Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms!

2015-02-11 Thread Michael Stocking
Currently working on the UI and UX for a project coded using MVC (a bit like 
MVVM) and, thrillingly, using AES-57, AES-60 and AES-X098C schemas. We’re 
having to validate MD5 and SHA checksums and generate SMPTE time codes. Which 
is nice.

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On 11 Feb 2015, at 14:31, musedia p...@musedia.net wrote:

 
 Hello,
 
 Perhaps you could include: UXP  (User Experience and/or User Experience 
 Platform) ...and bouncing off that: VXP (Visitor Experience)
 
 Please also see:
 Digital Curator Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms Museums Should Know
 http://bit.ly/16RWI98
 
 Best wishes,
 Paul Henningsson
 
 musedia
 
 
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 http://blogg.museiteknik.com
 
 
 
 At 20:59 2015-02-10, you wrote:
 Hi, all...
 
 I'm trying to compile a list of tech-related acronyms that might be
 important for museum staff to know and understand -- or at the very least,
 recognize.  Right now, I'm just gathering EVERYthing I can think of -- file
 extensions (PDF, JPG), emerging technologies (BLE, NFC), web-related (HTML,
 PHP)...
 
 So...
 
 - Are there any that you think are particularly relevant/important?
 
 - What terms do you frequently toss around during museum tech meetings?
 
 - Are there any that are often misunderstood/misinterpreted?
 
 I'd be happy to share my final list when I've got it ready...
 
 FIRE AWAY!!
 
 Thanks...
 
 Carissa
 
 Head of Knowledge Management
 
 The Morton Arboretum  |  4100 Illinois Route 53  |  Lisle, Illinois 60532
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[MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Stocking 2013
We use Azure for one project with a few thousand images. We took a close look 
at the charges for additions to the store as well as traffic charges - hosting 
the data is just one part of the cost. It worked for us, and has been reliable, 
but you need to do your sums.

Michael

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On 17 Apr 2013, at 16:27, Jeremy Ottevanger JOttevanger at iwm.org.uk wrote:

 We use Rackspace. They have a new part to their cloud offer, which I've not 
 yet tried but which sounds helpful if you have large storage needs because it 
 lets you buy what you need without scaling up the server as a whole. Cloud 
 Blocks, I think it's called. Ah yes, here it is:
 
 http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cloud-block-storage-overview
 
 All the best, Jeremy
 
 Jeremy Ottevanger
 Technical Web Manager
 Imperial War Museum
 Lambeth Road
 London SE1 6HZ
 
 
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 Subject: [MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage
 
 Hello List,
 
 We are planning to use a cloud service to store large numbers of hi-res 
 digital images for an online education platform. If any of you already use 
 cloud services I'd be very grateful for recommendations or advice about what 
 to look out for.
 
 Thank you, as always.
 
 Robin
 
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[MCN-L] touch screen LCDs

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Stocking 2013
I had a demo from LG yesterday of some of their latest screens - a 24 and a 
47, both multitouch. The 24 was 10 point multitouch and allowed really nice 
control and the 1080 resolution was a great fit for the size. The 47 was 
awesome, and, surprisingly, the pixellation wasn't too pronounced (1080 also). 
I've been looking at Philips and Iiyama large touch screens over the last weeks 
and these were better. We use them for book animations also, and they worked 
well. Maybe see if they do a 27?

Michael

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On 11 Apr 2013, at 17:49, Scott Hisey scott.hisey at cincyart.org wrote:

 Hi MCN,
 
 I was wondering if anyone has had good success with current touch screen LCD 
 tvs/monitors. We are currently producing a PDF flip book for an in gallery 
 interactive and would like to utilize touch screen functionality. We would 
 like something around the 27 form factor. Any recommendations?
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Scott Hisey
 Director of Design and Dissemination
 Cincinnati Art Museum
 953 Eden Park Drive
 Cincinnati, OH 45202
 513-639-2950
 513-639-2888(fax)
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[MCN-L] iPad security

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Stocking
Assuming you can create an .epub file from your archival files (maybe look at 
using Calibre for this), you can then open up iTunes, click on Add to Library 
to import the .epub file, and then sync with the iPads. I haven't tried doing 
this across large numbers of devices and don't know if you hit any iTunes DRM 
issues.

