[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

2013-01-18 Thread Sandy Moore
We just installed two Sensource units for our Special Exhibitions
Gallery and it was a huge success.  We are currently planning on
expanding the units in our facility.  
 
 
 






Sandra J. Moore, MBA
Director of I.T. 
 
419.255.8000 ext. 7308
smoore at toledomuseum.org
 
Toledo Museum of Art
PO Box 1013
Toledo, Ohio 43697






 On 1/17/2013 at 5:02 PM, in message
D242BCE81E7DAD408D1F125A1DB5447725DBF2 at WAMEXCHANGE.walters.local,
James Maza jmaza at thewalters.org wrote:

Hi Nina et al -

Don't have any experience with this company, but this sounds like what
you are looking for 

http://www.sensourceinc.com/

hope this helps..

Jim 

Jim Maza
Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St.,
Baltimore, MD  21201
(P) 410.547.9000 ext 339 
jmaza at thewalters.org 
http://www.thewalters.org 

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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Nina Simon
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:42 PM
To: Jaki Levy; Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

Hi Jaki,

We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these
are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a
small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as
possible - we just want to know how many people attend.

Thanks,
Nina

On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jaki Levy wrote:

 Hi Nina - I imagine this could be accomplished very easily with some
kind of ticket system / sign-in process. Every visitor that enters needs
a ticket, even if they don't pay. Is there any way to require a ticket
or sign-in of some sort, even if it's virtual / electronic? Buttons? A
check mark? Virtual check-ins via onsite hardware? iPad checkins? I've
done this kind of sign-in process for countless volunteer run
organizations and it works wonders :-)
 
 - Jaki
 
 
 web: http://arrowrootmedia.com
 cell: 646-339-9410
 
 
 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com
wrote:
 Dear friends in museum geekitude,
 
 We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people.
Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really
prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time
interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count.
That said, we'd like a good count.
 
 We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of
people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR
systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same
doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as
they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer
friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors
for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three
people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I
first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal
with this.
 
 How do you deal with this?
 
 Thanks!
 Nina
 
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[MCN-L] Food Service POS Systems

2012-03-02 Thread Sandy Moore
We are looking at alternatives for POS systems to manage our food service 
operations, including our Cafe,  Coffee Bar, and Cash Bars for special events.  
What systems are out there for food service operations and what systems are 
being used in your Museum?  Is it a part of your larger Store retail system or 
is your food services on a separate POS?  As always, thanks for the 
information.  Regards.
 
 
 
 






Sandra J. Moore, MBA
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419.255.8000 ext. 7308
smoore at toledomuseum.org
 
Toledo Museum of Art
PO Box 1013
Toledo, Ohio 43697






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[MCN-L] Skype- use it or block it?

2011-03-28 Thread Sandy Moore
We have several staff members using it, including our Director.  
 
Sandra J. Moore, MBA
Director of Information Technology
The Toledo Museum of Art
Grove Place
Toledo, OH  43620
Telephone:  (419) 255-8000 x7308
Fax:  (419) 255-5638 
smoore at toledomuseum.org
www.toledomuseum.org



 On 3/28/2011 at 5:14 PM, in message 
 AANLkTikGa7qz3bHHVr1sSgN7LjMwyiShTypeF7x65oUn at mail.gmail.com, John 
 Bedard jbedard at artsmia.org wrote:

We have some staff members interested in using Skype.  Interested in finding
out if others are using, blocking it, or have done any analysis of using it.

John

-- 
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

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[MCN-L] Ipad, locked down web browser and Ipad

2011-03-08 Thread Sandy Moore
We have been testing this app out:
 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avd-browse/id372757110?mt=8 
 
  
 
Sandra J. Moore, MBA
Director of Information Technology
The Toledo Museum of Art
Grove Place
Toledo, OH  43620
Telephone:  (419) 255-8000 x7308
Fax:  (419) 255-5638 
smoore at toledomuseum.org
www.toledomuseum.org

 
 On 3/8/2011 at 11:38 AM, in message 
 AC3E9112C60B5340B9E809EF8A60427704700F0640 at exchange.artbma.museum, 
 Jeff L. La Clair Jlaclair at artbma.org wrote:

A few months ago someone had sent out an email on how they were able to lock 
down their ipad and load a web page onto it.  We are looking to do something 
very similar and unfortunately I can't locate the link that was in the past 
email on what they did.  Can someone help?

