[MCN-L] Breakfast Conversations, Political Ramifications and Forum Highlights ARCS Update Vol 3 | Update 22

***Breakfast Conversations*** POWarts’ popular breakfast series Colleagues and Friends returns Wednesday, October 24th. Independent Registrar and Art Management Consultant, Andrea Wood will be joined by Raina Mehler, Registrar at Pace Gallery, and John Thomas Robinette III, Manager of Storage and

[MCN-L] Multilingual websites

Hi. I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations about language translation for museum websites. Currently, the Exploratorium has a series of single pages for visit planning for seven non-English languages (e.g., https://www.exploratorium.edu/es). But as we try to attract and serve more

[MCN-L] Museum Mascots short survey

Hello Everyone, I am reaching out to all social media managers of museum mascots: please take just a few minutes to fill out this short survey about your important work! (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3R6PTqzmxsZ2qCa32PsbNlskrl01Yv-bg_wPAZ21bDlVx6Q/viewform) We will be sharing the

Re: [MCN-L] Tell Congress Not to Make the Register of Copyrights a Presidential Pawn

Forwarding, in case anyone is interested in taking action. On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:44 PM Katharine Trendacosta | EFF Activism Team < act...@eff.org> wrote: > This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. > >

[MCN-L] Mapping Open Source in Museums

Hi all, We’re working on a project to map open source in museums, the results of which will be presented in Denver next month. Along with some data mining and visualization from the GitHub API (we’ve identified about 120 museums on GitHub with nearly 1500 public repositories) we’ve also put

Re: [MCN-L] Funding for Digital Media

Dear all, This might be of interest in addition: https://dutchmediainnovators.com/grants-events-awards-in-the-us Best, Maarten > Op 10 okt. 2018, om 19:50 heeft Robin White Owen het > volgende geschreven: > > > Thanks to

Re: [MCN-L] Multilingual websites

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam offers its whole website in Dutch and English, and key visit information in 9 other languages. Megan Richardson Directrice, Musée virtuel du Canada Musée canadien de l'histoire Director, Virtual Museum of Canada Canadian Museum of History 100 rue Laurier Street,

Re: [MCN-L] Multilingual websites

Hi Mark - I managed the localization work for the Getty's Visit section 4 years ago and can give you some tips. From an accessibility point of view, you want to have human-translated language, not use Google. In general translation services are ok, but they make mistakes. You also want to think

Re: [MCN-L] Imaging opinions on the Equalight 3 Tool

Hi Liz and all, Equalight is one of several well-regarded tools for what's often call "flat-fielding" exposure across the full extent of an image: in effect, pixel-mapping any uneven illumination or lens-based falloff based on reference to an exposure made of an unvaried sheet of (nearly) white

Re: [MCN-L] Multilingual websites

We had the Google Translate widget on the Met's site, in just the visit section, for a while during my time there, and then we added it to a part of NYPL's site but I never managed to get it added to the whole site and actually lost my job there because I wouldn't shut up about it. True story!

Re: [MCN-L] Tell Congress Not to Make the Register of Copyrights a Presidential Pawn

Thank you A!!! ++ Suzanne Quigley 917 676 9039 ArtAndArtifactServices.com > On Oct 11, 2018, at 5:46 AM, Amalyah Keshet wrote: > > Forwarding, in case anyone is interested in taking action. > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:44 PM Katharine Trendacosta | EFF Activism Team < >

[MCN-L] Imaging opinions on the Equalight 3 Tool

Hi MCN-L (especially imaging pals), While I know what I want as outcomes from my collection imaging projects, I admit not to be an expert on the ins and outs of all the tools available in the digital capture process. We at the O'Keeffe are embarking on some collections imaging with a contract

Re: [MCN-L] Imaging opinions on the Equalight 3 Tool

Hi Liz, Greetings from the Imaging SIG. Robin Myers is a respected name in the cultural heritage imaging field. His software does one thing called flat-fielding, but it does it well. Flat fielding allows a photographer to even the illumination of a flat work that was not lit perfectly evenly and