[MCN-L] Museums and the Web: Next Steps
[sorry if you get this more than once; please share it with others who have an interest.] When we held the first Museums and the Web in 1997, none of us were sure how the Web would develop, or what technologies would be most interesting to museums in the future. We certainly didn't anticipate the close community that would develop around the conference, sustaining itself in various ways online between annual get-togethers. Your knowledge and generosity is unique and amazing; it has made Museums and the Web the international conference for culture and heritage online. But after fifteen years, it's time for us to step back from the day-to- day management of Museums and the Web. We both recognize the importance of MW to the community, and care deeply about the persistence of its legacy (including the online archive of papers going back to 1997). So it's taken some time to work out our next steps. We've agreed with Rich Cherry, Nancy Proctor, Titus Bicknell and Hiroko Kusano that they will manage MW2012 in San Diego, with our help. Rich Cherry and Nancy Proctor will serve as Co-Chairs of Museums and the Web 2012; David and jennifer will remain regular members of the Program Committee. The overall shape and focus of the meeting will not change. We're looking forward to how Museums and the Web will develop in these capable hands, and thank everyone for their faith and trust in us over the past fifteen years. In the next months, we're sure there will be changes as Rich, Nancy, Titus and Hiroko put their many ideas into practice. We are sure you'll join us in giving them your full help and support. jennifer + David [or is that David + jennifer] To stay informed about MW2012, please join the conference community at http://conference.archimuse.com thanks! - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant, Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com | twitter: @museweb - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011): Participate onsite and online
Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011) the international conference for culture and heritage online April 6-9, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 our tag: #mw2011 PARTICIPATE IN PERSON If you're coming to MW2011, there are many chances for you to be actively involved in the program. Unconference Sessions: Thursday April 7, 2011 Each year at MW we set aside some time on the first day for discussion of pressing issues and questions. Come prepared to propose an unconference session, or to actively participate in one. For details, see http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/session/unconference_topic_proposal_session Crit Rooms at MW2011: Friday April 8, 2011 Bring your site to the Crit Room or the Mobile Crit Room, and get immediate, honest feedback from your peers. If you'd like your site to be featured, or you'd like to participate on a panel, please contact mw2011 at archimuse.com Closing Plenary: Mind the GAP ? Reflections on the Google Art Project, Saturday April 9, 2011 Pose your questions about the Google Art Project to a panel of museum participants, and a representative from Google. For details, see http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/session/closing_plenary PARTICIPATE ONLINE There are also opportunities for you to be involved online, even if you can't make it to Philadelphia. MW2011 Papers: On-line The first group of papers to be presented at MW2011 papers are now on- line. Browse the list from http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/speakers All papers will be on-line before the meeting. Take a look and dive in to the issues. Leave a comment, or ask a question. You can also search all past MW [and ICHIM] papers from http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio Best of the Web People's Choice Voting: March 25 - April 4, 2011 We need your opinion about the best museum sites on the web. Review the sites nominated for Best of the Web awards at http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/best/nominees and figure out which is your People's Choice. Voting will be open March 25-April 7, 2011. If you don't have an account, register so you can vote. You don't have to be attending the conference to support your favourite site. MW in Social Media As well as our own community at http://conference.archimuse.com, MW2011 can be found on Twitter [museweb]; Linked In [Museums and the Web group], Facebook [Museums and the Web page and Museums and the Web 2011 event], Lanyrd [Museums and the Web 2011], Flickr [MW2011-15th group], and Slideshare [Museums and the Web group]. See the list at https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/mw2011_online_the_permanent_backchannel and join us! UPCOMING DEADLINES Hotel Registration Deadline: Monday March 21, 2011 MW2011 takes place at the Loews Philadelphia hotel and it's important for conference economics that you stay at the conference hotel if you can. The MW2011 conference rate is available until March 21 from http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/local If you shop around you might be able to beat this with a flight/ hotel package or other offer, but please stay at the Loews (your booking counts no matter how you make it). Advance Registration Deadline: April 1, 2011 If you are coming to MW2011, please make sure to register in advance. You'll save a bit of money, and have an easier time when you arrive. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2011/mw2011.registrationForm.html SEE YOU SOON! There are already people from more than 23 countries registered to come to Museums and the Web 2011. Join us onsite ? and online ? as we celebrate the best work by museums on the web, wherever the network might reach. MW is a great chance to make our virtual community visceral (in the words of an MW2010 delegate). We hope to see you there! jennifer and David - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 produced by Archives Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011 at archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 | twitter: @museweb - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] Publishing didactic information online
Hi Maggie, You might get some inspiration from the Research / Collections online nominees from this year's Best of the Web Awards: http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/best/nominees/research_online_collection There are also a lot of papers in the bibliography about collections online: http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/search/collections%20online Best, /jennifer On 28-Feb-11, at 2:10 PM, Maggie Hanson wrote: (Has anyone else had trouble getting messages through to MCN-L? Please forgive if this has come to you already, but I've been having problems and I'm trying to post from a different email account.) Hello, all ? We (The Portland Art Museum, OR) have recently begun publishing works online (www.pamcollections.org). We?re in the very early stages of this process and hope to begin some web development on the collections site in the near future. In the meanwhile, I?m trying to address some issues that we *can *control. One of these is the publishing of didactics (mostly wall labels, at this point) in individual records. I know that the process varies from institution to institution and I would love to learn more about how other museums process this info to get it online so that I can share examples with our Education and Curatorial departments (I know how the Getty operates, but don?t have any other specific examples yet). If anyone can shed light on this topic (share guidelines or even just point me in the right direction), I?d be very grateful! Thanks so much, Maggie Hanson ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant, Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com | twitter: @museweb - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] MW2011 Best of the Web Deadline Feb 21 and other News
[apologies for the duplication; please forward as appropriate] Museums and the Web 2011 the international conference for culture and heritage online April 6-9, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/ Our Tag: #mw2011 Best of the Web Nominations Close February 21, 2011 - - - - - - - - - - - Each year at MW2011 we recognise the best work by museums on the web. Help us to find it! Suggest a site for consideration by the MW2011 Best of the Web Panel. Nominations close Feb. 21: that's next Monday. For full details and deadlines see the Nomination, Review and People's Choice Voting Process at http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/best MW2011 Program Online - - - - - - - - - - - The full program for Museums and the Web 2011 is online. Start browsing from the Sessions page, and follow the links through to Paper Abstracts and Speaker Profiles. Full papers will be online before the conference. See http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/sessions Pre-Conference Workshops Filling Up - - - - - - - - - - - All of the Pre-Conference workshops at MW2011 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. If you've been thinking about including a workshop in your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment. See http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/workshops MW2011 Registration Online - - - - - - - - - - - You can complete your conference registration quickly and easily online at https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2011/mw2011.registrationForm.html You can add a workshop to an existing registration by choosing the 'Already Registered: Adding Workshop' option. MW2011 Conference Hotel - - - - - - - - - - - Museums and the Web 2011 takes place at the Lowes Philadelphia Hotel (1200 Market Street) an architectural landmark in the heart of an historic city. Make your reservation online by March 15th to reserve the conference rate at http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Philadelphia-Hotel/GroupPages/ami411 MW On-line - - - - - - - - - - - As we get closer to Museums and the Web activity heats up on the network. Set up a profile in the MW online community at http://conference.archimuse.com whether or not you're coming to MW. You can also connect with the Museums and the Web community on other social network platforms. See http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/mw2011_online_the_permanent_backchannel for links to where you can find us, and follow our tags: #mw2011 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items. We're @museweb on twitter. See You There! - - - - - - - - - - - We're looking forward to another great international gathering at Museums and the Web. Already, there are twenty countries represented. We hope to see you in Philadelphia, for the 15th Museums and the Web. jennifer and David - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/ | twitter: @museweb produced by Archives Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011 at archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] user-created galleries/portfolios
Ann, There are a fair number [30+] of papers from Museums and the Web and ICHIM related to personalization that include discussions of personal collections and tours. See the list at http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/search/personalization /jennifer - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ | twitter: @museweb produced by Archives Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011 at archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] Do you use the Museums and the Web: Proceedings CD-ROMs?
Hi Everyone, Every year, since 1997, we have published all of the papers from Museums and the Web online before the conference [the online Proceedings]. More than 1,450 papers from MW and ICHIM are indexed online athttp://conference.archimuse.com/biblio Each year, a group also appear in print in a Museums and the Web : Selected Papers volume; these are listed at http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/museums.html Since 1998 we've also assembled a Proceedings CD-ROM of all of the papers, and included it with the print Selected Papers. But we're wondering about continuing this practice. Do you use the MW Proceedings CD-ROM? Or has that format had its day, particularly since all the papers are available ? and more easily searchable ? online? We'd love your feedback, ideally in reply to https://conference.archimuse.com/forum/do_you_use_mw_proceedings_cd_roms Thanks! /jennifer - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant, Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] Scholarships to Museums and the Web 2010
Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011) April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 We're excited about being in Philadelphia for Museums and the Web (April 6-9, 2011), and wanted to make sure that people from local institutions would be able to attend MW2011. So Archives Museum Informatics is offering ten (10!) full registration scholarships to members of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM). MAAM members are also eligible for a discount off regular MW2011 Registration. See http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/scholarships MAAM members from museums that have not previously been able to send staff to Museums and the Web are invited to apply for a free registration to MW2011. Applicants should return the MAAM Scholarship Form, available at http://conference.archimuse.com/files/mw2011-maamscholarshipapplication.pdf For details about MAAM see http://www.midatlanticmuseums.org/ MAAM membership information at http://www.midatlanticmuseums.org/membership/individual-membership/ Hope to see you in Philadelphia! /jennifer and David - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ | twitter: @museweb produced by Archives Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011 at archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] move to Google Apps
there's a half day pre-conference workshop at Museums and the Web 2011 on this: The Web as Your Business Environment Too: Migrate to Google Apps given by Scott Granger see http://bit.ly/gt3tCT /jennifer On 4-Jan-11, at 4:00 PM, Richard Urban wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Marylee McInnes Marylee at museumfoundation.org Date: January 4, 2011 2:21:38 PM CST To: mcn-l at mcn.edu mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: move to Google Apps Has anyone switched to Google for email and apps? We?re considering options for a cloud hosted email solution. I?d be glad to hear about any experiences with Google or other services. Best, Marylee Marylee McInnes image001.jpg Database Manager Museum of New Mexico Foundation PO Box 2065 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 505/982-6366 ext. 111 marylee at museumfoundation.org www.museumfoundation.org Join us on Facebook Shop our Museums at: www.worldfolkart.org www.newmexicocreates.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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant, Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2011 - Program online
Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011) the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 6-9, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011 == MW2011 Program On-line == The program for MW2011 [our tag!] is now available on the conference web site, featuring contributions of more than 165 people from 15 countries. See http://bit.ly/hTwMuy for details. Our thanks to the International Program Committee -- http://bit.ly/ey9KxT -- for their peer-review of proposals, and to everyone who proposed for making that task so challenging. == Register On-line == Registration for Museums and the Web 2011 is now open. Register on- line before December 31, 2010 for the best rates. See http://bit.ly/fkW7H1 Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Register early to ensure your choice. == Demonstration Proposals == It's not too late to participate in MW2011. The deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2010. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, seehttp://bit.ly/g2GQKh == Need To Know More == Full details about MW2011 are on the conference Web site at http://bit.ly/euMMQa See frequently asked questions -- and ask yours if it isn't answered -- at http://bit.ly/ib3WEh You can also follow @museweb on Twitter and connect with MW on various social networking sites. See http://bit.ly/dXzG72 for details. Email mw2011 at archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Philadelphia. jennifer and David - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 MW2011 | April 6-9, 2011 | Philadelphia, PA | http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ produced by Archives Museum Informatics | 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email: mw2011 at archimuse.com | phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] RIP Delicious
Perian, i moved the 5K+ bookmarks i had in del.icio.us to pinboard.in this afternoon and now have the feed for the 'museweb' and 'mw2011' tags there e.g. http://pinboard.in/search/?query=museweball=Search+All linked in to the Museums and the Web Facebook page, and the Yahoo Pipe [that's still alive so far!] that feeds http:// conference.archimuse.com and the LinkedIn group and ... i'm sure there are other places i've forgotten. but i'm still heading for that delicious icon in my toolbar by default. old habits! /jennifer On 16-Dec-10, at 4:36 PM, Perian Sully wrote: This makes me very sad indeed: http://gizmodo.com/5714292/rest-in-peace-delicious I spent a lot of time adding cultural heritage content and links and tutorials to Delicious. Maybe I should just migrate them to Zotero instead? Anyone else have any suggestions for a comparable service? The article linked to above offers some options for migrating your bookmarks. ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant, Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com - - - - - - - - - - -
[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2010: two 1/2 price MW2011 Registrations
Hi Everyone, Once again we'll offer two half-price registrations to Museums and the Web (MW2011) for the MCN Silent Auction -- good for 50% off whatever conference registration fee is in effect when you choose to use them (up to $400 for a late registration). If all goes as previous years, you'll be able to save yourself some money and support MCN at the same time. Hope you all have an enjoyable and informative time in Austin! /jennifer Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 produced by April 6-9, 2011, Philadelphia, PA, Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2011 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2011: CFP: Sept 30 Deadline
[apologies if you get this more than once: please share it as appropriate] MW2011 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2010 Museums and the Web 2011 the international conference for culture and heritage online April 6-9, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/ Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage online. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web - wherever the network may take us. * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * The MW program is built from the ground up. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, online presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. There are no pre- defined themes -- just a strong interest in the best work out there! The bibliography of past MW papers (all online since 1997) can be searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/ All full texts are freely available online. * PROPOSAL FORM * Online proposal submission is required. Use the form linked from http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/call.html Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be successful. Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee. Note that proposals for full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others. *SESSION FORMATS * MW sessions vary in format - from formal Papers to informal Birds of a Feather lunches, and from structured Professional Forums to timely Unconference Sessions. Find the best format for your idea, by reviewing the session formats at http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.sessionFormats.html * DEADLINES * Proposals due September 30, 2010 - for papers, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2011) Proposals due December 31, 2010 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS * The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the on-line discussion at http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/suggestions_for_the_mw2011_program * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * Review the MW2011 Call for Participation on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/call.html Contact the MW2010 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics mw2011 at archimuse.com We hope to see you in Denver. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2011 produced by April 6-9, 2011, Philadelphia, PA, Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2011 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] MW2010: Advance Registration Deadline Apr. 8, 2010
Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010) the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ == Advance Registration Deadline: April 8, 2010 == The deadline for advance registration is *this Thursday*. If you are planning to come to MW2010, save yourself some time and money by registering on-line, in advance. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2010/mw2010.registrationForm.html You can register on-site for the conference and perhaps for pre- conference workshops [if space is available]. Download the form the conference site and bring it with you. == Wikimedia at MW2010 == We're hosting a pre-conference workshop at Museums and the Web 2010 that will bring together wikimedians and museum people from around the world. Our goal, through some face-to-face conversation, is move through some of the policy and procedural questions that have proven stumbling blocks to date, and scope out ways we can truly collaborate. In preparation for the workshop we're for ideas, observations and inspiration. We want to shape the agenda based on real issues and concerns, and need your input to be sure that happens. Join the discussions at http://conference.archimuse.com/forums/wikimediamw2010 == Papers On-line == This year's papers are now all on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/speakers/index.html for the full list. All the papers from past Museums and the Web conferences are also available on-line. See the full bibliography of past papers at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum == Best of the Web People's Choice == You don't have to be coming to MW2010 to vote for the MW2010 Best of the Web People's Choice Award. See the list of sites nominated at http://conference.archimuse.com/best_web/nominees-2010 and vote for your favourite. [Each user registered at http://conference.archimuse.com has one vote.] == MW On-line == As we get closer to Museums and the Web activity heats up on the network. Your encouraged to set up a profile in the MW online community a thttp://conference.archimuse.com -- whether or not you're coming to MW. You can also connect with the Museums and the Web community on other social network platforms. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/online/ for links to where you can find us, and follow our tags: #mw2010 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items. We're @museweb on Twitter. == Another Great Group @ MW2010 == MW2010 will welcome more than 550 delegates from more than 25 countries to Denver. We're looking forward to seeing old friends and making some new ones. We hope to see you there -- or on-line -- for more great discussions around bringing culture and heritage on-line in all kinds of institutions. jennifer and David Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] MW2010: Advance Registration Deadline Apr. 8, 2010
Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010) the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ == Advance Registration Deadline: April 8, 2010 == The deadline for advance registration is *this Thursday*. If you are planning to come to MW2010, save yourself some time and money by registering on-line, in advance. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2010/mw2010.registrationForm.html You can register on-site for the conference and perhaps for pre- conference workshops [if space is available]. Download the form the conference site and bring it with you. == Wikimedia at MW2010 == We're hosting a pre-conference workshop at Museums and the Web 2010 that will bring together wikimedians and museum people from around the world. Our goal, through some face-to-face conversation, is move through some of the policy and procedural questions that have proven stumbling blocks to date, and scope out ways we can truly collaborate. In preparation for the workshop we're for ideas, observations and inspiration. We want to shape the agenda based on real issues and concerns, and need your input to be sure that happens. Join the discussions at http://conference.archimuse.com/forums/wikimediamw2010 == Papers On-line == This year's papers are now all on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/speakers/index.html for the full list. All the papers from past Museums and the Web conferences are also available on-line. See the full bibliography of past papers at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum == Best of the Web People's Choice == You don't have to be coming to MW2010 to vote for the MW2010 Best of the Web People's Choice Award. See the list of sites nominated at http://conference.archimuse.com/best_web/nominees-2010 and vote for your favourite. [Each user registered at http://conference.archimuse.com has one vote.] == MW On-line == As we get closer to Museums and the Web activity heats up on the network. Your encouraged to set up a profile in the MW online community a thttp://conference.archimuse.com -- whether or not you're coming to MW. You can also connect with the Museums and the Web community on other social network platforms. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/online/ for links to where you can find us, and follow our tags: #mw2010 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items. We're @museweb on Twitter. == Another Great Group @ MW2010 == MW2010 will welcome more than 550 delegates from more than 25 countries to Denver. We're looking forward to seeing old friends and making some new ones. We hope to see you there -- or on-line -- for more great discussions around bringing culture and heritage on-line in all kinds of institutions. jennifer and David Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] MW2010: An Update
Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010) the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ == Full MW2010 Program Now Online == Descriptions of more than 40 Demonstrations have been just added to the MW2010 web site. The full program is now online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/sescal/ == Regular Registration Deadline: January 31, 2010 == If you haven't already registered, the deadline for regular registration for MW2010 is coming up soon. Payment for regular registrations must be *received* by January 31, 2010, in order to get lower rates. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure your budget goes the furthest. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2010/mw2010.registrationForm.html == Pre-Conference Workshops Filling Up == Many of the workshops at MW2010 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. If you've been thinking about adding a workshop to your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment. == Best of the Web Nominations Open January 31, 2010 == We said it would be 'in January' and we should make it. We're running the Best of the Web entirely on the conference community site this year. See http://conference.archimuse.com/page/best_web_2010_nomination_process for details, and check out the new category definitions at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/best/categories.html Nominate your favourite site, review the sites nominated, and watch for the announcement about voting for 'MW2010 People's Choice'. == MW on the Social Networks == Connect with the Museums and the Web community on various social network platforms. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/online/ for links to where you can find us, and follow our tags: #mw2010 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items. We're looking forward to catching up with all the great work going on around the world at another great Museums and the Web. We hope to see you in Denver! jennifer and David Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] visual resources job descriptions
we're happy to host a job description resource on http://conference.archimuse.com if people are intersted in sharing [redacted / anonymized or not]. jennifer At 10:49 AM -0700 6/25/09, Images wrote: A question for the forum then - would any of you working in the realm of copyright and licensing, image archives/management or visual resources, be willing to share your job descriptions? I am thinking of positions like rights and reproductions, copyright administrators, image librarians/archivists/cataloguers, photo services etc. Core responsibilities or tasks (formalized or not) would also be helpful. Given the discussion yesterday I think there are others who would be interested in this information too, however, I would be more than happy to keep any documents confidential, so please feel free to respond to me off-list as well. A very big thanks in advance, Danielle Danielle Currie | Rights and Reproductions | Vancouver Art Gallery T 604 662 4700 x 220 | F 604 682 1086 750 Hornby Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 CANADA ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Museum Jobs: A Summary
Deborah et al., with the exception of Cataloguer / Curatorial assistant none of the jobs that i have held at a museum are mentioned specifically on that list either ;) the list wasn't presented as 'ideal' or 'current'. it was constructed as a baseline to look at how museum staff are trained [within the context of museum studies education.] i posted it because the team i was working with needed to understand how museums were organized, and i couldn't point them to an easily available summary. it would be really useful if MCN could think about the kinds of jobs that done by its members, and articulate the competencies required. this is being done 'for' museums in other areas [like Information Science and VR] but in my opinion, information-focused programs miss the public facing, interpretive aspect of much museum technology. Where's the Museum Tech Job Description registry? /jt At 11:54 AM -0400 6/24/09, Deborah Wythe wrote: Her sources for the positions are all 20th century (1994, 1996 and 1997), so I would take the whole thing with a big grain of salt. Photographer's there, but the whole job area of digital media and asset management were barely known in the 90s. That's not to say that we're not all endangered these days! Deborah Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:25:48 -0500 From: hraatz at artsmia.org To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU; mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Museum Jobs: A Summary Good morning all, My morning was significantly disturbed by a Tweet posted to https://twitter.com/museummedia, Museum jobs: a summary http://bit.ly/7pKto . This shortened URL takes you to Jennifer Trant's blog on the conference.archimuse.com website. Attached to the blog post by Ms. Trant is a 4 page .pdf document listing various museum jobs from Director to Membership Clerk, including staff positions as varied as Planetarium Director, Studio Manager and Projectionist. There are NO Visual Resources professionals included on the list. Zero. Unless we're somehow invisibly included with Digitizing Technician/data entry clerk, Librarian or Archivist. I've made a comment to Ms. Trant's blog and hope to receive a response from her which I will share with the VRA and MCN listservs. Coming on the heels of the announcement regarding the elimination of Leigh Gate's Visual Resources position at the Art Institute of Chicago, and compounded by the knowledge that Melody Ennis (Museum of Art, RISD), Jane Ferger (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and Cheryl Vogler (St. Louis Art Museum) also lost jobs to the elimination of their staff positions within the past year, this blog post is extremely troubling. Clearly there is some lack of awareness and understanding about the role of Visual Resources professionals in the museum environment that needs to be addressed. In light of overall concerns about the future of our profession, this may be a timely and pertinent topic for discussion at the Museum VR SIG (special interest group) meeting at the next Visual Resources Assn. conference in Atlanta--for those of us museum VR professionals who still retain jobs and will be in attendance. Back to my still vital hopefully valued work. Heidi Heidi S. Raatz | Visual Resources Librarian Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 870-3196 | (612) 870-3029 - permissions | hraatz at artsmia.org | permissions at artsmia.org| www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ _ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing? now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPGpubl=WLHMTAGcrea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try_bing_1x1 ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2009: Papers on-line
Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ The first group of papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2009 in Indianapolis (April 15-18, 2009) are now available on-line. To find them easily, browse the list of Speakers - at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/speakers / for the paper icon. All MW2009 papers will be available on-line before the conference. Writing papers is great contribution to our field. They record past experience, develop our collective knowledge, and enable our projects to build on each other. Having papers in advance also changes the nature of the conference. People come to Museums and the Web ready to dive into discussions, and conversations are much more productive! All past Museums and the Web (and ICHIM) papers are on-line and included in a searchable Bibliography at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum We hope you can delegates from more than twenty countries in Indianapolis for conversations about the challenges we all face moving institutions, collections and communities on-line. jennifer and David. -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, IndianaArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2009: Deadlines This Weekend
Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ ** There are two key deadlines this weekend for MW2009. ** ** Regular Registration Deadline: January 31, 2009 ** The deadline for regular registration for MW2009 is this Saturday. Payment for regular registrations must be *received by January 31, 2009*. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure your budget goes the furthest. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html ** Best of the Web Nominations Close February 1, 2009 ** The Best of the Web contest is taking place on-line this year. See http://conference.archimuse.com/page/best_web_2009_nomination_process for details. Nominate your favourite site *by February 1, 2009*. There are no fees, and nominating a site other than your own is encouraged. You can also review -- and comment on -- the sites nominated. Voting for the 'MW2009 People's Choice' award will open in April. Watch for the announcement. ** Why come to Museums and the Web? ** MW is leading international venue where people working in museums, science centers and art galleries share how they are responding to the challenges of our networked world. At MW2009 you can connect with people who understand what you are doing, and who have dealt with the issues you're now facing. As delegates at MW2008 said: I finally have found a conference that caters to the work that I am doing. And we have fun doing it. There are so many great people and MW is one of the friendliest conferences I've been to ... that's useful. We hope to see you in Indianapolis! jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 --
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009) Update
Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ == MW2009 Opening Keynote: Maxwell L. Anderson == We're delighted that Max Anderson has agreed to keynote Museums and the Web 2009. A leader in moving museums on to the Web, Max has challenged each of the art galleries he's directed to think about the Web as a critical part of programming space. He'll push these ideas further in his keynote address, entitled Moving from Virtual to Visceral == Demonstration Proposals: Deadline extended until Sunday January 11, 2009 == It's not too late to participate in MW2009. The deadline for Demonstration proposals has been extended until Sunday January 11, 2009. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/demos/index.html == Best of the Web Nominations Open == Each year Museums and the Web honours the best work in our field with the Best of the Web awards. We're running the competition in the on-line community space this year, and have begun accepting nominations at http://conference.archimuse.com Nominate your favourite site, review the sites nominated and watch for the announcement about voting for 'People's Choice'. == Register On-line == Registration for Museums and the Web 2009 is open. Register on-line before January 31, 2009 for the best available rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Register early to ensure your choice. == Need To Know More == Full details about MW2009 are on the conference Web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Email mw2009 at archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] reminder: mw2009 demo proposals due dec 31
Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ == Demonstration Proposals == It's not too late to participate in MW2009. The deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2008. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/demos/index.html == Best of the Web == Best of the Web nominations will be made this year on the conference community site. Register at http://conference.archimuse.com and watch for the announcement. == Conference Program On-line== Full details about MW2009 -- including abstracts of all papers -- are on the conference Web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ All full-texts of past MW papers are on-line. See http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ == Need To Know More == Email mw2009 at archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] MW2009: Program On-line + Registration Open
Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ == MW2009 Preliminary Program On-line == The full program for MW2009 [our tag!] is now available on the conference web site, featuring contributions from more than 150 people from a dozen countries. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/sessions/index.html Our thanks to the International Program Committee for their peer-review of proposals, and to everyone who proposed for making their job so difficult. == Register On-line == Registration for Museums and the Web 2009 is now open. Register on-line before December 15, 2008 for the best rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Register early to ensure your choice. == Demonstration Proposals == It's not too late to participate in MW2009. The deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2008. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/demos/index.html == Best of the Web == Best of the Web nominations will be made this year on the conference community site. Register at http://conference.archimuse.com and watch for the announcement. == Need To Know More == Full details about MW2009 are on the conference Web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Email mw2009 at archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, IndianaArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] Fwd: How Much Should You Offer the New Hire?
FYI -- an organization worth knowing about, and a survey worth participating in. best, jennifer From: holly at nten.org To: jtrant at archimuse.com Date: 6 Nov 2008 10:42:54 -0500 Subject: How Much Should You Offer the New Hire? X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/94 X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.66690/99.76629 CV:99. P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:91.3934 ) X-pstn-settings: 2 (0.5000:0.5000) s cv gt3 gt2 gt1 p m c X-pstn-addresses: from holly at nten.org [1800/75] X-pstn-neptune: 2/1/0.50/48 X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.66690/99.76629 CV:99. P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:91.3934 ) X-pstn-settings: 2 (0.5000:0.5000) s cv gt3 gt2 gt1 p m c X-pstn-addresses: from holly at nten.org [1800/75] 1220 SW Morrison St. #1305 Portland, OR 97205 415.397.9000 http://nten.org/http://nten.org Hi jennifer - How much should you offer a new Help Desk Support Specialist? How many IT staff do organizations your size have, anyway? What are other nonprofits outsourcing when it comes to IT? http://nten.org/NTEN and http://nptimes.com/The Nonprofit Times are making it easy for you to fill the gap between expensive benchmarking services costing thousands of dollars and going it alone. We're surveying thousands of staff at nonprofits big and small to find out what it takes to make technology work for them and what qualified staff they need. In turn, we'll give you the hard numbers you need to invest in technology. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3d Take the Online Survey If you make technology decisions for your nonprofit, please take http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3dthis survey. Then pass it on to a colleague! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3dThis survey will find out: How many people it takes to manage technology at a nonprofit What exactly nonprofit technology staff do and how much they are paid How nonprofits can find and keep good people We'll share the results with you in January, including: Data to compare your organization to others like you Benchmarks to help you plan projects and purchases Statistics and information to use in grant proposals http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3dThe survey only takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. And did we mention that participants can win an iPod Nano or gift card from Amazon.com or iTunes? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3d Take the Online Survey When you're done, check out the http://nten.org/research/it-staffing2007 survey results. Thanks for helping us make the case for IT investment! Holly Ross Executive Director, NTEN 415 397 9000 mailto:holly at nten.orgholly at nten.org To keep up to date with the NTEN community, news, and events, join the NTEN newsletter: http://www.nten.org/newshttp://www.nten.org/news If you are not already a member, please consider joining NTEN to help support our programs, and to receive discounts on all our events and many services! To learn more, please visit: http://www.nten.org/joinhttp://www.nten.org/join. TAKE THE SURVEY http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6_2bypEILwwZmbW87TYQQqMw_3d_3dTAKE THE SURVEY LATEST REPORTS NTEN strives to bring you the information and resources that will help you change the world. Read about the latest studies, trends, and reports that will affect your work. http://nten.org/researchREAD THE REPORTS NTEN eNEWSLETTER If you're not getting it already, then sign up for NTEN Connect, the monthly e-newsletter with news, tips, and trends from and for those working with technology in the nonprofit sector. http://www.nten.org/signupSIGN UP NOW NTEN WEBINARS Members get special rates for all NTEN webinars. Tune in from your own desk for demos, tips, trends, and takeaways on the latest tools for the nonprofit sector. Get objective advice for decision-making and planning that will get you closer to your goals. http://www.nten.org/webinarsWEBINARS You are receiving this message because you are an NTEN member, have attended an NTEN event, or shared your contact information with NTEN in some other capacity. If you would like to change your subscription settings or unsubscribe from mailings from NTEN, please click https://www.ntenonline.org/EWEB/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=NTENWebCode=unsubscribecst_key=1bc057ba-57ce-4cec-970f-90fe38b2acbfhere. You may also wish to review the NTEN http://www.nten.org/privacy-policyprivacy policy. -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Use of Ning and similar Community of Practice tools
hi Ari, there are now more than 1400 users registered at http://conference.archimuse.com -- the online site we've created with drupal for the museums and the web conference community. while contributions are cyclical, related to the rhythms of the meeting, the traffic on the site, particularly the bibliography of past papers, is constant. we'll be using the site for Best of the Web nominations this year, and as the platform for selecting the People's Choice winner as well. anyone in the field is welcome to join, and contribute! jennifer At 12:20 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if any). In theory, having a single place to gather resources and do many times of sharing and discussion would be great. In practice, I wonder if wikis, on the one hand, or Facebook at another extreme, aren't doing enough of what we want. Thoughts? ari ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Use of Ning and similar Community of Practice tools
Ari -- conference.archimuse.com was set up because i saw that: - people needed a way to find / contact each other both during and after the conferences [we got a lot of who was that ... queries] - the conference papers needed an index [we got a lot of who said that ... queries] - there was a need to develop a 'memory' about museum use of the web [there wasn't enough knowledge of prior-art in many MW proposals; altogether too much re-invention] does it work? well, people use it as a reference site [the stats show that] and they contribute to an extent, though it came at the same time as a lot of other things and there's a certain SN saturation that i think we all feel. there are also a lot of things i wish i had time to do to make it better... i guess, though, i figure that if it's useful to me, that's something, and i might as well share it. i do know that we're fielding a lot fewer of those basic questions too ;) /jt At 2:52 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: I should clarify--I wasn't looking for a Museum or Cultural Heritage site CoP, per se--I love archimuse and several of the others that have been mentioned here. I was asking specifically about use of Ning (or related services such as grou.ps) for various networking and CoP purposes. For those who have used Ning, and the like, what problems were you trying to solve, and did/does Ning solve that problem? ari On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, j trant jtrant at archimuse.com wrote: hi Ari, there are now more than 1400 users registered at http://conference.archimuse.com -- the online site we've created with drupal for the museums and the web conference community. while contributions are cyclical, related to the rhythms of the meeting, the traffic on the site, particularly the bibliography of past papers, is constant. ... At 12:20 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if any). ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Web vs. 'real world' visitors
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[MCN-L] MW2009 CFP: Deadline Tues. Sept .30, 2008
MW2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE SEPT. 30, 2008 Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Don't miss this great chance to present your best work at the only international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and science on-line: Museums and the Web. MW2009 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 15-18, 2009. PROPOSALS ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 30, 2008. Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/mw2009.proposalForm.html We're open to proposals on on any topic related to museums and their communities creating, facilitating, or delivering culture, science or heritage on-line. Proposals for MW are peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. Full details about MW2009 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ We hope to see you in Indianapolis, jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, IndianaArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2009: CFP: Deadline Sept 30
MW2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2008. Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, the MW program reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, on-line presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. The bibliography of past MW papers (all on-line since 1997) can be searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/mw2009.proposalForm.html Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others. * DEADLINES * Proposals due September 30, 2008 - for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2009) Proposals due December 31, 2008 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS * The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the on-line discussion at http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2009_ideas * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * Review the MW2009 Call for Participation on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/call.html Contact the MW2009 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics mw2009 at archimuse.com We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] wikis in museums?
there have been several threads about wikis on the list of the UK Museum Computer Group. See http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?S1=MCG to search their archive. jt At 10:50 AM -0700 6/1/08, Stan Orchard wrote: Hi all...I posted a similar message to the ASTC listserv and didn't get much response, which surprised me. So, thought I'd drop a line here. I'm looking for examples of wikis in a museum setting. For internal use? External with the public? Any and all examples would be appreciated. I'd love to be able to point people at public examples especially. Appreciate any and all responses. Thanks! Stan Orchard Pacific Science Center ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] What's a Museum without YouTube?
