[MCN-L] Blackbaud/Raiser's Edge API

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[MCN-L] Position Announcement

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[MCN-L] Position Announcement

Many apologies to list members for the shotgun reply. Haven't done that in a while

[MCN-L] Multilingual collection database

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[MCN-L] ye olde TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate

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[MCN-L] Vernon Systems - CMS

You should really also check out Minisis Chuck Patch On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jeanne Kessler wrote: > > > We are currently investigating acquiring a new Collections Management System > for our institution. > > > > We have narrowed down our favorites to:

[MCN-L] Use policies in museums

C license would have been more appropriate (and cheaper for the institution?) What do you think? Here's the post in which he presents the current situation: http://2point8.whileseated.org/2009/09/11/takedown/ Chuck Patch

[MCN-L] Use policies in museums

rank > estate (or their representatives) complained to MFA Houston who then had > to send a C&D to your friend. > > Perian Sully > Collections Information Manager > Web Programs Strategist > The Magnes > Berkeley, CA > > > -Original Message- >

[MCN-L] MWeb Universal

Hi Stephen, This is really interesting. The demo system choked up on me when I tried it this morning, but I'll try it again some other time. I assume that the each system that is to be part of the universal search has to have a database connector installed that is part of this system? What is the

[MCN-L] MWeb Universal

I agree with Jay. And let's not forget that the market this demonstration piece (PastPerfect users) showcases is one where federated search is something both truly unusual and highly beneficial given the frequency with which these collections are small and not easily accessible. Chuck Patc

[MCN-L] Fwd: SAA Leland Award Request

I liked "wend" better Chuck On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Drury Wellford wrote: > Where do we send our nominations? > > Ann Drury Wellford > Photo Services Manager > The Museum of the Confederacy > 1201 East Clay Street > Richmond, VA 23219 > Phone: (804) 649-1861 x17 > Fax: (804) 644-7150

[MCN-L] DM Sig: file metadata extraction software

back into the files if you want, as well as export. I've done this in order to merge image file data with data extracted from our Collections Management System in preparation for uploading files and data to a state digital library. Chuck Patch On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Deborah Wythe

[MCN-L] Google mail versus MS Exchange or others

I'd be interested in learning what led you to consider this option. Chuck Patch On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Stan Orchard wrote: > I'd love to see any comments here on the list. Thanks! > > On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Nancy Pinn wrote: > > We are taking a look at

[MCN-L] Google mail versus MS Exchange or others

r things closer to the mission. Chuck Patch On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Leonard Steinbach wrote: > I have been strongly urging cultural institutions, especially those with > minimal or overworked, overstretched technology staffs to give serious > consideration to moving to

[MCN-L] JPEG to be replaced by Windows Media Photo?

On 10/17/06, Tom A. wrote: > Storage media (hdd) is getting cheaper and larger. I really do not > see the need > for a new compression algorithm these days. Especially from MS. > I find this argument (which I have been hearing for years now) to be fairly specious. The fact is that while storage ma

[MCN-L] File Storage Best Practices Redux

#x27;m very interested in real-world experiences in developing policies and managing space. Chuck Patch The Historic New Orleans Collection

[MCN-L] [DM SIG:]2013 MCN Presentations from DMSIG

st to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-929-4571 443-327-3983 (F)

[MCN-L] File naming conventions for digitized archives

theme; your background/qualifications for > writing the article. Proposals will be vetted by our editorial advisory > board, and you will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance within > several weeks. A style sheet will be sent to you when your proposal is > accepted. > First draft deadline: June 21, 2013. 2000 word maximum. Your article > will be returned by early-mid July with comments and edits by editorial > advisors and editor. > Final article deadline: August 9, 2013. Final article due with four or > five > images, credits, and captions. > > Gretchen Jennings > Editor, Exhibitionist, the journal of the National Association for Museum > Exhibition (NAME) > gretchenjennings at rcn.com > > > > -- > > ___ > mcn-l mailing list > mcn-l at mcn.edu > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 91, Issue 15 > * > > ___ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-929-4571 443-327-3983 (F)

[MCN-L] Getting information from the community about digitized photographs?

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[MCN-L] Apologies for unintentional listserv posting!

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[MCN-L] Apps for Museums

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[MCN-L] Research Project Help!

es like data integration, metadata schemes vocabulary development. Our big project for almost 7 years has been the co-development of the Mint system with Minisis Inc. > > 10. Tell me about yourself: name, title and general job description within > your museum. Chuck Patch, director

[MCN-L] Membership and Donor Database Question

their server. Chuck Patch Director of Systems The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street New Orleans LA 504-523-4662 www.hnoc.org > > > >On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Janet M Strohl-Morgan wrote: > > > > > Please let me know what database system you use for membership and

[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services

hat's best kept on spinning disk and migrated in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider of this sort to embed in the files? -- Chuck Patch

[MCN-L] Analog tape to digital conversion services

rmation Services / Registrar of Collections > Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University > 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA > rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 > Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu > > > On 9/15/201

