[MCN-L] [Digital Media SIG] Digital Media SIG Meeting @ MCN

Several other SIGs are scheduled to hold meetings on Friday from 4:30-5:30 pm : Information Technology SIG, Standards SIG, California SIG , and Pacific Northwest SIG. One of the complaints in the past was that having too many SIG meetings at one time caused problems for attendees who wanted to

[MCN-L] Standards SIG Annual Meeting

MCN'ers, For those of you interested in the use of standards, I encourage you to attend the MCN 2006 Standards SIG annual meeting Friday Nov. 10 from 4:30-5:30 pm. We'll meet at the conference registration desk at 4:30 and move to the meeting location from there. The location will be posted at

[MCN-L] metadata for dummies

Perian, The elements of the table referenced below are discussed in more detail in a short, easy to read overview of metadata standards in Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for RLG Cultural Materials, http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=214. It covers the basics and has great appendices that go

[MCN-L] Question about Scanning Negatives

Hi Julie, You might look at local guidelines, such as (ours): CDL guidelines for digital images, version 2.0: November 2005 (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgimages/cdl_gdi_v2.pdf) or broader guidelines such as those at NARA: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials

[MCN-L] Comments on your collections online

Here it is: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown/ At 12:54 PM 12/8/2009, M. Elings wrote: Perian, Not sute if this is what you're looking for, but UNLV has some CONTENTdm collections online that allow commenting. Don't have the URL handy but it is called Boomtown as I recall. Mary W. Elings

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

Ethan, I am not sure how widely used it is currently, but there was a project some years ago that you might look into called the Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) project (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/classic), which started out to encode museum collections using EAD.

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

The grid of standards G?nter mentioned is focused on the cultural heritage community. While one can argue that you should use the most appropriate data standards for the materials being described, the reality is that many of us are bound by the standards (and tools that work those standards)

[MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums

materials and/or our localized presentations while also letting us play in a much bigger access venue than we could ever generate on our own. So, as long as it exists, the Commons may be just that, a place for LAMs to put up a selection of their holdings in a common format. At 10:50 AM 5/15/2009, M

[MCN-L] Fwd: IMAP Offers Two Intro to Preservation workshops this Spring

Something of potential interest to those working with media collections. Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) presents Introduction to Media Preservation Workshops Offered in Long Island City/Queens and the Bronx At

[MCN-L] Digital Object Identifiers

Hi Ari, The California Digital Library uses ARKs (archival resource keys) for our digital objects. Read more: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/ There is an interesting utility called noid (nice opaque identifier) that you might want to check out. The documentation states:

[MCN-L] Cal SIG meeting

Maybe it makes sense then to hold it after AAM, so someone who does attend can report back? Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 melings*library.berkeley.edu Ph 510-643-2273 Fx 510-643-2548

[MCN-L] Minorities and digital collections

The Bancroft Library has created and provided online access to numerous digital collections involving some of the groups you mentioned. These are available on the California Digital Library's site along with similar contributions from other cultural heritage institutions from across

[MCN-L] Standards SIG mtg 11/14

Please join us for the MCN Standards SIG meeting on Friday, November 14th from 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm. The meeting is open to everyone attending the conference. It will be roundtable discussion of standards issues, an opportunity to propose ideas for sessions at next years' conference and, this

[MCN-L] OAI-ORE Open Meeting, March 3 2008

FYI. From the Digital Library community: Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library, UCB MCN Standards SIG Chair Apologies for cross-posting A meeting will be held on March 3, 2008 at Johns Hopkins University to roll-out the first beta release of the OAI-ORE

[MCN-L] Standards SIG: Early bird registration ends October 9 for NISO Discovery to Delivery workshop

May be of interest to standards folk: Space is limited and registration is filling quickly for the NISO workshop, Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are, to be held November 2?3 at the National Agricultural Library in

[MCN-L] $1 Million Sloan Foundation Open Content Alliance grant to Internet Archive to fund an alternative to Google Books

Here are a few more articles about the OCA vs. Google project. And, to answer Perian's question, there will be duplication of scanning in some cases, however access models will be different. CNN.com Google library: open culture?

[MCN]:INTERNSHIP: NMAH New Media Program

FYI. Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:26:10 -0400 From: Dana Allen-Greil danagr...@hotmail.com Subject: INTERNSHIP: National Museum of American History, New Media Program Please pass this opportunity along to potential candidates. Feel free to post off-list. National Museum of American

Re: MCN CAL SIG: Last minute call for proposals

Any Bay Area folks want to do a session on the 1906 earthquake exhibits? I bet there are some interesting ones out there, using lots of cool technology! Email me if you're intersted. _ Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library, UCB At

Re: [MCN-L] LAM interoperability SIG

Dear Emmanuelle, This is a topic that I and my colleague Günter Waibel spent many years exploring. I wanted to share an old but relevant article we wrote on this topic: Metadata for All

Re: [MCN-L] Video hosting question

Just wanted to chime in here on the question of captioning. We use YT auto-captioning and then have humans correct it. YT auto-captioning alone is not acceptable at UC Berkeley, so we take the extra step. So far we have found no other more cost-effective method to get good captioning without