Beth -- check out the following Museums and the Web 2008 paper: Beyond launch: Museum videos on YouTube http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/hart/hart.html David Hart, The Museum of Modern Art, USA Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art, USA Chris Alexander, San Jose Museum of Art, USA Dan Dark, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA Jennifer Rossi, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, USA Nicole Minor, Exploratorium, USA best, jt At 3:18 PM -0400 4/28/08, Beth Kanter wrote: Hi folk, I am doing some research for a workshop and was rounding up arts examples. I did come across some examples of Museum YouTube Channels - wrote about them here: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/04/what-is-a-museu.html What are the best practices for museums on YouTube? What metrics do you use for success? Do you use YouTube as a promotional strategy to attract more visitors or to get traffic at your museum site or is anyone using YouTube for virtual exhibits? Beth -- Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Nonprofits and Social Media ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] join MW2008 online at http://conference.archimuse.com
If you can't be in Montreal this week for Museums and the Web, feel free to join us online at http://conference.archimuse.com /jt -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] science museum site wins at SXSW
This hasn't been noted here, so i thought i'd pass on this bit of slightly late news [i've got my nose in the Museums and the Web proceedings production...] The Science Museum, London, has won both Best Game and Best of Show at SXSW for its game Launchball http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/ See http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/ for the other winners and see Mike Ellis's blog posting about the development http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/launchball-we-did-it-differently-and-got-it-right/ best, jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] last day for MW2008 Best of the Web Nominations
Hi Everyone, This is the last day for nominations for the Best of the Web competition @ MW2008. Help us find the best work out there; nominate your favourite site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/best/nominate.html Check out the categories, and judging criteria at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/best/categories.html Thanks for helping us recognise the Best of the Web! jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] your thoughts on the Best of the Web competition
hi all -- first of all, sorry if you get this query more than once... as we begin to think about Museums and the Web 2008, i'm wondering again about the role of the best of the web competition. we've started a thread on conference.archimuse.com at http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/best_of_the_web_competition_feedback_wanted and would love your thoughts. let us know what you think about the competition, and the role that it plays for you. do you look at the winners? thanks! jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] free hotel room at the Chicago Airport - Thursday - Saturday
Hi all, Because of the vagarities of airline pricing, we have a room (King / Non Smoking) at the Embassy Suites, O'Hare Airport that will be paid for but empty from Thursday - Saturday nights, during the MCN conference. In the Internet economy, it's cheaper to get a flight and a hotel room than just rebook a flight! If you would like the room, please contact me directly first come, first served. jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] ICHIM07: Join us in Toronto, Oct. 24-26
--- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings Digital Culture and Heritage Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ dedicated to the memory of Xavier Perrot --- It is still possible to register in advance for ICHIM07 in Toronto; join us for the best of cultural informatics, world-wide. Register at: https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html --- Papers On-line http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html Papers to be presented at ICHIM07 in Toronto are now on-line. But conferences aren't about people reading papers. They are about seeing first hand the diversity of work being done, meeting the people doing it, having conversations and asking questions. So plan to join us in Toronto for some stimulating discussions and debates. Come away with new ideas. Opening Keynote: Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada --- http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, will open ICHIM07 with his thoughts on convergence and content creation in a Web 2.0 world. A pioneer in shaping the united memory institution Ian will challenge us to consider what it now means To hold infinity in the palm of your hand. -- Closing Plenary: Ranjiit Makkuni on the Eternal Gandhi http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html Ranjit Makkuni, of the Sacred World Foundation, India, will speak about the making of the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum. He will present a language of physical interface actions derived from classical symbols of the spinning wheel, turning of the prayer wheels, touching symbolic pillars, the act of hands touching sacred objects, collaboratively constructed quilts, sacred chanting in the collective group, the satsanga and the touching and rotating of prayer beads. These tradition-based interactions inspire a rich panorama of tactile interfaces that allow people to access the multimedia imagery and multidimensional mind of Gandhiji. Eternal Ghandi was a winner of ID Magazine Design Award in 2006. -- Join Us in Toronto! We hope to see you at ICHIM07 for a celebration of the best in digital culture and heritage. David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, ICHIM07 Co-Chairs --- International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings - ICHIM07 October 24-26, 2007 produced by Toronto, Ontario, CanadaArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ 158 Lee Ave, Toronto ichim07 at archimuse.comOntario, M43 2P3 Canada ICHIM07 is produced by Archives Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, and in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO), and the MaRS Collaboration Centre. --- Sent to Jennifer Trant jtrant at archimuse.com from the Archives Museum Informatics Mailing List. See http://www.archimuse.com/privacy.html for our Privacy Policy.
[MCN-L] MCN Silent Auction 2007!
Rob, You'll have 'the usual' from us -- half price registration for Museums and the Web (this time in Montreal, April 9-12, 2008). don't know if we will bring books, as we're coming from Brazil -- yes, an MCN past-president (David) is coming this year. is there an address where we can send stuff in advance? jt At 9:19 AM -0400 10/3/07, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: Hi everyone, As the MCN conference approaches, so does our annual Silent Auction. Your donations to this event support a crucial program: all 2007 Silent Auction proceeds will fund conference scholarships for MCN 2008. It's not too soon to dream up novel donations and stash them away to carry to Chicago, where they'll be gratefully accepted in person. Items new or old, seriously useful or happily useless, that may attract bids and be carried home on airplanes are encouraged. Exhibition catalogs, museum bags, clothing, and other souvenirs are always popular. Donations need not be tangible things--some especially popular lots have offered free services or half-price registrations for other professional events. Donations may be dropped off at the conference desk in the hotel when you register; details will be announced soon. Auction volunteers also are needed. If you'd like to help or want to know more about what this entails, please email me off-list at rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1693 has more information about the auction and a wide range of MCN 2007 events. See you in Chicago! Rob (chair, MCN Silent Auction 2007) __ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] ICHIM07 papers on-line
-- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting digital culture and heritage Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ -- ICHIM07 Papers are now on-line http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html The first group of papers to be presented at the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting are now on-line. See the full list at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html But conferences aren't about people reading papers. They are about seeing first hand the diversity of work being done, having conversations and asking questions. So plan to join us in Toronto for some stimulating discussions and debates. -- Closing Plenary: Ranjiit Makkuni on the Eternal Gandhi http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html Ranjit Makkuni, of the Sacred World Foundation, India, will speak about the making of the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum. He will present a language of physical interface actions derived from classical symbols of the spinning wheel, turning of the prayer wheels, touching symbolic pillars, the act of hands touching sacred objects, collaboratively constructed quilts, sacred chanting in the collective group, the satsanga and the touching and rotating of prayer beads. These tradition-based interactions inspire a rich panorama of tactile interfaces that allow people to access the multimedia imagery and multidimensional mind of Gandhiji. Eternal Ghandi was a winner of ID Magazine Design Award in 2006. -- Register in Advance https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html Space is still available, but because registration at ICHIM07 is limited, please register in advance. Full details on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html -- Join Us On-line http://conference.archimuse.com There are now over 700 people from around the world registered in the conference.archimuse.com on-line community. Join us at http://conference.archimuse.com and contribute to our developing understanding of cultural heritage informatics. -- Questions? Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs: Jennifer Trant and David Bearman ichim07 at archimuse.com We hope to see you in Toronto! jennifer and David -- International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings - ICHIM07 October 24-26, 2007 produced by Toronto, Ontario, CanadaArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ 158 Lee Ave, Toronto ichim07 at archimuse.comOntario, M43 2P3 Canada ICHIM07 is produced by Archives Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, and in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO), and the MaRS Collaboration Centre.
[MCN-L] reminder: MW2008 proposal deadline: sept 30, 2007
just a quick reminder that the deadline for proposals for Museums and the Web 2008 (Montreal, April 9-12, 2008) is coming up fast. (it's this weekend to be exact!) for full details see the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ hope to see you in Montreal, jennifer -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008 produced by April 9 - 12, 2008, Montr?al, PQArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2008 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 - Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO).
[MCN-L] ICHIM07: Regular Registration Ends Sept. 15, 2007
[apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate] -- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ -- Join us in Toronto for a series of in-depth conversations about new developments in digital heritage policy and practice. Opening Keynote: Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada --- ICHIM07 will open with a keynote from Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada. A pioneer in shaping the united memory institution Ian will challenge us to consider what it now means To hold infinity in the palm of your hand. See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html Regular Registration Deadline: September 15, 2007 - Registration at ICHIM07 is limited to 300 people, ensuring that we will have an ideal forum for in-depth discussion and debate. The deadline for Regular Registration is this Saturday, September 15, 2007. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure reduced rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html Join Us On-line --- There are now over 700 people from around the world registered in the conference.archimuse.com on-line community. Join us at http://conference.archimuse.com and contribute to our developing understanding of cultural heritage informatics. In Memoriam: ICHIM07 dedicated to Xavier Perrot We dedicate ICHIM07 to the memory of Xavier Perrot, our friend and colleague, and a past co-chair of ICHIM, who died of cancer on July 20, 207. Your recollections and remembrances are invited at http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/dbear/ichim07_in_memory_of_xavier_perrot Questions? -- Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant , Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 e-mail: ichim07 at archimuse.com http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ ICHIM07 Program Committee --- * Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin Bren Simon Director and CEO, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA * David Arnold, Dean of Faculty, University of Brighton, UK * Liam Bannon, Professor, University of Limerick, Ireland * Jean Francois Chougnet, Director, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal * Costis Dallas, Research Fellow, Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research Centre and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Informatics, Panteion University, Greece * David Dawson, Senior Policy Adviser (Digital Futures), MLA, UK * Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada * Wendy Duff, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada * Franca Garzotto, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Kati Geber, Business Improvement and Strategic Advice, Services Canada, Canada * Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA * Mark Jones, Director, Victoria Albert Museum, UK * Harald Kraemer, Director of Artcampus, University of Berne, Switzerland * Otmar Moritsch, Curator, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria * Peter Sigmond, Director of Collections, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands * Jane Sledge, Associate Director for Museum Assets and Operations, National Museum of the American Indian, USA * Kevin Sumption, Associate Director, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Jutta Treviranus, Director ATRC, University of Toronto, Canada * Nicole Vallieres, Director, Knowledge and Collections Management, McCord Museum, Canada * Christabel Wright, Manager, New Media, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia - ICHIM is produced by Archives Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto and in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO) and the MaRS Collaboration Centre.
[MCN-L] MW2008 Call For Participation: Deadline Sept 30, 2007
[apologies for any duplication; please forward where appropriate] Museums and the Web 2008 April 9 - 12, 2008 Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Deadline: September 30, 2007. You are invited to participate in the twelfth annual Museums and the Web Conference. Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, the MW program reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, on-line presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. MW is very international; the 2007 conference welcomed over 800 delegates from more than 30 countries. Full details are available on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ Search the bibliography of past papers (all on-line since 1997) at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mw2008.proposal.form.html * DEADLINES * Proposals are due September 30, 2007 - for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 30, 2008) Proposals are due December 31, 2007 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * MW2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE* All proposals are subject to critical peer review by an International Program Committee. * Peter Bruce, Director General, Information Technology Branch, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada * Sebastian Chan, Manager Web Services, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Rich Cherry, Director of Administration, Operations and Finance Skirball Cultural Center, USA * Costis Dallas, Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management and Advanced Technologies, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, and Vice Chairman, PRC Group SA, Greece * Marthe de Vet, Head of Education and Public Services, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands * Jim Devine, Head of Multimedia, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland * Gail Durbin, Head of VA OnLine, Victoria Albert Museum, United Kingdom * Franca Garzotto, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Stefan G?bel, Digital Storytelling, Head, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Germany * Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel * Michael Jenkins, Manager, Met Images, Office of the Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Brian Kelly, Team Leader and Web Focus, UKOLN, United Kingdom * Paul Marty, Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University, USA * Dana Mitroff, Head of Online Services, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA * Kris Morrissey, Director, Museum Studies, Michigan State University, USA * Liddy Nevile, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia * Ross Parry, Lecturer in Museums and New Media, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom * Darren Peacock, School of Management, University of South Australia, Australia * Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes, Tate, United Kingdom * Ed Rodley, Content Developer, Research, Development Production, Museum of Science, Boston, USA * Rob Stein, CIO, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA * Christopher J. Terry, President CEO, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Canada * Kevin von Appen, Associate Director, Daily Experience Operations, Ontario Science Centre, Canada Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Papers are reviewed individually; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others. * FURTHER DETAILS? * Contact the MW2008 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant , Archives Museum Informatics -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008 produced by April 9 - 12, 2008, Montr?al, PQArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2008 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 - Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO).
