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

[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,
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-Original Message-
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Subject: [MCN-L] MCN-L will be retired on June 1!

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[MCN-L] Digitization Partners

[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 photographs to sculptures and other 2-D art need to
be scanned/photographed. Also, on the post-processing (not cataloging or
presentation layers just yet, but more cleanup, normalization, etc.).

Huge plus if the firm or group of folks is in Oakland, but as long as their
process travels, that can be budgeted for.

Please feel free to reach out either by email (s...@pac.bz) or on here so
others can benefit from the answers as well.

Thank you so much, and I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

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

[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 magnitude
slower). The good news is that this is quite parallelizable.

This is an ideal task for a Python script or similar approach.

Take care,
Sina

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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Hoppe, Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 10:39 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Applications for Bulk Folder Creation/File Organization

Dear colleagues and friends,


I'm looking for recommendations for applications/programs that could help
batch create folders and organize files in a large delivery of flattened
files. We've received ~ 6 TB of files in flattened folders from a vendor,
and I would like to find an efficient, (semi?)automated way to process the
flattened file delivery into subfolders to bring them into alignment with
our existing folder structure.


Any recommendations or processes that have worked for you would be most
welcome!


Thanks all,


Jonathan


Jonathan Hoppe

Digital Asset Librarian



t 215-684-7926



Philadelphia Museum of Art

PO Box 7646, Philadelphia, PA  19101-7646

www.philamuseum.org
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Re: [MCN-L] Guessable web URLs

[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.

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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Emily Beliveau
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 11:22 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Guessable web URLs

Hi all (and attn: DAM and IP SIG members particularly)

We are setting up a new media server that will allow us to provide high-res
image downloads via our collections search site for the first time
(previously only small derivatives were web-accessible and our .tifs were
stored elsewhere). We can control the publish-to-web status of each level
of image derivative with our collections management system, but since all
the high-resolution files will be on the same server, the URLs for all
images (regardless of rights/publish status) will be guessable.

How is this commonly handled? For context, we do not have a DAMS and manage
all our files in folders manually. We currently have ~80K image assets. I'd
like to understand our options and whether the community views this as an
issue or not.

Thanks,
Emily.

*--*

*Emily Beliveau*

Collections Management Advisor (Humanities)

University of Alberta Museums
Ring House 1, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB  T6G 2E1
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Re: [MCN-L] CCPA/GDPR compliance

[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 keyboard and screen reader users 
from even accessing the website, full stop, so it's critical stuff.

Thanks Tim.


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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Tim Schwartz
Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 12:50 PM
To: Andrew Fox 
Cc: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] CCPA/GDPR compliance

Hey All,

I went digging through some old tickets and pulled up our Acceptance
Criteria for making the GDPR modal popup accessible on AAM's website, I
thought this might be useful for others trying to make accessible popups or
modal messages.

-Tim

*Acceptance criteria*
-The button should include screen reader text and dismiss this message
-When the page loads, the keyboard focus to be set on the button.
-The containing div needs aria-modal=true attribute
-The escape key should activate the dismiss button.
-The button should be a button tag, not an anchor, and remove Role=button
attribute from the tag. It only conveys a name, does not change behavior.
Needs to be an actual button. (This is the equivalent of holding up a paper
in front of a wall and calling it a door)
-Make the modal heading an h2
-Make the modal heading focusable by setting tabindex to -1
-Set the focus to the modal heading when the page loads
-When the modal is dismissed, set the focus on "Skip to Content"



On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:36 AM Andrew Fox  wrote:

> Thanks, Tim!
>
>
> *Andrew Fox*Senior Web & Interactive Developer
> Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
> 415.750.3615
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:23 AM Tim Schwartz  wrote:
>
>> Hey Andrew,
>>
>> We implemented GDPR for https://www.aam-us.org/ and a number of other
>> sites. A lot of it depends on if you are actually processing data or not,
>> or using cookies to track people. But for GDPR specifically it only matters
>> that those from the countries are informed, so you likely don't need to
>> change anything for your US customers. It looks like you are only
>> collecting data on your ticketing site, I would suggest offloading all the
>> GDPR and CCPA to them and the subdomain they use, not on your main site.
>>
>> Feel free to follow up with me directly if you have more questions.
>>
>> -tim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:02 AM Amalyah Keshet 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew:
>>>
>>> The consultancy I work for does comprehensive GDPR compliance training.
>>>
>>> If you like you can contact me off list.
>>>
>>> Amalyah Keshet
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020, 02:02 Andrew Fox  wrote:
>>>
>>> > Does anyone have any experience making a museum website CCPA and/or
>>> GDPR
>>> > compliant? Right now I'm getting mixed messages from both our legal
>>> counsel
>>> > and our marketing team who are in contact with their media agency.
>>> >
>>> > A quick and far from thorough survey of museum websites suggests that
>>> most
>>> > aren't doing anything to address it yet, but I'd love to hear from
>>> anyone
>>> > who has.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > *Andrew Fox*Senior Web & Interactive Developer
>>> > Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
>>> > 415.750.3615
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Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

[Sina Bahram]

*nod*. It's a lot better, but not fully WCAG conformant . I'm obviously rather 
opinionated about what that means, but yes their new player is "way" better for 
sure.


