G?enter,
As I said in private, and now publicly, Welcome to the Neighborhood.
We?ll miss you in Austin but know you have many friends and sympathetic
colleagues here at the Gallery!
We hope you will find time to participate in FADGI, yes the acronyms are
endless here, aka
Federal Agencies
The Web site for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines
Initiative became publicly accessible on September 30, 2008. The URL is
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/. The initiative represents a
collaborative effort to establish a common set of guidelines for
digitizing historical
There was a question raised about whether to
include color bars while digitizing aged photo albums and Stanley
Smith posted a reply. I asked Ken Fleisher of my staff at the National
Gallery (who does not belong to this list) to prepare a comment to Stanley
to post. This is a core topic of an
Hi Eve,
Most of us care about color accuracy but we may define it differently.
Color bars used at the point of capture are a false sense of security
because they react differently to light than pigments. Color bars used in
late stages for process control are a different story and can have value.
Nik, Matt, Ken, Nancy, Mike et al,
Here's another music model --- from Radiohead (quoting from Wikipedia)
Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows, was released through the band's own
website on 10 October 2007 as a digital download for which customers could
make whatever payment that they wanted,
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
?
From: Newman, Alan a-new...@nga.gov
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Image Sizes (later Image Theft)
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 1:12 PM
Nik, Matt, Ken, Nancy, Mike et al,
Here's
I continue to be impressed by the Brooklyn Museum's blog.
This is no ordinary museum blog. Through the unusual energy of Deb Wythe and
Shelley Bernstein (I am sure I am leaving others out who I don't know) and the
cooperation of many staff: curators, educators, archivists, conservators,
/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell
Posted by Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf
Of Newman, Alan
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 3:48 AM
To: Museum Computer Network
ImageMuse is a discussion group of museum imaging and publishing
professionals. We have
worked together to define guidelines for the creation and use of digital
files
for reproduction. Our work resulted in the 2007 UPDIG Digital Image
Submission Guide for Fine Art Reproduction at
The National Gallery of Art is searching for an art handler/preparator to
work as an independent contractor for a minimum of two years on its Rapid
Capture Project. Start date is mid-September 2009.
The chief responsibilities of the Preparator include:
? Moving art in coordination with
I can think of no other person who has contributed more to
digital imaging.
Thanks Marla for posting this--
Here's more information for interested attendees.
Persons not attending the Macworld Conference can receive a complimentary
pass admitting them to the Tribute by sending an email to
Please excuse cross-postings.
At MCN 2007 in Chicago there will be a panel introducing the UPDIG
Museum Best Practices for submitting digital files for publication.
Imaging professionals from 13 museums have formed a study group called
ImageMuse to work on this and related issues.
If you are
Amalyah,
Is it possible you or some other kind soul could make an MP3 and post it to
the MCN site? I'd love to have it but I'm indisposed.
Many thanks,
Alan
On 9/11/06 5:31 AM, Amalyah Keshet akeshet at imj.org.il wrote:
Yet another recommendation. Seems like this webcast is a must:
I've
- Original Message -
From: Newman, Alan A-Newman at NGA.GOV
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture onFair Use +
webcast
Amalyah,
Is it possible you or some other kind soul
Marla, Richard, et al,
Kudos to getting this listserve operational again.
One suggestion:
You might want to filter out the Autoreplies, I'm out of the office
until...
Thanks to all,
Alan Newman
On 6/27/06 3:48 PM, Richard Urban rjurban at uiuc.edu wrote:
Dear MCN-L Subscribers:
In
please forgive cross postings:
IST is pleased to announce the 10th Archiving Conference which will be held
April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The deadline for submitting presentation
abstracts is November 15, 2012.
A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at
Katie,
This is exactly what we hope to see.
Flush the junk out of the culture that was scanned from books and bad
reproductions.
Refresh with new authoritative images and catalogue data for all to use
unencumbered.
