[MCN-L] MCNPro: Digital Publication and the OSCI Toolkit
MCNPro: Digital Publication and the OSCI Toolkit Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 1:00pm CDT Lead by the IT SIG. YouTube Live event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdYEdgLYXk Blog post: http://mcn.edu/mcnpro-digital-publication-osci-toolkit/ This will be the last MCNPro of 2016. ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] MCN - Information Technolgoy (IT SIG) virtual meeting
One of MCN's directives is for SIG chairs to schedule a meeting with their members before the conference. The IT SIG has been holding virtual meetings every month on the 3rd Wednesday at 2pm CST. The October virtual meeting will be an opportunity to talk about objectives for the SIG and to learn more about the group if you are interesting in joining. Email me directly if you would like to receive an invite via GoToMeeting to join the session to be held on Wed, October 21st at 2pm CST. IT SIG Mission Statement The MCN Information Technology Special Interest Group (IT SIG) provides a forum for museum information technology individuals to exchange technical information, keep current on emerging technologies, and share related management ideas to enhance the missions of our individual museums as well as to enhance the museum community as a whole. Also, to kick off the annual MCN conference in Minneapolis the IT SIG will meet at the hotel bar on Wednesday, Nov 4th at 5pm for a brief informal 'meet and greet' session to put faces to the names of other IT colleagues. Hope to see you there. Janice Craddock Director of Information Technology Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, Tx 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f. 817-665-4333 janice.cradd...@cartermuseum.org<mailto:janice.cradd...@cartermuseum.org> www.cartermuseum.org<http://www.cartermuseum.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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
[MCN-L] Keeping up with changing file locations
We do not change directory names, but we have had to move folders to new servers or add layers to the file structure when it becomes more complex and that can change the file paths. So, we build the file structure under one main folder and map that folder Like, S: to \\ServerName\Archive then when that folder moves to another server, remap the new location to the same drive letter and the links will be the same; even if next time we add a layer and map S: to \\differentServerName\folder\Archive ... As long as S: points to your main folder all the links under that folder should be the same. Janice Craddock Head of Information Technology Amon Carter Museum of American Art t.817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Fishman Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 4:25 PM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Keeping up with changing file locations I am working on a digital archive project. I have one concern about our dark archive, that I don't know how to address or keep it from repeating. Currently, our dark archive is kept on a server here at our university and our IT department has changed some directory names, causing the links to the original files to be break, and in some cases, we can't find the file. I have also seen this happen at other universities and I am leery about moving forward until I can have a guarantee or a better system in place to manage our original files. I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a system (a database perhaps) that can keep track of an individual file in a local dark archive and update the location automatically? Or, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Susie + Susie Fishman-Armstrong, M.A. Curator of Collections Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory University of West Georgia Carrollton, GA 30118 678-839-6303 (office) 678-839-6306 (fax) http://www.westga.edu/~ajwlab/ www.westga.edu/~ajwlab/
[MCN-L] FW: Help Desk Software Evaluation
We used Track-it a very long time ago and we just started using Spiceworks. In the interim, we used KACE but decided it was too expensive to maintain so switch to Spiceworks. What do you want to use it for? Janice Craddock Head of Information Technology Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of John Bedard Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:20 PM To: mcn LISTSERV Subject: [MCN-L] Help Desk Software Evaluation Has anybody recently evaluated and/or implemented Track-It or Spiceworks -- John R. Bedard | Director of Information Systems Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 612-870-3268 | JBedard at artsmia.org | www.artsmia.org -- next part -- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT1.txt URL: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/attachments/20111230/1475be7e/attachment.txt
[MCN-L] Digital recorder for teacher/classroom use
I usually don't purchase service plans on equipment, but I bought my daughter a small video cam for Christmas at Office Depot and for $10 their extended service plan covers 'accidental handling' for two years. They assured me that included damage from dropping it (which she is famous). You might check out their replacement policy. Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Carolyn Rissanen Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:47 PM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital recorder for teacher/classroom use At a session at WMA last year we were introduced to the Zoom H-1 Handheld Digital recorder. It was extremely easy to use, produced great recordings, and is relatively inexpensive. What I don't know is how well it would hold up to classroom use as you describe. Carolyn Carolyn Rissanen Registrar, Natural Sciences Oakland Museum of California 510-238-3885 www.museumca.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Jason Bondy Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:06 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Digital recorder for teacher/classroom use Hello all, I am hoping someone out there will have some suggestions for this challenge. We have a series of education trunks that go out to schools around the state with props and curriculum for schools to build a lesson around. One of the ideas we have is for an old-time radio trunk. One of the features we would like to have is to allow the instructor, with script and props, to record students creating a radio show. They would then transfer the recording to a computer to make a CD of the program. The questions are: Has anyone done anything like this before? Does anyone have any ideas for digital recording devices that would be easy to use by teachers, but also durable enough to be out on the road in a variety of classroom situations? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance for your input! Jason Jason Bondy Exhibit AV/IT Systems Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr. Oklahoma City, OK 73105 405-522-0783 - Office 405-522-5402 - Fax http://www.okhistory.org/ http://www.okhistory.org Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/okhistory http://twitter.com/okhistory ___ 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/