Thank you,

Thank you,
Jeff La Clair, MCP CNA
Director of Information Technology

Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Dr
Baltimore, MD. 21218
Tel  443-573-1596
Fax 443-573-1581
Email: Jlaclair at artbma.org



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[MCN-L] iPads in Galleries

2010-12-09 Thread Sandy Moore
Have you seen this app?
 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avd-browse/id372757110?mt=8
 
We have been experimenting with it.  We are also concerned about physical 
security of the device, etc.
 
 
 
Sandra J. Moore, MBA
Director of Information Technology
The Toledo Museum of Art
Grove Place
Toledo, OH  43620
Telephone:  (419) 255-8000 x7308
Fax:  (419) 255-5638 
smoore at toledomuseum.org
www.toledomuseum.org



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 at JOHNSON.SFMOMA.ORG, Ballate, Leo lballate at SFMOMA.org wrote:

SFMOMA is considering making iPads available for public use as video jukeboxes 
in a museum gallery learning lounge and are wondering if you are aware of other 
public implementations of tablet computers. The issues we are particularly 
concerned with include:

  *   Home screen management: limiting icons and making Settings inaccessible 
(We understand this can be done through the Apple Enterprise Developer 
solution; does anyone have experience with this? Any pitfalls or limitations?)
  *   Options for a menu interface to browse and launch a set of videos 
(iTunes, obviously-but any other suggestions?)
  *   Physical security of the device: theft prevention and protection against 
dropping/breakage

Please let us know if you have suggestions along these lines-or if there are 
other important issues we have neglected to mention! Thanks in advance.

Best,
Leo Ballate
IT Director
SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415-357-4145
fax: 415-947-1145
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[MCN-L] Luna and The Museum System

2010-04-28 Thread Sandy Moore
An inquiry:  Who out there is utilizing an interface between Luna and The 
Museum System, what is the purpose of that interface, and what amount of 
resources (time/staff/money) was put into it to make it happen?  As always, 
thanks!
 
Sandy Moore
The Toledo Museum of Art
 
 
 



[MCN-L] Museum IT Department question

2010-04-27 Thread Sandy Moore
We previously used Track It as well, but now use an Excel spreadsheet until we 
can find a more permanent solution.  We also have an Access database which 
tracks our software inventory.
 
Sandy Moore
IT Manager
Toledo Museum of Art

 On 4/27/2010 at 1:58 PM, in message 
 78AC9A21A019B14F8C7C6A3EE74B30210B92C753 at CEXMB1.nmes.lcl, Chadwick, 
 John, DCA john.chadwick at state.nm.us wrote:

We had used Track-It, but it was proprietary and costly to maintain. We
have tested out an open source solution called Open-Audit that looks
very good.

www.open-audit.org/

John Chadwick
John.Chadwick at state.nm.us

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I used to use an excel spreadsheet.  Recently it has been migrated to an
access database.
We also have an access database for our phones and software license.
Deciding if we will move it into one large access program our possibly
keep the phone system on its own database.

Jeff Laclair

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We would like to know how the IT Departments at other museums manage
their hardware and software inventories.  What software do you use for
the inventory and how do you keep it current?

My contact info is below.

Thanks,

Jill


Jill Aremband
Director of IT and Office Services
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
PO Box 6826
Houston, TX 77265
713 639-7563
www.mfah.org



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[MCN-L] texting donations

2010-02-11 Thread Sandy Moore
We started to look into text donations, but it doesn't seem to be cost 
effective for us at this time. It would need to be a large
campaign for it to break-even for us. 

I'm also intrigued by communicating with our donors/members via text messaging. 
Is anyone doing that or looking into it?

Sandy Moore
Information Technology Manager
The Toledo Museum of Art
smoore at toledomuseum.org

 John Bedard 02/11/10 4:48 PM  
Has anyone evaluated or implemented the ability to text donations. We are 
starting to see some organizations announce that donors can text a donation and 
are starting to research this. 




