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Re: Data Asset Management Systems for images query
May 14, 2013 - 7:52amHi Strephon,
Have you spoken with the folks at the Archaeological Data Service in York? They have lots of facilities in place for picture hosting.
I'm not sure about costs or anything like that, but I could pass you names of people if that would be helpful.
Cheers,
Chris
On 14 May 2013, at 12:28, Strephon Duckering wrote: [...]
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Data Asset Management Systems for images query
May 14, 2013 - 7:28amI have query about Data Asset Management Systems for images.
I work for a commercial archaeological company (50->100 employees) and I am charged, along with our IT specialist Graham Sherwood, to look for a system that will open up our digital photo server to our office based staff of about 35 employees. At the moment we just store photos on a backed up server, in folders, according to which archaeological project or site that they belong to. It’s a linear system that is difficult to search unless you already know where to find what you’re looking for. What we would [...]
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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript - exhibition now online
May 13, 2013 - 1:00pmDear all,
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript is one of the first major exhibitions of contemporary art at the Ashmolean, and one of the first exhibitions devoted to the artist Xu Bing’s landscapes, currently on display in the Ashmolean's Special Exhibition Galleries until 19th May 2013. The online version of this exhibition is now live on Eastern Art Online at http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/xu_bing. Here visitors can access all exhibition information, browse and search all exhibition objects and their high-quality zoomable images, as well as link through to multimedia content created especially for the show, featuring behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews, curator podcasts, and other [...]
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Research Seminar 'Audience, Visitors and Users' Invitation- Reminder
May 13, 2013 - 12:17pmRESEARCH SEMINAR II - Audiences, Visitors, Users
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Job @ Culture24, Brighton
May 13, 2013 - 10:59amDear MCG-ers (with apologies for cross-posting)
We're looking for a Network and Listings Coordinator to keep our
listings data up to scratch and the venues in our network happy.
Details below, closing date is Wednesday June 5th at 3pm. Please pass
this to anyone you know who might be interested.
Do you have a passion for culture and the online world? Culture24 is
looking for an exceptional individual with excellent attention to detail
to coordinate and nurture our network of over 5000 museums, galleries
and heritage venues around the UK. You will have experience of working
directly with customers or [...]
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Royal Academy of Arts seeks HEAD OF DIGITAL
May 12, 2013 - 8:30amDear all The Royal Academy of Art is on the hunt for a talented and inspiring Head of Digital to lead a new digital team and spearhead a transformation of our digital presence. It’s a great job, at a very significant moment for the RA as we makes some major investments, in both physical and digital infrastructure, in the run-up to our 250th anniversary in 2018. Salary: up to £50k. Please do forward to anyone who you think would be great for this role. Many thanks indeed. The job ad is listed below. Full details at [...]
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'Giving up the Archive?' study day
May 11, 2013 - 10:03amGiving up the archive?
Reflections on the creation, examination and dissemination of arts organisations’ archives.
1 July 2013, White Cube Gallery, Bermondsey SE1 3TQ
Many arts organisations are interested in locating and exploring their archival heritage. What are the driving forces behind this interest? How much archive material survives, where and in what condition? What can archives tell us about the history of these organisations and how important are they to their contemporary activities? This study day aims to explore these questions, providing reflections and case studies from academics, curators, artists and archivists. [...]
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LMG Event | Museums & Social Media
May 10, 2013 - 9:38amDear All,
This is my first posting and I hope it arrives safely.
I'm posting information about a London Museums Group Event 'Museums and Social Media' Event. Mia Ridge and Elena Villaespesa are kindly speaking at the event and Nancy Groves from the Guardian Culture Professionals Network is kindly sharing insights into open journalism. [...]
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Re: FW: Invitation to participate in the EC funded PATHS project
May 10, 2013 - 8:27amHi Tehmina,
Just to come back to you about PATHS, Collections Trust hasn't been involved, but there's a handy little video at http://www.paths-project.eu/ which might help.
The demonstrator seems to be down at the moment, but from the video it looks as though the idea is to use semantics to provide an interface which allows users to explore your collections data. [...]
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Website Manager jobs at the Science Museum (London) and National Railway Museum (York)
May 10, 2013 - 7:28amDear All,
The Science Museum in London and the National Railway Museum in York are looking for two Website Managers to lead the development of their websites into dynamic, engaging and user-focused showcases for the Museums, their collections and their content.
One post is based at the Science Museum, London - salary £30,000 per annum. One post is based at the National Railway Museum, York - salary £27,200 per annum. Both posts are 23 months fixed term contracts [...]
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Online discussion on online initiatives
May 10, 2013 - 6:52amHi,
This afternoon from 2 till 4, the web development manager for Manchester City Galleries, Martin Grimes, will be answering questions about online initiatives. If you'd like to take part in the discussion, feel free to post your questions here, and Martin will work through them:
http://museumdevelopmentnorthwest.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/online-qa-session-online-initiatives/
All are welcome!