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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Tim Schwartz
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:53 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

Vimeo announced last month that they upgraded their player to WCAG AA
accessibility rating:
https://vimeo.com/blog/post/accessibility-updates-to-the-vimeo-player/

While I haven't verified this myself it looks like a good step.

-tim]


On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:49 PM David Ertel  wrote:

> I also recommend Vimeo Pro for certain use cases, especially for static
> sites 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 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
> verification.
> >
> >
> > President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
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> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of hoplist
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 11:04 AM
> > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
> > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 15, 2019, at 9:12 AM, Matt Morgan 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > It's worth mentioning Vimeo Pro,
> > >
> > > https://vimeo.com/professionals <https://vimeo.com/professionals>
> > >
> > > which is super cheap compared to self-hosting or the enterprise video
> > providers but does everything most people want.
> >
> > I second Vimeo Pro and have used it for years. YouTube is a promotional
> > platform and its pretty much the only game in town if promotion is your
> > goal. But YouTube is a terrible host. It’s only advantage as a host is
> that
> > it is free.
> >
> > Vimeo Pro is inexpensive and offers sufficient tools to be a proper host
> > service. My one complaint is that its video management tools leave a
> great
> > deal to be desired.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >tod
> >
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Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

[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 verification.


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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of hoplist
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 11:04 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question


> On Oct 15, 2019, at 9:12 AM, Matt Morgan  wrote:
> 
> It's worth mentioning Vimeo Pro, 
> 
> https://vimeo.com/professionals 
> 
> which is super cheap compared to self-hosting or the enterprise video 
> providers but does everything most people want. 

I second Vimeo Pro and have used it for years. YouTube is a promotional 
platform and its pretty much the only game in town if promotion is your goal. 
But YouTube is a terrible host. It’s only advantage as a host is that it is 
free.

Vimeo Pro is inexpensive and offers sufficient tools to be a proper host 
service. My one complaint is that its video management tools leave a great deal 
to be desired.

Cheers,
   tod


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Re: [MCN-L] Captioning Suggestions

[Sina Bahram]

this is a fantastic list of resources, justifications, and advice. Simply 
awesome.

thank you, Tod, for sending this.



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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of hoplist
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:54 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: [MCN-L] Captioning Suggestions

Some suggestions for approaching captions:

Don’t blindly auto-caption. If you rely on YouTube auto-captioning, you should 
invest a small amount of time in learning to use YouTube's caption editor to 
review and correct your captions. Bad captions are worse than useless and 
terrible for your image. 

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734705?hl=en

I personally find YouTube's caption tools clumsy and do not use them. YouTube 
captioning does not meet my standards. Whether it meets some standard of 
“minimal” compliance is a subject of heated debate, but they don’t properly 
represent my company or my clients.

The point is that captions represent you. The issue is not simply “compliance.” 
Try watching your auto-captioned programs with the sound off. Are they helping, 
or are they just a distraction? Keep in mind that many people with perfectly 
good hearing turn on captioning. My wife turns on captions when the baby is 
sleeping for instance. People for whom English is a second language turn on 
captions. And people on the subway, because they forgot headphones, or just 
because it’s noisy. 

So, better ideas, in ascending order of quality-cost-effort:

I use a variety of services for transcription and captioning depending on need, 
but the cheapest is www.temi.com  (about ten cents a minute) which provides 
very cheap automated transcription along with a powerful and easy to use cloud 
based editing and sharing solution. It’s great when the audio is clear and 
straight-forward. The transcript is cheap, and if the audio is good, editing is 
simple. This works fine for simple programs with one or two voices at a time: 
presentations, interviews, narrated programs.

When the program audio is more complex or the audio is poor or the subjects 
have accents or their are multiple languages, you need a human.

For inexpensive human transcription, there’s Rev.com and similar online 
services (about $1 per minute) which replace computers with humans, but are 
otherwise quite similar.  I suspect many are actually the same company behind 
different front ends. Rev.com does NOT replace a dedicated captioning service, 
but it does add humans to the mix. These services are accurate, but they are 
not captioning experts and don't combine your captions with video for you.

Real, proper captioning is not transcription. It is an art. If you want to 
understand the difference, and why it matters, start here.

https://www.captioningkey.org/quality_captioning.html

You can do captions yourself. I’ve trained many interns to caption. It takes a 
few days to train someone with decent grammar skills to handle basic captions, 
and I always review and edit them.

I prefer an application called Inqscribe, available for both Mac and PC, but 
not particularly cheap and arguably not the easiest. This is predominately a 
transcription tool (an excellent one) but it can be used for captions even if 
the transcript comes from elsewhere.

