Re: [MCN-L] MCN-L will be retired on June 1!

2021-05-18 Thread Sina Bahram
Question: can some messages be sent over to the groups.io setup to verify the end-to-end status of it for those of us that have already signed up? Thanks Take care, Sina President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc. Phone: 919-345-3832 https://www.PAC.bz Twitter: @SinaBahram Personal Website:

[MCN-L] Digitization Partners

2021-04-02 Thread Sina Bahram
Hi all, Hope everyone is doing well. I'm working with some folks on a digitization grant, and I was wondering if anyone on here and good recommendations for partners we can collaborate with to help on the mechanics of the process e.g. different formfactors from posters to newsprint to

Re: [MCN-L] Applications for Bulk Folder Creation/File Organization

2020-09-15 Thread Sina Bahram
Jonathan, Is the directory structure you want to achieve easily determinable from the flat files e.g. by filename, date, or some other detectable attribute? Hopefully it doesn't involve opening a file to determine where to move it, but even that is possible (it will simply be a few orders of

Re: [MCN-L] Guessable web URLs

2020-05-01 Thread Sina Bahram
Hi Emily, Just a high-level question, if I may, but if the resources are available for download, then is there a problem with having them be downloaded not through your search page? This seems like a feature, not a bug, IMHO. Take care, Sina President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc. Phone:

Re: [MCN-L] CCPA/GDPR compliance

2020-03-04 Thread Sina Bahram
This is good stuff, though some of the comments are a bit out of context, haha . Lots more to consider around accessibility, but major thanks to Tim for flagging accessibility as part of GDPR because there's some significant intersection there. When done wrong, this can actually prevent

Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

2019-10-16 Thread Sina Bahram
s or promotional sites. I can confirm that with Vimeo Pro you can > access signed URLs of the actual transcoded video files which you can use > to embed the video via the tag or a third party player. > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:43 AM Sina Bahram wrote: > > > +1 on Vimeo pro o

Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

2019-10-15 Thread Sina Bahram
+1 on Vimeo pro over YouTube when it comes to business concerns, but there definitely can be some accessibility issues with their native video player; however, I believe that other video players such as VideoJS, AblePlayer, etc. can be backed by a Vimeo video, though this would require

Re: [MCN-L] Captioning Suggestions

2019-10-15 Thread Sina Bahram
this is a fantastic list of resources, justifications, and advice. Simply awesome. thank you, Tod, for sending this. President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc. Phone: 919-345-3832 https://www.PAC.bz Twitter: @SinaBahram Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com -Original Message-

Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

2019-10-14 Thread Sina Bahram
Because Susan mentioned captions below, I just wanted to make one thing really clear. I don't mean to disagree, Susan, and it's not the main topic of this thread, so apologies to the OP ahead of time, but it's critical to understand that automatically generated captions are not sufficient for

Re: [MCN-L] Secure Mobile Device Charging Lockers/Cabinets/Stations

2019-09-27 Thread Sina Bahram
Bryon, One additional thing to consider is to make sure any locking mechanism is inclusive, especially for someone who may not be able to see to actuate the interface, use two hands to actuate it, etc. Take care, Sina President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc. Phone: 919-345-3832

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

2019-08-19 Thread Sina Bahram
> This is a great left-turn from a ULAN question. Both the point of view > > of OSS and the empowerment role of IT rather than as gatekeeper is fairly > > ubiquitous in our field, and while I know this comes from frustration, > (and > > I am guilty) critique and antagonism, I’ve l

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

2019-08-17 Thread Sina Bahram
17, 2019, at 10:15, Sina Bahram wrote: > > Wow. Your network team is exhibiting professional negligence, bordering on > pure incompetence, if they are asserting that open-source is not secure. > That's an incredibly concerning lack of understanding of the most basic > ten

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

2019-08-17 Thread Sina Bahram
Wow. Your network team is exhibiting professional negligence, bordering on pure incompetence, if they are asserting that open-source is not secure. That's an incredibly concerning lack of understanding of the most basic tenants of technology and modern operations. This debate was solved decades

Re: [MCN-L] Expression Engine

2018-09-14 Thread Sina Bahram
My $0.02. WordPress now powers around 30% of all sites on the entire web. It has thousands upon thousands of contributions from hundreds to thousands of developers, and it's essentially as close to "easy" as possible to hire someone with experience, either technically as a developer or

Re: [MCN-L] Custom urls vs "brand" urls for microsites

2018-03-13 Thread Sina Bahram
I totally agree with Douglas, but would also point out that if you must go with a microsite approach with its own URL, then you can consider a subdomain instead of a path appending approach, like this: SpecialExhibit.museum.org That has several technical advantages including, but not limited

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Sina Bahram
o art, culture and science. On Dec 1, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Sina Bahram <s...@sinabahram.com> wrote: I'm familiar with Mostofi's work, but wen I last looked at it, the out-door performance was far less accurate than in-door, due to not being able to re

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

2016-09-27 Thread Sina Bahram
If you don't need to, or aren't trying to, sell anything, then I suggest simply making a custom post type (CPT) of Butterfly with the requisite fields you wish to track. Then use "Search and Filter" as well as "Relevanssi". There are several ways of making the CPTs in a GUI-like way, not the

Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

2016-06-25 Thread Sina Bahram
3, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Sina Bahram <s...@sinabahram.com> wrote: > > One thing I would like to bring awareness to is with these apps that lock out > external functionality to make sure that they do allow for the enabling of > VoiceOver or other triple-click-home accessibility feat

Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

2016-06-23 Thread Sina Bahram
One thing I would like to bring awareness to is with these apps that lock out external functionality to make sure that they do allow for the enabling of VoiceOver or other triple-click-home accessibility feature mappings. There are very few feelings more frustrating to users than seeing an

Re: [MCN-L] Beta of Omeka Everywhere Collections Viewer

2016-05-12 Thread Sina Bahram
This would be a fantastic opportunity to increase systemic accessibility by making such an interface accessible once, and then allowing such benefits to cascade across any/all users. As it seems that the content is rather structured in nature, and that the interface is reasonably straight