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Anthologize

For the past week a group of hackers have been feverishly working on a top secret new project in a government-funded lab in the outskirts of Washington, D.C.   While this might sound like a great opening to a new Dan Brown thriller, it’s actually a description of the One Week | One Tool project [...]

Balboa Park Online Collaborative: The Catalyst

The Legler Benbough Foundation, in San Diego California, has always recognized that cultural institutions in Balboa Park play a critical role in the cultural life of the City. Over the past 20 years the Foundation has focused significant resources on these institutions and their supporting environment, Balboa Park. The objectives of this funding are as [...]

Unnatural Acts Performed By Unwilling Participants

I was at a recent seminar entitled “Looking for the Upside in the Downturn: Time-Tested Models of Nonprofit Innovation” hosted by the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences at the University of San Diego.  Notwithstanding the paradox in the title, there was a really good session on collaboration, a subject near and dear to my [...]

Towards a Fedora Community for Small Archives

At last fall’s MCN conference, and again at Museums on the Web this spring, I spoke about work that the Jewish Women’s Archive is doing to set up its own repository using open source software. The basic repository we built uses Fedora with the lightest interface imaginable (ActiveFedora)–all we could afford on our own–and is [...]

Armchair Delegate

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, [...]

San Diego, the Digital Clinical Chart Project (at last), and Psychic Monkey

Just checking in while on vacation here in sunny San Diego.  Came without PLSS (he had to work).  While my son is at tennis camp I’m doing some volunteer work at UCSD branch of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2 – http://www.calit2.net/index.php) where the students and faculty do really cool things.  If you are into [...]

Announcing MuseTech Central

Introducing the launch of MuseTech Central, the MCN Project Registry!MuseTech Central provides a place to share information about technology-related projects in the cultural heritage sector. From implementations of digital asset management systems, to the latest use of educational media and interactives, the registry represents the latest technology and information management projects in museums, libraries, and [...]

U.S.- China Dialogue Day 3

93,670,148 Worldcat records this morning   Lorcan Dempsey – Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC   Lorcan spoke about the ways in which networks are changing, and the ways in which libraries work.  The structural changes we are seeing in the networked environment some of the ways in which skills and people need to develop.  [...]

U.S. China Dialogue – Day 2 (Afternoon Sessions)

And…we are back from lunch.  I’m doing these as separate blogs because it’s more convenient (for me).  Afternoon Session I – Current Issues of Museums and other Cultural Institutions Joyce Ray – Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services Current Issues of Museums and Intersections with Other Cultural Institutions Milestones [...]

U.S. China Dialogue Day 2 (Morning Sessions)

93,627,475 WorldCat Records This Morning (I know you were waiting for the updated number) Right, don’t know how coherent I’ll be this morning.  Delegates to this conference had a lovely banquet in the atrium space of OCLC HQ which ended with a rousing sing-off between the Chinese delegates and the United States delegates.   This is apparently a long-standing tradition.  [...]