The most important question is what will the vendor support? If they're happy
to support it on a virtual server, then you can ignore their recommendation.
You can get a real server any time if you decide you need it. It may be
complicated to switch, but virtualization has a lot of great
Just guessing, but I would think that any kiosk software that has an idle-out
should be able to reset to a defined home page after an idle period of X
minutes. Here are some that I've used:
KioWare Lite (http://www.kioware.com) -- this is an add-on to IE
OpenKiosk
Greetings, everyone. This position is open now until filled. Share as you like.
Thanks,
Matt
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Online Community Manager
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Museum) is a private, not-for-profit
institution whose collections
Stanley, this is not exactly an answer to your question, but another approach
(besides virtualization) is Windows Terminal Services (or Citrix, if you want
to spend more money) and remote desktop. Modern versions of it allow cut and
paste, etc. Has your IT Dept. considered that option?
On 9/25/08 12:14 PM, Folsom, Diana folsom at lacma.org wrote:
The period following the URL issue is addressed in 17.10 (URLs and
punctuation), where they recommend including the period because: Other
punctuation marks used following a URL will be readily perceived as
belonging to the
NYPL recently began using Omeka. Here's an example:
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent
Matt
On 9/18/08 9:13 AM, Julia Baldini jbaldini at windsorhistoricalsociety.org
wrote:
I was wondering if any of the museums have used to online exhibit
program Omeka and what are your thoughts?
We talked about this a while ago on MCN-L. Maybe a few times? Always a good
topic. Or maybe I just can't let go.
Anyway, I remember making a case for disk-based storage vs. CDs. I still can't
believe that in any honest estimation, storage on CD/DVD/HD-DVD is cheaper than
storage on really
Will, why wait for zoom before providing the large images? I think there are a
lot of good arguments for very big images online now:
1) modern browsers handle resizing well
2) scrolling (when an image is too big for the window) is at least as easy for
users as zooming, and shows them as much of
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Morgan, Matt
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Will, why wait for zoom before providing the large images? I think there
are a lot of good arguments for very big images online now:
1) modern browsers handle
Leo, I've used both NoCat (http://nocat.net) and WifiDog
(http://dev.wifidog.org), but not for a few years. They were both easy and
reliable; NoCat at least at the time was a little more powerful, and comes from
your backyard (Sonoma County).
Matt
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From:
Well, Nik and Rob just beat me to it, but this might be worth adding. I
think you don't have to worry too much about accuracy, as long as you
understand that accuracy is tough to define and harder to achieve. But, if
you want to be most honest and fair, you can:
1) only compare like against
On 2/12/08 8:17 PM, Diane Andolsek DianeA at weatherhead-design.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone currently using a hosted calendar that they're happy with? I'm
looking for a solution that I can recommend to a church with about 2500
congregants. They are currently considering Trumba,
Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users
like zooming?
I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single,
somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the
image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes
We have two positions open in the Website Department at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art. To apply, send resume and cover letter to
employoppty at metmuseum.org, including the position title in the subject
line. Or contact me by email, off-list, with questions.
Thanks,
Matt
On 1/18/07 5:40 PM, Tom toma at speakeasy.net wrote:
Cost, reliability, stability, security
Just a few to name ;-)
Right. All of which have more to do with the DAMS you may be using, the
database server, the storage device, etc. than the server OS.
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Morgan
On 8/24/07 4:05 PM, Christina DePaolo Christinad at SeattleArtMuseum.org
wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if any of your museum website privacy policy
statements include text about security camera use. Do you let your
visitors know that you have security cameras in your galleries?
If you
It sounds like your motivation for outsourced hosting is sound--those are
all good reasons for going outside. And you can go to more enterprise-level
hosting that will give you better service guarantees than you have for your
personal sites. It will cost more, but it will cost a lot less than
On 1/31/07 5:06 PM, Han, Yan hany at u.library.arizona.edu wrote:
I am looking for an open source API that can convert TIFF files to JPEG
so that I can integrate it with our current system. Anyone know about
this?
Thanks,
Yan Han
University of Arizona Libraries
Hey Seb. We are among the proud victims of Google's search-within-site. We
don't know yet how it affects us, but we may first try to see how many extra
referrals we get from Google that contain GNS=Search+metmuseum.org (or
whatever the best identifier turns out to be). Just to see if people are
Last summer, AAMD began recommending that museums can share thumbnail-sized
(max 250x300 px in their definition) images of works with problematic copyright
under Fair Use.
This announcement came before the Met's recent website relaunch, but /after/ we
had already committed to displaying
Thanks to Amalyah and Diane for the helpful replies!
Amalyah, I love how you get 250x300 = 300x300. Turning vagueness to your
advantage.
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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Amalyah Keshet [akes...@imj.org.il]
Sent: Wednesday,
There are wifi-enabled cameras and phones that have share to facebook
buttons, so it's all one step (I suppose it might be more than one, since maybe
you have to pick and album, etc.). They're probably not great cameras, but you
wouldn't have to drag the computer and USB cable around, either.
(snipping most of the thread out)
[Ballate, Leo] We offered unfettered wifi access for a number of years.
However, it was time to make sure we had t c to protect us from any legal
liability that could arise from public use of our wifi network.
Leo, did you have any problems during the time
You could try Eric Ishii Eckhardt of Adapted, in Brooklyn, an old friend of
some of us on the list:
eric at adaptedstudio.com
http://adaptedstudio.com/
They're smaller scale than Christie, it seems, but I'm aware of recent work
they've done in collaboration with bigger shops, if that's a
Sheila, I think we need to do this. The interesting/complicated questions for
me, going forward, are less about the value of the online visit per se, or
usage of online content by itself, but about the relationship between online
and physical usage, and creating a seamless and impactful visitor
Hi Dana. We're moving to Brightcove soon, but I don't have a report on it yet.
You can use Vimeo for things that can only be viewed on your site. They have a
function for allowing embedding only in particular places, and not allowing
direct viewing even on their site. We use it for that--not
For your first bullet point, I always feel like the hard part is storing the
log files and knowing when it's worth going back to them later. Once you have
that sorted out, you have a lot of options (probably to back up GA, not on
their own--but it sounds like that's how you use WT so this
but our IT department is holding back because of resource
issues, I think it has to do with bandwidth.
Christina
-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Morgan, Matt
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:41 AM
To: Museum Computer
One of the advantages of internal management vs. hosting is that massive
overkill on hardware isn't a lot more expensive, in the scheme of things, than
barely good enough. What are those Dells going to cost, maybe $6000US each if
you stretch it? An adequate server would only save you $2000US.
As far as I can tell, S3 is powerful online storage, not literal online
backup. You could use it as a data mirror, but it's not like saving the
contents of the server to multiple tape sets created over the course of time
and storing them in multiple secure places.
With S3 (and other online
On 10/17/06 10:23 PM, Chuck Patch chuck.patch at gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/06, Tom A. tarnautovic at speakeasy.net 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
On 6/30/06 10:01 AM, wrote:
Hi Matt,
I'm curious about where the drive is coming from to have a one stop
solution mean there's one system under it all. I often feel sorry
for the folks at Past Perfect when I see comments elsewhere about why
doesn't it also do accounting, POS, and your
That term worked well at Brooklyn Museum. In a refreshing change from other
terminology museums often use, kiosk tends to confuse museum insiders (who
often think of big outdoor pillars with fliers stapled to them when they
hear that term) but it's fine for visitors.
Not a scientific study, but a
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