[RESOURCE]: ma.gnolia - New Social Bookmarking Site.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, all. I created a group on ma.gnolia [http://ma.gnolia.com] - for MCN members to share vital web links for museum computer and technology topics. http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/mcn ma.gnolia is a new social bookmarking website. It's much like del.icio.us [http://del.icio.us] - but ma.gnolia has the ability to create groups [both public and private], the ability to privatize submitted links [for both individuals and groups], and supplies RSS feeds for everything. It's general user interface is a bit richer, and I find, easier to use. It's just in beta now, but looks to be very promising. Please feel free to join up - and to start submitting links. The MCN group listed above is currently an open group - but if someone at MCN would like to join, and be a co-moderator of the group [if that is desired], I am completely open to that. I'd actually would enjoy it! I certainly don't want to upset anyone at MCN - but felt having the group established would be a good thing, before someone else takes the name. :) - -b ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354usa 1.734.647.0529 [work] 1.734.764.3731 [ fax] bricors [aim] ___ www.umma.umich.edu ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFD+jAg44FWfQW+1gkRAtecAKDDQ5rDRfQQmCfAoCnT/uUCXa258wCfc8/Y Rf/niS1rM6+9aqLOeHDP8ik= =FA5n -END PGP SIGNATURE- You are currently subscribed to MCN-L, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (www.mcn.edu). To post messages to this list, send emails to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to mcn-unsubscr...@lists.mediatrope.com with any message. If you are receiving messages as they are posted and wish to change to daily digest format, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l DIGEST in the BODY of the message. If you are receiving messages in the daily digest format and wish to recieve them as they are posted, send an email to listser...@lists.mediatrope.com with SET mcn-l MAIL
Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
Wow, thanks for passing along info on STEVE. And yes, social tagging for enhancement of our collections database keywords for off the street users is something that we have been thinking of. We were just currently in grant-writing mode to fund a project that would update a lot of things with our digital collection - and keywords are one of those things. For personal photos, I myself Flickr for image hosting and sharing - and their method, I find, is really enjoyable - and useful. I actually contacted Flickr to see if they would be interested in working on a project with us, and folksonomy-based tagging - to get more everyday user keywords into our search fields, but Flickr does not offer a standalone server and were not interested in working together on something... Sad, because the folks who make EmbARK are highly interested in this as well - and that's what we use for our collections database... In any case, I'll peep at STEVE and see what that's all about. Thanks! And, if anyone else is utilizing folksonomy-based tools for generation of generalized/every-day keywords, I'd be interested to hear what you're doing. Matt Morgan wrote: This looks like a great place to plug social tagging, (an approach to folksonomy, i.e., using popular terminology for subject categorization) like what STEVE (http://steve.museum) promises. Folksonomies are a way to address the reality that Museum and Library professionals often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. STEVE is an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Alongside the folksonomies, I still think it's worthwhile for museums to make their internal subject terms more public. Exposing the insides of the Museum in a demystifying, educational way is a great community-minded thing to do. ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354usa 1.734.647.0529 [work]1.734.764.3731 [ fax] bricors [aim] ___ www.umma.umich.edu ___ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Fwd: Re: MCN 2005 and MCN 2006
Lessig is amazing, I heartily recommend him as well, for keynote... ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354usa 1.734.647.0529 [work]1.734.764.3731 [ fax] bricors [aim] ___ www.umma.umich.edu ___ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
DIGITAL CURATION: Manual from the Digital Curation Centre [UK]
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. A friend came across this and passed it to me, and I definitely thought it was worth sharing here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-manual/"The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides access to digital curation expertise and best practice for the creation, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and re-use over time. A key objective for this project is the creation and maintenance of a world-class Digital Curation Manual. The DCC Digital Curation Manual is a community-driven resource - from the selection of instalment topics through to authorship and peer review." ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354 usa 1.734.647.0529 [work] 1.734.764.3731 [ fax] bricors [aim] CF32A6D1 [pgp key id]___ www.umma.umich.edu___ PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part PGP.sig (missing attachment) --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Re: Scheduling software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are currently using Now Up-To-Date in an all-Mac environment. However, their latest upgrade to version 5.0 doesn't seem worth the expense to us, for what little improvements it has made to the program over the past few years. There is also very little ease of data portability, in getting data OUT of it, and into other applications. We are currently looking for something to replace Now Up-To-Date, that is easier to use and is less complex for the end-user. So far, Chronos Group Organizer [http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/ go_product.html] looks like the lead-runner for us, in our environment. I will be evaluating it soon. [It will soon become Soho Organizer - http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.html] I am also considering looking at various web-based, open-source MySQL/ php/etc. options. If anyone has anything to recommend, that would be much-appreciated. ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354usa [work]1.734.647.0529 [ fax]1.734.764.3731 [ web]www.umma.umich.edu ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC8Pj5BoJWaccadwkRAsdjAJ99TT6Kqn8sFeGq3GzI5HLEG4c11ACfQjvA iQ4iIqvPTXyLFMHOJmQX8xU= =0oqF -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
MULTIMEDIA - Design/Creation/Planning...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings all, and hello from a newly signed-on member to this list. I am trying to assist our folks here in thinking and planning out future multimedia projects. These projects could include, but are not limited to websites [large-scale as well as 'micro-sites' for exhibitions], kiosk-based in-gallery multimedia, audio tours, Powerpoint or Keynote presentations, etc. We currently do not have a staff member that is charge of creating these, and as I am the lead for technology here, I am trying to get some ideas as to how other museums [that are our size] are handling the multimedia question. We have about 30 staff members, 4 of which reside in our Publications department. The Computing and Technology department here consists of myself, another part-time database manager, and some student assistance. I can certainly assist with the tech part of the equation - but not in the content writing and planning. So, for multimedia projects that you do - who prepare the content? Curators of an exhibition? The education department, in charge of outreach and teaching? Once the content has been developed, then who does the actual creation of the multimedia product? In-house staff? Contracted multimedia specialists? Or maybe even student employees? I have a few ideas on how we might look to approach this, from a process-end - but am interested in how other institutions are currently handling this. Thanks in advance for your time, and consideration! ___ brian cors system administrator university of michigan museum of art 525 south state street ann arbor, mi 48109-1354usa [work]1.734.647.0529 [ fax]1.734.764.3731 [ web]www.umma.umich.edu ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC58WMBoJWaccadwkRAhUEAJ9dTux6PDPagjqn9cpUr3r9Z2R0oQCgimaB a6UjVA6rckDs9+pIFHzO3/4= =+Z25 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
