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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been watching the news roll in of various friends flying off to D.C. for MCN 2008. It’s making me a little sad because for the first time since about 2002 I won’t be attending this year. But this year has been an interesting year to be an armchair conference attendee. Via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, [...]
Researcher Volker Blanz is working on ways to take 2D images and map them into 3D face models. Using other animation techniques he can then bring these models to life. While some of the original work used photographs, in the video below it’s been used to bring some famous paintings to life. via eightbar
I’m gearing up to get back to blogging on a more regular basis after being away most of the spring and summer. (I’ve been earning the nickname a former housemate gave me – “Kohoutek“ – after the comet that only appears every 75,000 years). Monome is a small organization in my hometown of Philadelphia. They’ve [...]
Last time, we took a look at where MCN members were around the globe. But who are these people? Well, I can’t tell you everything, but here’s what I do know: First, I went through the list and indicated everyone’s gender as best I could. Fortunately many people had added a Mr. or Ms., etc. [...]
On Thursday, we kicked off the 2008-2009 MCN Membership campaign. In the past, we’re reported some basic statistics during the Business Meeeting at the conference, but I’ve always been curious about what lurked behind the tables and figures reported there. In the next few posts I’ll try visualizing some interesting features of MCN membership. For [...]
The folks at DePauw University’s Visual Resources Center have been riffing on the popular Windows vs. Mac commercials with their own YouTube videos. The videos tout the help that students can get from a VRC librarian and access to resources such as ArtStor More videos from DePauw
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