[MCN-L] Twitter?

that purpose: http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2<https://204.213.35.27/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2> Chuck Patch On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Smith, Koven wrote: > The Brooklyn Museum (@brooklynmuseum) and Columbus Museum of Art > (@columbusmuseum) are both using Twitt

[MCN-L] Digitial Image management software for Mac's

ribly expensive and works with much lower resource requirements. If can also export metadata in tab-delimited format and do batch updates of the image file headers. Chuck Patch On 12/6/07, Snyder, Rebecca wrote: > > Adobe Bridge would work (I personally don't know much about the others,

[MCN-L] Commercial Document Management Systems

what do you use? What do you use it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or exhibition development? Is email part of it? Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be thrilled if other people were interested in this topic as well! Chuck Patch Nation

[MCN-L] Ignite Smithsonian, April 11th in D.C. - - Free!

Hi Michael (or assistant!) I've received this invitation a couple of times and registered each time. I hope I'm not spamming the registration process, but since I didn't receive confirmation, I just wanted to confirm in a more manual way that I intend to attend. Thanks. Chuck Pat

[MCN-L] Database access for curators?

g sure > that the information they enter is properly formatted / uses controlled > vocabulary terms, etc. -- not checking the veracity of the information > itself, but making sure it is formatted consistently with database standards. -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 4

[MCN-L] RIP Delicious

s to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-366-3613

[MCN-L] RIP Delicious

I didn't. Glad I complained! On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Kaia Landon wrote: > So you didn't hear? ?Xmarks has since been taken over by LastPass: > http://mashable.com/2010/12/02/xmarks-lastpass/ > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Chuck Patch wrote: > >>

[MCN-L] Web-hosted calendar

We've been using Trumba for the past couple of years and have found it robust and adaptable. And cheap. Chuck Patch www.hnoc.org On Feb 12, 2008 8:17 PM, Diane Andolsek wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone currently using a hosted calendar that they're happy with? I'm >

[MCN-L] Yahoo's flickr

Flickr's pretty neat, but as Mike pointed out, there's a 10MB upload limit (only 5 for the downloadaable applet, but still 10 through the web interface). Also, you mention different formats, but unfortunately Flickr can handle any format you like as long as it's Jpeg. Chuck

[MCN-L] Computer systems for a new museum

or that exists there and see their products in a much more informed and congenial environment than you would at something like AAM. Chuck Patch Director of Systems The Historic New Orleans Collection

[MCN-L] File Storage Best Practices Redux

Thank you all for responding, now that I'm making my late return to the party. All of these solutions provide some interesting things for me to think about. The DiskXtender solution is very attractive given our EMC commitment, but it still begs the question of creating the SLA's, categorizing the d

[MCN-L] FW: Can a CIS be a DAMS too?

Matt touches on the most important distinction between a DAMS and CIS, but to make it as explicit as possible: most CIS's treat a digital object as an attribute of a physical object. In other words, there's a field in the object record that references a digital image, sound file or whatever. But to

[MCN-L] MCN-L List Administration

Yeah!

[MCN-L] FW: Can a CIS be a DAMS too?

On 6/29/06, Richard Urban wrote: > I'd be happy to discuss this further off-list (unless there is a hue > and cry to continue here). > Hi Richard, consider this a hue and cry. Chuck

[MCN-L] dangers of rust in archival storage area

around the COol site, but I'm posting here in case any of you involved in construction projects have dealt with this issue. There are alternatives, but this is the product our installer is familiar with and other materials are significantly more costly -- but worth it if more appropriate Chu

[MCN-L] New physical interactive - Eliana Rachel Sully Cohen

delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-929-4571 443-327-3983 (F)

Re: teaching and technology

In the Pleistocene era, when I was in grad school, there was interesting work being done by historians and so-called visual anthropologists, who evidently still exist but remain an obscure branch of the field. One study that really struck me was by a historian named (Richard?) Borchert, who analyze

Re: Wired Rick

Rick, A session on pedagogies involving art and technologies, or for that matter, any academic specialization involving technologies that use museum and/or archival data in interesting or novel ways would certainly interest me. I tried to pull together a session last year on visual anthropology and

MCN 2003 - Call for Participation

216-707-2642 613-990-8689 (fax)                  lsteinb...@clevelandart.org gspur...@gallery.ca _______ Chuck Patch director of systems The Historic New Orleans Collection (504)523-4662 (504)598-7108 (fax) www.hnoc.org --- You are currently s

Re: Part/Whole Relationships in Museum Collections

easier) at the same time that you can define multiple themes or formal collections within your holdings. Sounds complicated Mr. Goodwrench! We aren't there yet, but our software let's us do this and that's the plan! Chuck Patch Historic New Orleans Collection I am curious

List is back on line

Title: List is back on line After a brief disruption in service, the MCN-L mailing list is once more available. ___ Chuck Patch President, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To

Listerve Problems

the server in the past five days and have been unsuccessful, please contact me at chu...@hnoc.org. Thank you. ___ Chuck Patch President Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe

