From the floor of WebWise Missed the morning pre-conference workshop because of a travel glitch, which was a shame because the morning line-up for a workshop entitled “Preserving Digital Collections” had Priscilla Caplan, Valerie Glenn, Mary Ide, and Rick Rinehart as headliners. Reports were good coming out of the session but the cocktail reception doesn’t [...]
I had a favorite fairy tale. I have a favorite fairy tale. It is one that I loved as a child and, in retrospect, it is the one I like best as an adult. The story is called “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” Storyline goes something like this. Faithful, somewhat older, soldier, wounded in war goes seeking [...]
Hi there, man behind the curtain here. We’ve been getting pounded by spam lately so I’ve raised our threat level to Ernie. If you post a comment and it doesn’t immediately appear, it may be waiting for me to moderate it. JT mentioned that authors were not appearing in feeds, so I’ve added the Better [...]
The wire is near, the end is approaching, the sky is falling…well, maybe not yet–but it’s close. Friday, March 2, is the last day to submit proposals for your sessions, papers, workshops or other presentations for the Museum Computer Network annual conference. This year in November in Chicago, our theme is Building Content, Building Community: 40 [...]
Interesting article in the Times Online today discussing how the “world’s cultural icons are blighted by hordes of tourists.” Saying that “Increasingly the choice is between risking a work’s survival and letting it be seen,” the author concludes by saying that museums may have no choice but to implement the same sort of solutions as [...]
As they say, one photoshopped picture is worth a thousand words.
This paper by MCN 2006 speaker Guy Pessach (Asst. Prof. of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is on-line and open for discussion. Guy would be interested in comments from the museum constituency. I’ve given it considerable attention, as I think it contains some remarkable ideas. The whole concept of Digital Cultural Preservation (not [...]
Hello folks. From now through March 2 MCN is hosting the call for proposals for its Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago Nov. 7-12 (http://www.mcn.edu/). I am writing to you today wearing my program chair hat for that event. Erin Coburn, the program chair emerita, tells me not to get my hopes up about [...]
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. – Putt’s Law For the last ten years Gartner has produced a technology hype cycle – a representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies. Gartner applies [...]
As the de-facto “techie” on staff at my institution, a question I am asked frequently is what I am doing to protect our digital assets from unauthorized use and theft. This is often a trick question for me, one which requires me to put on my diplomacy hat and assure them that I am doing [...]
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