[MCN-L] IT SIG - MCN conference 2011
Great MCN conference! While we are all charged up with all these ideas from this conference, it is time to apply that energy to next year's program. Let's not think about next year's travel budget and just throw out some ideas of what you would like to organize, what you would like someone else to organize, or general ideas. Maybe if we get started now, we can pull a couple things together. The sessions generate a lot of nuts and bolts discussion over lunch/dinner/drinks. Everyone is generating lots of content. What do we do with it? How do we deliver it cost effectively? How do we integrate different systems? Storage, backup, integration, virtualization, wireless solutions. There was some requests for more nuts and bolts IT sessions. Is this a general consensus of others? The IT sig has some great conversation at our meeting. One thing that was mentioned was the possibility of a half-day workshop format the day before the conference. We could come up with the three major issued faced by IT Directors in Museums, and have an open discussion around those issues. Perhaps getting someone (or more than one) who has a good solution to demonstrate their solutions. So, I am throwing this out there. Let's get some discussion going before we lose momentum over the holidays or get wrapped up into other projects that take all our time. Janice Craddock, MN IT SIG Chair Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org
[MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi
Chuck, We are about to do this also. We can limit bandwidth and have Barracuda Web filtering.. But, I would be interested in learning more about New privacy laws are quite explicit about security requirements for wireless access to make sure we are covered. Can you point me to a website? Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Eisenhardt, Chuck Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 11:16 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi a myriad of illegal activities can be conducted over your network's Port 80 (HTTP), and are traceable back at least to your address space or router address, and even an individual workstation IP and MAC address. Around the time of the release of the film Matrix II, our domain technical and business contacts received a formal 'cease and desist' order from a film industry watchdog group, about a workstation on my network downloading bootleg copies. This was traceable down to a specific IP lease in the domain space. I quickly managed to locate that workstation, which was wired into the network by a staffer. This individual had previously (or regularly) visited a pirate video site on the laptop, and had a launch routine for this site as a startup routine. The industry group had installed a sniffer on the pirated site, and ID'd the laptop as soon as he powered up on my network. This has inspired strict policies about foreign computers being introduced unnecessarily to our secure domain space. New privacy laws are quite explicit about security requirements for wireless access, especially for potential unwarranted access to stored and transmitted personal information. Chuck Eisenhardt Boston Children's Museum
[MCN-L] IT SIG activity at MCN
Just wanted to let you know when and where to find the IT SIG events during MCN next week: Information Technology (IT) Roundtable Thursday 3:30-5:00 Afternoon Sessions II Chair: Janice M. Craddock, Technology Manager, Amon Carter Museum Participants: William Weinstein, Director of Information Services, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Ari Davidow, Director for Online Strategy, Jewish Women's Archive; Drew Ruginis, Director of Information Technology, The Field Museum SIG meeting: Information Technology FRIDAY 5:30-6:30; location will be posted on the MCN information board Portland Pub Crawl; Friday 7:00 pm until ? IT SIG will be at the Rose and Thistle , 2314 NE Broadway, (503) 287-8582 along with the Digital Media SIG. Hope to see you there. Janice Craddock IT SIG Chair Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org http://www.cartermuseum.org/
[MCN-L] Artifax Event Management Software
Is anyone using Artifax events management software? We are looking into it and would love to hear back if anyone has had first-hand experience, good or bad, on or off the list... Thanks, Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org http://www.cartermuseum.org/
[MCN-L] The Reel Thing Technical Symposium XXII, Los Angeles, CA (August 21-22, 2009)
Please excuse cross-postings, but this is an event you do not want to miss! THE REEL THING TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM A special 22nd edition of The Reel Thing Technical Symposium will be held in Los Angeles on August 21-22, 2009 at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Hollywood, California Hosted by the Association of Moving Images (AMIA) and dedicated to presenting the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation, The Reel Thing brings together a unique line up of laboratory technicians, format experts, and preservationists. The program includes two days of sessions and screenings including the premiere screening of Walt Disney's digital restoration of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the premiere of the digital restoration of Marilyn Monroe's How to Marry a Millionaire, presented in CinemaScope, and a surprise sneak preview of a restored classic. Registration details and more information on the program are at: www.the-reel-thing.org http://www.the-reel-thing.org/ REGISTER NOW! Highlights include: Restoration of the Apollo 11 EVA Footage During this presentation, the system used to capture the extravehicular activity on video during Apollo 11 will be reviewed as well as the process for broadcasting those first live pictures from the moon. NASA's search for the original telemetry tapes which recorded the feed from the moon, and the best surviving elements will also be profiled. A discussion will ensue about the