There’s also Jubler, which is free and a dedicated captioning program. If 
Jubler had existed when I started, it might be my preferred tool.

And don’t discount full service companies just because they cost money. They 
are, on balance, pretty cheap, all things considered. Remember, time is money 
and they work MUCH faster than you can. Good captions are like any good 
writing, both a skill and an art, and expertise matters. 

I notice good captioning and I must assume I am not alone. Just last week I 
commented to my wife (baby asleep, captions on) that a program had exceptional 
captions and I wished I could find out who did them.

Cheers,
 tod





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Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

[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 
accessibility/inclusive design reasons. I don't think you were implying that 
they were since many places take the auto-generated captions, then edit them to 
be compliant/useful, but this question comes up a ton in our work. Happy to 
discuss under a separate thread/cover, but trying to not high-jack the thread 
here.

Thanks

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 2:14 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

Hi Ellice -
We have lots of videos on YouTube and are currently adding on the order of
100 each year. We think of YT as another social media outlet, and it's an
important distribution channel for us.
Agree with Matt about the lack of control over the content that's delivered
at the end of the videos, but that has a lot to do with the user and their
own watching habits. Just like any other social media platform, this needs
to be managed, and you need to keep up with the changes - it requires care
and feeding. I think it's important that you have a social media person or
marketing/communications team that can manage this platform - that's got to
be part of the investment.

 YT isn't the only place our videos are hosted - this is not our archive.
We also post a lot to Vimeo (mostly produced promotional videos), and all
of our public programs documentation videos originate on the Livestream
platform. Everything is archived on-site as well. We are about to embark on
a Mellon-funded project to create an online archive for our public programs
documentation videos, and we may move choose a different host for this, but
I don't think we will stop also posting to YT.

Another important thing for us is the auto-captioning YT provides. As part
of UCLA, we are a government entity and have to comply with ADA
requirements for accessibility. Without the captioning provided by YT for
free, we would have to take on this expense and

And yes, we have had videos blocked and taken down for copyright, AND our
account was blocked from live broadcasting on YT for 3 months. It's all
robots-managed and there is virtually nothing you can do about it - it's
super frustrating. I have tried to appeal many ways, many times, to no
avail!

Hope this helps - happy to discuss more!
Susan

Susan Edwards
Associate Director, Digital Content
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Bl
Los Angeles, CA 90024
sedwa...@hammer.ucla.edu


On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:50 AM Matt Popke 
wrote:

> Hi Ellice,
>
> We have a lot of video currently hosted on YouTube at the DAM. We're still
> using it for some purpose, but we've recently been moving away from it for
> some purposes, as well.
>
> Regarding copyright: I think the biggest risk of copyright issues on
> youtube is that it has a very large audience and automated takedown systems
> regularly scan the content there. It's just more likely that some automated
> system will flag a video—any video—for takedown, often incorrectly. It
> really depends on what you're putting up there.
>
> The reason we're moving away from youtube for much of our content has more
> to do with YouTube's recommendation algorithm and the decreasing amount of
> control we have over YouTube embeds in web pages. There is currently no way
> to reliably turn off the grid of recommendations that appears in a youtube
> video after it has finished playing. It used to be an API feature that we
> could decide to enable or disable depending on our use case, but lately the
> grid just appears whether we like it or not.
>
> We have no control over what shows up in those recommendations, and a
> significant amount of the content on YouTube is problematic in one way or
> another (extremism, racism, violence, etc.). We don't want to appear to the
> unitiated user as though we are tacitly supporting or recommending whatever
> YouTube's algorithm decides to show when our video is done playing.
>
> It's different for video that is viewed on YouTube's site. Users know who
> is running the show there. But increasingly, when embedding video content
> on web pages we are using Vimeo because we have more control over the
> embeds.
>
> Also, as YouTube continues to pursue monetization strategies that
> privilege ads and advertisers, we anticipate service changes that would be
> at odds with our goals as an institution. It's easier to start moving to a
> different service now when we have time to adjust then to find ourselves
> moving to that service in a panicked rush after changes occur. The benefit
> 

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

[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
https://www.PAC.bz
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Bryon Thornburgh
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:43 PM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Secure Mobile Device Charging Lockers/Cabinets/Stations

Does anyone have any experience with secure mobile device charging
lockers/cabinets/stations (example:
https://chargetech.com/product/cell-phone-charging-locker/) where a visitor
can securely leave their device plugged into a charger? Can you share your
experience?

Brand/model recommendations?
What do you wish you had known before you bought yours?
How much did it cost you?
Other thoughts, considerations, etc. you can share?

Happy to chat offline if that is easier.