Make it easy for a K-12 kid to use in school or a lecturer to use. etc.
Cheers,
Please pass on to possibly interested parties:
National Gallery of Art Rapid Capture Project ? Museum Technician Needed
The National Gallery of Art, with support from the Kress Foundation, is
seeking a Museum Technician to join the digital image capture team
immediately. Since its founding,
Excuse cross postings--
the FADGI website can be found at digitizationguidelines.gov
Steven Puglia is the chair of FADGI since coming over to LC from NARA this year.
Stephanie is an MCN and ImageMuse member.
There is very useful information for MCN members engaged with production,
management
Excuse cross postings
Image Metadata Handbook
Brand new: the CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook with comprehensive
guidelines for metadata management.
Contents:
Start_Introduction.pdf
Acrobat_Settings.pdf
Core_Fields.pdf
Extension_Fields.pdf
Guide_Book.pdf
Interactive_Table.pdf
Jeanne,
You may want to look at the Rapid Capture presentations and papers given at
MCN2009-2010 by Getty, Yale, MOMA, Chicago, National Gallery (did I leave
anyone out?)--there should be a link to Slideshare where they are
downloadable.
Also consider joining ImageMuse, a discussion list of
Sam,
Since 95% of video is shot here by smartphones and small handheld cameras
the answer is yes we allow it in the permanent collection galleries.
Temporary exhibitions always come with their own set of permissions
requirements. As far as a using tripods or lights, that must be pre-arranged
with
Please excuse cross postings.
full document at:
http://aamd.org/papers/documents/AAMDFairUseGuidelinesHLP1-10-11_2_.pdf
core excerpts:
A. AAMD encourages member museums to develop clear written intellectual
property and/or digital imaging policies and guidelines.
B. Member museums
Silvia et al,
Here are three very good resources on filenaming:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/filenaming.html
A useful website by David Riecks who is active on the IPTC standards
committee
The DAM book: digital asset management for photographers By Peter Krogh
Chapter
Hi Deb
This was a thread a while ago on ImageMuse. There is virtually no perceptible
difference in print output between an 8 bit per pixel TIFF and high-quality
(10+ in Photoshop) JPEG.
The distinction comes if before output your files are reprocessed and saved
again as JPEG. So it takes very
Gail,
Great job. Works beautifully on my iPhone.
Will there be a plan to bridge what you have done with VAimages,
your image licensing site?
What kind of effort (time/money), approximately, was involved to create this
version?
It is clear that more people will use the internet on mobile devices
Eve et al,
The Picture Library Universal System (PLUS) will be going Beta in the
spring. (see www.useplus.org) The PLUS registry was designed as a low-cost,
parallel initiative to the copyright registry and has been designed in
consultation with and encouraged by the LC copyright registrar. Image
Dear Colleagues,
I?ve enjoyed participating in MCN conferences as a presenter, a workshop
giver, a listener, a former board member, etc. for at least 25 years (don?t
tell anyone). Always I?ve learned helpful information that I brought home
and applied.
I had a great time in Portland but I also
And also please see
Wired, The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet,
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/
Cheers,
Alan Newman
National Gallery of Art
On 8/12/10 2:30 PM, museumpods at gmail.com museumpods at gmail.com wrote:
I think museums still need traditional Internet 'surfing'
Diane,
I haven't set this up (I've been a client a number of times) but I hear
www.gotomeeting.com is easy to setup, has a free 30 day trial period and
works very well across platforms.
Best,
Alan
On 9/1/09 2:32 PM, Diane M. Zorich dianezorich at comcast.net wrote:
Len,
Looking for the
The Getty Grants Program is funding seven museum e-publishing projects. Each
museum or group is tailoring the project to their specific collection needs.
The National Gallery is doing a Dutch painting systematic catalogue online.
Perhaps someone from the Getty Grants program can summarize all the
Remko,
I suggest you look at the work Steve Puglia is doing for NARA.