technical and philosophical factors that are guiding the restoration project itself, and how these new restoration capabilities may apply to other genres of moving images. Finally, before and after sequences of images from the ongoing restoration project will be screened in HD resolution. Reclaiming the 'Lost' Lunar Orbiter Survey Photos Early this year, headlines blared the news that backup tapes of the first satellite optical surveys of the moon - long thought to have been lost - had been found and decoded to gorgeous new prints which contained more than twice the resolution of the official versions done long ago. This presentation will concentrate on the photographic mission to the moon, how it was conceived and executed, how the 2 instrumentation tapes, which only vaguely resemble quad videotape recordings, came to be made (but until now never used) and what was required to bring success to a project which many thought would be impossible or too expensive to pull off. Resolution Limitations of Film Scanners: More Pixels Do Not Mean More Resolution Includes a discussion of the 4K versus 2K debate and future 8K systems currently under development. Adieu, Sweet Apparition. Hello Sweetheart - Get Me Rewrite! David Giovannoni will discuss recent discoveries and introduce new old sounds. He'll describe the technical challenges of evoking sound from primitive recordings made to be seen, not heard. And he'll recount how the inventor's own voice was revealed after posing for a year as the phantasm of a young woman. After the DI - How to Organize, Catalogue and Protect the Original Negative. About 80% of studio films are now finished as Digital Intermediates and many of these films are still shot on film, or a hybrid of film and digital. For archiving, it makes sense to have a plan to extract, separate and store the actual shots used in the creation of the DI. Content owners may wish to go back to the most original elements from production, for restoration or other reasons. This presentation will cover an efficient and methodical plan for archiving of the original camera negative. Electronic Archiving: Lessons from 8 years in the DI Trenches. This presentation will focus on the real issues encountered by someone who has been living Digital Intermediate archiving since the inception of DI. The presentation focuses on what really happens when facilities and DI studios try to deal with archiving Petabytes of data. TYPE A Videotape and THE EVERLY BROTHERS The restoration of Johnny Cash Presents the Everly Brothers Show-an early 70's TV series that exist only on obsolete type A videotape copies-presented technical challenges far in excess of ordinary video restoration. Archiving, Preserving and Distributing Digital Cinema Collections After three years of work, the original EDCINE approach - based on open standards (as MXF, JPEG2000 and OAIS), a flexible and modular structure and on new standardised profiles for long term preservation - resulted in a 'proof of concept', a working prototype of the 'EDCINE Digital Archive System'. Challenges of Restoring Classic Films in 4K Presentation featuring examples from 4K workflows of restoration projects at Motion Picture Imaging for such films as The Wizard of Oz, North by Northwest, A Star is Born and Gone With the Wind. Featured speakers include Ned Price, Jan Yarbrough, Janet Wilson and Ray Grabowski. REGISTER NOW! www.the-reel-thing.org http://www.the-reel-thing.org
[MCN-L] Information Technology SIG meeting @ MCN
I would like to invite everyone attending MCN to attend the Information Technology Special Interest Group Meeting on Friday at noon. We will gather at a nearby restaurant for lunch and a brief meeting. The restaurant location will posted at the registration desk. Hope to see you there. Janice CraddockInformation Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum www.cartermuseum.org http://www.cartermuseum.org/ 3501 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, TX 76107 817.738.1933 All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
[MCN-L] Museum IT staff - job posting
Network/Tech Support Information Technology Department The Amon Carter Museum is seeking an applicant to provide network technical support necessary to maintain Information Technology (IT) equipment and systems including servers, applications, databases and response for all network and backup issues. Duties include maintaining museum computer network and supporting software including file, print, web, and application servers, routers, switches and firewalls; Maintaining Active directory, Exchange, DNS, and network policies; Maintaining documentation of systems; Monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting and upgrading network databases applications and servers; Supporting systems administration and network applications including system diagnosis, repairs, upgrades and maintenance of operation systems and network databases; Supporting PC and Mac workstations and network interface; Support wireless connectivity; Providing backup to IT Technician when needed for administrative tasks, office equipment maintenance, a/v presentations, phone system and help desk support. Qualifications: Degree in Information Technology or system engineering; advanced degree preferred; Minimum two years experience in network administration with Windows 2000+ Server and Unix or Linux; Proficiency with network systems operations including LAN operations, security issues, server backup systems, Antivirus programs, TCP/IP, Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, Windows, DNS, Exchange, web server and Spam filtering; Experience with Windows 2000+ workstations, MS Office suite, MAC and PC platforms; Experience with Access programming, SQL scripting, VBA, Crystal Reports, html, XML (pHp, and mySQL preferred). Reports to Information Technology Manager; Position is classified Salaried/exempt. Thirty-five hour work week. Full benefits, salary competitive. Send resume, salary history, and work references to: H.R. Manager, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107 or fax (817) 665-4315 or Email kathy.goodale at cartermuseum.org. Janice CraddockInformation Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum www.cartermuseum.org http://www.cartermuseum.org/ 3501 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, TX 76107 817.738.1933 All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
[MCN-L] MCN 2007 - IT Sig sponsored sessions