Sincerely,
Bryon Thornburgh
Director of Technology
720.913.0136
bthornbu...@denverartmuseum.org 

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

[Sina Bahram]

sible that they’ve been burned in the past. (If
> > only there was a stuffed therapy dog handy so they could point out where
> it
> > hurts). In which case, not only mentorship but ongoing resources of
> > assistance or guidance would help ease that path to recovery.
> >
> > -bw.
> >
> > 
> > Bruce Wyman  |  Principal
> > bwy...@usd-mach.com  |  720.208.6586
> >
> > USD Design | MACH Consulting  |  www.usd-mach.com
> > Strategy • Design • Concept • Implementation
> >
> > > On Aug 17, 2019, at 12:45 PM, Nik Honeysett 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 learned is not the answer. How
> > do we engage and educate these folks?
> > >
> > > -nik
> > >
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > Nik Honeysett
> > > CEO, BPOC
> > > e: nhoneys...@bpoc.org
> > > m: (805) 402-3326
> > > via mobile
> > >
> > >> On Aug 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
> > tenants of technology and modern operations. This debate was solved
> decades
> > ago, not months ago. Trillions of dollars of operations occur over
> > open-source technologies in the most relaxed environments in the world to
> > the most secure ones.
> > >>
> > >> There are a myriad of examples of where open source and open standards
> > is the "only" way to ensure true security, interoperability,
> accessibility,
> > data transparency, and so much more.
> > >>
> > >> Good luck. You have my empathy.
> > >>
> > >> Take care,
> > >> Sina
> > >>
> > >> President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
> > >> Phone: 919-345-3832
> > >> https://www.PAC.bz
> > >> Twitter: @SinaBahram
> > >> Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com
> > >>
> > >> -Original Message-
> > >> From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Matt Morgan
> > >> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 7:06 AM
> > >> To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
> > >> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data
> > >>
> > >> Shyam's being kind here. It's 2019. I can't believe I'm seeing that
> > >> statement. If that's what they really said, it's completely
> > >> unprofessional at this point.
> > >>
> > >> OpenRefine is in a category unto itself. It's worth them spending some
> > >> time "securing" it, if they're serious. But what they're really saying
> > >> is "we want to control what software you use to make our jobs
> minimally
> > >> easier." What they could be saying is "IT is about empowering the
> staff
> > >> with tech, even when it's hard."
> > >>
> > >> Matt Morgan
> > >> CTO
> > >> Curtis Institute of Music
> > >>
> > >>> On 8/16/19 4:17 PM, Shyam Oberoi wrote:
> > >>> "My network team took it away because they believe open source is
> > generally not secure."
> > >>>
> > >>> That's insane, the product was developed by Google!
> > >>>
> > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Shyam Oberoi
> > >>> Chief Digital Officer
> > >>> Royal Ontario Museum
> > >>> O: 416-586-7935
> > >>> E: sobe...@rom.on.ca
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> -Original Message-
> > >>> From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Nancy Hoffman
> > >>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 2:48 PM
> > >>> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
> > >>> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi Samantha -
> > >>>
> > >>> I have a question related to your answer for Erin. Do you know of a
> > program other than OpenRefine tha

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

[Sina Bahram]

Nick, you are right. I agree RE critique is not the answer.

It's just so deeply frustrating because I feel the community of open source 
software has done a lot to make these various points abundantly clear, 
including but not limited to education steps in middle/high-school, flowing 
into higher-ed treatment of these issues at various universities, welcoming 
contributions by non-technical folks to combat some of the barriers around 
non-tech folks feeling they are excluded, large enterprises releasing tons of 
whitepapers on open-source adoption, governments doing the same, commercial 
corporations discussing their use of open-source openly and often, academic 
researchers adopting open-access models (definitely a correlation to the 
open-source mentality), security researchers energetically urging from the top 
of every single mountain top they can find about how open-source is more secure 
(this also goes for open standards), museum conferences like MW and MCN 
espousing the benefits of open-source work, and so much more.

I am positive that there's more that can be done. There always is, but unlike 
accessibility/inclusive design, I submit that it is not an absence of exposure 
and opportunities to read and learn about this that is the blocker here. I 
believe that we all have a responsibility to learn and grow, professionally, 
personally, what have you. A simple Google search is not too much to ask, I 
feel, if you have questions, but to arrive at a conclusion of open-source being 
insecure is an incredibly unfortunate outcome. To then codify this into policy 
is actually harmful.

Having said that, you're right, of course, allowing frustration to speak helps 
absolutely nobody, except for alleviating a few pent up emotions, and so to 
that end, I'm sorry, because a frustrated response can erase a hundred valid 
points, so, my apologies.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 919-345-3832
https://www.PAC.bz
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Nik Honeysett
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 3:45 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

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 learned is not the answer. How do we engage and 
educate these folks?

