wrapping whatever web content from whatever CMS in
a controlled interface. Maybe it's that
Oh, you're asking about international. Sorry about that.
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On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:
> Paul Klee's works are in the public domain owing to the death+70 rule.
> See this earlier post to MCN-L celebrati
Paul Klee's works are in the public domain owing to the death+70 rule. See this
earlier post to MCN-L celebrating that glorious release:
https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/msg04126.html
Best,
Matt
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On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 10:
We had the Google Translate widget on the Met's site, in just the visit
section, for a while during my time there, and then we added it to a
part of NYPL's site but I never managed to get it added to the whole
site and actually lost my job there because I wouldn't shut up about it.
True story!
Welcome!
The staff ratios topic has come up before, for sure. The list has a
searchable archives (link in the footer); I tried and it was a little
hard to narrow it down to that topic (it's hard to avoid job postings)
but search phrases like "staff survey" and "digital budget" get me some
rel
ply. Of course, protecting visitor privacy is potentially an
opportunity to distinguish your org, so this isn't the only reason to do it.
Thanks,
Matt
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On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Sayre, Scott A wrote:
> Nik-
> I unfortunately think that i
Scott, I've used usertesting.com a bunch of times, although not for a
year or so. As long as you're doing a good test it works well, so it's
often still good to have an expert on your side, i.e. I found them more
useful for the logistics than for the strategy or design.
Best,
Matt
On 01/31/20
Like SFMOMA, I've used Brightcove before, but I think the reasons to do
so are getting really skinny ... it's super expensive and only does a
bit more than a $20/month Vimeo Pro account (as far as I know).
Keir, do you think if you made the decision today, you would go with
Brightcove? Why?
Perian, for examples you might look at software like anti-virus,
unzipping & PDF-making utilities, etc., which often have "free for
personal use" licensing models.
My experience has been that policing is unnecessary; anybody who might
pay is inclined to pay, because it's easiest. Imagine you'r
It's a problem, yes!
Whoever makes your printed posters can probably tell you how frequently
your exh. images need permission/input before cropping. In my
experience, on top of the literal rights issues, you also have the
personality issues. E.g., when an important person (artist, curator,
do
For this question, are you talking about on the visitor's own devices?
Others may have data on this, where I just have opinions/experience, but
a) getting most people to use anything takes effort
b) getting anyone to install and use an app takes a LOT of effort.
If you're talking about the loan
Here's something built in almost exactly the way Sina describes:
http://bealearninghero.org/learning-tools/
Though I have to say, using an eCommerce platform for this is pretty
clever, and it might have "you may also like" features that work out of
the box, etc. On the other hand it may have l
Tim, I've worked with Cogapp at the Met in a very successful project;
and with Blue State Digital (specifically with UX Director Wiley Bowen),
who were also fantastic, at Tisch School of the Arts.
Best,
Matt
On 08/06/2016 08:00 AM, mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu wrote:
Send mcn-l mailing list submissi
I don't know if redundancy in spam filtering is typical, since getting
too much spam doesn't prevent people from continuing to work (so
temporary failures are OK). There's often sort of an informal
redundancy, since many mail clients have filtering themselves (though
they take training, so if y
le, people have no
>interest. I typically use scripting as well for running checksums but
>this isn’t an option for others. I know there are several
>checksum/hashsum apps out there and I was hoping to get some advice on
>which folks are using and find useful.
>
>
>> On May 14, 2016
This question gave me deja vu! Here's what I said 11 years ago in reply
to a related question:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/msg08999.html
I don't know if perl would be the right language, or is mdb is the right
way to keep the results, but this job is so easy to do with simple
sc
How does the shelf-life work? What is the advantage?
Thanks,
Matt
On 04/16/2016 07:50 AM, Frank Sträter wrote:
Hi,
At the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (national audiovisual archive) we
recently started experimenting with Atavist. As our main website lacked certain
features for
Interesting/frustrating story from Sweden.
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-illegal-map-of-swedish-art.html
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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
This has been a popular conversation on the list for many years, so have
a look at the archives for a lot of stuff to dig up:
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=kiosk&l=mcn-l%40mcn.edu
I don't know if this is stuff you already do/know about, but I would say
the basics at least used to be
1
This is genius.
On 10/16/2015 09:42 AM, Andrew Lewis wrote:
Dear MCN peeps,
Ahead of my session at this year's MCN conference "Designing Evidence: Planning the Data
You Track to Capture Specific Behaviour", here's the latest Digital Media post from the
V&A blog, which outlines one of the ways
For many years MCN-L's online archive was only spottily indexed by
search engines and so wasn't super-usable. Starting last fall I began to
fix that, and Rob Lancefield joined me a few months ago to make the new,
fully-searchable archive as complete as it can be (Rob had obsessively
saved older
Amazing! Congrats to all.
On 05/11/2015 02:43 AM, Amalyah Keshet wrote:
Today is the 50th birthday of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
http://www.imj.org.il/
Thought I’d take this opportunity to share congratulations with colleagues from
LACMA I’ve met
through MCN over the years: it’s their b
I'm thread hijacking but for a good cause!