It is time to submit proposals for this year's MCN conference. We had a lot of good discussion at the last SIG meeting re: future session possibilities. Here are some of the topics suggested at that time. Let me know what you would like to see at the conference and if you are interested in presenting or participating in a group effort. 1. Roundtable to discuss Technology Departmental needs and issues 2. Digital Preservation from a technical standpoint 3. Operations or Business Applications 4. Disaster Planning 5. Tech Planning 6. Staff Training; o Different ways institutions develop their training programs o Importance of providing basic level of computer literacy 7. What is IT's role in your institution? Is the size of the institution a determining factor? Is the structure? Is there a difference if the IT director reports to the Operations Division or the Program Division? Centralized vs. decentralized vs. University structures? Does structure direct staff thinking? 8. Outsourcing vs. on-site support staff? Janice CraddockInformation Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum www.cartermuseum.org 3501 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, TX 76107 817.738.1933
[MCN-L] Museum Policy
I am forwarding this message to the Small Museum Group of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), which is a forum composed primarily of staff of small museums. For those who are interested in joining the group, information can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SmallMuseums. Janice Klein Chair, Small Museum Administrators Committee of the American Assocation of Museums Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jklein at kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu]On Behalf Of somsak Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:17 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Museum Policy Dear All MCN-L Members, We are a newly established central bank museum, focusing on bank notes, coins, and economic related items. The new museum needs a lot more developments and efforts to make it be a real 'small size museum with proper management. One of our weak point is that the lacking of professional staff to run the museum. As a central bank staff with minimum training and workshop in museum management, can perform those tasks in some ways, but not as good. We are planning for our museum policy in 2006, but till date, we have no proper way and solution to do so. May I ask if anyone out there, who have or take care of, preparing museum policy, not only IT related, but general museum policy, please suggest or give me advice. All ideas and advices are highly appreciated. Mr Somsak Vichean Bank of Thailand Museum -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/399 - Release Date: 7/25/2006
Re: sacred object records
Jovanna, As you might have guessed from the first response to your question, this is a fairly big question. The National Museum of the American Indian has one perspective on this issue, but you need to remember that NMAI is not only a US government-run entity, but it also puts considerably more emphasis on the needs of Native people than most museums. What we are all trying to do is balance access to information (which is part of the museum's role) with respecting the cultural beliefs of a part of our constituency. This is a policy question that really needs to be answered (at least in the US) at the governing Board level, since it has legal ramifications (depending on various right to know laws and how they are interpreted) and also raises questions of academic freedom (for those museums associated with universities). On the other hand, the civil and religious rights of Native people are also an issue. Some who work with the US repatration law (NAGPRA) consider it to be civil rights legislation, although we should remember that there is nothing in that law that limits what kind of information museums can provide about their collections, not matter how they are classified. One approach you might want to investigate is that of the Field Museum's Anthropology Department, which asks researchers to seek permission from the appropriate tribal entity if they want access to sensitive materials. Steve Nash (sn...@fieldmuseum.org), the Head of Anthropology Collections, or Jonathan Haas (jh...@fieldmuseum.org), Curator of North American Anthropology and Archaeology, can tell you more about how the policy was developed and implemented. janice Janice Klein Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jkl...@kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: Jovanna Scorsone [mailto:jovan...@rom.on.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:01 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: sacred object records Hi, I was wondering how institutions are dealing with records of sacred objects in their collections databases, and who has access to the records? Thanks, Jovanna _ Jovanna Scorsone Digital Asset Coordinator New Media Resources, ROM Digital Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA Phone: 416.586.5598 Fax.: 416.586.5642 www.rom.on.ca --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jkl...@kendall.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.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
MCN - Study in Digitization Practices for Audiovisual Materials
Please excuse cross-postings. DearMCN ListservColleagues This year, Cinetech (an Ascent MediaCompany),partnered with themuseum and archival communities to coordinateafield-wide study of digitization practices for still and moving imagematerials. Our goalwas threefold: 1) to ensure thatarchives and libraries arekept up to date ondigital technologies, 2) to ensure that members of the archival/library/university/museum communities make the best use of their resources, and 3) to ensure that preservation/restoration service providers take into consideration the needs of the community. The first stage is a field-wide survey which will be available on-line until January 15th. If you have not yet responded, we strongly encourage you to do so. While all demographic information isbeing kept confidential, the general results are being madeavailable to all participants and will be reported to the community. The higher the response rate, the more accurate the results. To get started simply click on this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=905921228156 Your involvement is greatly appreciated and a service to the community. Thank you for participating. Sincerely, Tom Tisch Cinetech 27200 Tourney Rd.,Valencia, CA 91355 Tel: 847-657-9002 Email: tti...@cinetech.com and Janice Simpson Ascent Media Group 27200 Tourney Rd., Valencia, CA 91355 Tel: 661-222-9073 Email: jsimp...@ascentmedia.com Ascent Media Group is dedicated to high quality restoration, preservation digitizing, management and distribution. We are an experienced and professional leader in image management and have been working with the preservation community for the past 15 years. For more information see: www.cinetech.com and www.ascentmedia.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: Copyright from a practical perspective