-nik

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Nik Honeysett
CEO, BPOC
e: nhoneys...@bpoc.org
m: (805) 402-3326
via mobile

> On Aug 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 
> tenants of technology and modern operations. This debate was solved decades 
> ago, not months ago. Trillions of dollars of operations occur over 
> open-source technologies in the most relaxed environments in the world to the 
> most secure ones.
> 
> There are a myriad of examples of where open source and open standards is the 
> "only" way to ensure true security, interoperability, accessibility, data 
> transparency, and so much more.
> 
> Good luck. You have my empathy.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
> Phone: 919-345-3832
> https://www.PAC.bz
> Twitter: @SinaBahram
> Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Matt Morgan
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 7:06 AM
> To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data
> 
> Shyam's being kind here. It's 2019. I can't believe I'm seeing that 
> statement. If that's what they really said, it's completely 
> unprofessional at this point.
> 
> OpenRefine is in a category unto itself. It's worth them spending some 
> time "securing" it, if they're serious. But what they're really saying 
> is "we want to control what software you use to make our jobs minimally 
> easier." What they could be saying is "IT is about empowering the staff 
> with tech, even when it's hard."
> 
> Matt Morgan
> CTO
> Curtis Institute of Music
> 
>> On 8/16/19 4:17 PM, Shyam Oberoi wrote:
>> "My network team took it away because they believe open source is generally 
>> not secure."
>> 
>> That's insane, the product was developed by Google!
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine
>> 
>> 
>> Shyam Oberoi
>> Chief Digital Officer
>> Royal Ontario Museum
>> O: 416-586-7935
>> E: so

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

[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 ago, not 
months ago. Trillions of dollars of operations occur over open-source 
technologies in the most relaxed environments in the world to the most secure 
ones.

There are a myriad of examples of where open source and open standards is the 
"only" way to ensure true security, interoperability, accessibility, data 
transparency, and so much more.

Good luck. You have my empathy.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 919-345-3832
https://www.PAC.bz
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Matt Morgan
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 7:06 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

Shyam's being kind here. It's 2019. I can't believe I'm seeing that 
statement. If that's what they really said, it's completely 
unprofessional at this point.

OpenRefine is in a category unto itself. It's worth them spending some 
time "securing" it, if they're serious. But what they're really saying 
is "we want to control what software you use to make our jobs minimally 
easier." What they could be saying is "IT is about empowering the staff 
with tech, even when it's hard."

Matt Morgan
CTO
Curtis Institute of Music

On 8/16/19 4:17 PM, Shyam Oberoi wrote:
> "My network team took it away because they believe open source is generally 
> not secure."
>
> That's insane, the product was developed by Google!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine
>
>
> Shyam Oberoi
> Chief Digital Officer
> Royal Ontario Museum
> O: 416-586-7935
> E: sobe...@rom.on.ca
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Nancy Hoffman
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 2:48 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data
>
> Hi Samantha -
>
> I have a question related to your answer for Erin. Do you know of a program 
> other than OpenRefine that can fetch URIs from the Getty's reconciliation 
> services? I have been using OpenRefine for AAT vocabulary terms in a data 
> publishing project. My network team took it away because they believe open 
> source is generally not secure.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Nancy
>
> Nancy Buck Hoffman
>
> Project Assistant
>
> Archaeology Collections
>
> Kellogg Center
>
> Minnesota Historical Society
>
> Saint Paul, MN  55102
>
> 612-725-2371
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:40 PM Sami Norling 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Erin,
>>
>> I would highly recommend using OpenRefine 's
>> reconciliation service to reconcile the museum's data with ULAN entities.
>> Once reconciled in OpenRefine, you can then enrich the museum's
>> existing data with any of the data points available in ULAN. I am
>> going through this process with the Indianapolis Museum of Art data to
>> better support our linked data initiatives as well as to ensure that
>> our data is as complete as it can be.
>>
>> As an added step, I would also suggest that when you are done with the
>> reconciliation work, you contact the Getty vocabularies team to
>> inquire about contributing information about artists not currently in
>> ULAN to their data set. My understanding is that they are very
>> encouraging of such contributions.
>>
>> Please consider this e-mail a super basic overview, and feel free to
>> contact me directly for more specific information about how to use
>> OpenRefine and their reconciliation services for your project. I'm
>> more than happy to help!
>>
>> *Samantha Norling*
>>
>> Digital Collections Manager
>>
>> *Newfields Lab* – Technology for Nature & the Arts
>>
>> 
>>
>> *Newfields*
>>
>> 4000 Michigan Road
>> Indianapolis, IN 46208
>>
>> 
>>
>> snorl...@discovernewfields.org
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM Erin Richardson <
>> e...@erinrichardsonconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi wise MCN-L members!
>>>
>>> I am working with a museum to clean up their data. I don't have a
>>> lot of backend data experience. My task is to populate artist
>>> records with ULAN data. They're using EmbARK. I'd like to upload the
>>> relevant metadata
>> using
>>> the ULAN ID as a link. I'm having difficulty accessing the ULAN data
>>> from getty's download center.
>>> https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/download.ht
>>> ml
>>>
>>> Note: I know next to nothing about data that is not in CSV format.
>>> I've tried to convert the sample ULAN XML data to CSV but am getting
>>> lots of errors.
>>>
>>> I don't even really understand the reasonable-ness of this question,
>>> so please bear with me!
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you're able to offer!
>>>
>>> 

Re: [MCN-L] Expression Engine

[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 content-wise as a 
contributor, to WordPress. It also has pretty solid accessibility out of the 
box, something that I'm of course passionate about.