[MCN-L] Podcast Survey
Heather, You might find these links from Museums and the Web helpful: (You can search all MW papers from http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum) Cardiff Rose. 2007. Designing a Web Site for Young People: The challenges of appealing to a diverse and fickle audience. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/designing_a_web_site_for_young_people_the_challenges_ Samis Peter. 2007. Gaining Traction in the Vaseline: Visitor Response to a Multi-Track Interpretive Approach to Matthew Barney: DRAWING RESTRAINT. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/gaining_traction_in_the_vaseline_visitor_response_to_ Devine Jim, Burton Jones Katherine, Constantine Wendy, Springer Jason, Stuchell Kurt. 2007. Harvard Masters Series: Access all areas. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/harvard_masters_series_access_all_areas Twiss-Garrity Beth, Fisher Matthew. 2007. Remixing Exhibits: Constructing participatory narratives with on-line tools to augment museum experiences. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/remixing_exhibits_constructing_participatory_narrativ Samis Peter, Svenonius Tim, Johnson Tana, Dance Katie, Pau Stephanie. 2007. Vodcasting: 5 easy steps to film an interview and get it online in a day! - FULL. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/vodcasting_5_easy_steps_to_film_an_interview_and_get_ Springer Julie, White Paula. 2007. Video iPods and Art Education. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/video_ipods_and_art_education Proctor Nancy. 2007. When In Roam: Visitor Response To Phone Tour Pilots In The US And Europe. Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/when_in_roam_visitor_response_to_phone_tour_pilots_in 2006 Samis Peter, Pau Stephanie. 2006. 'Artcasting' at SFMOMA: First-Year Lessons, Future Challenges for Museum Podcasters. Museums and the Web 2006: Proceedings. http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/artcasting_at_sfmoma_first_year_lessons_future_challe best, jennifer At 10:42 AM -0500 8/8/07, Heather Marie Wells wrote: Apologies for cross-posting. I'm trying to gather some data for a presentation I'm giving at SEMC on podcasting. If those of you out there who represent organizations that have podcasts could please take a minute to answer these quick questions it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How long have you been podcasting? 2. How many episodes do you have? 3. How often do you release an episode? 4. On average how many times has a single episode been downloaded in a month's time? 5. On average how many downloads for all available episodes do you have for a month? 6. Estimate how many downloads you had in your first year of podcasting. 7. What would you estimate your start up costs to have been? 8. How many staff members work on your podcasts? 9. Did you (or do you still) use outside companies to produce your podcasts? 10. In what city and state is your institute located? Thanks so much, Heather Marie Wells Heather Marie Wells Collections Assistant/Podcast Producer Shiloh Museum of Ozark History 118 W. Johnson Ave. Springdale, AR 72764 Phone: (479) 750-8165 Fax: (479) 750-8693 http://www.springdaleark.org/shiloh/ ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] [steve.discuss] second phase of steve tagging experimentdeployed
Please do try and tag in languages other than English! The tagger software is language agnostic; it will accept terms in any language. We're also very interested in exploring the implications of foreign-language terms in the tag set. Indeed, some hope that tagging might be a way to provide alternative language access to collections. best, jennifer At 2:17 PM +0200 7/17/07, Else Laura Rademaker wrote: Hi Jennifer, A question before I will try tagging the objects of art: What happens when one starts tagging in Dutch or an other foreign language? Else Laura Rademaker else.rademaker at den.nl Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 Postbus 90407 2509 LK Den Haag, the Netherlands T. + 31 (0)70 314 0762 www.den.nl www.digitaalallemaal.nl -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of J. Trant Sent: donderdag 12 juli 2007 16:02 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] [steve.discuss] second phase of steve tagging experimentdeployed Hi all, we've just deployed the second phase of the steve.museum tagging experiment. at http://tagger.steve.museum the steve tagger (a piece of open-source software) is a key tool in our IMLS-funded study of the contribution social tagging and folksonomy can make to on-line access to art collections. throughout our experiement we'll be varying the interface of the tagger to find out what encourages tagging, and we'll also be studying the results of tags, to see if they are: - real words (we're using word net) - terms from our discipline (we're using the AAT and ULAN) - new to the museum (we're comparing to museum documentation) - appropriate to the work of art (we're doing term-by-term review). we're looking forward to sharing the results of our study with the community. If you'd like to participate, please come by. [it's ok if you don't work in an art museum -- and ok if you do!] Go to http://tagger.steve.museum - create an account [this is important for our research] - Tag Art! Thanks. jennifer -- __ J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] [steve.discuss] second phase of steve tagging experiment deployed
Hi all, we've just deployed the second phase of the steve.museum tagging experiment. at http://tagger.steve.museum the steve tagger (a piece of open-source software) is a key tool in our IMLS-funded study of the contribution social tagging and folksonomy can make to on-line access to art collections. throughout our experiement we'll be varying the interface of the tagger to find out what encourages tagging, and we'll also be studying the results of tags, to see if they are: - real words (we're using word net) - terms from our discipline (we're using the AAT and ULAN) - new to the museum (we're comparing to museum documentation) - appropriate to the work of art (we're doing term-by-term review). we're looking forward to sharing the results of our study with the community. If you'd like to participate, please come by. [it's ok if you don't work in an art museum -- and ok if you do!] Go to http://tagger.steve.museum - create an account [this is important for our research] - Tag Art! Thanks. jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Reminder: ICHIM07 Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2007
ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ Call For Participation Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007 The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have -- since 1991 -- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental, academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts. ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format. You are invited to submit a proposal for participation in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include: Heritage Information Society * Policy * Law * Economics and Funding * Convergence of Institutions Technologically Mediated Heritage * Resources * Public Programs * Services * Collaborations Cultural Knowledge * Acquisition * Retrieval * Preservation Digital Heritage * Digital Art * Representations * Delivery methods * Evaluation Organizational Policy * Best Practices * Impacts * Innovations Cultural Heritage Information Systems * Research * Prototypes and Models * Innovative Design * Applications * Architectures * Networks Education and Infrastructures * Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals * Cultural Linguistic Diversity *** Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007. *** Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html All proposals must be submitted using the on-line form. Session Formats For further details regarding the format of ICHIM07 sessions, see the description of Session Formats at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/sessions/sessionFormats.html Proposal Review All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee. Invitations will be issued in May 2007. Written Paper Required All presenters are required to provide written papers by July 31, 2007. A briefing book on the state of Cultural Heritage Informatics, 2007 will be prepared for delegates. Questions? Contact ichim07 at archimuse.com ICHIM07 Co-Chairs David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Archives Museum Informatics ICHIM07 Program Committee * Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA * David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK * Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland * Jean Francois Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal * Susan Chun, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece * David Dawson, MLA, UK * Sara Diamond, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada * Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada * Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada * Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA * Mark Jones, Victoria Albert Museum, UK * Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland * Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria * Xavier Perrot, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France * Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands * Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Jutta Treviranus, University of Toronto, Canada * Nicole Vallieres, McCord Museum, Canada * Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: ICHIM07 produced by October 24-26, 2007, Toronto, ONArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ 158 Lee Avenue email: ichim07 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] Best of the Web Awards at MW2007
Every year, the Museums and the Web community nominates sites to be considered for the Best of the Web awards. Peer nominations (and self-nominations) create a short list of sites that are reviewed by a panel of judges, and winners are chosen in a number of categories. * Best Overall Museum Site, selected by the judges from all of the sites nominated. Stagework http://stagework.org.uk institution: National Theatre, UK designed by Illumina Digital Awards are also given in a number of categories: * On-line Exhibition Honorable Mention Caught Coloured Museum Victoria, Australia http://museumvictoria.com.au/caughtandcoloured/ Winner Rembrandt-Caravaggio Webspecial Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands http://www.rembrandt-caravaggio.nl?index_en.htm * E-Services or E-Commerce no award given * Innovative or Experimental Application SFMOMA ArtCasts http://www.sfmoma.org/podcasts/ Desgined by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Antenna Audio * Museum Professional's Site Collections Link http://www.collectionslink.org.uk Managed by MDA in partnership with Institute of Conservation and The National Preservation Office. * Research Site Discover Nikkei http://www.discovernikkei.org Institution: Japanese American National Museum Designer: Rory Matthews * Education Stagework http://stagework.org.uk institution: National Theatre, UK designed by Illumina Digital * Small Site no award given Congratulations to all of the Winners! We're excited by the level of quality and depth of of content in all of these sites. /jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Queries: survey/accessibility test
Hi Lorna, Take a look at Dana Mitroff and Katrina Alcorn's paper for Museums and the Web at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/mitroff/mitroff.html in which they report on an in-depth survey of users of sfmoma.org We'll miss you at MW this year! jennifer At 2:02 PM +0300 4/10/07, Lorna Abungu wrote: Dear colleagues, I am currently working on a consultancy to re-vamp an existing website to be a bigger and better (and more attractive) online resource (for academics, laymen, students...), and provide access to a huge digitised collection of images (for educational use AND sale). I am in the process of developing a questionnaire/survey for existing and potential users. We will be looking at the website very critically, and shall also be addressing accessibility issues. I have two queries: 1. Is there any standard 'model' questionnaire to judge the usability and accessibility of a web site? I suspect that no one standard is possible... this being the case, would anyone have any good ideas of sample surveys that have been useful for other, similar projects? 2. I am aware of some web-sites and software that are used for accessibility tests; is there a recommended 'best' or standard? You may reply directly to me at the address below, instead of posting to the list. Many thanks, Lorna - - - Lorna L. Abungu Cultural heritage consultant P.O. Box 66, Ngara 00600 Nairobi - Kenya Tel. +254-722-523600 l.abungu at mac.com ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2007: Papers on-line
Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ ** MW2007 Papers: Now On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/speakers/index.html The first of the papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2007 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to view the full paper text. (All papers will be available on-line before the meeting.) ** Pre-Register for MW2007: April 6, 2007 Deadline ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/register/index.html Register for MW2007 before April 6, 2007 to take advantage of the reduced pre-registration rate. You can also register on-site. Download the PDF Registration Form from the web site before you come. ** Participate in the Crit Room or Usability Lab ** This is your last chance to volunteer your site for the Crit Room or the Usability Lab. If you'd like instant feedback from your peers, this is the way to get it. Email mw2007 at archimuse.com with an indication of why you are interested. ** See You In San Francisco ** If you are planning to come to MW2007, make your hotel reservation right away. While there is no more space in the Westin St. Francis, you can get the special MW rate at the Omni San Francisco. Reserve before March 27th from http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanFrancisco/MeetingFacilities/MuseumsandtheWeb4.aspx We hope to see you in April. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] CFP: International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
(apologies for any duplication; please forward where appropriate.) International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings October 24-26, 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2007 The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have --since 1991-- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental, academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts. You are invited to participate in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include: Heritage Information Society * Policy * Law * Economics and Funding * Convergence of Institutions Technologically Mediated Heritage * Resources * Public Programs * Services * Collaborations Cultural Knowledge * Acquisition * Retrieval * Preservation Digital Heritage * Digital Art * Representations * Delivery methods * Evaluation Organizational Policy * Best Practices * Impacts * Innovations Cultural Heritage Information Systems * Research * Prototypes and Models * Innovative Design * Applications * Architectures * Networks Education and Infrastructures * Cultural Linguistic Diversity * Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals Session Formats ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format. Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007. Submit your proposal using our on-line form. See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ ICHIM07 Program Committee Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics * Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA * David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK * Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland * Jean Fran?ois Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal * Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece * David Dawson, MLA, UK * Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada * Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada * Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA * Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland * Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria * Xavier Perrot, Biblioth?que Nationale de France, France * Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands * Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Nicole Valli?res, McCord Museum, Canada * Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia To learn more about ICHIM, see past papers on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] MW2007 Best of the Web Deadline: Monday, January 8, 2007
... apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate ... Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ the 11th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage on the Web ** BEST OF WEB NOMINATION DEADLINE: MONDAY JANUARY 8, 2007 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/best/ For the past eleven years a panel of professionals has reviewed sites and made awards that track achievements in interpreting art, science, history, culture and nature on-line. Help us recognize the best in cultural and heritage web design, by nominating your favourite site for a Best of the Web Award. The Categories for 2007 are: * On-line Exhibition * E-Services or E-Commerce * Innovative or Experimental Application * Museum Professional's Site * Research Site * Education Site * Best Overall Museum Site (selected by the judges from all of the sites nominated) New in 2006 was explicit recognition of work from smaller institutions: Judges may once again make a separate award in each category for small museums/budgets in 2007. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/best/nominate.html and propose a site for the Judges' review before Monday's deadline. There are no nomination fees. We strongly encourage nominations of sites other than your own. Happy New Year! jennifer and David Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2007 - MW2007 Best of the Web Judging Panel - * Jim Angus, National Institutes of Health, USA * Pat Barbanell, Schenectady City Schools, USA * Ana Carr, University of Guadalajara, Mexico * Ericka Chemko, Inuit Heritage Trust Inc., Canada * Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland * Ian Edelman, Hampshire County Council, United Kingdom * Karen Elinich, Franklin Institute, USA * Zorana Ercegovac, Marlborough School, USA * David Greenfield, Pepperdine University, USA * Kate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation, USA * Katherine Burton Jones, Harvard University, USA * Brad Larson, Brad Larson Media, Inc., USA * Jonathan Lathigee, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada * Norm Lownds, Michigan State University, USA * Marjo M?enp??, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland * Susannah McGowan, Georgetown University, USA * Lawrence Monda, National Museums of Kenya, Kenya * Delphin Muise, Carleton University, Canada * Leighann Neilson, Carleton University, Canada * Carsten Tage Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark * Jerry Powell, Winterthur Museum, USA * Craig Rosa, KQED | Public Radio, TV and Interactive, USA * Solimar Salas, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, USA * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Osamu Takahashi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Marcia Tiede, Center for Creative Photography, USA * Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, USA -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025
[MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming?
Amalyah: For a list of more than 200 museum and museum-related sites on-line in 1995, see: Taylor, Janet H., and Joe Ryan. 1995. Museums and galleries on the Internet. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 5 (1):80-88 jt At 3:18 PM +0200 12/19/06, amalyah keshet wrote: Interesting. I distinctly remember the Dallas Museum of Art being the first museum I found on the Web. Amalyah At 14:25 19/12/2006, you wrote: I would vote for Dallas Museum of Art - whose former IT director now works for Microsoft in Dallas He sure turned me onto the web, and when I started www.mariner.org for The Mariners' Museum, we were part of that first wave of websites for museums - thanks to him (I forget his name!) Mark - Original Message - From: amalyah keshet akeshet at netvision.net.il To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming? So, which WAS the first museum to have a website? Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Museums and the Web 2007: Program On-line
Darren Peacock, School of Management, University of South Australia, Australia Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes, Tate, United Kingdom Ed Rodley, Content Developer, Research, Development Production, Museum of Science, Boston, USA Stephanie Stebich, Director, Tacoma Art Museum, USA Christopher J. Terry, President CEO, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Canada Kevin von Appen, Associate Director, Daily Experience Operations, Ontario Science Centre, Canada Bruce Wyman, Director of New Technologies, Denver Art Museum, USA -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] history of cultural heritage and ICT
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[MCN-L] MW2007 Call For Participation: Deadline Sept 30, 2006
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ You are invited to participate in the Eleventh Annual Museums and the Web Conference. * THEMES FOR 2007 * Social Issues and Impact - Building Communities - Public Content Creation - On-going Engagement Organizational Strategies - Building + Managing Web Teams - Multi-Institutional Ventures - Facilitating Institutional Change - Sustainability Applications - Wireless Inside/Outside - Visitor Support On-site + On-line - Schools + Educational Programs - E-commerce for Museums Technical and Design Issues - Standards, Architectures + Protocols - Interface + Design Paradigms - New Tools + Methods - Managing Content + Metadata Museum 2.0 Services - Podcasting, Blogging, RSS, Social Tagging, - Folksonomy, Wikis, Cell Phone Tours ... - Museum Mashups Evaluation + User Studies - Research Methods + Results - Impact Studies - User Analysis + Audience Development [This list is not exhaustive; any relevant proposal will be considered.] * SESSION FORMATS* Choose the right presentation format for your proposal. Even the best ideas can be rejected if proposed for an inappropriate venue. Research? - Propose a Paper, to be given in a formal session with other papers and discussion Case Study? - Present a Paper or a Demonstration, depending on whether you wish to emphasize generalizability, or your specific case Methods and Techniques? - Teach others in a Pre-conference Workshops (full or half-day) or Mini-workshop (1 hour) Debate or Problem Statement? - Engage colleagues in a Professional Forum Product to Show? - Propose Demonstration (non-commercial) - Participate in the Exhibit Hall (commercial) Performance? Interaction? Service? - Propose any other format of participation + explain how it works. * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/mw2007.proposal.form.html * DEADLINES * September 30, 2006 - for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 30, 2007) December 31, 2006 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * PROPOSAL REVIEW * All proposals are subject to critical peer review by an International Program Committee. Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. Papers are reviewed individually; full sessions are rarely accepted. * QUESTIONS? * Contact the MW2007 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant , Archives Museum Informatics e-mail: mw2007 at archimuse.com * MW2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * - Peter Bruce, Director General, Information Technology Branch, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada - Sebastian Chan, Manager Web Services, Powerhouse Museum, Australia - Rich Cherry, CIO, Guggenheim Museum, USA - Costis Dallas, Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management and Advanced Technologies, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, and Vice Chairman, PRC Group SA, Greece - Marthe de Vet, Head of Education and Public Services, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands - Jim Devine, Head of Multimedia, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland - Gail Durbin, Head of VA OnLine, Victoria Albert Museum, United Kingdom - Jane Finnis, Director, 24 Hour Museum, United Kingdom - Franca Garzotto, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Kati Geber, Manager, Research and Business Intelligence, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada - Stefan G?bel, Digital Storytelling, Head, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Germany - Timothy Hart, Director, Information Multimedia Technology, Museum Victoria, Australia - Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel - Eero Hyv?nen, Professor, Laboratory of Media Technology, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland - Michael Jenkins, Manager, Met Images, Office of the Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA - Brian Kelly, Team Leader and Web Focus, UKOLN, United Kingdom - Mike Lowndes, Interactive Media Manager, The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom - Paul Marty, Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University, USA - James Michalko, Vice President of RLG-Programs Development, OCLC-RLG, USA - Dana Mitroff, Head of Online Services, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA - Kris Morrissey, Director, Museum Studies, Michigan State University, USA - Liddy Nevile, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia - Ross Parry, Lecturer in Museums and New Media, Department of Museum Studies, University of