Hope that helps anyway.

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On 15 Dec 2010, at 18:12, Christina DePaolo wrote:

 At BPOC we are trying to figure out how to put books from the Internet
 Archive on an IPad locally for photography exhibition. Any advice in this
 direction would be appreciated. The iPads will be mounted on the wall with
 brackets. 
 http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/26/ibracket-turns-your-ipad-into-an-ikiosk/
 
 
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 Director of New Media
 Balboa Park Online Collaborative
 A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation
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 San Diego, CA 92101
 Tel (619) 630-9600
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 On 12/9/10 6:45 PM, Stephanie Weaver sweaver at experienceology.com wrote:
 
 Leo,
 I am very excited to see museums moving in this direction, as I think the
 shared nature of the iPad will foster great social interaction.
 
 My suggestion in terms of theft prevention is simply to run a credit card
 slip for the cost of the device plus $100-150, which you then destroy
 when they return it intact. Better than having them leave a driver's
 license.
 
 Keep us posted!
 
 Best,
 
 
 Stephanie Weaver
 Visitor experience consultant
 experienceology: Because happy visitors return.
 San Diego, CA
 Voice: 619-365-5065
 Skype: experienceology
 E-news:   http://www.experienceology.com/newsletter/
 
 For information on our book, blog, podcast, upcoming classes, and e-news,
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 www.youtube.com/experienceology. Watch the free archived version of my
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[MCN-L] ye lode TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Stocking
The Wellcome Library also have a JP2K Implementation Group which I am part of. 
I'll alert the facilitator of that group to this thread as see if she wants to 
contribute where the Wellcome are up to.

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On 11 Mar 2010, at 19:14, Buckley, Robert R wrote:

 Hi Perian,
 
 Replacing your high-quality derivative TIFFs with JPEG 2000 may make
 sense now. It would save space, especially if one JPEG 2000 file can
 replace multiple derivative TIFFs. I don't know when you last looked at
 JPEG 2000, but interest in it continues to grow and more and more of
 that interest is being converted into action. Another response to your
 post mentioned the Wellcome Library Report; as far as I know, they are
 planning to go to the next step and implement the recommendations in the
 report and use JPEG 2000. NDNP has been using JPEG 2000 for three years
 now; they're up to 1.7M production master last time I looked, all
 encoded using JPEG 2000. 
 
 Rob Buckley
 
 -Original Message-
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
 Perian Sully
 Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:12 PM
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
 Subject: [MCN-L] ye olde TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate
 
 Howdy everyone:
 
 I'm in the midst of reprocessing all (!!) of our image assets from .NEF
 (a RAW format) and I'm wondering if I should take another look at
 JPEG2000 now.
 
 When I first started imaging the collection, JPEG2000 was in its infancy
 and not widely adopted. As a result, I have my master files in NEF and
 TIF, my high-quality derivatives in TIF, and my accessible and web-ready
 images in JPG.
 
 Part of this reprocessing will including making new copies of the
 high-quality derivatives as well as the accessible JPGs. So I'm
 wondering if I should replace the HQ derivative TIFs with JPEG2000 at
 this time.
 
 Anyone have any opinions, experiences or suggestions before I commit to
 this?
 
 ~Perian
 
 Perian Sully
 Collections Information Manager
 Web Programs Strategist
 The Magnes
 2911 Russell St.
 Berkeley, CA 94705
 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
 Fax: 510-849-3673
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[MCN-L] ye olde TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Stocking
I'd recommend taking a look at the Djatoka Image Server project coming out of 
Los Alamos. It's designed to serve up JPEG2000s in a variety of ways in 
real-world scenarios:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/djatoka/index.php?title=Main_Page

They presented at Open Repositories last year I think.
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On 10 Mar 2010, at 23:47, Perian Sully wrote:

 Thanks everyone for your responses so far.
 
 I should clarify that what I'm looking at is not to replace the NEFs to
 JPEG2000, but the first-tier derivative TIFs. Mostly I'm considering
 JPEG2000 as a space-saving measure, to have very large files accessible
 internally, or from which to create images for rights  reproduction
 use.
 