This may be a good time to note that our new MCN-L searchable archive
seems to be running. I haven't really tested it yet. But anyway, wifi
and public wifi policies come up now and again on MCN-L, and now we have
a reliable way to look up what others
On 10/31/2014 09:45 PM, Matt Morgan wrote:
Greetings, everyone. Just an FYI that I've begun the process I
described in
http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/2014-September/007591.html
and that will lead to a more comprehensively searchable archive of
MCN-L. For the moment (depending on when y
Greetings, everyone. Just an FYI that I've begun the process I described in
http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/2014-September/007591.html
and that will lead to a more comprehensively searchable archive of
MCN-L. For the moment (depending on when you're looking, of course),
very few messages are pr
Hi everyone. I've been working with Liz Neely, Vicki Portway, and Eric
Longo on a change to MCN-L that would result in
* a more searchable (i.e., comprehensively-indexed) archive of messages
* an easy way to generate RSS feeds of new messages.
The proposal is that we'd add MCN-L, and any archive
The Met, at least as of 2012, had never had a barrier. It was a subject
of occasional discussion, but I think they're not likely to implement
one for the reasons Nik voiced (i.e., wifi agreement pages break your
apps, for most users; they also break every other app on most phones,
since apps wi
Nik, the wifi doesn't add to this problem, right? I don't need your wifi
to surf inappropriate sites in your public space.
On 12/11/2013 01:36 PM, Nik Honeysett wrote:
> Ours was rooted in legal, indemnifying the institution, we had a situation to
> do with surfing inappropriate sites in a publi
Amalyah Keshet wrote:
Mike:
What application are you using to generate
derivatives "on the fly"? Can you tell us more about this?
Amalyah Keshet
One approach is to script ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/), a
free image conversion/resizing/manipulation tool. Act
There's probably no perfect way to store images on a filesystem, so
maybe it should just come down to personal preference. Unless you need
specific security settings--for example, so some people can see/edit
some files but not others. In that case, you might want to build the
arrangement to mir
Perian Sully wrote:
Hi all:
We're ramping up to purchase a
server and several workstations for our new Collections database and we
have pro and con arguments for either Linux or Windows servers.
Currently, we're leaning heavily
toward purchasing KE EMu for our database s
Matt Morgan wrote:
Richard Urban wrote:
Matt,
Generally compression isn't recommended for a few reasons. While Zip and
LZW are fairly reliable compression algorithms, they add another layer of
complexity to the file.
Understood--thanks to you and to Tim Au
Tim Au Yeung wrote:
Hi Matt,
So now we can begin compressing our TIFFs? The main reason I ask is that I
have heard a lot of really
bad arguments against compression in the past, and a lot of non-argument
(for example: "it's just not
done").
mpression algorithms that are well-tested and more open
than ZIP has been in the past. So it just seems like this is a minor
issue compared to the complexity problem.
Thanks,
Matt
Richard Urban
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
rjur...@
Tim Au Yeung wrote:
Couple of thoughts here:
I read through the UPDIG recommendations and found it really interesting
and helpful. I thought their recommendation for RAW format was
relatively unconvincing, though. Almost like they were saying "we want
to recommend RAW format, b
Newman, Alan wrote:
>Curious coincidence. I just distributed this link today to my staff and I was
>preparing a post to MCN-L. We've adopted most of these guidelines in my
>division at the National Gallery.
>
>
I'm curious to know which recommendations you haven't adopted ... let us
know!
I
This looks like a great place to plug "social tagging," (an approach to
"folksonomy," i.e., using popular terminology for subject
categorization) like what STEVE (http://steve.museum) promises.
Folksonomies are a way to address the reality that Museum and Library
professionals often use subject
Thanks, Janice. I really enjoyed that meeting. Your questions make
excellent subject headings, so I just filled in some responses below!
Janice wrote:
I would like to hear more
on the storage issues discussion;
big issues for everyone as the growing demands of digital images
On 07/03/2005 10:55 AM, Real, Will wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>We are about to implement a new strategy for archiving our digital image
>masters. One copy of each file will be maintained on a live RAID server and
>another on an off-line hard drive stored off-site. The access to the on-line
>masters
Bill, we have done this. I recommend:
1) run the public side on completely separate segment of your firewall.
We also use the same segment for some in-gallery kiosks and other public
stations (learning center, library catalog, etc.--some of these are
wired, some wireless), and for staff access to
On 06/09/2005 01:29 PM, Peter Rooney wrote:
> Could I make a suggestion? I'm on the MCN-L mail list, and some of the
> traffic is useful to me (but "Electronic signs" is not,). I'd
> appreciate if people would attach the prefix "MCN-L" to their posts,
> as I've done above, so that one can see at
On 06/08/2005 10:47 AM, Weinstein, William wrote:
>We are looking into renovations of our information desk and want to explore
>the possibility of using electronic signs for visitor information, tours,
>lectures, etc. We have grand plans that include creating a sign that will
>require multiple mo
On 05/28/2005 04:23 PM, amalyah keshet wrote:
"...The exchange sounded a lot more like MTV than Modern Art 101, but
...it had a few things to recommend it. It was free. It didn't involve
the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a
nightstick. And best of all, it was s
On 04/19/2005 09:45 AM, Goral, Becky wrote:
I was wondering if anyone is using any type of software program to
track/log exhibition tasks and schedules. For example, we are looking
for something that includes which person is responsible for painting
pedestals as well as a start and finish dat
On 03/18/2005 08:42 AM, Gail Durbin wrote:
Can anyone suggest any good museum websites in North America where there
are examples of visitors' art work or other creative activity? I am
also interested in innovative message boards and chat rooms run by
museums.
Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online
g.du
Maybe he knows how lazy we can all be.
On 01/27/2005 05:49 PM, su...@wisegirl.net wrote:
Is this because there were not many entries?
Original Message
From: guenter_wai...@notes.rlg.org
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: 2005 MUSE awards deadline extended
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:47:28
On 12/29/2004 10:11 AM, mvol...@fruitlands.org wrote:
Thanks Matt. Its nice to see OpenKiosk on mozdev.org.
My pleasure!
For comparasin, here is a link to a kiosk chrome I developed for our kiosks. We've used this on both linux and wondows platforms.
http://wiki.mozdev.org:8080/cgi-bin/moz
The MozillaKiosk that I announced last month has been renamed OpenKiosk
and is now an official Mozilla Extension! So this is a good time to do a
little bit more of a write-up for the people who a) had trouble getting
it working, or b) had more general questions, or c) didn't even try it :-(.
T
Diane M. Zorich wrote:
The Guide has been vetted by dozens of experts and has been available
for community comment on the Web since 2003. A print edition of the
Guide will be published by the American Library Association in early
2006. A draft of the Guide is currently available at_
http://
On 11/04/2004 05:55 PM, Randy Heise wrote:
Matt
We've been playing with the same idea but have hesitated due to a perceived
problem with the cost of ownership of the handhelds.
It's not just a perception, but a reality :-). We bought off-the-shelf
Dell hardware with the full replacement warr
nd of your tour). At least for the
initial pilot, which is going to continue through November, we're
handing them out for no charge. I'd love to hear what anyone thinks.
Any questions or comments, please email me and I'd be happy to chat!
Thanks,
Matt Morgan
Manager of Informat
try it is to
a) install Mozilla (1.7 or newer)
b) click on the links on the above page to install the two extensions
you need.
So try it out and let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Matt Morgan
Manager of Information Systems
Brooklyn Museum
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where it's too late now to make that case. But in general there's really
not enough of a reason to worry about it.
Matt Morgan
Manager of IS
Brooklyn Museum
On 03/08/2004 03:26 PM, Mark Pettigrew wrote:
I think that Michael's last comment is the most important to remember -
there
I also think we do need to know more about what you mean by "linking."
For example, at Brooklyn Museum we use TMS
(http://www.gallerysystems.com) and Voyager (http://www.endinfosys.com).
While they don't offer any serious workflow integration, they both use
standard, open, SQL databases for sto
There are a lot of web services out there that provide off-site
file-transfer and sharing. One that we've used a lot, both as "vendor"
and "customer," is http://filesdirect.com; http://xdrive.com is more or
less equivalent, though it works differently. I don't know about the
thumbnail capabilit
I don't think we're going to see any stability in technological storage
solutions for a long time, if ever. So I second the support for using
hard disks, backup, and off-site storage (of whatever kind--I don't
think it's critical the off-site storage be hard disks, it could be
tapes or optical)
erver space
is definitely not free or simple, and removable media is a valid option
at times, but maybe there is a better way to handle your server space
than the way it's being done now.
Good luck,
Matt Morgan
Manager of Information Systems
Brooklyn Museum of Art
akes...@imj.org.il wrote
We also use a Yahoo! store. The software for the Yahoo! store it was
developed by a computer science genius, Paul Graham, and it shows. Yahoo
stores are actually easy and powerful enough that we actually have never
hired a "professional" it set ours up. It doesn't look as good as the
Noguchi
For a more fun/less academic approach you could use something like the
questions that Komar and Melamid used in their "Most Wanted
Painting" project, where they created desirable paintings based on
responses to survey questions like
What's your favorite color?
What's your second favorite color?
D
> What is ARTstor's fear in making images, of a defined low-resolution,
available to anyone who can get Net access?
Speaking for my institution--I think we wouldn't be afraid of making
screen-quality images widely available if we had a cheap, easy,
impractically-defeatable system for watermark
I don't know if this case has come up on MCN before. Basically, a
Russian software company wrote software, intended for sale, that cracks
the protection on Adobe's eBook format for digital books.
Apparently the technology for doing so is trivial. They were
prosecuted under the DMCA, but found n
Hey, I know a little about Voyager. We started working on it almost a year
ago. Ours is running Oracle on the back-end, so it can do anything Oracle
can do, which is everything. But that's for our library collection and
processes. For the rest of the collections, that is, the art, we use The
I really wonder about user studies of searchable online collections. I'm
going to go out on a limb and predict that either no convincing studies
have been done, or that most people don't really use them.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this, but I feel like I have yet to
see a really int
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