MW2006: Early Registration Closes December 16, 2005
Museums and the Web 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA March 22-25, 2006 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ the 10th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage on the Web ** Register Online ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/register/index.html Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural and heritage content across institutions and around the world: the tenth annual Museums and the Web. Register on-line to make the December 16, 2005 payment deadline for Early Registration rates. ** Full Program Available ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/sessions/ Full abstracts of all accepted papers, workshops mini-workshops, professional fora and interactions are now on the MW2006 Web site, along with biographies of presenters. Our thanks to the Program Committee for their review of the proposals. ** Speakers List Online ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/speakers/ See the full list of speakers and workshop presenters. We think you'll agree that we've got the strongest MW yet. Our congratulations to everyone. ** Demonstration Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2005 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/demos/ If you missed the deadline for paper proposals, but want to highlight your latest work you have until December 31, 2005 to propose to demonstrate your Web site. ** Best of the Web Nominations Close: December 31, 2005 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/best/ Help us select those sites worthy of recognition by the annual Best of the Web awards. Nominate your favourite site today. ** Join Us! ** MW2005 participants say Museums and the Web is THE conference to be at ... the people you need to speak and meet with WILL be there. MW brings together an amazing representation of museum + technical people and is a place where you can meet so many interesting people and find rich content + collegial enthusiasm . We hope to see you in Albuquerque, jennifer and David J. Trant and D. Bearman Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2006 ** MW2006 Program Committee ** Lorna Abungu, AFRICOM, Kenya Peter Bruce, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada Rich Cherry, Guggenheim Museum, USA Costis Dallas, Critical Publics, Greece Marthe de Vet, Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Netherlands Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland Gail Durbin, Victoria Albert Museum, UK Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada Stefan G bel, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Germany Timothy Hart, Museum Victoria, Australia Susan Hazan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Eero Hyvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Mike Lowndes, The Natural History Museum, UK Paul Marty, Florida State University, USA Eiji Mizushima, Tokiwa University, Japan Otmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria Kris Morrissey, Michigan State University, USA Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Darren Peacock, University of South Australia, Australia Xavier Perrot, Bibliotheque nationale de France, France Jemima Rellie, Tate, UK Ed Rodley, Museum of Science, USA Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum, USA Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Ron Wakkary, Simon Frazer University, Canada Bruce Williams, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada Karen Worcman, Museum of the Person, Brazil Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, USA -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2006 produced by March 22-25, 2006, Albuquerque, NM Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2...@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: folksonomies
Günter, Thanks for a good summary of the MCN-L discussion. I wanted to highlight one of the attractions of folksonomy for the art museums involved in Steve that you didn't mention: It's a bridge between the museum and the visitor. There's a semantic gap between the way that museum professionals talk about art and the way that the general public perceives it. What you see in a picture may not be reflected in art museum professional documentation. As Koven Smith reported at the MCN session, preliminary tests at The Metropolitan Museum of Art have shown a significant difference in the terms assigned by art historically and non-art historically trained staff. And what curators 'know' about a work may not be drawn from visual analysis at all. Michael Jenkin's wonderful anecdote about the MMA's curatorial trials reinforced this; one curator was stumped when asked to assign keywords that described a photograph: Everything I know isn't in the picture, he said. Subject cataloguing (at any one of Panofsky's levels of description: pre-iconographic, iconographic or iconological) is one aspect of what is often not included in museum documentation. Another is style and period terminology (think Impressionist). Then there is the lack of simple descriptions of the visual elements that make up a composition (red circle, blue square). Or there is the formulation of names. Is she Gabrielle Chanel, or Coco? In all these cases enabling users' descriptions [through tagging] would capture their perspective on the works in museum collections, bridge the gap between visitor and museum, and further enable access to the collections we hold in the public trust. jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching in CMSand DAMS
Hey everyone --- these discussions echo some of the themes we've explored in steve. How you conceptualize folksonomy is related closely to what it is you think you are enabling by it, and thinking about one half of that equation exposes pre-conceptions on the other. If you think that folksonomic strategies are enabling 'internet users' to catalog your collection for you, then you'll want to implement systems and protocols that support institutional values, like consistency, authority, accuracy, and strict interoperability. But if you think of folksonomy as a way to enable a user to make a personal connection with your museum collection, and conceive of it as supporting re-discovery (of things that i've seen in your museum that i'm interested in) as much as new discovery (of things in your collection that i might be interested in), then many of those questions don't matter, and what is more important is the user experience, and feedback loop. Personally, i'm becoming more and more convinced that tags exist in a space between a user and a resource, and that their meaning is situationally defined. the popular del.icio.us tag 'toread' is a good example of this. it only means something to me, now. it doesn't really mean anything to you, because i can't know if you want toread this thing. And it won't mean the same thing to me tomorrow when i've read that thing -- assuming that i'm keeping up on my reading ;) So letting people tag museum objects is letting them say what those objects mean to them, and helping them re-create that sense of meaning at a later time. So any way they choose to assert meaning (any tag they use) is valid -- within limits of socially acceptable behaviour of course. This doesn't discount the social leverage we get from tagging. You might be really interested in the things that i want toread because you're interested in the same things that i am. So you follow the things that i want toread assuming that there will be useful stuff there. That's where the power of del.icious. tag streams comes from. Nor does it belie the broader utility that derives from the way that personal tags cluster around information resources, a confluence that might help us leverage the power of the personal for institutional ends. If the same tag, from a set that we know (like impressionism from a known list of styles) is used by x number of people to describe the same resource, can we assume that that resource is really about that? (i.e. that it is 'impressionist' ? i know i changed parts of speech there). The studies that The Metropolitan Museum has begun in this area are really interesting and hint at statistical thresholds. We've also got a lot to learn about what people find interesting in our collections. We really don't know how they will describe them, but we're pretty sure that the way the general public thinks about art and the way that a specialist conceives of it are very different: preliminary tests have also born this out. if we know what kinds of things people are interested in will we change our descriptive practices? I'm convinced that there are lots of ways that museums can use tagging; we've just got to do it in a conscious way, and try and learn from our experience. that's what's making the Steve collaboration fun. Happy Thanksgiving -- to some of you from someone who celebrated it a while ago: it seems the meaning of holidays is situationally dependent too ;) jt -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching
the depth of the subject headings used in library catalogs--maybe no? If you do assign subject headings, which authorities are used -- LCSH? AAT? Thanks, Deborah Deborah Wythe Brooklyn Museum Head, Digital Collections and Services 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 tel: 718 501 6311 fax: 718 501 6125 email: deborahwy...@hotmail.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jana.h...@cartermuseum.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: deborahwy...@hotmail.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: m...@concretecomputing.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jtr...@archimuse.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
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Presentations from Managing Digital Assets Symposium Available
Given the themes discussed this past week in Boston at the MCN conference, this report (noted on the CNI-announce list) is quite apropos. best, jennifer To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition cni-annou...@cni.org X-Original-Message-Id: d3f2fb11-5f0c-4a52-a499-13f6871f2...@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch cl...@cni.org Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 08:28:26 -0800 Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Presentations from Managing Digital Assets Symposium Available On October 28, 2005 CNI co-sponsored a symposium on Strategic Issues in Managing Digital Assets, working in partnership wtih the Association of Research Libraries, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Digital Library Federation. The text of the keynote address by Don Waters of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the presentations by the other speakers and panelists, are now available at http://www.arl.org/forum05/ I think you'll find this collection of materials to be a very valuable resource. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web: Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2005
FOR PARTICIPATION. Deadline: September 30, 2005. Museums and the Web 2006 March 22-25, 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ You are invited to participate in the Tenth Annual Museums and the Web Conference! Themes for 2006 include: Tenth Anniversary Retrospective * Serious Analysis of any aspect of Museums and the Web over the past ten years Social Issues and Impact * Community Involvement * Folksonomy * Schools and Educational Programs * Sustainability Organizational Strategies * Building and Managing Web Teams * Multi-Institutional Ventures * Publication or Content Creation Models * Distributed Content, Gateways and Aggregators * Change Enabled by the Web Applications * Wireless, Inside and Outside * Visitor Support On-Site and On-Line * Museum, Library and Archive Working Together Museum Services on the Web, like: * Webcasting * Art and Exhibition Programs on the Web * E-Commerce for Museums Technical and Design Issues * Standards, Architectures and Protocols * Interface and Design Paradigms * New Tools and Methods * Managing Content and Metadata Evaluation and User Studies * Results * Methods * Impact Studies * User Analysis and Audience Development SESSION FORMATS Different methods of presentation suit particular kinds of content. Museums and the Web includes formal Papers, Demonstrations, Workshops, Mini-Workshops, Professional Fora and other Interactions. Choose the right presentation format for your proposal. Even the best ideas can be rejected if proposed for an inappropriate venue. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/sessions/index.html for details. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Submit your proposal on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/call.html All proposals must cite relevant URLs, explain the thesis of the proposed paper in at least a paragraph, and include full contact details (with e-mail address) for all co-authors. Please coordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. Papers are reviewed individually. DEADLINE: September 30, 2005. PROPOSAL REVIEW The program for MW2006 is selected by a committee of international experts in cultural informatics. All proposals are peer-reviewed. Written papers are required. The best papers appear in print in Museums and the Web 2006: selected papers from an international conference. All papers appear in on-line as part of the MW2006 site and on CD-ROM Proceedings. Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences, since 1997, are available on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html for links to individual years and to a combined list of speakers. MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman Jennifer Trant Archives Museum Informatics MW2006 Program Committee Peter Bruce, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada Rich Cherry, Guggenheim Museum, USA Costis Dallas, Critical Publics, Greece Marthe de Vet, Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Netherlands Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland Gail Durbin, Victoria Albert Museum, UK Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada Stefan Göbel, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Germany Timothy Hart, Museum Victoria, Australia Susan Hazan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki, Finland Mike Lowndes, The Natural History Museum, UK Paul Marty, Florida State University, USA Eiji Mizushima, Tokiwa University, Japan Otmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria Kris Morrissey, Michigan State University, USA Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Darren Peacock, University of South Australia, Australia Xavier Perrot, Bibliothèque nationale de France, France Jemima Rellie, Tate, UK Ed Rodley, Museum of Science, USA Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum, USA Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Ron Wakkary, Simon Frazer University, Canada Karen Worcman, Museum of the Person, Brazil Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, USA NEED TO KNOW MORE? For program details and registration information see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ or email mw2...@archimuse.com. We hope to see you in Albuquerque! jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2006 March 22-25, 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ email: mw2...@archimuse.com Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4E 2P3 Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352 6025 http://www.archimuse.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe
Museum Archives
Caroline, The Society of American Archivists has a Museum Archives Section. The following two forwarded messages from their listserv report on their most recent newsletter, and publication of Museum Archives: An Introduction. Best, jennifer Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:46:04 -0400 Reply-To: Soc. of Am. Archivists' Museum Archives Section saamu...@si-listserv.si.edu Sender: Soc. of Am. Archivists' Museum Archives Section saamu...@si-listserv.si.edu From: Molly Wheeler whee...@albersfoundation.org Subject: Museum Archivist: latest issue online! To: saamu...@si-listserv.si.edu X-Spam-Status: X-Spam-Status: hits=0.0 Dear archives community, The Museum Archives Section of SAA is happy to announce that the Summer 2005 issue of Museum Archivist is up! Please visit http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/museum/newsletter/current/vol18no2.htm. We'd like to thank everyone that wrote an article, review or submitted a news item. If you've never contributed before, please consider doing so in the future- we'd love to hear from you. Museum Archivist is the Newsletter of the Museum Archives Section of SAA. If you'd like to be involved in the Museum Archives Section, please find out how at http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/museum/index.htm. See you in New Orleans! Sincerely, The Museum Archivist Editors Molly Wheeler Archivist, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation 88 Beacon Road Bethany CT 06524 p: 203.393.4089 f: 203.393.4094 e: whee...@albersfoundation.org www.albersfoundation.org At 8:56 AM -0400 6/24/05, Kathleen Williams wrote: For those who haven't seen or heard of it yet, the new publication edited by Deb Wythe, Museum Archives: An Introduction (Society of American Archivists, 2004) could provide a lot of sound guidance and examples in this and other areas. You can order (I think) via the SAA website at www.archivists.org. Hope to see many of you in New Orleans at the Society's annual meeting. Best regards, Kathleen Kathleen M. Williams Deputy Executive Director, NHPRC National Archives Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 106 Washington, DC 20408-0001 202/501-5600 ext. 245 kathleen.willi...@nara.gov At 8:41 AM -0400 6/30/05, Caroline Marshall wrote: Hello, I am trying to find a link for a museum rchives association. I am based in New England. Thanks Caroline Marshall -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: CMS
Those considering CMS applications might find the following interesting: Jeffrey Veen, Making A Better CMS, November 15, 2004 http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000365.php and Why Content Management Fails, April 1, 2004 http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000315.php which reminds me of http://OpenSourceCMS.com a cool site where you can try out installations of free and open source CMS software. jt -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Announcing the MW2005 Best of the Web winners
that gives the user many options for shaping their experience and makes good use of new technologies (I especially liked the use of rich media). It is deep and provides interdisciplinary learning. I was fascinated and could have stayed for hours just poking around and exploring. Great site. Funducational and very informative. Something for everyone! The whole family will be fighting for computer time! Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to all who participated. A full list of sites nominated, is available at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/list.html A call for nominations for the Best of the Web 2006 will appear in the fall of 2005. Best wishes, jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2005: Papers on-line
Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ The international conference for culture and heritage on-line! MW2005 Papers: Now On-line http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/speakers/index.html Papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2005 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to view the full paper text. (All papers will be available on-line before the meeting.) A printed volume of Selected Papers - including a CD of all submissions - is also available; see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/new.html for details. Closing Plenary: Converging Culture Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/abstracts/prg_295000686.html Ian Wilson, as National Librarian and Archivist of Canada, is the first person to hold the joint national responsibility for both archives and libraries. He will address the real, apparent, and possible convergences of cultural repositories and programmes and explore the challenges that face us in the very near future. Hotel Space: Still Available http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/local/index.html There is still some space at the MW2005 conference hotel. Make your reservations on-line before March 23, 2005 to receive the MW rate. Use the form linked from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/local/index.html Pre-Register: April 5, 2005 Deadline http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/register/index.html Register for MW2005 before April 5, 2005 to take advantage of the reduced pre-registration rate. You can also register on-site. Download the PDF Registration Form from the web site before you come. See You In Vancouver Join us for the ninth annual Museums and the Web, described by an attendee at MW2004 as probably my all-time favorite conference. We're looking forward to another great review (and critique) of the state of the Web in arts, culture and heritage. Safe travels! jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2...@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MW2005: Best of the Web Nominations Open
Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ *** Nominate Your Favourite Site for the Best of the Web 2005 *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/ Nominations are now open for the 2005 Best of the Web competition, held every year in conjunction with Museums and the Web, the international conference about culture and heritage on-line. You are invited to nominate sites for consideration by an international panel of judges. Please use the on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/nominate.html The nomination period closes January 15, 2005. ***Choose the Right Category *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/categories.html The MW2005 Best of the Web categories are: * On-line Exhibition * E-Services * Educational Use * Innovative or Experimental Application * Museum Professional's Site * Research Site In addition, the Judges select the Best Overall Museum Site, from all sites nominated. Please review the category definitions at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/categories.html before you nominate a site using our on-line form. *** Things to Remember *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/nominate.html This is NOT a popularity contest. You will do better with one good justification than with lots of separate nominations. * You many nominate the same part of the same site in ONLY ONE one category. * Be specific and include as precise a URL as possible, for the part of the site related to the category you have chosen. * You may nominate only one site in each category. * You may nominate sites even if you are unable to attend MW2005 * All sites will be reviewed by an international panel of judges, who will present awards at the MW2005 conference in Vancouver. * No site will be considered for a Best of the Web award if one of the judges is associated with it. *** Thanks! *** Thank you for helping us recognize the Best of the Web. We hope to see you in Vancouver. jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2...@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MW2005: Preliminary Program and Registration On-line
Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from around the world for the international conference devoted to culture and heritage on-line: the ninth annual Museums and the Web. ** Preliminary Program Available ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/index.html Full details of the MW2005 program are now on-line. Descriptions of 11 pre-conference workshops, over 50 papers, 25 mini-workshops and 4 professional fora, a usability lab, and the Crit Rooms will help you choose what to attend. The program for MW2005 was peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. ** Register On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/register/index.html Complete your Early Registration by December 31, 2004 and save at least $100. (Note: Registration rates are calculated based on the date payment is received.) ** Participate in MW2005 ** If you missed the deadline for paper proposals, but have a great project to showcase, you can still participate in MW2005. You have until December 31, 2004 to propose to demonstrate your Web site. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/demos/index.html Vendors of museum interactive multimedia technology, content management and design services should consider the Exhibit Hall. See the prospectus at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/exhibit/ ** Scholarships ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/scholarships/index.html Every year Archives Museum Informatics sets aside a proportion of MW registration fees to sponsor a Scholarship Program. To be eligible you must have made a significant contribution to the development of a cultural or heritage Web site, and must demonstrate that you would not be able to attend the meeting without support. Professionals from the developing world are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition, thanks to the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), fifteen competitive scholarships to MW2005 are available specifically for Canadians. ** Thanks ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/sponsor/thanks.html Our thanks to the Government of Canada for their contributions to MW2005 through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO) initiatives of the Department of Canadian Heritage. ** Can't Make it? Get the Book ** http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html Selected Papers from Museums and the Web 2005 will be published in a print volume, accompanied by all papers on CD-Rom. Order your copy on-line. Past papers from all MW conferences -- since 1997 -- are available in print and on-line see http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/speakers_list.html ** Join Us! ** Each year, MW draws the widest range of cultural and heritage web designers, developers and users of any international event. Plan to join us at what M2004 attendees called a superlative conference ... most inspiring, most effective, most creative. We hope to see you there! jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2...@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Reminder: MW2005 Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2004
Reminder: CALL FOR PAPERS. Deadline: September 30, 2004. Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005 Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Proposals to deliver a peer-reviewed paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional discussion forum, offer a mini-workshop, or craft a session with a distinctive presentation format suited to your subject, are due this week. Submit your proposal on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/call.html PROPOSAL REVIEW The program for MW2005 is selected by a committee of international experts in cultural informatics. All proposals are peer-reviewed. Written papers are required. The best papers appear in print in Museums and the Web 2005: selected papers from an international conference. All papers appear in on-line as part of the MW2005 site and on CD-ROM Proceedings. Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences, since 1997, are available on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html for links to individual years and to a combined list of speakers. MW2005 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman Jennifer Trant Archives Museum Informatics MW2005 Program Committee Lorna Abungu, AFRICOM, Kenya Peter Bruce, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada Rich Cherry, Guggenhiem Museum, USA Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland Gail Durbin, Victoria Albert Museum, United Kingdom Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada Stefan Göbel, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany Susan Hazan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki, Finland Paul Marty, Florida State University, USA Eiji Mizushima, Tokiwa University, Japan Kris Morrissey, Michigan State University, USA Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Angeliki Panagiotaki, Hellenic Cultural Heritage S.A., Greece Darren Peacock, University of South Australia, Australia Xavier Perrot, Le Sorbonne / Ecole du Louvre, France Ed Rodley, Museum of Science, USA Stephanie A. Stebich, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Sarah Tinsely, Tate, United Kingdom Ron Wakkary, Simon Frazer University, Canada Bruce Williams, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada Karen Worcman, Museum of the Person, Brazil Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, NEED TO KNOW MORE? For program details and registration information see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ or email mw2...@archimuse.com. We hope to see you in Vancouver! jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ email: mw2...@archimuse.com Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4E 2P3 Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 http://www.archimuse.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Museums and Humanities Cyberinfrastructure
David and Len (and others), I also found it a bit disconcerting how little the state of the art in museum information standards and practices in the museum field was reflected in the testimony that was forwarded. Off the top of my head: In terms of standards ... The CIDOC Relational Data Model was accepted by the international museum community 10 years ago, and has since been expressed as an Object Oriented Model. The Canadian Heritage Information Network has published museum data standards (implemented in their systems used by 100s of museums with millions of records) for over 30 years. Art Museum participation ensured that the Categories for the Description of Works of Art - CDWA (prepared by the Art Information Task Force, a joint NEH-funded project of the Getty and the College Art Association, now maintained by the Getty) represented information museums managed. Cross-over between the two committees ensured they were compatible CIMI built on this work, and took it experimentally into areas of SGML and then XML, the Dublin core and Hand-held delivery (among other projects). AMICO has implemented a specification based on these standards and The AMICO Library contains 100,000+ museum records from over 25 museums that HAVE BEEN interchanged among 100s of organizations and are accommodated in dozens of information management systems. The Museums and the Online Archive of California project has also assembled a significant body of museum records from multiple institutions and made it available through multiple channels. The community is full of experience, and the problems we face are not insurmountable: The Tate has digitized its collection. At Museums and the Web the discussion was turning from 'how do we do it' to 'what do we do now we're almost done' ... In terms of innovation ... Far from being behind the curve, museums are a hot-bed of creativity. Look at the work of the Walker Art Center (Minnesota Artists http://mnartists.org), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (http://www.sfmoma.org) and The Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.org), Conservation Central (Smithsonian's National Zoo) http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral, The American Museum of Natural History including the OLogy - Projects area http://ology.amnh.org. ... I could go on ... In terms of participation ... Far from coming to the table as supplicants, museums need to step forward as equal participants with real experience in developing significant collections of lasting scholarly value -- both digital and PHYSICAL. Moving knowledge forward digitally should not involve a severing of the relationship between the physical object and the digital surrogate. (Increased knowledge about the physical artefacts should pass into the digital realm as a matter of course, supported by institutional policy and procedure). Museums have a long history of developing knowledge based on these resources and communicating it to multiple audiences in many different modes and modalities. What we're missing is an ability to speak as a group about these experiences. This is one case where the heterogeneous nature of our interdisciplinary museum community works against us. With my best from Grindstone Island, jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
An Image Retrieval Benchmarking Service? Comments Requested
Dear Colleagues, Comments are requested on the following study commissioned by CLIR into the feasibility of an image retrieval benchmarking service, and its possible role in speeding the development and deployment of image retrieval technology for the digital library. Please forward your comments to me or to CLIR c/o ksm...@clir.org. I'd appreciate it if you would share this request for comments widely. The issues cut across many communities, and breadth of interest and commitment is critical if the concept is to be successfully developed. Thank you. jennifer. Image Retrieval Benchmark Database Service: A Needs Assessment and Preliminary Development Plan A Report Prepared for the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Coalition for Networked Information Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics REPORT BODY Text: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/tranttext.htm PDF: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/tranttext.pdf REFERENCES Text: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/trantrefs.htm PDF: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/trantrefs.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The rapid increase in the quantity of visual materials in digital libraries-supported by significant advances in digital imaging technologies-has not been supported by a corresponding advance in image retrieval technologies and techniques. Digital librarians sense that much could be done to improve access to visual collections and hope, perhaps vainly, that users' needs to identify relevant digital visual resources might be met more satisfactorily through search strategies based on visual characteristics rather than on textual metadata associated with the image, which are expensive to produce. However, digital librarians currently have no tools for evaluating either content-based or metadata-based image retrieval systems. Consequently, they have difficulty assessing existing systems of image access, evaluating proposed changes in these systems, or comparing metadata-based and content-based image retrieval. Some have proposed benchmarking as a solution to this problem. An image retrieval benchmark database could provide a controlled context within which various approaches could be tested. Equally important, it might provide a focus for image retrieval research and help bridge the significant divide between researchers exploring these two search paradigms: metadata-based vs. content-based image retrieval. If so, such a database could spur advances in research, as comparative results make it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of particular strategies and thereby add value to studies supported by many funding agencies. Creating an image retrieval benchmarking service would be a significant undertaking. A benchmarking database is more than a collection of images. Benchmarking requires a set of queries to be put to that test collection. Each image in the test collection must be assessed to determine whether it is relevant to that query. Assessing the performance of systems requires a set of evaluation metrics that make it possible to compare one system with another and to rank results. Developing a test collection requires an investment in data collection, documentation, enhancement, and distribution. Most significantly, maintaining an image reference benchmarking service requires that a community of researchers make a long-term commitment to its use. Without a community vested in the development of the database-and publishing research based on it-the collection remains a chimerical solution to advancing the state of research and improving the retrieval of visual materials in the digital library. -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2004: Best of the Web Winners
Apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate. -- We're delighted to announce the Best of the Web Award winners for 2004, as presented at the Museums and the Web conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Each year, nominations are solicited from the Museum community and nominated sites are evaluated by a committee of peers. Full details including the list of judges, category definitions, judges' comments and a list of finalists in each category can be found on the Museums and the Web conference site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/best/ The MW2004 Best of the Web are: * Best On-line Exhibition Lewis Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org organized by the Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis, MI, USA * Best E-Services Site mnartists.org http://mnartists.org a project of The McKnight Foundation and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA * Best Museum Web Site Supporting Educational Use World Myths and Legends in Art http://www.artsMIA.org/world-myths/ Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA * Best Innovative or Experimental Application You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving http://www.plimoth.org/olc/ Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA, USA * Best Museum Professional's Site Global Museum http://www.globalmuseum.org the brainchild of Roger Smith, Global Museum International, New Zealand * Best Museum Research Site Tate Online http://www.tate.org.uk Tate, London ,UK * Best Overall Museum Web site Conservation Central (Smithsonian's National Zoo) http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral Friends of the National Zoo, Washington,DC Nominations for the Best of the Web 2005 will open in the Fall of 2004. Museums and the Web 2005 will be held April 13-17, 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Best wishes, jennifer -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MW2004: Regular Registration Ends Feb. 15, 2004
Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ the international conference about culture and heritage on-line. ** MW2004 Program ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/ MW2004 will open with a keynote address from Jeffery Zeldman, internationally known author of Designing with Web Standards, and close with a plenary session featuring Peter Samis, of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on Making Sense of Modern Art at Five. Parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, dozens of commercial exhibits, full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops, and one-hour mini-workshops combine with a day-long usability lab, a design Crit Room, and the Best of the Web awards to round out the program. ** Save Money: Regular Registration ends February 15, 2004 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/ Sunday February 15 is the last day for Regular Registration Rates for Museums and the Web 2004. Be sure of your choice of workshop and tour by registering soon. Registration Rates are calculated based on the *date payment is received*. Use a credit card and register on-line by February 15, 2004, to be sure you get the regular rate. If you can't make this date, you can still register on-line or on-site at higher rates. ** Participate in MW2004! ** While the formal program is closed, there are still ways that you can participate in Museums and the Web. * Crit Room * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/interact/index.html#crit Experienced Web designers offer site critiques in the Crit Room. If you would like to have your site featured in the Crit Room, there are still spots. Contact mw2...@archimuse.com. * Usability Lab * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/interact/index.html#useability Paul Marty and Michael Twidale are again facilitating a Usability Lab, featuring real-time user testing. Sign up at the conference to be a tester, or to have your site tested. * Birds of a Feather Breakfasts * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/events/index.html#EVT75000278 Suggest a topic or be a convener for a Birds of a Feather Breakfast Table. Email mw2...@archimuse.com if you have an idea for discussion or would like to get a group together. ** Join Us! ** We hope to see you at MW2004, March 31 - April 3, 2004, in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, DC, USA. It's your participation that keeps MW practical and fun while remaining thought provoking (to quote MW2003 conference evaluations). ** Can't Make It? Get the Book ** http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html All papers presented at MW2004 are peer reviewed. A selection will be available in print from Archives Museum Informatics; all papers for MW2004 will be also available on-line. See you at MW2004! jennifer and David Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2004 mw2...@archimuse.com --- Museums and the Web Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Avenue Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: mw2...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2004: Jeffrey Zeldman plenary
Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ** Announcing the MW2004 Opening Plenary Speaker: ** ** Jeffrey Zeldman on Designing with Web Standards ** ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ** Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known web designers in the world and the author of numerous articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards (New Riders Press, 2003). He publishes A List Apart Magazine and is the founder and creative chief of Happy Cog Studios. In 1998 Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the browser wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers. He'll open MW2004, April 1, 2004, on the topic of Designing with Web Standards. ** Best of the Web 2004: Nominations Close January 31, 2004 ** ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/best/ ** January 31, 2004 is the last day to nominate your favourite site for the Best of the Web awards. Each year, a group of museum and Web professionals reviews nominated sites, and recognises the best in web design in culture and heritage. This is not a popularity contest. Judges review all sites, and select the best in the categories: On-line Exhibition, E-Services Site, Educational Use, Innovative or Experimental Application, Museum Professional's Site, and Research Site. In addition, the Judges select the Best Overall Museum Web site for MW2004. The awards will be presented at the conference, April 2, 2004. ** Can't Make It? Get the Book ** http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html Once again,Selected Papers from Museums and the Web will be published in printed form, accompanied by a CD-ROM of all papers presented at the conference. Papers will also be published on the Web. If you can't make it to the conference, get your copy of the Selected Papers. We hope to see you @ MW2004. jennifer and David -- Museums and the Web Archives Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer TrantToronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.htmlCanada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: mw2...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2004: Deadline Reminders
Museums and the Web 2004 Arlington, VA / Washington, DC April 1 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ the international conference about culture and heritage on-line ** Early Registration December 31, 2003** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/index.html Register on-line to ensure your choice of workshops and tours, and to get the best rate. Early Registration ends December 31, 2003, and saves at least $100. ** Payment must be RECEIVED by December 31, 2003 to get the Early Registration Rate *** **Demonstration Proposals Due December 31, 2003** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/demos/index.html Museums and the Web 2004 will feature a Museum Professionals' Demonstration Hall on the morning of April 3, 2004. In this session, museum staff will show work created in a non-profit environment, and explain the workings behind it to their colleagues. If you would like to demonstrate your site, please submit a proposal, prior to December 31, 2003, using the on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/mw2004.proposal.form.html Happy Holidays everyone! jennifer and David Museums and the Web Archives Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer TrantToronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.htmlCanada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: i...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2004: Preliminary Program On-line
Museums and the Web 2004 Arlington, VA / Washington, DC April 1 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from more than thirty countries in Washington DC for the eighth annual Museums and the Web Conference. ** Preliminary Program On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/index.html Full details of the MW2004 program are now on-line. Abstracts of over 50 papers, 25 mini-workshops and professional fora, the full day Usability Lab, the Crit Rooms will help you choose what to attend. Full papers will be available on-line beginning in March. ** Pre-Conference Tours - March 30 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/events/ MW2004 is preceded by 14 different tours. Join your colleagues for a close-up lok at their institutions. Make your choice after reviewing the descriptions on-line. (Space is limited in all tours.) ** Pre-Conference Workshops - March 31 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/workshops/ A dozen pre-conference workshops on March 31 provide a chance to take an in-depth look at technologies and issues that affect your Web development. Full outlines are on-line. Enrollment is limited, so sign-up early. ** Exhibit Hall ** Vendors of museum interactive multimedia technology, content management and design services will display their offerings in the MW2004 Exhibit Hall. Opening with a reception on the first night of the conference, you'll have plenty of time the next day to explore the Exhibit Hall, and find products and services that will help you build and maintain your web presence. Vendors, space is still available. See the prospectus at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/exhibit/ ** Registration On-line** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/index.html Register on-line to ensure your choice of workshops and tours, and to get the best rate. Early Registration ends December 31, 2003, and saves at least $100. **Can't Make it -- Get the Book** Selected Papers from Museums and the Web 2004 will be published in a print volume, accompanied by all papers on CD-Rom. Order your copy on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html ** Join Us! *** Each year, MW draws the widest range of cultural and heritage web designers, developers and users of any international event. Plan to join us at what M2003 attendees called one of the most useful conferences I have been to in a long time, both practical and fun. We hope to see you there! jennifer and David -- Museums and the Web Archives Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer TrantToronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.htmlCanada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: i...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