You and others may be interested to know about the Rights and Reproduction Information Network (RARIN) of the AAM Registrars Committee. Information can be accessed from the RC website (www.rcaam.org) and clicking on Reference. The RARIN link is the second from the bottom of the page. janice Janice Klein Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jkl...@kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: Lesley Ellen Harris [mailto:les...@copyrightlaws.com] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:39 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Copyright from a practical perspective As many of you know, I edit a print newsletter on copyright and licensing. Many of our subscribers are from universities, museums, governments, libraries and archives. Our readers are interested in practical ways of dealing with copyright issues. I know that many from MCN are non-lawyers who regularly deal with copyright issues. We need your help! Would you be willing to write a short article (1000-1200) words for us in 2006, and share your experiences with our readers? If so, please let me know and I'll send you a sample copy of the newsletter. Thanks! Lesley Lesley Ellen Harris les...@copyrightlaws.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jkl...@kendall.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.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
IT SIG -- Meeting followup
Thank you for attending the IT SIG meeting in Boston last week. It was good to meet all of you and I hope we can maintain a helpful relationship this year to assist each other through this maze we call Information Technology. There was a lot of good dialogue and I hated to cut it short due to time limitations. I hope we can rekindle some of that conversation on the MCN-list. I would like to hear more on the storage issues discussion; big issues for everyone as the growing demands of digital images take over the servers. Does anyone restrict areas that digital images can be stored? Set folder limits? Require periodic cleanup? What works for you? Are you responsible for these issues or do you have a records management, visual resources, or other department who takes care of that? How do you backup all that stuff? Full vs. incremental backup -- pros and cons? Do you use tapes, hard drive, DVDs, or Internet Services? What else would you like to know? Janice --- 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
Scheduling software
Has anyone found scheduling software that is uncomplicated and incorporates scheduling all aspects within a Museum? We mainly have tours, special events, and daily staff meetings that we want to track on one calendar (instead of 10 different public calendars in Outlook!) It would be nice if it could produce daily and weekly activity reports; monthly and annual statistics, like numbers of attendants to different types of tours and functions; track docent hours based on which tours they were scheduled to do, track resource usage, etc; and give everything to you in one calendar view screen! And dont forget unlimited users because we want everyone on staff to be able to view the calendar and may be even book staff meeting rooms. We looked at Vista, Blackbaud Raisers Edge Events module, and ABC Event Manager. There are things I like about each one of them. They all seem to focus on different aspects of event planning. Some on room allocation, some on tracking resources, some on finance, some on ticketing but, we just havent quite found what we need. So, what software are you using and what do you like/dislike about it? Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager 817.738.1933 jan...@cartermuseum.org --- 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
Study in Digitization Practices for Audiovisual Materials - MCN
DearMCN Colleagues Cinetech (Ascent Media Group),is coordinating a study of digitization practicesfor audiovisual materials. Our goal is threefold: 1) to ensure that the field is kept up to date ondigital technologies, 2) to ensure that members of the archival/library/university and museum communities make the best use of their resources, and 3) to ensure that preservation/restoration service providers take into consideration the needs of the community. The first stage is a field-wide survey. The survey is largely multiple choice, will take 10-15 minutes and has been designed with your convenience in mind. If necessary, you may leave the survey prior to completion and then pick up where you left off later. Those participants who include their email address will receive a summary of the results; and if the response is high enough, a summary will be submitted for publication. Your involvement is greatly appreciated and a service to the community. Thank you for participating.To get started simply click on this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=905921228156 Sincerely, Tom Tisch Cinetech 27200 Tourney Rd. Valencia, CA 91355 Tel: 847-657-9002 Fax: 847-657-9007 Email: tti...@cinetech.com and Janice Simpson Ascent Media Group 27200 Tourney Rd. Valencia, CA 91355 Tel: 661-222-9073 Email: jsimp...@ascentmedia.com Ascent Media Group is dedicated to high quality restoration, preservation digitizing, management and distribution. We are an experienced and professional leader in image management and have been working with the preservation community for the past 15 years. For more information see: www.cinetech.com and www.ascentmedia.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
IT SIG: Web page update
The Information Technology SIG web page has been updated. If you have resources you would like to share with others, let me know so I can add them to the list. I hope to build this list so we others will know who to contact for help in various areas. More to come; the new Survey will be posted soon. How can the IT SIG promote more interaction between Museum IT Professionals? Do we want to make more contact information available to others? Via the SIG web page? Via email? Suggestions? Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum www.cartermuseum.org 817.738.1933 --- 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: IT Sig: Where do you go for ...