 For the most part, our only free range images are the lower-quality
 JPGs that we publish in our online database. We don't have a zoomify
 function or anything like that, so I publish these images in full.
 
 ~P
 
 Perian Sully
 Collections Information Manager
 Web Programs Strategist
 The Magnes
 Berkeley, CA
 
 
 -Original Message-
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 Chuck Patch
 Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:34 PM
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] ye olde TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate
 
 Hi Perian,
 
 Before making a major commitment to JP2000, you might consider
 converting
 those NEF's to DNG, which remains (so far as I am aware - and I expect
 others to jump in momentarily) more widely implemented than JP2000.
 There
 are certainly more tools that can use it. As you go forward, you need to
 consider what your clients can use/want.
 
 Chuck
 
 On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Perian Sully psully at magnes.org wrote:
 
 Howdy everyone:
 
 I'm in the midst of reprocessing all (!!) of our image assets from
 .NEF
 (a RAW format) and I'm wondering if I should take another look at
 JPEG2000 now.
 
 When I first started imaging the collection, JPEG2000 was in its
 infancy
 and not widely adopted. As a result, I have my master files in NEF and
 TIF, my high-quality derivatives in TIF, and my accessible and
 web-ready
 images in JPG.
 
 Part of this reprocessing will including making new copies of the
 high-quality derivatives as well as the accessible JPGs. So I'm
 wondering if I should replace the HQ derivative TIFs with JPEG2000 at
 this time.
 
 Anyone have any opinions, experiences or suggestions before I commit
 to
 this?
 
 ~Perian
 
 Perian Sully
 Collections Information Manager
 Web Programs Strategist
 The Magnes
 2911 Russell St.
 Berkeley, CA 94705
 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357
 Fax: 510-849-3673
 http://www.magnes.org
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[MCN-L] SM Sig: Use of Extensis Protfolio in small museums or archives

2007-10-11 Thread Michael Stocking
We've been working with Portfolio with a large UK institution for the  
last 6 months and a number of strengths and weaknesses have emerged.

The benefits are it's very easy to set-up and very easy to use, with  
a well-grooved UI and intuitive ease of use. It's also pretty cheap.  
If you want to scale, you can go for the SQL Connect version that  
uses a MS SQL or MySQL database underneath for faster searching,  
instead of it's proprietary .fdb flat file format. I think the SQL  
Connect version is ?6,000 or so though, so it's no longer cheap.

The downsides are that, even with the SQL Connect version it's still  
flat file. Portfolio creates a series of tables, but it's impossible  
to create a truly relational database structure. This can create  
problems if you wanted to surface your content in a website for  
example (searching is hard). Also, as an asset management system, it  
will only allow metadata to exist with an asset. So if you have a  
scan of Painting1 with associated metadata, you're fine. If you want  
to create a record (with metadata) about the collection that  
Painting1 sits in (so no unique asset) then you can't do it.

If the original query was about organising and making accessible  
collections, then, in our experience, it's pretty good at simple  
organisation, not so good for more complex organisation and access.

Hope that helps

Michael
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On 11 Oct 2007, at 14:57, James Stevenson wrote:

 David

 You might to contact Colin White at the National Gallery in London.
 They use Portfolio for their non-object photgraphs.

 Colin.White at ng-london.org.uk

 Regards

 James



 James Stevenson
 Photographic Manager
 Victoria and Albert Museum
 South Kensington
 London
 UK

 tel +44 (0) 207 942 2545
 fax +44 (0) 207 942 2746

 www.vam.ac.uk

 David.Farrell at peelregion.ca 11/10/2007 14:33:27 
 Hi all.

 I realize that there have been previous threads on the use of
 Portfolio
 in museums, but I would like to know if there have been small to
 medium
 museums (10 or fewer permanent full-time staff) that have used a
 version
 of Portfolio or another example of DAMS software. We are currently
 using
 an Access database for image files of historic photographs from our
 archives collection, but I looking for a convenient way to organize
 and
 make accessible all of our digital assets, including images of the
 museum collection and in-house images of special events, educational
 programmes, etc.