CFP: Museums and the Web 2004
Apologies for any duplication ... please forward where appropriate. Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ --- Call for Participation --- You are invited to participate in MW2004. Deliver a paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web Project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional forum or mini-workshop or do something completely different. Your participation makes MW a fantastic learning experience and great fun (as described by attendees at MW2003). Make your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/call.html --- Deadline --- Proposals are due September 30, 2003. --- Peer Review --- All papers presented at MW2004 are subject to Peer Review. Edited papers will be published on the Web, and a selected group will also appear in print proceedings. --- Need More Information? --- Download the full Call for Participation from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/pdfs/mw2004.call.pdf Full details about MW2004 are online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ Past papers presented at the previous seven Museums and the Web meetings are available on the web, linked from http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html --- Join Us! --- MW2004 is the largest international gathering of cultural webmasters anywhere. If you are involved in any part of the process of making, delivering, or using culture and heritage on-line, this is the event for you. Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2004 mw2...@archimuse.com -- Museums and the Web Archives Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer TrantToronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.htmlCanada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: i...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Museums and the Web 2003: Papers on-line
Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2003 March 19-22, 2003 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/ * MW2003 PAPERS: now on-line * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/speakers/index.html * The first of the papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2003 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to find the full paper text. A printed volume of selected papers is also available; see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/new.html for details. * HOTEL SPACE STILL AVAILABLE * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/charlotte/index.html * You can still get a reservation at the MW2003 conference hotel, and USAirways has had great seat-sale rates to Charlotte. Adam's Mark Charlotte 555 South McDowell Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28204 USA phone: +1 704 372 4100 fax: +1 704 348 4646 **good rates are still available** * PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES: March 14, 2003 * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/register/index.html * Register for MW2003 before March 14, 2003 to take advantage of the reduced pre- registration rate. You can also register on-site in Charlotte. Download the PDF from the web site before you come. * SEE YOU SOON * Join us in Charlotte, for the seventh annual Museums and the Web conference, described by an attendee at MW2002 as the friendliest, most pertinent conference I've attended. Safe travels! jennifer and David MW2003 Co-Chairs: David Bearman, Archives Museum Informatics Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics -- Museums and the Web Archives Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer TrantToronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.htmlCanada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: i...@archimuse.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Summer Seminars in Networked Cultural Heritage
(apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate) * Limited space is still available in the AMI summer seminars on Grindstone Island. * --- SUMMER SEMINARS IN CULTURAL INFORMATICS --- http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/ Join leading experts in cultural heritage informatics for a one-of-a-kind, in-depth learning experience. Full program details and instructor biographies can be found on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone or follow the links below to specific course descriptions. MAKING PLAYFUL INTERFACES for Serious Content June 8-14, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0207.08-14.html Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science Digital Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia CONNECTING WITH the K-12 Teaching and Learning Community June 15-21, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0207.15-21.html Scott Sayre, Director of Media and Technology, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Kris Wetterlund, Museum Educational Consultant MUSEE, MEDIAS, MEDIATION (en Français) Museum: Multi-Mediation (given in French) July 5-7, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0208.05-07.html Dominique Negel, DN Consuel, Paris, France WEB SITE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE: Planning and Designing Information Collections July 8-12, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0208.08-12.html Paul Kahn, teacher, writer, and information architecture consultant HERITAGE IN 3-D: Using QTVR, Cubic VR and Adobe Atmospheres for Interactive Presentation July 13-19, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0208.13-19.html Jim Devine, Head of Education and Digital Media Resources, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING: First steps ... (bilingual English/French; bilangue anglais/français) July 20-26, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0208.20-26.html Xavier Perrot, Instructor at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, and Sophie Krikorian, scénariste au service des expositions du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle EVALUATING QUALITY AND USABILITY of Museum Web Sites July 27-August 2, 2002 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/2002program/Grindstone0208.27-09.02.html Paolo Paolini, Franca Garzotto Nicoletta Di Blas, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy -- Class Size - Registration is limited to 12 participants per seminar. Small groups ensure you'll get the attention you need. A multi-day format means you'll both learn the theory and apply what you've learned in practice. You'll leave having mastered a new skill. -- Facilities Grindstone Island is a private island in Big Rideau Lake, Ontario, Canada. We have a high speed connection to the Internet, a multimedia lab, and a wireless network for access throughout the island. The varied geography and buildings on the island offer many meeting spaces, formal and informal. See the photos on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/come.html -- Registration --- Full Details about registration and accommodations can be found at http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/register.html -- More Details? To receive the full brochure, please email grindst...@archimuse.com, or visit us on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/ We hope to see you on the Island this summer! jennifer and David _ J. Trant and D. Bearman jtr...@archimuse.com Partnersphone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite Dhttp://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
AMICO Announces New Members
Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art -- J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
AMICO Appoints Executive Director and Director, Strategy andResearch
Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia AMICO Press Release For Immediate Release: April 6, 2002 AMICO Appoints Executive Director, and Director, Strategy and Research The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Trant as Executive Director, and David Bearman and Director, Strategy and Research. Trant and Bearman, who have been actively involved in the planning of AMICO through their consulting firm of Archives Museum Informatics, will formally join AMICO's staff as of July 1, 2002. Both will also reserve time for their ongoing consulting and research. We're delighted that Jennifer and David will continue to play a leadership role in AMICO said Elizabeth Broun, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and AMICO's Chair. Their vision and enthusiasm has helped us grow from an idea to a reality in five short years. AMICO's an unprecedented collaboration, and we're looking forward to continuing our work with AMICO Members. This group of committed professionals has broken new ground in the network distribution of cultural information, said Jennifer Trant. Forging new kinds of relationships is key to the success of cultural heritage institutions in the digital age. AMICO's proven that we can work together to meet common goals. Bearman concurred: This year is a key turning point for AMICO. We've moved from one distributor to more than five, and from a North American to world-wide community of members and users. With our upcoming move into a university environment, AMICO will be well positioned to play a long-term role in the digital cultural landscape. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. Together AMICO Members build The AMICO Library(TM) a compilation of multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2001 edition of The AMICO Library documents over 78,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. Over 100,000 works of art will be represented in The AMICO Library's 2002 edition, to be released July 1, 2002. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: i...@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org AMICO Members Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Asia Society Gallery Center for Creative Photography Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Davis Museum Cultural Center, Wellesley College Denver Art Museum The Detroit Institute of Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art -- J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director
New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates
installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: i...@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org AMICO Members Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Asia Society Gallery Center for Creative Photography Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Davis Museum Cultural Center, Wellesley College Denver Art Museum The Detroit Institute of Arts =46ine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art -- J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
AMICO Online Reproduction Request Form
AMICO Launches On-Line Reproduction Request Form http://www.amico.org Anyone, including scholars whose institutions do not yet subscribe to The AMICO Library and commercial users ineligible for AMICO educational licenses, can now request reproductions directly from AMICO Members through an on-line Reproduction Request Form linked to the public Thumbnail catalog at http://search.amico.org How do I use it? 1. Search the Thumbnail Catalog 2. Find the Work You're Interested In 3. Choose 'Rights' to request Reproduction details 4. Complete the Online Form 5. You'll hear directly from the appropriate AMICO Member. Why do I need this? Finding reproductions and negotiating rights to reproduce works of art is reputed to be a complex and frustrating process. Scholars, and even commercial users whose job it is to locate images, often don't know whom to contact, and rights holders are frustrated when the information they receive isn't complete enough for them to evaluate the request. A standard reproduction request form that includes clear identification of the work in question and the desired use of the reproduction will streamline the process for everyone involved. How does it work? Each work in The AMICO Library is represented in the Thumbnail Catalog available at http://search.amico.org. A rights link in the work's description opens a customized Reproduction Request Form that includes a small image of the work and its full citation. Once completed, these requests are routed directly to the appropriate office at an AMICO Member institution. Martha King of the National Gallery of Canada and Chair of the AMICO Rights Committee says, There's no possibility of confusion about the work requested when a user completes the on-line form. This removes a cause of frustration for us and of delays for those who want to use reproductions from our collection. There are many 'landscapes' in our collection and often we invest a lot of time trying to figure out which one a request references. Brad Nugent, Associate Director for Imaging for The Art Institute of Chicago concurs, We want to be able to fast-track scholars' requests while also maintaining our commercial revenue streams. The ease and utility of the on-line Reproduction Request Form meets those needs perfectly, by giving us the information we need, in a concise and consistent manner. To use the Rights Request Form simply visit the Thumbnail Catalog on the AMICO public Web site http://search.amico.org. Use either the Simple or Advanced Search options to find a work. Click on the Rights hyperlink in the work's description, and complete the customized on-line form. Who Processes Requests? Submitted forms are forwarded directly to the appropriate person at an AMICO Member Institution, and when necessary, are also copied to the rights society representing the artist or estate. Users whose institutions subscribe to The AMICO Library - a digital resource that includes works of contemporary art for which AMICO pays royalties - continue to have rights for a range of educational uses, as defined in the AMICO Library license. The on-line Reproduction Request Form provides these users with a simple means to request further rights, including those for publication. Need more Information? Contact AMICO at i...@amico.org -- J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
International Cultural Heritage Inforamtics Meeting (ichim01)
Join us for ichim01 ! The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 2001 Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 3-7 September, 2001 http://www.ichim01.polimi.it/ (Italy) or http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/ (US) About ichim01 - The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) is, traditionally, the best international forum in which to examine the relationship between technology and cultural heritage. ICHIM has been held every two years, alternating between North America and Europe. Following successful meetings at Le Louvre in Paris (97), and Washington D.C. (99) our host for ichim01 is the Politecnico di Milano. We expect at least 500 specialists, from museums, cultural organizations, universities, research institutes, technology companies and organizations. Please join us! The Program --- http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/overview.html The ichim01 Program includes a full range of papers, presentations, panel discussions and tutorials, including: * keynote addresses by outstanding experts: - Maxwell L. Anderson (Director of the New York Whitney Museum of American Art, USA) - Sarah Tyacke (Keeper of the Public Records Office, United Kingdom) - Peter Walsh (Chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission, USA) * over 100 papers, by professionals and researchers from 24 countries * panels featuring leading experts from the US and Europe debating issues of culture and technology and offering new visions * over 30 demonstrations of new technologies and applications * 26 pre-conference tutorials (20 in English and 6 in Italian) covering a broad spectrum of approaches and state-of- the-art technologies * engaging social events, held in the most charming places of Milan - the City of Art, Fashion, and Design. Registration http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/registration.html You can register online, or print out a registration form to return by mail or fax. Organization http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/organization.html ichim01 is organized by Archives Museum Informatics and the Politecnico de Milano, with our thanks to the Honorary Committee and a Program Committee of more than 60 respected professionals from throughout the world. Conference Co-Chairs Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics (USA) Program Co-Chairs David Bearman, Archives Museum Informatics (USA) Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Sponsors ichim01 is held under the aegis of the Cultural Heritage Ministry of Italy, the European Commission (IST Programme), Fondazione CARIPLO, Camera di Commercio di Milano, Municipality of Milano, the counties of Genova, Milano, Perugia, Roma, Torino, Venezia, the regions Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Puglia, Sicilia, Umbria, Val d'Aosta, Veneto, and the following Milanese museums: Museo alla Scala, Museo Archeologico, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Musei Civici Milanesi, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca di Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, Triennale. -- ichim2001 Milano, Italy Archives Museum Informatics September 3-7, 2001 2008 Murray Ave, Suite Dhttp://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217ichim2...@archimuse.com
Museums and the Web 2001: Papers Available On-line
Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2001 The international conference about museums on-line March 14-17, 2001 Seattle, Washington, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/ MW2001 PAPERS NOW ON-LINE http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/speakers/ The papers to be presented at MW2001 are now available online. See the full list, either through the alphabetical speakers list, or follow the links from the Sessions. Over 120 presentations will be made to MW2001 delegates from over 35 countries during the three days of sessions. WANTED: CRIT ROOM PARTICIPANTS http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/interact/index.html#crit Back by popular demand! In the MW Crit Rooms web designers, information architects, and site evaluators offer live feedback on the web sites of conference attendees. If your site is now being redesigned, these sessions provide an opportunity to discover what other professionals think needs to be changed. To volunteer your site to be featured in the Crit Rooms, please email mw2...@archimuse.com. PRE-REGISTRATION PERIOD: CLOSES MARCH 9, 2001 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/register/index.html Register for MW2001 before Friday March 9, 2001 to take advantage of the reduced advance registration rate. Everything you need to know is on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/register/index.html On-site registration is also available. CAN'T MAKE IT IN PERSON? http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/museums.html All about over 350 papers and abstracts from Museums and the Web 1997-2001 are available on-line. See the combined speakers list for MW97 - MW2000 at http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/SPEAKERS_LIST.HTML. Selected Papers from MW97, MW98 (CD) MW99, MW2000 and MW2001 are also available in Print. These include a CD-ROM will all the papers only distributed online, for MW99 - MW2001 . We hope to see you in Seattle! best wishes, jennifer and David -- __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite Dhttp://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __
Re: Re: teaching and technology
AMICO Members worked with a select group of campuses to get at just this question of who might use the AMICO Library of digital museum multimedia, and what they would use it for. The highlights of the AMICO University Testbed (1998-1999 academic year, involving 24 AMICO Member institutions and a dozen campuses) are online at http://www.amico.org/projects/u.mtg.99/u.results.html These include PowerPoint presentations from Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Alberta, Washington University St. Louis, and Boston College. Users on these campuses ranged from traditional art historians to cultural historians and computer scientists (indeed!). Since faculty plan and develop courses years in advance, and often teach the same course for multiple years, the integration of new materials into curriculum is a lengthy process. Since much museum content hasn't been available and much of it isn't well known, it's actually harder for faculty to use than the traditional images they've been used to in books (and for which their slide librarians have copied images). There is still a strong need for partnerships and projects that bring together museums and teachers, museums and professors, and students and curators, to engage and encourage the use of cultural collections. jennifer J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594 __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite Dhttp://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __
Re: Image Protection
There is a good paper on this issue on the Museums and the Web 2000 program; I've taken the liberty of posting the abstract and URL below. jennifer Protecting a museum's digital stock through watermarks Torsten Bissel, Manfred Bogen, Claus Riemann, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany Full text at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/papers/bissel/bissel.html Abstract: Basically, museums have only limited possibilities to ensure their existence and to secure their funding: by sponsors, by donations, by visitors, and by selling copies of their collection in form of copyrights. While the first two (external) are almost completely out of their control, they have major influence on the visitors' acceptance by keeping their collection together, by enlarging it, and by making it attractive (internal funding). This is well understood since years. By granting copyrights to other parties and by publishing parts of their collection in the Web, museums touch the essence of their stock and they have to enter a new technology realm at the same time. Granting copyrights based on secure technology will become more and more crucial in the near future as unallowed duplication will be facilitated which will harm the museums' funding essentially. This paper is not about intellectual property rights in general, copyright policies, or about copyright laws. We will talk about copyright technology based on watermarking. Ideally, all scans should have an integrated header information and information including author/ creator of the object, title, date, owner, copyright owner, and some usage patterns (sale or license agreements). This information has to be protected against manipulation and destruction. Our paper starts with a description of the different approaches for embedding a visible or non-visible digital watermark into multimedia objects with focus on pictures. The feasibility of the different approaches in respect to the needs of a common museum is evaluated. After that a detailed description of various 'attacks' follows and the 'robustness' of the various kinds of digital watermarks against the forgery efforts are compared. An evaluation on currently available systems on the market and on related research projects is done next. The ability to embed robust watermarks in digital images does not necessarily imply the ability to establish ownership. Nevertheless it is crucial for fingerprinting. Robust watermarks must be combined with hash functions and time stamping mechanisms and be embedded in a framework of trusted third parties for registration. In this third part we analyse the different demands of a copyright protection infrastructure, identify needed components and their interrelationship, and describe a system that fits a museum's needs. __ J. Trantjtr...@archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite Dhttp://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __
Re: webart loans - anyone?