Having said that, it's hardly perfect; therefore, is there something specific 
that WP doesn't do that you're looking for another platform to do for you?

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: https://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: https://blog.SinaBahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Dalton Rooney
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:17 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Expression Engine

Hi Robin,
I've worked with WordPress, Drupal, and ExpressionEngine over the years,
and all three have their strengths and weaknesses. A few years ago I would
have recommended EE as a solid contender for a web CMS but the company
behind the product seems to have lost a lot of momentum and many developers
are moving to other platforms.

Have you heard of Craft CMS ? It is a newer CMS that
picks up where EE left off - it's fast, robust, and actively developed. It
incorporates flexible content management with a solid plugin ecosystem,
including a commerce module and API support. We've been using it for most
of our projects over the last year or two and have had a lot of success
with it.

Happy to answer any additional questions!

Best,
Dalton
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https://madebyraygun.com
(619) 255-6218


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:58 AM Robin White Owen 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’ve been asked to evaluate Expression Engine as a web platform, compared
> to Drupal or Wordpress. I’d love to hear from any of you whose sites are
> built in EE and why you chose to use it.
>
> Also, from those of you who’ve compared EE with the others and chose not
> to use it.
>
> Thanks very much in advance, as always,
>
> Robin
>
> Robin White Owen
> M: 917/407-7641
> T: 646/472-5145
> ro...@mediacombo.net
> MediaCombo 
> @rocombo 
>
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Re: [MCN-L] Custom urls vs "brand" urls for microsites

[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 to, different 
DNS settings being applied, no redirects on the web server's end, the strong 
association with your original parent domain, front-loading the exhibit name in 
the URL for branding purposes, different caching rules being easy to write, etc.

Lots of the above advantages are not unique to the subdomain approach, though. 
For example, if you use something like Cloudflare, then you can use their page 
rules to achieve the same thing, though having a subdomain, IMHO, helps 
organize things a bit easier.

Whatever you do, I'd strongly discourage you from making a whole new domain, 
unless if the situation seriously warrants it.

Hope that helps, and good luck on the new exhibit microsite!

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: https://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: https://blog.SinaBahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l  On Behalf Of Douglas Hegley
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 2:40 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Custom urls vs "brand" urls for microsites

Jewel - IMHO it is best practice to keep "microsites" under your standard URL 
umbrella. If your administration feels that you *must* have a special URL (by 
the way, I know of no research that would support the efficacy of special 
URLs), then purchase that and just re-direct to your own site.
Referral traffic to your special ex web presence is going to come from google, 
social media sites, ad click-thrus, direct email clicks, etc.
Almost no one will be typing a full URL into a browser.
My two cents' worth,
Douglas

Douglas Hegley
Chief Digital Officer
Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3072 | @dhegley  | dheg...@artsmia.org | 
www.artsmia.org


On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Jewel Clark  wrote:

> Hello All!
> I’m having a bit of a discussion with upper management concerning a 
> big upcoming show and the build-out of a microsite for it and I need 
> some recommendations/ expertise from this knowledgeable group.
>
> What has been your experience building microsites in terms of urls? Is 
> there a best practice? For instance, should we stick with 
> “ourmuseum.org/ specialexhibition” for example, which would be our 
> museum url with the special exhibition as a subset of our brand, or is 
> it preferable to get a custom url such as 
> “specialexhibitionatourmuseum.org?” There is a desire in upper 
> management to have a special url because they think that will make the 
> exhibition seem more special but for practical purposes I’m thinking 
> we shouldn’t leave our brand url and we should keep it as simple and 
> easy to remember as possible and that most people aren’t going to care 
> what the url is, only that they can remember it. What does your museum do? 
> Your advice as always is very much appreciated.
>
> Jewel Clark
>
> --
> Jewel Clark
> Digital Technologies and Websites manager
>
> Heard Museum
> 2301 N. Central Ave.
> Phoenix, AZ 85004
> 602.346.8353
> jcl...@heard.org
> heard.org
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Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

[Sina Bahram]

Way closer to 8 to 10, once I finished :P

I have a question, if you have visitorship numbers from other sources, is it 
possible to simply find out the error windows on those numbers?

You mentioned an event with 350K people. Hopefully there are other such events 
that have 'supposed" numbers associated with them. is it possible, on these 
smaller scales, to find out the deviation from wifi numbers? That would at 
least allow you to see if your numbers agree with or wildly deviate from the 
75% number from the UK survey.