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 
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[MCN-L] On-Line Retail

2009-12-16 Thread Sandy Moore
Hi All,
The Toledo Museum of Art is rethinking our on-line retail store presence and we 
are looking at economical alternatives that would make sense for us (and 
hopefully dollars!).  We noticed more than a few Museums use Yahoo Store, among 
others.  What on-line store/shopping cart works well for your institution and 
what has your experience been like (likes and dislikes, profitability, etc.)?  
Thanks.
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Sandra J. Moore
Information Technology
Toledo Museum of Art
smoore at toledomuseum.org
 
 



[MCN-L] Virtualization

2009-05-18 Thread Sandy Moore
We are preparing to virtualize this summer with VMWare, so I'm
interested too.  Did anyone receive educational/non-profit pricing
through VMWare?  Thanks.  
 
Sandy Moore
Toledo Museum of Art

 jdvorak at heard.org 5/18/2009 12:58:11 PM 

Not sure if this has already been addressed, but have any of you
recently virtualized any part of your network?  I'm specifically
interested in the use of VMWare.  Any gotchas or lessons learned you'd
like to share?  

Thanks, 
Jen

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[MCN-L] Class Registration Software

2008-01-28 Thread Sandy Moore
Hi all,
 
The Toledo Museum of Art School of Art and Design is currently looking
for new class registration software.  This software must track
information on classes and students, payments, teacher information, as
well as having an on-line class registration component.  Also on our
wish list is a link to Raiser's Edge membership records.  We were
wondering what software others are using for this or a similar purpose? 
Thanks much.
 
Sandy Moore
I.T. Manager
The Toledo Museum of Art
 
 



[MCN-L] mass email query

2007-11-08 Thread Sandy Moore
We've been using Ezinedirector.com to send out our monthly newsletter to
about 4,700 e-mails a month.  We've
had e-mail encoding problems (with weird characters showing up), but
have had fewer problems when we
use Firefox to access the service and not IE!!  
 
Sandy Moore
IT Manager
Toledo Museum of Art


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We've had really good results with Constant Contact.

Janice


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Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
3001 Central Street
Evanston IL 60201
847-492-8520
jklein at mitchellmuseum.org 
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Has anyone researched the various services for sending out mass
emails?
We have been using Drupal to send out Enews to members/teachers or
other
mailing lists and thinking of switching to a service. What works and
what doesn't?  And what volume are you sending on a monthly basis?



Janice Craddock

IT Manager

Amon Carter Museum

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Re: MCN-L Digitization procedures

2006-01-06 Thread Sandy Moore
We are in the early stages of implementing Luna Insight for this
purpose.



 mri...@ima-art.org 1/6/2006 12:00:14 PM 
The list I provided isnt exhaustive.  There are a lot of various
approaches and applications that can be used to manage digital files. 
And can be used at varous skill levels.  If others have opinions of
software that would work well in a workflow, please provide them.

 tarnauto...@speakeasy.net 1/6/2006 10:46 AM 
I am surprised that no-one is looking into Adobe (Version) Cue.

On Jan 6, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Mike Rippy wrote:
We havent purchased a system yet.  We are still investigating
different
Digital Asset Management systems.  Most of them have a way of creating
derivatives as needed.  I am not endorsing these products.  Just
letting
you know of the systems I have heard of.
 
http://www.artesiatech.com/html/artesia_for_dam.html 
http://www.clearstorysystems.com/ 
 
and I believe the lower cost products do as well:
http://www.extensis.com/en/products/asset_management/product_information.jsp?id=prod60022

http://www.canto.com/ 
 
List of Image Management Systems (Feb 2005) from TASI:
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/ims-software.html 
 
Matt from concrete computing can probably give you some insight as
well.  And a more up to date selection.  He posted the first reply to
this topic.  And as he said, These systems go all the way from $0 to
high six figures in cash, and take significant effort and time to
implement and maintain. (my emphasis).
 
Mike. ang...@vtls.com 1/6/2006 9:26 AM 
Mike,
 
May I ask what application you are using to create the each derivative
on the fly?Angela
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[mailto:mri...@ima-art.org]Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:25 AMTo:
mcn-l@mcn.eduSubject: Re: MCN-L Digitization procedures
Oh, by the way.  Our plan here for our collection photography is to
store the raw file, create a master tif file (that has been corrected
for dust, color, etc.) and from that make various jpg derivitives (as
needed).  However, do to storage space limitations, we are considering
using a new system that uses an application to generate derivatives on
the fly to be delivered to our users.  Saving the cost of storing
each
derivative file.
 
We also keep each file seperated in a folder for that file type, raw,
tif, jpg_screen, jpg_thumb.
 
