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Re: Photographing art high on a wall
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - 1 hour 47 min ago
Dear Alun,
As current Chair of the UK museum photography group (AHFAP) with 200 members across the UK, could I help you find a suitable solution? If you wish you can either post a message to our JISC list (www.Jiscmail.ac.uk/ahfap) or contact me off list.
I personally have photographed works of art quite high up, around first floor height using a Bembo 1 tripod, but there are other solutions it just depends on how high you need to go.
Best regards
Tony Harris
New Media Officer & Photographer
Government Art Collection
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Re: Photographing art high on a wall
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - 3 hours 44 min ago
Hi Alun,
If the object is two dimensional you will probably be able to take the
picture from below and 'distort' it in Photoshop afterwards to correct the
skew.
For objects behind glass, that also enables a surprising 'trick of the
trade' that dramatically reduces the effects of reflections.
Alternatively there are perspective control lenses but I don't think
anything that exotic should be necessary. [...]
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Re: Photographing art high on a wall
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - 4 hours 30 min ago
On 21 July 2013 12:12, Alun Edwards wrote:
> I am considering how to photograph a large inscription on a wall in a public atrium.
Consider also those remote controlled "toy" helicopters, which can
carry a camera:
http://www.buzzflyer.co.uk/quadcopters.asp
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Photographing art high on a wall
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - 12 hours 32 min ago
Dear all,
I am looking for examples of photographers digitising art, which is high on a wall. This could be from a cherry-picker, however the image I know I have seen in the recent past is photographers using a camera mounted on an extendible pole. Maybe this is an image of National Trust conservators at work, or some Wiki Loves Public Art volunteers at work. The camera would be controlled remotely from a laptop, tethered on the floor. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 12:48pm
On 19 Jul 2013, at 17:41, John Benfield wrote:
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> Busy developing a business case to give to the powers that be in the near future.
It should be said that if you *start* out planning a responsive web design it costs no more.
It's retrofitting or bolting on mobile after you've gone down the "visually design in photoshop and get approval workflow process" that costs extra. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 12:41pm
Dear all
Many thanks for all those responses on and off-list.
Unsurprisingly most of you are on track with RWD.
As you may have guessed I am mid-planning our site redevelopment and am probably my poll cat 3 stage. Busy developing a business case to give to the powers that be in the near future. Your data will be very useful. [...]
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FW: Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 12:21pm
Hi Sara,
I was responsible for the project that Trevor mentioned below, to digitise and publish to the web the early exhibition catalogues of the Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues.
We undertook the project in two stages. In the first stage we digitised the catalogues from their inception in 1870 through to 1913. In addition to scanning the catalogues in their entirety, we used Optical Character Recognition software (OCR), to make a machine readable version of the text. At the same time, we worked with the RA Collections website designer, System Simulation Ltd, to develop a simple search [...]
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Last Call to Register for EVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 8:13am
Last Call to Register for EVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013
A few places still remaining !
Please check out our terrific conference programme and keynote speakers and register now!
http://www.eva-london.org
Three days of inspiring and imaginative keynote speeches, research workshop, papers, demonstrations and exhibits. This looks like yet another superb EVA London Conference. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 5:39am
Oh indeed - beware the printed page mock up with neatly lined up boxes of "Lorem Ipsum" that falls apart horribly once you actually place some real content in the live site!
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 5:23am
On 19 Jul 2013, at 09:45, "Bonewell, Perry" wrote:
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> I'd also be interested in asking a prospective tender what their development environment looks like.
I'd also be prepared to be asked for all your content (or at least real working examples) up front.
RWD is content driven, it's not about making pictures of websites in Photoshop at different window widths and then pouring content into it. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 4:45am
One word of advice - as if it really needs stating at all - whatever you do: if you are going to do RWD make sure you hire someone with past experience.
I'd also be interested in asking a prospective tender what their development environment looks like.
Perry
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 4:36am
Lucia
Whatever the issues it looks like a nice clean site - I see you used Twitter Bootstrap to address the RWD.
Perry
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Subject: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
At Leicestershire County Council we are in the process of developing externally hosted websites for our three sites. These sites are being built using RWD: [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 4:18am
At Leicestershire County Council we are in the process of developing externally hosted websites for our three sites. These sites are being built using RWD:
The first live one is at http://www.snibston.org.uk/
It hasn't been without it's issues either
Lucia Masundire - AD:uk (SF)
Project Manager - Click; Connect; Curate; Create
0116 305 4119
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of John Benfield
Sent: 18 July 2013 18:08
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 19, 2013 - 3:08am
Hi John,
First up, I have to agree with Mike - not considering this for two years from now, or even longer, is something to think very hard about!
We knew early in 2012 that we had to do this . Our mobile traffic had more or less doubled in a year. Mobile now is 40% of all traffic to our visitor information pages, which are a core section for mobile users out and about. I expect this to rise above 50% within a year, possibly this calendar year. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 6:14pm
Around a quarter of our visitors are now on mobile, so we are now considering our approach to a mobile site for build in next 6 months. It will most likely be a responsive site.
Adrian
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 4:40pm
As with Mike's practice, our policy at Surface Impression is to make new sites mobile device friendly (mostly using responsive design) - even if it's not on the brief. We've been experimenting with a number of techniques to try to get responsive to both be aesthetically pleasing and effective/sustainable to build and manage. Mixing in custom code with the media queries etc to deal with image sizes (swapping in lower res versions) etc helps a lot. [...]
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Web jobs at Kew
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 3:32pm
Just a quick reminder that my old job at Kew (Website Manager) and
that of my Senior Developer who left just after me, are both currently
advertised on the Kew site, with applications closing on 24th July.
There are also a couple of editorial jobs on offer ...
http://www.kew.org/about-kew/jobs/
I'm happy to take informal enquiries off-list if anyone has any questions. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 2:16pm
At Southbank Centre our site is completely responsive.
However this is not without issue. There is a feeling, which needs validating, that the site is too image led and does not serve desktops particularly well.
Nevertheless we have seen a massive increase in mobile transactions since making the move in to a responsive site in January. [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 1:34pm
Hey John
Everything we do for clients now is responsive: there's very little point in not. (this is all Wordpress btw, not that it makes any difference..).
We've also gone back and retrofitted a couple of sites, which is a bit more painful but mostly doable.
I'd say anyone in category 3 and definitely anyone in category 4 should probably think quite hard :-) [...]
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Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]
Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed - July 18, 2013 - 1:29pm
HI We've already got most of the pages (well, ones that sit in Drupal, less the online collection, ticketing, shop...) responsive, well, optimised for some mobile devices. There's still more we can do ;) www.tate.org.uk Tijana ________________________________________ From: Museums Computer Group [MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of John Benfield [john.benfield@RSC.ORG.UK] Sent: 18 July 2013 18:08 To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned] Hi I was just wondering who in the museum/heritage sector had considered responsive web design (RWD) for their site, so a little straw poll: 1) Already created a RWD site 2) In the middle or redeveloping using RWD [...]
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