[MCN-L] collection
To art history librarians, curators, art museums staff, I am working on four seventeen hundred manuscripts by Luigi Lanzi ( http://www.luigilanzi2010.it/) Since Lanzi mentions many collectors of 1700 Florence...I am also writing a proposal for a book on the Collezionismo privato del 1700 a Firenze, sponsored by the Plolo Museale Fiorentino and the University of Florence. While I am doing my projects I have had the chance to meet a lot of Italian private collectors. So far I met an antiquarian/collector who told me about a work by Leonardo that is for sale (expertise by Carlo Pedretti, free to leave the country) Please if museums curators and others are interested, write to me in private. My best regards and Buon Anno Annamaria Poma Swank, PhD.
[MCN-L] email address
I want everybody to know that my email pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it is not active anylonger please email to annamaria.pomaswank at gmail.com DR. Annamaria poma Swank
[MCN-L] thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving for all who celebrete it. Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D.
[MCN-L] Razuna open source DAM
Dear Perian, I know that all of you are at the MCN conference. When you have time I would like to know what you think of my report. In addition I would like to submit to you and Francesco my new project Grazie my best annamaria On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote: Hi everyone: I just learned about an open source digital asset management system called Razuna. I've been watching the videos and am pretty intrigued by it. My needs are fairly modest, but even with increased access to assets by internal staff, I'm having a hard time keeping up with some of my asset management. Heaven help me when we get our assets up on the web in a month or so! For a number of reasons, I don't anticipate getting support for purchasing a commercial DAM, so open source might be my only option. Has anyone used Razuna and have any opinions about it? Thanks! http://www.razuna.org Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA ___ 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
[MCN-L] contacts
I would like to know the email of the authors of this article David D. M. Mason ; Conal McCarthy Museums and the culture of new media: an empirical model of New Zealand museum websites Please let me know if you can. Best regards, Annamaria Poma Swank also pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] new project
Dear all, need help and feedback. Thank you annamaria Poma Swank pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Art museums and culture of new media *First* : our project refers to museums websites, their function and their configuration and their missionWith websites we have been putting museums in cyberspace. But, in our opinion, without clear understanding of what we were or are doing (CMS is another story) We create museums without walls, but we have also museums within walls: what is the relationship if any between the two?we have approved definitions by competent associations about bricks and mortar Museums: accreditation is done according to such definition plus requirements...in other words we have a general model to refer to. But we do not have is a model for a museum website, a set of rules, a clear definition or a consensus for the accreditation of the digital or virtual musuem i.e. a museum websites. (only technical Standards) Peter Welsh wrote an interesting article about Re-configuring museums . His intent is: to offer @a framework, or armature, around which more complex understanding of museum practice might be built. He adds that in museology we should orient our conversation about museums in ways that respect what has been while we imagine what could be. Well my question is why we do not do this with museum websites (MUSEUM WEBLIOLOGY)first with a distinguo and second creating a model against which we can compare present and future museums websites practice. The literature is rich of study on museums websites, with particular stress on user studies...statistics are always in place on the use, on the where, when and why the websites come about. Discussions on technology advancement and the frenzy to use themdo no address the real question: what is it this virtual reality we created and create? is an extension of the museum? has the some characteristics of the museum, its mission, its organization, the some aesthetics means, etc. ? I believe that the function of the two is related yes but distinct. For example the museums websites represent the some objects in ways that museums could not do..., have educational possibilities that museums do not have.ways to presents objects in various ways the museums could not doand so forthbut again what is missing is the link between the two things Management of website is different from manangement of museums, curators of websites need special qualifications and instruments that the museums curators do not need and viceversa. The marketing feature is not so critical for museum websites as it is for museums...or eventually has a different meaning...the same for users/visitors...there are and will be people who will never have the opportunity to visit a certain museum, does not matter how good or bad is its relative website...and other people who will always want to experience the aura of the museum and its collection *Second:* After we finished my report on CMS, we got intrigued by the actual museology studies or as many now say museum studies and their transformation. Studies that focus on the the *re-configuring of museums*(Welsh 2005), on the traditional museum, Faucult museums theory, the postmodern, the post museums, and morever museum an globalization. Trends seems twofold: an interest on the *museums without* as driving force for the change od museums within. (actually I believe that somebody should take the task to organize all the overwelming amount of sources and may be come up wirh a biliography raisonee). We should know better that there are many the factors that change any human enterprise. And we believe that in this case technology is not the magic tool for change: technology should be an instrument of reflexion on museums mission, history, function and so forth. The many surveys on museums to measure the success of their websites are interesting, but only if they are related to the particular museum in question. What is a success for a one, could be a pitfall for another. The same for users. The relation of the Uffizi museum in Florence with its visitors, could not be the same that the relation between visitors and New Zealand aborigenal musuems. Each museum live in a context and in its own particular historical, social, politicol etc. background. We do not suggest that we cannot reach aggreement and create standards, but we need to justify the standards based on practices of museums, their history, their mission, etc. So the question if techonology change the museum, or viceversa can be solved and we might find the interdipendence of the two that are not mutually exclusive, but are not either the same. An article Museums and the culture of new media: an empirical model of New Zealand museum websites by David D. M. Mason ; Conal McCarthy : they discuss 7 categories as main points of an idilazed museum model, but in my opinion they still mix the website and the museums offerings. However
[MCN-L] art museums missions
Dear all, I need your wisdom and help. I would like to know if there have been researches, review and/or studies on art museum missions after the web revolution. I am interested in finding out how much technology has (if actually it does) affected museums policies (changes, new ideas, new topics, etc.) and viceversa. Please write to me at pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Best Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D. Museums and the web Consultant Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/
[MCN-L] art museums policy
Dear Jeremy I did not receive any answer from you. I would like to pursue s study about the impact of the new technology on museums policy (I am specially interested in art museums) Please let me know if you received any sources and if you like to see my proposal. Grazie Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph,D, Fondazione Rinascimento digitale, pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ottevanger, Jeremy JOttevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk wrote: May I second that request? I'm not quite sure if Annamaria is looking for the impact of museum tech on various policies, or the impact of policies on tech, but I guess either would be useful. Perhaps if you know of any such studies you can post to the list. Studies aside, if your own institution has made any conscious steps to address digital media in various policies or in your strategic aims, I'd love to hear from you on or off list. I'm looking into the sustainability of digital media in museums, and needless to say institutional attitude and policies have the potential to play a big part. Thanks in advance, Jeremy From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu on behalf of Annamaria Poma-Swank Sent: Sat 27/09/2008 11:35 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] art museums policy Dear all, I would like to know if there is a study on the impact of museums technology to museums policy such as museums collection development, staffing, organizational chart, budget and so forth. You can write to me at pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Annamaria Poma Swank ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu 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 ___ 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
[MCN-L] artmuseums policy
I need to apologize: the message I sent to the list fifteen minutes ago was not inteded for the list. Sorry Annamaria Poma Swank
[MCN-L] art museums policy
Dear all, I would like to know if there is a study on the impact of museums technology to museums policy such as museums collection development, staffing, organizational chart, budget and so forth. You can write to me at pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Annamaria Poma Swank
[MCN-L] website evaluations
Dear Perian I would like to tlak to you about a new project... I will post some ideas on the MCN list serve, but I would like your input. Ciao, am On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote: Thanks Ari and Robert: We've just redesigned the site (same content, new look) and now we're trying to identify content to add and shift it away from a brochure site to a content-driven site. But, since our visitors are currently older and don't use our existing website, we're trying to figure out exactly what people might want to do on the site. *I* have ideas, based on how other museums have done this, and various members of the staff want certain content on the site (we've identified this already), but I don't want to go full-steam ahead with generating that content at this moment if there is low interest by the public. One of the staff generated a survey, but upon reading it, I feel that some of you may have already done this, and done it well enough that I can mooch off of you ;) Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:48 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] website evaluations Perian, I don't have a specific survey to point to, but I think that it is early to be worrying about usability and the like, per se. Rather, you want to find out how your members (and any other stakeholders) use your existing site, what they aren't finding or wish was there, pages/tools on other museum sites that they would like to see on yours, etc. You then have to have a conversation with all relevant stakeholders to talk about the purpose of the website--what is it that you want to be using/should be using (in their opinion) the website for? (Among your stakeholders, obviously don't exclude yourself, or other knowledgeable folks who know the Magnes and the web and have ideas that are out of the current box, but might be fun/useful or both.) Once you have that sense of what the website should accomplish, and how it fits in with your overall branding and development work, you then want to focus on the nitty gritty. ari On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Robert Weiner lists at rlweiner.com wrote: Dear Perian, Here are some articles about how to conduct a usability survey: http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/surveys.htm http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/schweibenz/schweibenz.html And here is a sample survey: http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/OMBClearance/ODOERGrantsSurvey. pdf Run a search for web usability survey (without the quotes) and you'll find lots. I didn't see many that are specific to museums, but many of the issues are common - how easy is it to use the site, what image does it project, and can you find what you are looking for? That said, here's an article on why it's more important to watch users than to ask them for their opinions: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010805.html Robert __ Robert L. Weiner Consulting Strategic Technology Advisors to Nonprofit and Educational Institutions San Francisco, CA robert at rlweiner.com 415/643-8955 www.rlweiner.com -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] website evaluations Hi all: We're redesigning our website and wanted to get a survey out for our members, to help us determine the content and the structure of the new site. Does anyone have a needs assessment survey or something like who would be willing to share? Thanks! Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.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 at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l ___ 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 ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the
[MCN-L] Test
received amps On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Christopher Dreiling dreiling at mac.com wrote: Test ___ 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
[MCN-L] thank you note (second posting)
I would like to thank all of you who helped me with my paper Museums Collection Mnangement System: state of the art. The paper will be published soon in the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale web page and I give credit for your help. I want to be sure that it is fine to reproduce some of the vendors figures (from their website) to better illustrate their products (of course with credit and urls) I hope to see you in Washington this Fall Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Museum consultant
[MCN-L] grant
Dear all, I have been appointed associate professor and librarian at the Universita Internazionale dell'arte, Florence Italy. (Universit? Internazionale dell'Arte - Firenze - *UIA*. www.*uia*firenze.com http://www.uiafirenze.com/) The University has a wonderful library that is in part cataloged in the IRIS consortium. http://www.iris.firenze.it/ita/inr_i.html Unfortunately, after the death of prof. Baldini the library had no funds to continue the retro conversion of its collection. Prof. Francesco Gurrieri, now dean of the Faculty, wants very much to continue to organize and digitize the collections which included also a great archival and photographic material collected by the founder of the University and great art historian, the late prof. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. I would like to know if you please could suggest an association or a foundation to contact for a grant. Please write to me at this address or at pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Best regards, Annamaria Poma Swank
[MCN-L] chin review
Dear all, I have a question about the CHIN review. In the list of reviewed vendors, there are some info. I read that the page has been updated in 2006. I assume that the info are still valid (2008!!) In addition the CHIN review of vendors products list also prices per unit and total. In the Web pages of each vendors I do not see the cost information. How can I find the updated cost? Thank you very much Annamaria Poma Swank. Please write to me to pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] cms policy planning
I would like to ask if there are museums managers who would like to share with me their plan (policy) for the development or implementation of their websites. I would like also to have their permission to publish them on my paper on the State of the art of museums collections development software. ( I need only few) Annamaria Poma Swank pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] web interface
Hello to all CMS vendors, (and others) do you offer with your products also a web interface that is not very costly? I know that Gallery System has implemented emuseum as tool to put museums collections on the web and I found it wonderful...(also I do not know the cost) Please let me know. Please answer to the address below Annamaria Poma Swank Fondazione Rinascimento digitale, project consultant pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] web content management
Dear all, 1. could you please tell me who is really involved in the CMS planning, and who is involved in the web content management? I read so much about who should do what, that I believe I need some input to better understand what is really going on in museums . 2. I have some problems with some definitions: what differences there are between museum professionals and museums information professionals. From museums staffing it is somehow difficult to understand who is called to do what (curators, registrars, managers, technicians, educators, webmasters, etc.)? (I read the article by Paul F. Marty 2006 on the topic of museum information professionals: he underlines the difficulty and challenge of such definitions. In addiction the 21 information professionals who answered his research questions, performed a variety of jobs in the museum field)) Thank you to all who are helping me in this mare magnum of information!! Annamaria Poma Swank Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale projects consultant, pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects
Dear all, I would like to know : 1. how many museums are using the barcoding objects inventory system 2. if the CMS they use support the system 3. A feedback on the use of this tool Annamaria Poma Swank Rinascimento Digitale project consultant pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5
