Richard Urban is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and serves as a board member for the Museum Computer Network. He arrived at this interesting association with librarians after serving as Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program, where he participated in the development of best practices for cultural heritage materials, conducted training, and tried not to get run over while standing at the the intersection of libraries, museums and archives. In a previous life, Richard earned a MA in History and a Museum Studies Certificate from the University of Delaware.
From the folks at IBM that brought you the Many Eyes visualization service, a new tool called Many Bills (as in U.S. Government legislation) is now available.
Curious about bills having to do with museums? libraries? archives?
via Brass Goggles
International Obscura Day.
Atlas Obscura , a compendium of this age’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica is holding an International Obscura Day.
“The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are [...]
Today is #followamuseum Day on Twitter. Museums and museum lovers have been busily sharing their favorite tweeting museums. At http://www.followamuseum.org you can find some (but not all) of the museums who are waiting to be followed.
The idea originated with Jim Richardson at Museum Marketing who was disappointed to see that [...]
via @dancohen
Google Goggles is a “visual search application” for Android phones. Snap a picture with your phone and Google turns it into a search. The first video here is the “official” video from Google, but the second one should be of interest to museums. Here the Google rep demonstrates how [...]
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The Museum Computer Network Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce its eight scholarship winners for 2009. Each scholarship provides free registration to the MCN annual conference in Portland, Oregon, free hotel stay, and a small stipend to help cover additional expenses. MCN received nearly 90 stellar applications in 2009 – nearly twice as [...]
p.s.:
I’m writing my dissertation proposal…any and all witty things I might say here these days have been absorbed by that effort. I’ve reduced myself to occasionally posting things that look interesting.
Oh, except I bought an iPhone a few months or so ago and have been having all sorts of fun thinking about what I [...]
This just in from the Smithsonian’s Photography Initiative, further demonstration that they are taking web 2.0 seriously. Also check out the BIGGER PICTURE blog.
Recently Kim’s been obsessing over museums, her new “hobby.” Here she reads from her latest report, “The Creation of Value: meditations on the logic of museums and other coercive institutions.”
Ouch:
“museum people who decide what gets put into a mueum probably don’t have anything in common with you. Museum people need lots of training [...]
Hi there, Armchair delegate here.
Sgt. Edward “Killer” Bachta and Pfc. Rob Stein have posted the slides from their MCN 2008 “Drupal Bootcamp” to Slideshare.net.
Drupal Bootcamp Mcn2008
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: network computer)
Also check out Peter Fleck’s “RSS Primer” and “Why I Hate Facebook or What Social Network Should [...]
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