Furthermore, can you use sampling tecniques to do this on the cheap? I'm sure 
you know more popular sections VS not. In fact, you could use existing wifi to 
tell you this. so, in certain areas to do the necessary leg work, but then use 
that to feed a larger model to validate and/or debunk your 12M number.

In all seriousness, if your goal is not production, but rather limited data 
collection, is it out of the question to put conventional (even battery 
powered) presence detection devices in a few key places where you have at least 
one other form of ground truth e.g. a camera?

My goal with any/all of these suggestions is to simply find out, eventually, 
which metric has higher accuracy.

I am happy to be wrong, but with that many "bags of mostly water", I just don't 
buy that a wifi-based counting system that relies on back-scatter and 
reflection counting, with some phase calculations thrown in, is going to be 
worth anything other than maybe order of magnitude.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nik 
Honeysett
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:46 PM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

Sina - that took 3 minutes? You’re awesome. Many thanks...

Bruce - this is kind of thing I’m looking for - many thanks.

Obviously, my friend is me. The accepted park visitorship is 12 million - no 
idea where this comes from. Institutional attendance (museums and zoo) reports 
in at about 6.5 million but there is double, triple and quadruple counting 
hiding in these numbers. I’m interested in whether the 12 million is accurate, 
so yes, interested in the joggers, dog walkers and picnickers, etc. I’m 
inclined to think the 12 million is inflated significantly.

Its Ruckus equipment and we tried counting all devices in the area, but the 
differential between users on the wifi and devices wasn’t very big, so I didn’t 
trust it. However, if 75% of smartphone users are looking for free wifi (I 
thought it would be much lower), then maybe I should take another look at that 
number.

We serve an average of 100K users per month on the wifi and tomorrow and 
saturday is our signature event when we’ll “officially" see 350K people in the 
park - no idea where this number comes from either, but like to support it it 
or debunk it.

Thanks for the thoughts and data much appreciated. And while I’d love to use 
some drones, we’re on the SAN flight path and only a mile from the airport.

-nik


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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 rely 
on reflections, etc.

When I googled it now, I notice casual references to outdoors. What I don't 
know is whether the team did further work, or whether they are simply echoing 
the original paper's comments, but not properly accounting for in-door VS 
out-door when it comes to accuracy?


Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce 
Wyman
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:09 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

(huh, it looks like I use my personal email address for this listerv, this was 
my original message)

Nik — 

It’s worth reaching out to these folks: 
<http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/HeadCountingWithWiFi 
<http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/HeadCountingWithWiFi>>. They may be able to 
give you the coarse estimator that you’re looking f

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

[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 least of which is 
either ACF for adding custom fields, as its name suggest, or using the PODs 
framework for achieving the same. ACF is a bit less complicated than PODs, and 
probably does everything you need.

You can then customize the all of two or three files for single page and 
archive views for Butterflies, and in a day or two have yourself a rather 
marvelous DB-driven search aspect of your site, all within WP, and all under 
your control.

Plus, all of this is free, except for "Search and Filter Pro", but trust me, it 
is beyond worth the $20 or $40 they charge. It saves hours upon hours of 
billable time.

Hope that helps, and good luck!

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Stan 
Orchard
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 2:26 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

Hello!

I’m working on a project where we want to allow users to search our database of 
butterflies that populate our butterfly house…search by color(s), wing shape, 
maybe some other criteria. We use Wordpress so it seems Woo Commerce is a safe 
bet with maybe another plugin to turn off certain elements such as price. We’ll 
have 150-200 entries in this database. This will utilize the same Wordpress 
theme we’re using and it will be on the same domain, so part of our main site. 
I’m looking for any examples of such a thing. Or any advice anyone may have 
regarding this type of project. Should we set this up off our main site? Any 
advantage/disadvantage to doing that? I have a feeling we’re missing something 
as we work through this. Thanks.

Stan Orchard
Pacific Science Center
Seattle, WA
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Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

[Sina Bahram]

The accessibility functions can be found by going to 
Settings->General-.>Accessibility. In there, you can find VoiceOver, Zoom, 
Invert Colors, etc.

RE your awesome question: the tough part about covering the home button is that 
then enabling such accessibility features would have to be done via Bluetooth 
keyboard or some other creative, and most likely remote, mechanism.

I think that there are some compromises possible here, though e.g. one needs to 
enter a code to enable accessibility, so you can give that code to the visitor 
services folks, and then they can temporarily unlock to enable VO or other 
accessibility features as needed by the visitor.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
hopl...@hillmanncarr.com
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 1:44 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

Very interesting. I’d like to learn more.

Assuming accessibility is not built into the running application, which iOS 
functions would you consider important to the accessibility of iPads? 

Do you know if these functions can be made available via touch if the Home 
button is covered?

Cheers,
   tod

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.