A good starting point is
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.html
And there is also the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines
at
http://digitizationguidelines.gov/
Alan
On 7/15/09 1:28 PM,
The National Gallery did object movies at 36 x 10 degree increments (they
are very smooth) for the Robert Smith bronze, boxwood and ivory Renaissance
sculptures.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/bronze/
On 7/30/09 9:53 AM, Deborah Wythe deborahwythe at hotmail.com wrote:
Hello!
There
come to the IP Sig meeting on Thursday, Nov 13, from 12 noon - 1.00pm to learn
more and meet Jeff Sedlik.
MAJOR PUBLISHERS ADOPT THE PLUS IMAGE LICENSING STANDARDS
New York, NY ? November 10, 2008 ? Three major publishers have called for the
adoption of
the PLUS (Picture Licensing
As MCN's representative on the board of PLUS, I'd like to circulate
the press release below. We expect to form a committee of PLUS museum
members (current PLUS museum members: National Gallery of Art, MFA Boston,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Israel Museum) to discuss
Deb,
You can do this with Adobe Bridge by entering sRGB as the data value in the
search metadata box.
I agree this would also be a simple matter for most DAMs as well.
Alan Newman
On 4/4/07 9:39 AM, Deborah Wythe deborahwythe at hotmail.com wrote:
Hi all --
Does anyone know if there's a
Deb,
Adobe Bridge should do the job for you. It will return a list of all
sRGB-embedded files after query without opening Photoshop.
Alan
On 4/4/07 3:14 PM, Deborah Wythe deborahwythe at hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the replies. We haven't implemented our DAMS yet and yes, I hope
that
They say they are entirely sold out for Wednesday and do not have conference
rates for Fri or Sat.
Alan Newman
On 10/6/06 12:59 PM, Misunas, Marla mmisunas at sfmoma.org wrote:
I'm writing you a quick note about making your hotel reservations TODAY
for our 34th annual conference in
Here's a good one for the IP Sig to chew on.
Virtual Copyrights---from today's Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500
635.html
Where Real Money Meets Virtual Reality, The Jury Is Still Out
By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Staff Writer
Job Vacancy---Photographer
National Gallery of Art
Deadline
Job Vacancy---National Gallery of Art
Job Announcement Number: 06-79
OPEN PERIOD: to Friday, September 15, 2006
Supervisory Visual Information Specialist
management and direction of the National Gallery?s World Wide Web site and
for ensuring its future as one of the foremost museum Web sites
If you're museum doesn't yet have an effective mobile website - it seems
ill-advised to focus too much on hybridizing apps across platforms...
mobile strategy needs to include an effective mobile website for the primary
domain of the organization.
Sage advice, Mr Stein.
Seems like a very prudent
I'm in Rob.
I'll help with this.
Alan
Alan Newman
NGA
---sent from mobile device---
On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Rob Lancefield on lists lists at
lancefield.net wrote:
Hi all,
Great ideas. I'd also love to see a session on the procedures and the
underlying technical means by which
On Friday April 24 we launched the NGA's Online
Systematic Catalogue Initiative which features a customized IIP client
for comparing images.
_Press release
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2014/nga-online-editions.html
_The overall project home page_
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. seeks a contract Photographer in the
Division of Imaging and Visual Services.
The term is from August 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015. Renewal is
possible.
Interested candidates should email their resume and samples by July 21 to
l-emerson at
Brian,
Sam Quigley's great piece at MW2013 answers some of questions. Look for Liz
Neely at MCN Dallas, who formerly worked with Sam. She might be of help.
Best
Alan Newman
National Gallery of Art
Extending the Visitor Experience with Wi-Fi at the Art Institute of Chicago |
MW2013: Museums and
Division of Imaging and Visual Services, of the National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C has an immediate contract opportunity for a skilled
photographer. This is a full-time, limited term (16month) contract opportunity
beginning January 20, 2015.