 Since the person who would be charge of the DAMS would be the same
 staff
 member in charge of the collections database, putting numbers on
 objects, accessioning the museum collection and a host of other
 duties,
 the experiences of larger institutions that can assign one person to
 cataloguing just non-collection images of special events in their DAMS
 are not are not entirely relevant. A simple system without too many
 bells and whistles that can be mastered relatively quickly would be
 ideal. Since we are part of regional government we do have an IT
 department, the computers are networked and there is a server, but we
 are a small and atypical department to the regional IT staff and
 therefore we have to be self-sufficient when it comes to finding the
 appropriate software.

 So if your situation is similar to our own, please reply to the list
 and
 let us know how your Portfolio (or other DAMS software) experience
 went
 and if it can do what you want it to do while staff do all their
 duties.

 Thanks,

 David Farrell, Collections Co-ordinator
 Peel Heritage Complex
 9 Wellington Street East
 Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
 905-791-4055 x3628
 david.farrell at peelregion.ca
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[MCN-L] JPEG to be replaced by Windows Media Photo?

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Stocking
Very limited compatibility at the moment - nowhere near as good as  
jp2. It's designed as part of the WPF framework, so will initially  
work with the Expression toolset at least.

wdp files work under XP, but I don't know the precise plans for Apple  
or Linux. They should work in the future, but not until after Vista  
launch.

Licensing is a whole other issue...
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On 18 Oct 2006, at 16:32, Perian Sully wrote:

 How compatible is it with various software packages? Have you run into
 any problems?

 Personally, I am rabidly anti-Vista (due to various protections  
 built
 into the software. In this current political climate, I'm turning into
 something of a technological Luddite...), so one of my concerns  
 would be
 with how the file format interacts with older versions of Windows (or
 non-standard OSes like Linux, or even Apple's). Not to mention the
 licensing...

 Perian Sully
 Collection Database and Records Administrator
 Judah L. Magnes Museum
 Berkeley, CA

 Michael Stocking wrote:
 We've been working with the wdp file format (Windows Media Photo) for
 some months now. Think of it as comparable to jpeg2000 in terms of
 file size and compression behaviour. Compression at very high
 settings is probably superior to jp2 files and especially in edge
 areas of high contrast. It will be natively supported by Vista and XP
 next year, but the licensing side still concerns me. I think MSFT is
 starting to get open source but I have bad memories of stuff like
 this...
 Compression tools are non-existant at the moment but coming soon. wdp
 files are also the  format that the forthcoming XPS document format
 uses.
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[MCN-L] JPEG to be replaced by Windows Media Photo?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Stocking
We've been working with the wdp file format (Windows Media Photo) for  
some months now. Think of it as comparable to jpeg2000 in terms of  
file size and compression behaviour. Compression at very high  
settings is probably superior to jp2 files and especially in edge  
areas of high contrast. It will be natively supported by Vista and XP  
next year, but the licensing side still concerns me. I think MSFT is  
starting to get open source but I have bad memories of stuff like  
this...
Compression tools are non-existant at the moment but coming soon. wdp  
files are also the  format that the forthcoming XPS document format  
uses.
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Managing Director
Armadillo Systems
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London W11 1QQ
+44 (0)20 7229 0754
michael at armadillosystems.com



On 17 Oct 2006, at 07:19, Amalyah Keshet wrote:

 Unlikely.  Has anyone looked into this?

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 If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be
 replaced by Windows Media Photo.
 The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the  
 Windows
 Hardware Engineering Conference here. Windows Media Photo will be  
 supported
 in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow,
 program manager for Windows Media Photo, said in a presentation.
 One of the biggest reasons people upgrade their PCs is digital  
 photos,
 Crow said, noting that Microsoft has been in contact with printer  
 makers,
 digital camera companies and other unnamed industry partners while  
 working
 on Windows Media Photo. Microsoft touts managing digital memories  
 as one
 of the key attributes of XP successor Vista.
 In his presentation, Crow showed an image with 24:1 compression  
 that visibly
 contained more detail in the Windows Media Photo format than the  
 JPEG and
 JPEG 2000 formats compressed at the same level.

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 Amalyah Keshet
 Head of Image Resources  Copyright Management
 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
 fax  02-670-8064
 tel   02-670-8874
 akeshet at imj.org.il

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