Be sure to pay close attention to you naming conventions also,
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/filenaming.html.  This is also
covered in the National Archives guidelines.
 
Mike. m...@concretecomputing.com 12/27/2005 9:54 PM 
There's probably no perfect way to store images on a filesystem, so
maybe it should just come down to personal preference. Unless you need
specific security settings--for example, so some people can see/edit
some files but not others. In that case, you might want to build the
arrangement to mirror the security arrangement, which will make setup
easier, and corrections a lot easier. There might also be other
factors
like that, that I'm not thinking of. Anyone else?The right way to
store images is in some kind of databasing system that keeps image
metadata alongside the image files so that you can always find them
again by working your way down a hierarchical tree (bad but
demonstrative example: Paintings--19th
Century--Impressionism--American--Cassatt, Mary--The Cup of Tea) or by
searching according to subject, artist, media, title, etc. It's hard
to
impossible to duplicate that with directories on disk and maintain it
reliably. These systems go all the way from $0 to high six figures in
cash, and take significant effort and time to implement and
maintain.good luck,MattPerian Sully wrote:Hi all:
 
I'm currently developing our digitization procedures and I was
wondering what other institutions do to organize their content. I'm
planning on photographing identification  database images in a fairly
high resolution jpg and photograph in RAW for publication-quality.
Once
the images are downloaded, I'll be processing them in small, medium
and
large dpi (72/150/?) and saving the original. What I'm really sort of
curious about is how many different file sizes people save in and if
they keep file directories for each size or lump them all together.
 
Hope you're all having some relaxing holidays!
 
Perian SullyCollection Database and Records AdministratorJudah L.
Magnes Museum2911 Russell StreetBerkeley, CA 94705(510) 549-6950 ext.
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Re: IT Sig: Where do you go for ...

2005-05-25 Thread Sandy Moore


Re: IT Sig: Where do you go for ...

2005-05-24 Thread Sandy Moore
I agree that MCN can serve this role, and in particular, the IT sig.  I
try
to network with local IT professionals that are organized through our
Employer's Association and also a local group of CIOs.  These contacts
are invaluable, but I also think networking with Museum IT
professionals
is just as important.  The issues we face in the management of our
networks and infrastructure are the same issues that coroporate
America faces, but we also work in a very special environment and
culture.
Technology touches every area and project and is a key component to an
organization
achieving its goals.  We often joke that every institutional project
includes a vague
reference to some technology stuff happens here and we often don't
get
involved in projects until that technology stuff needs to happen.   I
would
agree it could be very beneficial to MCN expanding its role in this
area as you describe.

Sandy Moore
IT Manager
Toledo Museum of Art


 wweinst...@philamuseum.org 5/24/2005 1:02:02 PM 

I am hoping to start a discussion.  Over the last several weeks I have
had
interactions with colleagues attending various conferences.  In all
cases
the discussions where about where IT professionals can go to share
information and learn about the issues of technology management or as
some
have put it, how to keep the computers running and the data safe.  MCN
and
other conferences are great (see MCN prelim program) at looking at the
application of technology and the management of information.  I have
learned
much over the years about data standards, intellectual property and how
to
repurpose my collections management data.  But where do I go for
information
on network infrastructure decisions, help in developing a technology
plan,
help in designing and managing the installation of a new technology
infrastructure in a new building, business software selection (yes we
also
use retail store and accounting software, a much different collections
management issue)?  Where do developers go to share code and discuss
how
that new interactive was created?  Where do we go to talk about remote
control of desktops, end user training, software deployment, etc.

You get the point.  The discussion I want to start is about this.  Is
MCN
the place for museum technology professionals to meet and share
information
on these issues?  Are these issues best left to other places or other
specialized professional forums?  I would hope MCN is the place for
these
discussions.  Since IT is core to realizing an institution's goals
discussing the management of technology along with those goals would
seem
more valuable that in a generic technology conference.  I do see at
many
conference presentations though, the IT staff referenced in less than
a
collaborative role in many technology projects.  It seems that in many
places the staff responsible for keeping things working does not get
involved in the process of developing these projects.  I would also
like to
discuss whether this is something we should/can work to change.  If MCN
is
not the place for these discussions where are my fellow IT
professionals
going to get this information?  Is there a role for MCN to coordinate
access
to these other resources? 

So these are my questions.  Please respond and expand as you all see
fit.

Bill

 


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