This position requires one year work
The International Image Interoperability Framework community (http://iiif.io/)
and the National Gallery of Art are hosting a one day information sharing event
in Washington D.C. about the use of images in and across Cultural Heritage
institutions.
The day will focus on how museums, galleries,
Title: in search of developer
I'm looking for a developer who would be interested in bidding on a project to create a digital imaging studio mangement/work order entry system for the Gallery.
The system would be browser based for the clients outside my division and could be a fatter client
Title: job opening
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. is looking to fill a full time Visual Information Specialist position. This person scans, color corrects and makes derivative digital files of works of art.Ê Please refer to the following link for complete information:
Curious coincidence. I just distributed this link today to my staff and I was
preparing a post to MCN-L. We've adopted most of these guidelines in my
division at the National Gallery.
I urge wide distribution of these guidelines to your museum imaging colleagues
who may not read this list.
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
File: matt.vcfFile: footer.txt
Newman, Alan wrote:
Curious coincidence. I just distributed this link today to my staff and I was preparing a post to MCN-L. We've adopted most
Title: RE: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
Here's what UPDIG has to say about Digital Archiving and the various trade-offs between RAW, DNG and Tif.
I find no major fault with this overview analysis. UPDIG is a work-in-progress and a very good
Title: RE: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
Gnter,
Yes, true. Steve Puglia (NARA) has done a wonderful job.
UPDIG is a broad inter-agency top-level set of evolving guidelines.
NARA addresses step-by-step, granular methodologies.
Hopefully MCN,
Title: RE: [MCN SIG: Digital Media] Uniiversal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
Roger,
Here is the counter-argument FOR archiving RAW files of museum objects and also layered TIF rather than PSD.
It is articulated much better than I can by Bruce Fraser, who has published widely
it as such, without
the need of creating a second copy. This in turn, makes versioning
of images an easier task.
It supports, among the standard still image formats, the following
RAW based formats:
CRW, NEF, TIF, CR2, OLY, DNG
On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Newman, Alan wrote:
Roger,
Here
Marisa,
Please see www.UPDIG.org
Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
This is an inter-organization initiative of digital photographic agencies
(ASMP), archivists (SAA), stock houses (Getty Images), photoresearchers
(ASPP), camera mfrs (Sinar,Canon), academics (RIT) and software
Richard,
The LC site:
Format Descriptions for Still Images
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/stage/formats/fdd/still_fdd.shtml
carries a description for
DNG_1_1, Adobe Digital Negative (DNG), Version 1.1
LC has not listed vendor specific Camera Raw formats probably because there are
so
Title: Open Raw Initiative
please excuse cross posting
RAW Survey launched: An International Study of the Experiences, Requirements, Preferences, and Concerns of Photographers regarding RAW Imaging Technology
Press Release: On January 31, 2006, the OpenRAW initiative launched an
Next week Bruce Fraser will join me at the National Gallery to present
the UPDIG guidelines to all Gallery staff who are involved in image capture
for museum documentation, scanners and cameras, including those who work
outside of my Digital Imaging division.
There are more than 150 cameras
Hi Effie
Can I see your study or do I have to catch it first in Austin 2016?
---sent from mobile device---
On Aug 11, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Kapsalis, Effie kapsal...@si.edu wrote:
Hello colleagues,
Public voting for 2016 SXSW interactive festival is live now until September
4th. There are a
The National Gallery is interesting in seeing audio/video metadata models used
by colleagues in cataloguing sound and moving image media in your DAMs and
repositories. Please share your av data dictionaries either here or direct to
me.
We will reciprocate when ours is developed later this
To the MCN community,
The National Gallery of Art is seeking to fill a new vacancy in our Digital
Media Division as head of the website department. We are looking for a dynamic
department head who will evaluate, develop, and manage the NGA website(s) and
focus on these areas: user experience,
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