Bill, The survey is still the website. Take a look at it and see what other areas we should include and let me know. I could update it and post it again. Janice -Original Message- From: Weinstein, William [mailto:wweinst...@philamuseum.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:53 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: RE: IT Sig: Where do you go for ... Good morning everyone. A good burst of energy. I will try to keep it going. One of the behind the scenes discussions on the IT sig was the status of the last survey. It was decided the data was too old but that it might be valuable to post anyway. Maybe we can use the little push from this thread to get some new data. I would be happy to compile. Our environment is: about 410 Computers (Dell) about 10% Mac and the rest PCs with 10% of those laptops Cisco layer 2 switches Cisco Wireless AP in storage 3 Buildings One connected via multiple T-1s, One connected via T-1 and point to point wireless 2 Remote sites both connected through DSL and VPN 2 ISPs Patec provides 2 T-1s, USLec 1 T-1 Desktop OS Windows 2000 OSX 10.3 Server OS Primary/Secondary Domain Controllers WinNT 4.0 (don't laugh) Member servers Win2000 Server Server Hardware HP/Compaq Proliant HP/Compaq MSA1000 SAN HP/Compaq Application Software: Accounting - Paciolan (selection of new software in process) Ticketing - Paciolan (Same as above) Membership/Development - Raisers Edge 7.6 MSSQL Version Wholesale/Retail - CamData Gupta SQL version Volunteer Management - Volunteer Works Payroll - ADP Gupta SQL Version Email - Exchange 5.5 Collections Management - TMS 9.x MSSql Version Web Apps eMuseum - internal access to collections information for non curatorial staff Netsolutions - email campaigns for Membership and Development online donations for Development Public website is hosted by INetU Desktop Software MSOffice 2000 PCs MSOffice:Mac vX mail client - Outlook Browser - IE virus - Symantec Enterprise Spyware- XoftSpy This is of the top of my head, informal. Anyone who wants to add to the list can and I will enhance my answers to cover new topics. This list can help people target who to contact for info and help us begin to see where to look for resources we might want to share. Respond direct to me or to the list. Bill -Original Message- From: Goral, Becky [mailto:becky.go...@mam.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:29 AM To: mcn_mc...@listserver.americaneagle.com Subject: RE: IT Sig: Where do you go for ... I am new to MCN and to non-profits so networking is key for me. Something like this is ideal. Any resources that I can share, I would be more than willing to do so. I would love to see more information about different software programs organizations are using. For example, our organization has ticketing software, a Cafe point-of-sale, as well as a museum store point-of-sale. None of these programs communicate with each other. Wouldn't it be nice if our customers could buy a gift card and have the ability to use in each area, ticketing, cafe and store? Somebody out there has to be using software like this, but who and where? Thanks and I am looking forward to this communication! Becky Milwaukee Art Museum -Original Message- From: Janice [mailto:janice.cradd...@cartermuseum.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:48 PM To: mcn_mc...@listserver.americaneagle.com Subject: RE: IT Sig: Where do you go for ... I have struggled with this issue also. MCN has been a good educational experience for relating technical issues to other aspects of the Museum. Digitization, Library, Collection Management are all areas that I support and knowing more about these areas has been very beneficial. But, as Bill mentions, the technology management issues are not addressed. I think we would all benefit from others who have gone through these processes or who are struggling along side of us. MCN has been the place for making contacts in these areas. I think we need to carry that one step further and use this list for more of these burning issues that IT faces every day in the Museum world. I know I have a habit of emailing someone I know instead of posting to the list. So, why don't we make a pact to use the list when we have questions about Technology Management Issues and see if we can help each other? This could also a reference when we start thinking about sessions for next year's conference. We can also utilize the SIG web page for listing these resources. I have just received access to that page, so I can begin modifying it. One thing I was thinking to include is either sample of RFPs, Forms, etc. or contact information of people who have these things to share. Would you be willing to share your resources? What else would you like to see on the web page? Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum jan...@cartermuseum.org 817-738-1933 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: becky.go...@mam.org
Re: Blogging in Museums?