Suzanne, Great problem! On the one hand, this is a standard exhibition agreement, with the artist giving you rights to show the work for a specific period (and I expect to reproduce works from it). So much of your standard language should prevail -- including a request for reproduction rights in multiple media. For once though, web use might not be quite as difficult a negotiation ;) But it gets complicated if you are going to physically take possession of the works, rather than run them on the web. If you are you running them locally, then you may want to write in specific technical requirements, and performance requirements, so that it's clear who is going to be responsible to make sure the piece works in the gallery (Taking delivery of a piece of software gives new meaning to an artist's installation!). The artist may want certification of the destruction of the local copy after the show, and may request that you link to their site rather than mount a copy of the work on www.whitney.org. They may also want stats to know who used the work in what way, when it was installed in the gallery. Good luck with the biennial! jt Anyone ever borrow a work of webart from an artist for an exhibition? What kind of loan form did you use? What does the borrower need to watch out for? The artist? Hey, how is this one for a conversation stopper? Any and all thoughts on the subject gratefully received. Suzanne Quigley squi...@panix.com J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594
AMICO University Testbed Report Available
ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORITUM (AMICO) UNIVERSITY TESTBED MEETING REPORT AVAILABLE The report of the AMICO University Testbed Project, is now available on the AMICO web site at http://www.amico.org. A narrative report summarizes the University Testbed Meeting, held at Carnegie Mellon University in June. The web site also includes many of the presentations made by participants at that meeting which brought together the producers and users of the AMICO Library. For your convenience, the Executive Summary and outline of Lessons Learned are reproduced below. Best wishes, jennifer J. Trant, AMICO Executive Director. AMICO University Testbed Meeting June 3-4, 1999 Executive Summary The Art Museum Image Consortium was formed in October 1997 after six months of planning by the staff of its twenty-three founding member museums. In the same month, AMICO issued a call-for-proposals from Universities interested in becoming test sites for research on the prototype AMICO Library which was scheduled to be available for the 1998-99 academic year. In January, 1998, the AMICO Board, acting on recommendations from its Users and Uses Committee, accepted research proposals from 16 universities to take part in the AMICO University Testbed. The University Testbed AMICO Library when released in July 1998 consisted of documentation for almost 20,000 works of art. University Testbed participants each made different kinds of uses of the AMICO Testbed Library, and conducted different types of research on its uses. In the spring of 1999, they were invited to propose papers on their experiences for a research conference capping the testbed year. Papers were accepted from eight Testbed Universities, and combined with a paper from AMICO on its data processing, one from members on their methods, one from AMICO's testbed Library distributor, the Research Libraries Group, and one from a research team at Cornell University which had been hired by AMICO to conduct an independent analysis of Library use. The conference program was announced to coincide with the day before, and first day of, the AMICO members meetings so as to encourage AMICO members to attend the meeting in order to help shape the agenda for AMICO in 1999 and beyond. Papers were delivered in six sessions over two days. The first day was designed to give everyone a common sense of what had occurred in the Testbed year on campus, online, and in the trenches where the AMICO Library was made and delivered. In the first session, on Teaching with the AMICO Testbed Library, Michael May (University of Alberta) and Jeffrey Howe and Marc O'Connor (Boston College) illustrated two highly successful uses of relatively small selected subsets of the AMICO Library in art history (Canadian art) and general humanities (honors seminar) teaching by highly motivated instructors. In the second session on Who Uses the AMICO Library, researchers at CMU, Cornell University and AMICO reported on qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys and focus groups that sought to find out why users were using the Library and what they hoped to achieve. In the third session, museum participants in AMICO reported on how they created their AMICO contributed data, AMICO staff discussed the processing steps, and Arnold Arcolio of the Research Libraries Group discussed the RLG delivery system. The second day began with a session on how Rochester Institute of Technology, Washington University, Western Michigan University and the University of Toronto encouraged faculty use of AMICO. The strategies were different but the underlying problem was the same - faculty needed considerable hands on help and even examples of uses, in order to participate. In the fifth session, other uses beyond the classroom were discussed. Eelco Bruinsma reported on the widespread effect of AMICO on imaging and print work at the University of Leiden. Tammy Sopinski reported on plans to integrate the AMICO Library into museum education in the state of Minnesota. And June Ward reported on a project to exploit the AMICO Library in K-12 education in greater Indianapolis. The day ended with an open discussion of lessons learned and suggestions to AMICO members about ways to strengthen the Library and its delivery. The Presentation Slides used by many of the speakers can be found on the AMICO Web site, linked to the formal meeting program. See http://www.amico.org This summary highlights the issues dicussed and themes explored. = Lessons from the AMICO University Testbed = Teaching * Interest in/uses for digital art images is strong beyond art history * Focused study, using AMICO in assignments or projects is most effective * Adequate local technological infrastructure is essential * Publicity and administrative buy-in assist in AMICO adoption * Technological training for faculty overcomes
AMICO and ARS reach important agreement
in becoming an AMICO Member or Subscriber, please contact Jennifer Trant, Executive Director jtr...@amico.org. Full details about AMICO and its activities can be found on its web site at http://www.amico.org Artists Rights Society (ARS) was appointed in 1986, by the French copyright societies for visual artists to represent the copyright and permissions interests of their members within the United States. Since then, ARS has signed reciprocal contracts with more than twenty other visual artists rights organizations worldwide. The membership lists of these organizations include the majority of artists active in this century, including Georges Braque, Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, John Heartfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Joan Miró, and Edvard Munch. In addition, our direct European adherents include the estates of Pablo Picasso (through the Picasso Administration ), Henri Matisse (through the Succession Matisse), and René Magritte. ARS also acts on behalf of American artists and actively lobbies state and federal legislatures for stronger and more effective artist's rights laws. Contact Information: AMICO Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone (412) 422 8533 Fax (412) 422 8594 Email: jtr...@amico.org http://www.amico.org ARS Theodore Feder President Artists Rights Society 65 Bleecker Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 420-9160 Fax: (212) 420-9286 Email: fe...@arsny.com http://www.arsny.com J. Trant2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.orgPhone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.orgFax: +1 412 422 8594
[MCN-L] MW2008: Advance Registration Deadline Apr. 1, 2008
Museums and the Web 2008 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 9 - 12, 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ ** Opening Plenary: Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa ** Michael is a leading advocate of openness and access in Canada and has proved himself an astute observer of trends in Internet communications. He'll challenge our pre-conceptions of the role of public institutions on-line. ** Advance Registration Deadline: April 1, 2008 ** The deadline for advance registration is *tomorrow*. If you are planning to come to MW2008, save yourself some time and money by registering on-line, in advance. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2008/mw2008.registrationForm.html You can register on-site for sessions and some workshops [if space is available]. Download the form form the conference site and bring it with you. ** Papers On-line ** This year's papers are now all on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/speakers/index.html for the full list. All the papers from past Museums and the Web conferences are also available on-line. See http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum ** Join the Community ** If you can't make it in person, join the on-line community and participate from wherever you are. See http://conference.archimuse.com ** Another Great Group ** MW2008 will have over 650 delegates from 27 countries [and counting]. We hope to see you there! jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008 produced by April 9 - 12, 2008, Montreal, PQArchives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/158 Lee Avenue email: mw2008 at archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 - Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO). Museums and the Web 2008 is sponsored by Interwoven and Interflow. -
[MCN-L] Scholarships to Museums and the Web 2010
Extensis is offering a limited number of competitive scholarships to Museums and the Web 2010 for professionals especially interested in Digital Asset Management. Winners will receive $250 towards MW2010 registration. Scholarships will be awarded on an ongoing basis until the limit is reached. The Deadline for Applications is March 19, 2010. To apply, complete the form at http://bit.ly/dB45bp Extensis will be offering a workshop during the conference on Digital Asset Management Best Practices. All the scholarship winners will be entitled to a place in that session. Some additional spaces will be available for free. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please let us know by email to MW2010 [at] archimuse [dot] com so we can reserve a place for you. Note: Scholarships cannot be used to reduce the price of an existing MW2010 registration, but can be applied to an additional regustration from your institution. __ J. Trant Partner Principal Consultant Archives Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com phone: +1 416 691 2516 fax: +1 416 352 6025 http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] Effects of Google's 'search within site'? Anyone else affected?
Frankie, You've done more than a lot of people have done in looking at your search logs. When i looked at the Guggenheims's -- as a prototype for some steve data analysis -- i did a literature search and couldn't find any serious studies of museum searching [this really surprised me, btw.] Each collection is likely to have its own patterns: in this modern art museum 63% of the most common searches (searched 10 or more times) were for artists' names. Amazingly about 25% of the searches of this collection produced no result [in an age of millions of results elsewhere, this is a real problem]. Looking at the search failures: - 36% were caused by spelling errors, so did you mean... would really help. - 50% of the unsuccessful artist name searches were caused by spelling errors. The paper, and a blog post with more detail, are at http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/jtrant/searching_museum_collections_on_line_what_do_peo Since search is a favourite navigation mechanism we really do need to pay more attention to it, both on and now off museum sites. /jt At 3:46 PM + 3/28/08, frankie roberto wrote: The most likely impact for us is in upcoming modifications to our own search. ... Do we give up, and acknowledge that doing search in any way different from Google is a) now competing more directly with them, and b) probably just getting more confusing for most visitors; or do we focus on these (probably fewer and fewer) visitors who come to our search expecting it to work just the way it should, not the way that's easiest? Hmm, very interesting point. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that we spend far far less time looking at our search interface than we ought to. Our site search is powered by a Google Mini, and other than providing thumbnails object pages returned, it's pretty much working in its out-of-the-box configuration. We haven't invested any time in editorially 'promoting' results for certain search terms, for instance, or in setting up synonyms. In fact, this discussion has prompted me to do a quick report of the most popular search terms, which are: 1. games - 1,1012 2. grain strain (old game) - 498 3. jobs - 488 4. wroughton (object storage site) - 474 5. search - 447 (amusing this is the default search text, so represents people pressing search without typing anything) 6. launchball - 280 7. opening times - 252 (shockingly, this doesn't return anything hugely useful, and so 11% try refining their search) 8. bbc micro - 202 (in the news recently, but only returns press releases) 9. builder - 192 (no idea what this is about) 10. energy - 150 (presumably teachers looking for energy microsite) This data is for the last month, and was gathered by the excellent 'site serch' function which can be set up in Google Analytics (which allows you to monitor search terms, regardless of which search technology you use). Generally, I site search seems to be hugely neglected by website owners (mea culpa), which is presumably why people are turning to Google more and more. Frankie ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] new media installation art
Mark, there are two papers on this subject online for the upcoming 2008 Museums and the Web conference. See New Media Art in Museum Collections: A Report from the DOCAM Cataloguing and Conservation Committees http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/gagnier/gagnier.html and Ethnographic Methods and New Media Preservation http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/adamczyk/adamczyk.html There are others from the past too -- you can search the site or the bibliography. you'll also want to look at the work of Richard Rinehart (Berkeley) and John Ippolito (Gugggenheim), and the digital preservation literature, where this topic has been discussed. The Registrars Committee of AAM has also touched on this issue in the past (particularly dealing with the documentation of transitory performances, and the question of authenticity in re-creation). Peter Samis has some great footage about site-specific works at SFMOMA too, that talk about the artists intent, and the process of team-based creation. good luck. jennifer At 10:10 AM -0700 3/25/08, mark schlemmer wrote: Fellow Listservers, As part of my graduate thesis I am exploring the registration of installation art, especially in reference to work with new media content (video, digital/computational components, etc.) My major concern is how to document the artist's intent so that subsequent re-installations remain true to their original ideas even when certain physical and spatial variables change. To that end, I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share anecdotes about how your museum has dealt with the registration of new media installation art. Do you use written artist questionnaires to document the artist's intent? Interviews? On-site, video-taped walk-throughs? etc. Thanks in advance and please feel free to forward this on to colleagues. Mark Schlemmer mbschlemmer at yahoo.com MA Candidate in Museum Professions Registration and Collections Management, May 2008 Seton Hall University Organizer RC-AAM Emerging Voices Forum at the Marketplace of Ideas, 2008 AAM Annual Meeting, Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __
[MCN-L] user needs and APIs
Seth -- the ideal of providing many different layers of access to a museum collection isn't really a new one. it's what museums have done, all along: from access to a reading room, or storage facility for a scholar, to an exhibition with interpretation (that a visitor can 'use' or not), to a tour tailored for a particular age group. we've been doing very similar things on the web to -- trying to understand the strengths of various genres and, when a particular goal can be stated, tailoring an experience for that user community. when we created the AMICO Library, for example, we positioned it as 'raw material' for teaching and research... and consciously called it a 'library' (rather than a museum or an exhibition) to emphasize this. the same can be said of the early (1970s and 80s) national inventory projects in Canada or in France; documenting collections provided information about them, without interpretive context. Other projects have focused on providing interpretive content witha particular communications goal: For example, take a look at last years, Best of the Web exhibition winner: Rembrandt-Caravaggio Webspecial from the Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands at http://www.rembrandt-caravaggio.nl?index_en.htm there's some tension in the discourse -- if you take a very long view -- between investing in good content (documentation in text, image and multimedia), and investing in good applications (that present that content in meaningful ways). what's interesting is that the needs of user communities have changed (developed, become more sophisticated over time). The ArtsConnectEd work comes to mind here... where the target moved from providing teachers lesson plans, to providing tools to create lesson plans, to working with teachers to identify evolving needs). an api is one more way to provide a particular kind of access to a part of the content that museums make available online. i don't expect there will be a single museum api, but many, offering lower-level access to the various kinds of information museums distribute (you only have to look at the IMA dashboard to see the breadth of possible content there!). but relying on that level of access alone belies the interpretive mandate of the museum, and assumes a technological sophistication on the part of all users that may not be there. /jt At 3:21 PM +0100 3/19/08, Seth van Hooland wrote: Dear all, One of the issues I'm exploring within my phd on digitized cultural heritage, is the difficulty within our application domain to define and guess the user needs regarding digitized heritage collections and the interfaces we build around them to provide access. It's relatively easy to find examples of projects that failed due to the lack of interest for user needs when developing a project, but I am specifically looking for cases where institutions really did their best to define their audience (and their needs), but where at the end they were still surprised by different types of users and uses that showed up in practice and that they didn't think about... Please drop me a line when you think of any interesting cases and people I might contact. A recent development within this discussion is to adopt and radicalize the idea that an institution can never predict user needs, and should therefore concentrate on offering data and metadata in use-neutral manner, in combination with an API so that external parties can develop services upon your data and users can hack your data and have a standard toolkit to their disposition to fulfill their specific needs. A simple but illustrative example is the widget that the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) has launched in 2005 (see http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/widget?lang=en) . Shortly after the launch of this widget, an ICT student hacked the non-public XML stream to offer an RSS feed (see http://breyten.livejournal.com/111482.html) that is now know as the informal museumfeed of the Rijksmuseum (thank you Saskia Scheltjens for pointing out this example!). I'm sure quite some people have an opinion on this issue, so please contact me with your remark and/or links to specific projects that I could use to illustrate theses issues within my research. Thank you! ULB - Facult? de philosophie et lettres Dpt SIC - fili?re STIC Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 1050 Bruxelles B?t. DC.11.203 +32 2 650 40 80 http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ skype username: sethvanhooland ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics
[MCN-L] hosting the website - inhouse our isp?
Hi Ari, i've quoted the relevant section below from the Survey of Museum Web Implementations, 2005. it is interesting that this decision seems to be related to when the site was launched -- older sites, (those launched before 2000) are much more likely to be hosted in-house than later ones. we're in the hybrid model here; some functions are hosted, some not, depending on how close i need to be to the technology, and whether or not we could find an economical hosting package for a particular function. best, jennifer Excerpt from Survey of Museum Web Implementations, 2005 David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/report/mwbenchmarks2005.html II. Technology A. Hosting the site Museums that launched their web sites early are more likely to host their sites on their own servers (52.1% of self hosted sites were launched by the end of 1996, while more than 53.3% of IS hosted sites were launched after 1998). But early launch does not correlate with whether museum staff, an outside group or a combination of the two designed the site; almost half of all sites are designed in tandem with in-house and contracted staff. Even national museums used outside contractors and museums staff as often as museum staff alone, and over 20% used outside contractors solely despite an enviable average of 5FTE dedicated to their web sites. [Chart Comparing year launched and hosting choice on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/report/images/image018.png ] Many museums reported arrangements in which they do not solely host their sites. Frequently these were co-location agreements under which the museum server, or one belonging to a university of government entity superior to the museum, is located at a commercial site for backup purposes. In some cases, e-commerce functions or streaming media were supported by a commercial host while other functions ran off the local server. Museums do, however, maintain their own sites. Over 85% do so when they host the site, but even the majority of those hosted on ISP's are maintained by the museums own staff (55%). Fewer than 5% of museum sites were fully maintained by outside contractors. At 12:28 PM -0500 1/10/07, Ari Davidow wrote: I have been at several organizations in the last few years, and one of the difficult questions has always been whether or not to host the website (which is increasingly a collection of specialized applications tied together by a common web interface) locally, or with an ISP. My own prejudice is to host the organizational website externally. I want the website monitored 24x7, I wanted it backed up and cared for, and if we're successful and the website gets lots of traffic, I want to keep that away from the bandwidth I need to run my organization. I want that bandwidth overseen and tended to by folks who do it for hundreds of other websites a day. Same applies to security (not just from crackers, but including the basic expectation that data will remain accessible, unchanged; backups; denial of service attacks; etc. Most of all, I don't want to hire staff to ensure that all of this is possible--at my organization's size, we can't sustain an FTE for that purpose (especially when one considers that it would have to be at least two people sharing a beeper for reasonable 24x7 coverage). And I don't want part-time staff who are better and more focused on other things tending to this in their spare time. There is a downside. I have some personal websites hosted at an ISP that went down for several hours (out of control denial of service attacks) last year. It's true that I don't have the resources to deal with power outages, natural catastrophes, or denial of service attacks in my organization, but none of likely in my area. If my ISP goes out of service (or runs into trouble, resulting in reduced QoS for my site), I'm in trouble. So far, that has been less likely than losing local staff at inopportune moments or having bandwidth chewed up by a special, non-web-related project, but I don't know how representative my experience has been. I do know that at organizations where I've worked, some sizable, experiments in in-house hosting have led to finding a reliable external vendor relatively quickly. What is other people's experience? When might one want to host one's website onsite? Ari ___ 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 -- __ J. Trantjtrant at archimuse.com Partner Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada
