[MCN-L] Digital Content Engineer job posting at The Henry Ford
-solving skills and an ability to manage change in business processes is necessary. Ability to manage multiple priorities and to think and act flexibly to achieve desired outcomes essential. Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to transform ambiguity into clarity required. PHYSICAL/MENTAL/ENVIRONMENTAL Physical: Sitting: 80% Standing/Walking: 20% Lifting: Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs. Vision: Normal; frequently requires working for long periods at computer Mental: Must be good at interpreting, problem solving, and decision making Environment: Occasional exposure to chemicals, dust, and mold . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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] Video hosting question
Hello, all, While we have plenty of "modern" video out on YouTube, we currently host most our historic and collections-item videos (e.g. oral history video clips) on a private streaming platform. We don't use much of the functionality provided by the private platform, so the question has come up whether YouTube would meet our needs as a player. Some questions/potential concerns that have passed through my head: 1. Are there potentially different copyright implications to private hosting than to YouTube? What if we made the YouTube videos unlisted so we were simply using it as a player? 2. Has anyone had (or is/was concerned about having) historic video challenged or taken down as in violation of YouTube's community standards? Can anyone weigh in on these? And are there other issues to contemplate that I am missing? If the people at your institution who would make such decisions are not on the MCN listserv, I'd love it if you'd pass this along to them-I will take any and all input, on- or off-list. If you've chosen to use a private streaming service in addition to or instead of YouTube, I'd be interested to know what additional value you think it brings. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Manager, Digital Collections & Content P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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] Must-visit tech experiences in DC museums?
Hi all, I imagine many folks will be in Washington, DC, for AAM this week, as will a few members of The Henry Ford's Digital and Emerging Media team Any recommendations for can't-miss museums to visit in the city that are doing cool things with tech? It is totally legit to nominate your own museum. Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections & Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org<mailto:elli...@thehenryford.org> www.thehenryford.org<http://www.thehenryford.org> . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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/
Re: [MCN-L] LAM interoperability SIG?
A little late to the party, but please count The Henry Ford in on discussing LAM interoperability. I touched on some of our efforts to better integrate archival materials with museum objects in my MCN 2015 presentation (link below), and was struck by how many folks responded to that. I had been thinking of a more targeted presentation for next year http://www.slideshare.net/ElliceEngdahl/which-came-first-the-data-structure-or-the-websitelessons-learned-in-building-a-new-collections-website-with-existing-collections-data Ellice Engdahl Digital Collections & Content Manager, The Henry Ford P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org -Original Message- -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:58:02 -0600 From: Stefano Cossu <sco...@artic.edu> To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] LAM interoperability SIG? Message-ID: <564b86ca.7060...@artic.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" All, Thank you so much for your interest and for the very insightful contributions. Given the large number of interested parties, I am wondering if we should kick off a separate mailing list (Google groups or such) so we can more easily reach out to other communities. I still think that we can target the next MCN conference for an in-person meeting, while we distill ideas in the mailing list. Thoughts? Stefano On 11/17/2015 12:56 PM, mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu wrote: -- Stefano Cossu Director of Application Services, Collections The Art Institute of Chicago 116 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603 312-499-4026 ___ mcn-l mailing list mcn-l@mcn.edu http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 123, Issue 19 ** ___ 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] Tiered pricing for high-res image files without asking about use
Hi all, We're investigating adding automated ecommerce delivery of high-res images as part of an overhaul of our digital collections website. As part of this process, we're hoping to revise our current practices for image delivery, moving away from asking about potential end use (we want to avoid making a legal call on how people use our material). However, we still will want to charge a fee to recoup at least some of our costs to image and catalog the material, and we'd like to make these fees fair to potential users (e.g. charging less to nonprofits than for-profits, making fees very minimal for personal use, etc.). The examples I've been able to find online for museum image delivery tier the pricing based on the end use (x for print run under 5,000, y for print run over 5,000, z for web use, etc.), which we'd like to avoid. Question: Are others delivering image files (online or off) without asking the requestor about potential use, and if so, would you be willing to share your fee structure-particularly if it's tiered? Thanks! . Gain Perspective. Get Inspired. Make History. Ellice Engdahl, PMP Digital Collections Content Manager P: 313.982.6005 E: elli...@thehenryford.org www.thehenryford.org . The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 ___ 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] Digital collections data hackathon at Maker Faire Detroit this month
Here's a collections data experiment The Henry Ford, in partnership with Compuware, is trying this month--a one-day on-site hackathon using our digitized collections assets accessed via SQL database/APIs. It's happening during Maker Faire Detroit 2013. http://www.makerfairedetroit.com/2013/07/02/call-for-entries-hack-the-museum-at-maker-faire-detroit/ Would love to have any developers in the area come on down and give it a try! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Facial recognition technology and photos
Hi all, I'm curious as to whether anyone has investigated facial recognition software as a way to quickly identify people who show up in photos in large photographic collections. We're in the process of digitizing a collection of about 3500 auto racing photographs, a number of which are posed and/or have people facing the camera straight-on. We're wondering if facial recognition technology could help us identify the numerous people who recur throughout the collection in a efficient and semi-automated fashion, allowing us to add some useful metadata with relatively low effort. Has anybody tried this, or thought about it? I would love to hear your thoughts/experiences. Thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Institutional website usage v. digital collections site usage?
Hi all, I'm curious if anyone tracks or has statistics they'd be willing to share about how often your institutional website gets visited vs. the site/page for your digital collections. I'm not so much interested in exact numbers as the ratio-e.g. your site overall gets five visits for every one visit your digital collections gets. As a follow-up, does anyone have goals/thoughts on what that ratio should ideally be, or are you happy wherever it currently falls? Many thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
[MCN-L] Agile PM tools
Ari, with your metaquestion, I think you've hit on one of the things I had the hardest time reconciling when using Agile for software development at a for-profit company. Yes, in theory it sounds good to keep the focus on small iterations of always-releasable software, and decide on a weekly basis whether or not to send the code to production. On the other hand, in the real world, you often have hard deadlines and a firm set of features that is not negotiable. I always found it difficult to show the same dependencies and long-tail paths that you mention. Even worse, we were a big shop with many shared services, managed by other teams, so when we needed changes to any shared service, we would submit stories to the team or teams that needed to address them--but then would fall victim to that team's own schedules and other priorities. It was very difficult to estimate timeframes on complex features that had many of these interdependencies, so it was hard to tell a product manager when it would be done (or even estimate cost)--or when a whole set of features would be done. While it was very helpful in many ways, and still is my favorite methodology, it did not necessarily improve our on-schedule release rate. In two years of doing Agile on a large scale (~100 developers at our location on 5-10 teams), we never really managed to solve these issues, and it did always cause some tension between our pure Agile evangelists and those who owned delivery on time, on scope, and on budget. If you find some tools that help bring that MS Project type of need x features by y date planning/tracking to Agile projects, I would love to hear about it. Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org -Original Message- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:26:10 -0400 From: Ari Davidow aridavi...@gmail.com To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Agile PM tools Message-ID: CAF+xBDVfv7qdABYr0NjYZ8U0CqfJDSzWJwX8exVrRzYWaHStmQ at mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks, all. It sounds like I have a double task, which may not be resolvable until I know Agile project tools as well as I know MS Project and its ilk. Those of us who know Agile development (or are trying to get there) need to experiment with Pivot Tracker, Jira/Grasshopper, and the like to see what fits. But, for the schedule/resource dependent, traditional projects and the people who have hacked Outlook and the rest of MS Office to tie things together, I'll need to look at short-term tools, training, and/or affordances. There is a meta question here, as well. The Agile development tools that I have worked with so far are great for developing stories, digging into the backlog, setting up sprints, and even tracking the sprints. What I'm not finding are the ways to handle some essential issues (time milestones--events rely on these in spades; dependencies, critical paths--that long-term, X must be accomplished in Y time stuff that ceases to be as direct a focus when we are evolving new products/maintaining old ones/keeping an ongoing development effort going. But there must be such tools, or related best practices, or something, since Software lifecycles don't go away just because we use Agile methods to develop the software. Although, if we're talking Software as a Service, SaaS, then maybe the traditional software lifecycle doesn't make sense and isn't the appropriate metaphor as different from, this exhibit needs to open on this date, and it ends on another date. ari
[MCN-L] MCN vs. Museums and the Web
Hi all, I just attended the MCN conference for the first time in 2011, and haven't yet attended Museums and the Web. As we're looking at our 2012 budget, we're trying to narrow down which conferences might be the most useful to send staff to (esp. since both are on the West Coast this year). I'm wondering if those who have attended both MCN and Museums and the Web could share their impressions of the differences and similarities between the two, and thoughts on what different departments/roles would benefit most from each. If you had to pick one over the other for budget reasons, which one would you attend and why? Many thanks! Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124 (o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org