Have you seen this article in Tech Soup? http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=597 Janice Craddock IT Manager Amon Carter Museum jan...@cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: Beth Kanter [mailto:b...@bethkanter.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:06 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Blogging in Museums? Hello, I was wondering if anyone has been blogging or using blogs or the other mobile, social software in a museum context? I did find an interesting project called Art Mobs -- users create their ipod audio guides for the MOMA and they are available via podcasting. If you know of other examples of use of blogs and this technology in museums, please leave a comment on my blog. Thanks http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/05/thats_art_mobs_.html --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jan...@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: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: IT Sig: Where do you go for ...
I have struggled with this issue also. MCN has been a good educational experience for relating technical issues to other aspects of the Museum. Digitization, Library, Collection Management are all areas that I support and knowing more about these areas has been very beneficial. But, as Bill mentions, the technology management issues are not addressed. I think we would all benefit from others who have gone through these processes or who are struggling along side of us. MCN has been the place for making contacts in these areas. I think we need to carry that one step further and use this list for more of these burning issues that IT faces every day in the Museum world. I know I have a habit of emailing someone I know instead of posting to the list. So, why don't we make a pact to use the list when we have questions about Technology Management Issues and see if we can help each other? This could also a reference when we start thinking about sessions for next year's conference. We can also utilize the SIG web page for listing these resources. I have just received access to that page, so I can begin modifying it. One thing I was thinking to include is either sample of RFPs, Forms, etc. or contact information of people who have these things to share. Would you be willing to share your resources? What else would you like to see on the web page? Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum jan...@cartermuseum.org 817-738-1933 --- 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: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference
In that case I'd suggest you contact Betty Brewer, Chair of the AAM's Museum Management Professional Standing Committee (bbre...@whitakercenter.org)and Holly Witchey, Chair of the AAM's Media and Technology Standing Professional Committee (hwitc...@clevelandart.org)to see what their members have been working on. janice (a big fan of collaboration) -Original Message- From: Weinstein, William [mailto:wweinst...@philamuseum.org] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:48 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: RE: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference Note. This is not a collections management/registrars system but a Registration/Facilities management system. All those that have been struggling with new admissions systems and facilities management should take a look at this proposal. -Original Message- From: Janice Klein [mailto:jkl...@kendall.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 6:06 PM To: mcn_mc...@listserver.americaneagle.com Subject: RE: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference I am forwarding this message to the AAM Registrars listserv. They have done many, many panels and workshops on this session and perhaps it is time for some cross organizational conversations. janice Janice Klein Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jkl...@kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: Roger Zender [mailto:zen...@healthspacecleveland.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:22 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference I wanted to put a call out there to see if someone would be interested in forming a panel on Museum Registration systems to present at the MCN conference? Here at HealthSpace we encountered many challenges when it came to finding a new Registration Database. We evaluated several products and eventually decided to custom build our own, and what a challenge that was. I m proud to say that it was a rather successful project, but I feel like I have learned SO much from the process and would love to share this information. Also, whenever I talk to cultural institutions, they all seem to be interested in how other institutions are handling this, so it seems like it would be a rather popular topic. Our Registration Database handles the following: All Education Programming (In-House, Outreach, Distance Learning) All Rentals All Resource Allocation All Contact Information All Financial information (relating to Education Rentals) We are also building an online registration system that connects directly to the database... I could easily talk about the benefits and challenges with custom building your own system. I would like to find others who have maybe done the same, or who have purchased systems and we can give a complete snapshot of dealing with these types of systems. I would also be happy to server as the Chairperson for this Panel. Please let me know if anyone is interested. Roger Roger Zender Director, Information Learning Technology zen...@healthspacecleveland.org 216-231-6828 HealthSpace Cleveland http://www.healthspacecleveland.org http://www.healthdl.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jkl...@kendall.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: wweinst...@philamuseum.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: jkl...@kendall.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.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: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference
I am forwarding this message to the AAM Registrars listserv. They have done many, many panels and workshops on this session and perhaps it is time for some cross organizational conversations. janice Janice Klein Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jkl...@kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: Roger Zender [mailto:zen...@healthspacecleveland.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:22 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Registration System Panel at MCN Conference I wanted to put a call out there to see if someone would be interested in forming a panel on Museum Registration systems to present at the MCN conference? Here at HealthSpace we encountered many challenges when it came to finding a new Registration Database. We evaluated several products and eventually decided to custom build our own, and what a challenge that was. I m proud to say that it was a rather successful project, but I feel like I have learned SO much from the process and would love to share this information. Also, whenever I talk to cultural institutions, they all seem to be interested in how other institutions are handling this, so it seems like it would be a rather popular topic. Our Registration Database handles the following: All Education Programming (In-House, Outreach, Distance Learning) All Rentals All Resource Allocation All Contact Information All Financial information (relating to Education Rentals) We are also building an online registration system that connects directly to the database... I could easily talk about the benefits and challenges with custom building your own system. I would like to find others who have maybe done the same, or who have purchased systems and we can give a complete snapshot of dealing with these types of systems. I would also be happy to server as the Chairperson for this Panel. Please let me know if anyone is interested. Roger Roger Zender Director, Information Learning Technology zen...@healthspacecleveland.org 216-231-6828 HealthSpace Cleveland http://www.healthspacecleveland.org http://www.healthdl.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: jkl...@kendall.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.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
image management software
We are in the process of reviewing image management systems and would like to hear what is working for others. Please share the name of the software and how it is working for you. Janice Craddock Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum www.cartermuseum.org 817.738.1933 --- 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
[MCN-L] Sound clip database on a Mac
I would highly recommend FileMaker Pro for the pure database aspect of the project. You can link your sound files via an appropriate address field (in olden days I did that with urls for images). FMP is versatile, easy to learn, easy to adapt and cross platform so that you can translate your FMP skills to a PC (should you ever want to make that change). janice Janice Klein Executive Director Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jklein at mitchellmuseum.org www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu]On Behalf Of Rachel Wormsbecher Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:13 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Sound clip database on a Mac Hi everyone. This is my first posting...I hope it works. Anyway, I need to build a database for a collection of oral histories that are being stored on a Mac. All I know how to use is Microsoft Access. Can anyone suggest a common database program for Macs that hold sound files well? Thanks, Rachel from Toronto. _ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-491 1fb2b2e6d ___ 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 1/30/2007
[MCN-L] metadata for dummies
Perian, My eyes tend to cross too when people much more knowledgable than I explain meta-data. Here's my basic understanding, at least as it applies to museums Each field in a collections database is a discrete piece of information about an object. In different databases that field can have different names, but still refer to the same piece of information; e.g, catalogue number = accession number = number. So that databases can talk to each other (and people can share information between databases), there needs to be an overall description of that piece of information. In this case it might be unique identifying number. Various metadata systems (like MARC, Dublin Core) have set out lists of those pieces of information (more easily understood as database fields) and definitions of what they are. Another example would be author = maker = artist; here the metadata descriptor might be original creator of object. You may (not) want to keep in mind that many museums do not use standardized vocabularies, particularly ones with anthropological, archaeological and historical collections. I have worked in institutions where curators from different collections didn't even use the same set of fields within the same database, let alone vocabulary :-) Hope this helps, janice Janice Klein Executive Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jklein at kendall.edu www.mitchellmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu]On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:48 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] metadata for dummies Hi list of smart people much more knowledgeable than me: I'm trying to wrap my brain around the technical aspects of metadata sharing and structures, reading though (and not entirely comprehending) a lot of different sources. As I am a visual, hands-on type learner, I'm trying to put everything I'm reading into non-technical language this neophyte can understand. I'm pretty sure I've got #'s 2-4 wrong, but can anyone help me unravel this? 1) You have objects. You apply vocabularies to the objects in order to describe them. The vocabularies facilitate how your object information is seen by other computers. Examples of Vocabularies are: AAT, ULAN, Chenhall's (I understand #1 pretty well. Here's where I start to get lost...) 2) In order for the other computers to understand what you're giving them, the information needs to be arranged in a specific way. These are the element sets...? these are MARC, LOC, VRA, Dublin Core 3) Because very few institutions have pure collections that fit into one of the Vocabularies, we can use multiple Vocabularies. Do we use multiples of #2 as well? These are defined and plugged into the element sets. They are tagged as belonging to a specific Vocabulary (I think there's a middle piece in here I'm missing) 4) There is an umbrella structure, the Harvester, which can read #2 and serve it to the user in readable form. Examples: OAI, MARC (also fits as a #2), XML So as you can see, I'm dreadfully muddled. I know it's important to understand it, but I'm just not able to wrap my head around the various resources out there. I'm starting to think that Ask A Ninja is more my level... Help! and thanks in advance -- Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335 ___ 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.10/541 - Release Date: 11/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.11/543 - Release Date: 11/20/2006