> On Jun 23, 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 feature mappings.
> 
> There are very few feelings more frustrating to users than seeing an 
> institution with iPads serving content that's mostly accessible but with the 
> home button disabled and no awareness of VoiceOver.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
> Twitter: @SinaBahram
> Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
> Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
> Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Bryan Kennedy
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:07 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help
> 
> If your content is local HTML or a remote web resource, I would highly
> recommend* Kiosk Pro App:
> 
> http://www.kioskproapp.com/
> 
> It's about $40/iPad, but it's highly worth it. It does a great job of locking 
> you into a specific web view, and you can force it into single app mode.
> 
> bk
> 
> bryan kennedy
> director, exhibit media
> science museum of minnesota
> bkenn...@smm.org   651.221.2522
> 
> 
> 
> * - Actually, I would recommend avoiding iPads like the plague, but that's a 
> whole 'nother post.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Steve Gemmel <sgem...@getty.edu> wrote:
> 
>> You may want to check out Apple Configurator which allows you to lock 
>> your iPad to a single app so folks can't access the home screen and settings 
>> app.
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.apple.com/support/education/apple-configurator/
>> 
>> http://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.2.1/#/cadbf9c172
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> + + +
>> 
>> Steven Gemmel
>> Digital Media Specialist, Interpretive Media J. Paul Getty Museum
>> 310.440.7203
>> sgem...@getty.edu
>> 
>> 
>> From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu <mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu> on behalf of 
>> Laura Huntimer <lhunti...@joslyn.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:37 AM
>> To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
>> Subject: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help
>> 
>> Hi all ­ First time poster here. We have iPads in an interactive 
>> learning space here with artful apps for our visitors to use. Every 
>> so often we have to restore the iPads after valiant efforts to ³break 
>> into² the settings which changes the passcode. We¹ve placed 
>> restrictions through the settings and researched to see if there¹s 
>> any way to hide the settings/misc folder. Our iPads are in stationary 
>> enclosures with access only to the home button.
>> 
>> We¹re looking for an app or software that would make it possible for 
>> our iPads to only allow visitors to use the apps we¹ve loaded and 
>> restrict access to the settings ­ is there such a thing? Has anyone 
>> else experienced 

Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

[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 
institution with iPads serving content that's mostly accessible but with the 
home button disabled and no awareness of VoiceOver.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Bryan 
Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:07 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help

If your content is local HTML or a remote web resource, I would highly
recommend* Kiosk Pro App:

http://www.kioskproapp.com/

It's about $40/iPad, but it's highly worth it. It does a great job of locking 
you into a specific web view, and you can force it into single app mode.

bk

bryan kennedy
director, exhibit media
science museum of minnesota
bkenn...@smm.org   651.221.2522



* - Actually, I would recommend avoiding iPads like the plague, but that's a 
whole 'nother post.


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Steve Gemmel  wrote:

> You may want to check out Apple Configurator which allows you to lock 
> your iPad to a single app so folks can't access the home screen and settings 
> app.
>
>
> https://www.apple.com/support/education/apple-configurator/
>
> http://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.2.1/#/cadbf9c172
>
> Steve
>
> + + +
>
> Steven Gemmel
> Digital Media Specialist, Interpretive Media J. Paul Getty Museum
> 310.440.7203
> sgem...@getty.edu
>
> 
> From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu  on behalf of Laura 
> Huntimer 
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:37 AM
> To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
> Subject: [MCN-L] iPad Lockdown Help
>
> Hi all ­ First time poster here. We have iPads in an interactive 
> learning space here with artful apps for our visitors to use. Every so 
> often we have to restore the iPads after valiant efforts to ³break 
> into² the settings which changes the passcode. We¹ve placed 
> restrictions through the settings and researched to see if there¹s any 
> way to hide the settings/misc folder. Our iPads are in stationary 
> enclosures with access only to the home button.
>
> We¹re looking for an app or software that would make it possible for 
> our iPads to only allow visitors to use the apps we¹ve loaded and 
> restrict access to the settings ­ is there such a thing? Has anyone 
> else experienced this and how did you resolve it?
>
> Many thanks,
> Laura
>
>
> Laura M Huntimer
> Director of School Programs & Interactive Media Joslyn Art Museum | 
> 2200 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68104
> (402) 661-3847 DL | www.joslyn.org
>
>
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Re: [MCN-L] Beta of Omeka Everywhere Collections Viewer

[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 forward, the technical complexity of such a 
task would not be too difficult.

I'm happy to discuss. You have a huge opportunity to move the needle here on 
opening up access to not only persons with disabilities but everyone who 
interacts with such collections via this new interface.

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Megan 
R. Brett
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 11:36 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Beta of Omeka Everywhere Collections Viewer

Yesterday the beta of the Omeka Everywhere Collections Viewer was released. The 
software allows you to connect an existing Omeka Classic installation to a 
multi-touch table or tablet (running windows) for an in-gallery experience. So 
an institution can create a single digital collection rather than creating one 
set of digital content for the web and another for a table.

More info on the Omeka blog: http://omeka.org/blog/2016/05/11/oecv-beta/

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