Best wishes,
David
David Craven
Sector Improvement Officer
Museum Development North West
The Manchester Museum
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL [...]
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Re: Digital Asset File Naming
May 10, 2013 - 6:36amhi Richard
Having most permutations in play here we are still finessing our
thinking on this.. but I think I'd say:
- directory and folder structures should be simple and sensible and
considered transistionary (i.e. no other solution is ready so we have
tons of stuff in dir/files structures)
- with that in mind try to encourage various specialists who are
creating this content to use dir/file structures that, like you have
done, can be machine processed later into sensible (very simple)
metadata for import to a DAM, and that make sense in their context (the
specialists), often this means [...]
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Re: Digital Asset File Naming
May 9, 2013 - 5:45pmAfter the last discussion of DAMs on this list :-) , I was enthused to
write a little CGI program which took a database name, file name and
primary key as parameters, ferreted around inside the relevant database
record, and then returned the first image which was referenced therein.
This program was written primarily with a view to experimenting with
dynamic re-sizing of the image (controlled by yet more parameters),
checking of rights, etc. However, it also raised the possibility of
adopting a "Linked Data" approach to image access. This involves
decoupling the physical filename (which you still need to [...]
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Re: Collections online and analytics (me again)
May 9, 2013 - 11:47amHmm...I tend to find that understanding the question often provides the solution ;) !
Being able to ask a technical question in non-technical terms is a great gift and I for one have found that if doing that enables you to latch on to a "lateral thinker" then you are nearly home and dry! [...]
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Re: Digital Asset File Naming
May 9, 2013 - 9:55amHi Tony
Very briefly for a response about metadata standards ....
For metadata schema - Murtha Baca of the Getty Institute has done a fantastic crosswalk of the main metadata standards for cultural content. You can find it ( and the downloadable PDF ) at http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intrometadata/crosswalks.html.
IPTC standards are also critical, of course. [...]
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Digital Asset File Naming
May 9, 2013 - 5:51amHello All,
Would any of you be in a position to offer up examples of digital asset file naming schema/protocols/conventions that you use? We are looking to implement an DAM system and one of the first tasks is to review the existing schema.
I have read the Spectrum DAM guidance and the links contained in that document. I also have the metadata working group guidelines too.
Best regards
Tony Harris
New Media Officer & Photographer
Government Art Collection
0044 (0)20 7580 9123
www.gac.culture.gov.uk
www.facebook.com/governmentartcollection
www.youtube.com/user/GACpodcasts
Revealed: Government Art Collection brings together nearly 200 works spanning the breadth of [...]
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listening post for a gallery interactive - suppliers?
May 8, 2013 - 10:58amGood afternoon,
I have just joined the list so apologies if this has been asked many times before! I am designing a gallery interactive which is a Georgian repro desk with drawers that will house various activities. I would like to have a sound element in one of the drawers that allows visitors to select a bird call and listen to it. I am thinking of 4 push buttons to select a sound then either a handheld device to listen through or a speaker inside the unit. I have seen headphones or a phone at various places and recently saw [...]
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Save the date: UKMW13 at Tate Modern, 15 November 2013
May 8, 2013 - 10:42amDear MCGers,
a very quick email to announce the date for Museums on the Web 2013:
mark November 15, 2013 in your diaries today! Doors will open for
registration at 9:30 for a 10am start.
Each year tickets for UKMW sell out earlier and earlier, so sign up
for occasional event notices from our low-traffic Events list
http://eepurl.com/r3Y6H to make sure you're one of the first to know
when tickets go on sale. [...]
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'Making Sound Objects' Conference at the Pitt Rivers Museum now available online
May 8, 2013 - 7:03am**
Dear All,
A full audio record of 'Making Sound Objects', the British Forum for Ethnomusicology's 2012 Annual One Day Conference, is now available to listen to via SoundCloud. The conference, convened by Dr Noel Lobley and hosted at the Pitt Rivers Museum on November 24th 2012, attracted over 100 participants, with as many again unable to attend due to space limitations. The interdisciplinary conference was designed to expand conversations between ethnomusicology, sound studies and sound curation. The content was very diverse, ranging from the practical role of music and archives in Cambodia to the use of reel to reel [...]
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Fwd: FW: Invitation to participate in the EC funded PATHS project
May 8, 2013 - 4:55amAnyone know more about this? Nick P?
Is this trying to do what Creative Spaces in the UK failed to achieve with
Europeana content?
There's so much verbiage to read through, it's not exactly clear what it's
all about so could be accidentally missing something good.
Any ideas?
Tehmina.
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Subject: FW: Invitation to participate in the EC funded PATHS project
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