.Dear all, I would like to know if there is a publication on the history of museums management software. I would like also to know who did use the CHIN review to make the software choise and if you found the review useful. Did you use at time an outside consultant? I do not know if there is any statistic about the use of the Chin review, do you? I really appreciate very much your input. Please answer to my address pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Best regards Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D Fondazione Rinascimento digitale project consultant On 10/8/07, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote: Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mcn-l-request at mcn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at mcn-l-owner at mcn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mcn-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. fwd: Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation... (Rob Lancefield on lists) 2. Fwd: [ARLIS-L] REMINDER - ARLIS/NA Internship Award Applications due October 15th! (Maureen Burns) 3. CONTENTdm Regional Users Group to Meet at PALINET Digitization Expo, October 31 (Justine Adelizzi) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:19:48 -0400 From: Rob Lancefield on lists lists at lancefield.net Subject: [MCN-L] fwd: Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation... To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Message-ID: 470A2E74.1010201 at lancefield.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Hello all, Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L folk, from DIGLIB: Original Message Subject: [DIGLIB] Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation... Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:42:24 +0200 From: Jeffrey van der Hoeven Jeffrey.vanderHoeven@[...] To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr ***Apologies for cross-posting*** *Dioscuri: the emulator for digital preservation* The Koninklijke Bibliotheek - national library of the Netherlands - and the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands are proud to present the world?s first modular emulator designed for digital preservation: Dioscuri. Dioscuri is capable of emulating an Intel 8086-based computer platform with support for VGA-graphics, screen, keyboard, and storage devices like a virtual floppy drive and hard drive. With these components Dioscuri successfully runs 16-bit operating systems like MS-DOS and applications such as WordPerfect 5.1, DrawPerfect 1.1 and Norton Commander. Furthermore, it is capable of running many nostalgic DOS-games and a simple Linux kernel. And when you finally open your long-forgotten WP5.1-files you can extract the text from the emulated environment into your current working environment using a simple clipboard-feature. *Designed for digital preservation* The design of Dioscuri is based on two key features: *portability* and *flexibility*. Dioscuri is portable because it is built on top of a virtual layer, called a virtual machine (VM). By using a VM in between the real computer and the emulated one, Dioscuri becomes less dependent on the actual hardware and software it runs on. This approach offers better portability to other platforms, which ensures longevity when a platform fails to survive over time. Dioscuri has shown to run reliably on PC, Apple and Sun computers without the need to alter anything of the application. Flexibility is gained by a component-based architecture. Each component, called module, imitates the functionality of a particular hardware component (i.e. processor, memory, hard disk, etc.). In concept, combining these modules any computer emulation can be created. Configuring Dioscuri is done by a user-friendly graphical interface which stores the settings in an XML-file. Both its portability and flexibility make Dioscuri different from any other emulator that exist today and ensure that it is prepared for the future. *Developing Dioscuri* Development of the emulator started in January 2006 and was lead by Tessella Support Services plc. Together with emulation proponent Jeff Rothenberg the PC-architecture was examined and translated into a software representation, resulting in a modular emulator. Although developing an emulator is not an easy task, the project made it clear that with a limited resources it is possible to build one. With a total effort of roughly two man-years, Dioscuri has been designed, developed and tested. Next steps are already in progress. Since July 2007 development of Dioscuri is continued under the umbrella of the European project *Planets*. Future work will consist of extending Dioscuri with more components to emulate
[MCN-L] rinascimento digitale project
Dear all, I am afraid that my previous quest was not very clear. I am not conducting a review of museums management software. I know about Chin review and other tools. I am collecting information on the base of the 5 Ws (When, why, what, where, who) on museum usage of managements tools, digital preservation, software, standards, case studies, open sources, folksonomies etc. The FRD* is interested in collecting all these information to present to the Italian operators involved in museums management (curators, systems managers, art historians, archivists, librarians etc.) the North American museums and cultural institutions' results, experience, samples, problems, work flow, etc. This is not the place to give a summary of Italian cultural institutions, but I am sure you all are aware of the different history and reality (henceforth somehow diverse management issues) of such institutions if compared with the ones in the USA. However we believe that the information collected could help us to identify our needs and eventually create tools to satisfy them. Any information or resources you can give me, are welcome. I am especially interested in real life experience. I will eventually create a questionnaire and ask at that moment I will ask which institutions would like to be involved. Thank you for your patience. Dr. Annamaria Poma Swank Please send email to this address pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it *Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale aiming at the definition of standard, methodologies and tools for digital memories creation, usage and preservation, is in charge of organizing, during the VMDL, an open discussion between end-user, operators, researchers and institutions on present and future of digital libraries applications.(and museums : beni culturali) http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it
[MCN-L] open source software
I would like to know which museum uses an open source management software. Please contact me to this address pomaswank at rinascimento-digitale.it Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D. Rinascimento Digitale project consultant Florence, Italy
[MCN-L] museums management software
Dear all, I am doing a State of the art of the museums management software for the Rinascimento Digitale, in Florence, Italy. I need some help and suggestions. I would like to know if there are specific literarue on the development of these type of software. Please, let me know. Best regards, Annamaria Poma Swank, Ph.D Rinascimento Digitale, projects consultant Polomuseale Fiorentino