Season's Greetings from the Museum Computer Network

leadership in the field of Museum informatics and automation.   Murtha Baca Christine Bostick Jim Devine Kati Geber Amalyah Keshet Rob Lancefield Marla Misunas Chuck Patch Sam Quigley Leonard Steinbach Lynn Ann Underwood Bill Weinstein --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi

A Letter From the President of MCN

never been more vital to the interests of the cultural community than now. The next 30 years will bring amazing changes, but those years come one at a time. Be part of it. Now. Please. Email me at chu...@hnoc.org Chuck Patch, The Historic New Orleans CollectionPresident   Sam Quigley, Harvard

Volunteers needed

rature and help promote the organization and our upcoming meeting in Las Vegas. If you will be attending either of these meetings and can spare an hour or two of your time, please notify me at chu...@hnoc.org. It will be greatly appreciated. _______ Chuck Patch Preside

Volunteers Needed for AAM in Portland

meeting was a big success in making people aware of the MCN and the opportunity at AAM is even greater. Volunteer today - Your association needs YOU! ___ Chuck Patch President, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu director of systems The Historic New Orleans

MCN seeking new members

dible tool it can be during the coming year. Workshops We are also in the process of partnering with other organizations to bring you workshops that are held multiple times per year in different venues so that we can offer educational opportunities to the widest audience. So there's the pit

Join MCN before Friday

heard! Join today! Go to our website at www.mcn.edu before Friday May 16, and get our current membership rates for the next year, or two. Wait until Friday and it will cost you more.  ___ Chuck Patch President, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu director of sy

Re: Collections Registration Software with good Library Lin

u're not just integrating data, you're integrating processes. There may be other systems able to do this now; I haven't really kept up. But the short answer is yes, this can be done and I know for a fact that at least one of the vendors you're looking at can do it. _

Education Question

I'm forwarding this message I received to the list. If any one has advice, could they please mail to this person? Chuck Patch -Original Message- From: Angela Masloff [mailto:rocklick...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:59 PM To: chu...@hnoc.org Subject: MCN Hello.

Re: What's the difference between a registrar and a catalog

local terms? Is there anything resembling thematic or subject categorization? >>sq - the Documentation Manager has a half time assistant who is largely devoted to cataloging and data entry. The DM also spends approximately 1/2 to 1/3 of her time cataloging the more complicated works.<<

Fwd: Museum Section Working Group Meeting, August 4, 1pm

Forwarded from the SAAMUS list. -- -Original Message- From: Kristine Kaske [mailto:kristine.ka...@nasm.si.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:26 PM To: saamu...@si-listserv.si.edu Subject: Museum Section Working Group Meeting, August 4, 1pm Please come to the 2004 SAA Museum Section Wor

Fwd: Hot off the press: MUSEUM ARCHIVES

-Original Message- From: Kristine Kaske [mailto:kristine.ka...@nasm.si.edu] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 7:58 AM To: saamu...@si-listserv.si.edu Subject: Hot off the press: MUSEUM ARCHIVES This is something ALL of us need on our office bookshelf! ***

Re: Disaster Plans

it's reasonably safe to assume that the online version won't be available if this disaster is real. _______ Chuck Patch Director of Systems The Historic New Orleans Collection (504)523-4662 www.hnoc.org -Original Message- From: Rhonda Winter [mai

Re: Exhibition management on coll mgt systems

Title: Message If at all possible I would ask that responses to this question be posted to the list -- I'm interested in this topic as well and I don't think Marla should get to corner the market. _______ Chuck Patch Director of Systems The Historic N

I'm not dead yet!

Just a note to indicate that I am fine, in Philadelphia with friends(may be looking for Bill Weinstein) and have a new email address:chuck.pa...@gmail.com. Our staff is now in at least 8 different states and we have beenconnecting through a Google group. Recovery plans are beingforumulated but mo

Re: I'm not dead yet!

cane Katrina, we send out our well wishes to all of> the staff at the Collection to pray that they are okay and that New Orleans> will return to normality soon. We were overjoyed today to learn that Chuck> Patch and Carol Bartels (and their families) were able to evacuate the City&

Re: Donor Information Maintenance

For donors, our collections information system is what Robert refersto as our "corporate" database. We maintain the current contactinformation for all donors in this system. New donors or changes toexisting donor contact information is forwarded to the membership anddevelopment office each month

Re: Coming on Monday: the new MCN website!

It looks terrific you guys. Congratulations and thanks to all involved! Chuck Patch On 2/7/06, Amalyah Keshet wrote: > Just want to add my appreciation and congratulations for a huge job > splendidly well done. > > Amalyah Keshet > Chair, MCN IP SIG > > > - Origi

Re: [MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 6 conservation module in database

inesm...@sfmoma.org > > www.sfmoma.org > > > > > > This message, together with any and all attachments, is intended only > for the use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information > that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipien

Re: [MCN-L] Searchable MCN-L archive is complete

or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 410-929-4571