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LISTSERV Web Interface 2.4.1 2014-03-06T14:34:58Z Rebecca McGuinness 2014-03-06T14:33:21+00:00 2014-03-06T14:33:21+00:00 SCAPE & OPF Events: Preserving Your Preservation Tools 26-27 March & Managing Digital Preservation 2 April https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a1bb9185.1403 * Apologies for cross-posting *<br><br>SCAPE & OPF Events coming soon...<br><br>Preserving You Preservation Tools<br>26-27 March<br>National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague<br><br>Calling all developers and sys admins!<br>'Preserving Your Preservation Tools' is a two-day training workshop focussing on preparing maintainable software packages. You’ll get hand-on experience of open source tools and services such as Vagrant, GitHub, and Travis-CI. [...] Alex Smith 2014-03-06T13:09:03+00:00 2014-03-06T13:09:03+00:00 Job alert: Historypin Project Officer https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;ef99454d.1403 Hi All,<br><br>Great new position for a talented as a Historypin Project Officer. If i did not already work for them, i'd jump on this job - it's awesome!<br><br>We need someone to support project partners across Europe to collaborate with communities and creative partners to gather, share and celebrate their food and drink heritage through Historypin. Take a look at the job on our website: http://wearewhatwedo.org/vacancies/historypin-project-officer/ [...] Peter Tullin 2014-03-06T12:09:46+00:00 2014-03-06T12:09:46+00:00 REMIX Sydney Announced! Global Summit for Culture, Technology and Entrepreneurship - YouTube, Buzzfeed, VICE, Sydney Opera House & more https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f717171a.1403 Hello,<br><br>I thought list members might be interested that the REMIX Summit is about to take it's first steps outside the UK.<br><br>So if you fancy some sun (& possibly some surfing) as well as all things tech, culture and entrepreneurship then do come and join us and 2,000 creative types in Sydney, Australia on May 8th, 9th 2014 at the amazing new Carriageworks art space. Further events will be announced shortly for NYC and London. [...] Timothy Keen 2014-03-06T09:32:14-00:00 2014-03-06T09:32:14-00:00 Re: Using Digital Technology in Heritage: Survey https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;fe7452cb.1403 Dear Jamie<br><br>Having just read your email I thought you might be interested in the<br>results of the EC-funded ENUMERATE project. As part of this project<br>museums across Europe were asked to complete questionnaires about their<br>digital policies and work. The results of this extensive survey have<br>just been published. More information can be found at<br>http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programmes/european-projects/2150-enum<br>erate-core-survey-2 [...] James Stark 2014-03-05T11:42:32-00:00 2014-03-05T11:42:32-00:00 Using Digital Technology in Heritage: Survey https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6bba33d7.1403 Dear List Members<br><br>I'm working on a new research project at Leeds ("Experiencing the Digital<br>World", http://digitalheritage.leeds.ac.uk) which looks at the role of<br>digital technologies/spaces in engaging new museum audiences. Together with<br>colleagues I'll be reviewing the current scholarly literature and also<br>trying to get a snapshot from museums, galleries and heritage organisations<br>about how digital strategies are currently used and/or perceived. [...] Gareth Beale 2014-03-05T10:39:39+00:00 2014-03-05T10:39:39+00:00 Digital Heritage 2014: University of York - 12th July https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b3bd1b52.1403 Dear All<br><br>I am pleased to announce that the call for papers for Digital Heritage 2014<br>is now open.<br><br>This year the conference theme will be *Digital Communities in Action* and<br>we will explore the role which different communities play in Digital<br>Heritage.<br><br>The conference will be held on the 12th July at the University of York. The<br>deadline for submissions is the 14th April. [...] Helen Graham 2014-03-04T15:21:40+00:00 2014-03-04T15:21:40+00:00 Heritage Show + Tell, 13th March 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;275a8749.1403 Heritage Show + Tell is a chance for people passionate about heritage in Yorkshire to come together and share their work, get feedback on ideas and meet new collaborators. Everyone welcome: community heritage groups, freelancers, museum professionals, students and academics.<br><br>The next Heritage Show + Tell will be hosted by Leeds Museums and Galleries on Thursday 13 March 2014. Join us for a tour of the Leeds Art Gallery at 4pm, followed by Heritage Show + Tell from 5pm to 7pm around the corner at Leeds City Museum. [...] Marcus Weisen 2014-03-04T14:49:31+01:00 2014-03-04T14:49:31+01:00 Call for Proposals : Global Summit on accessible toruism https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;be7c0cf0.1403 Dear colleagues,<br><br>Culture will have a high profile at the first Global Summit "Destinations<br>for All 2014", which will be held in Montréal, Canada, 19-22 October. It is<br>going to be one of the main conference themes.<br><br>Proposals are invited in the following areas of cultural accessibility for<br>disabled people:<br><br>- practical case-studies<br>- accessibility management<br>- cultural accessibility seen through the prism of tourism :<br>case-studies and think pieces [...] Perry,Joe (Cultural & Community Services) 2014-03-03T16:13:24+00:00 2014-03-03T16:13:24+00:00 Buxton Museum & Art Gallery - Collections in the Landscape https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;734ef7db.1403 Dear MCGers,<br><br>I thought some members might be interested in recent developments at the museum.<br><br>As part of our HLF funded project, Collections in the Landscape, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery have developed four 'digital pilots' which explore ways of bringing museum objects, and associated information, into associated landscapes through mobile technology. [...] Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna 2014-03-03T15:14:50+00:00 2014-03-03T15:14:50+00:00 Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage | COSCH Meeting in Joensuu 31.3.-2.4.2014 & Think Tank for ESRs https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bc6f7020.1403 Please note that the invitation is open to all colleagues and postgraduate students with relevant research interests, but only EU researchers are eligible for the reimbursement of travel costs. Leonard Will 2014-02-28T20:47:48+00:00 2014-02-28T20:47:48+00:00 "Making metadata work": joint meeting of ISKO UK, DCMI and BCS IRSG in London on 23 June 2014. Booking open. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bbd9fe56.1402 Dear Colleagues,<br><br>*Making metadata work* - Monday 23rd June 2014 - BCS Office, 5<br>Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.<br>Full details and booking at<br><http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction><br><br>This event will be a showcase for the latest developments in the<br>evolution of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge Organization<br>Systems (KOS), metadata annotation to aid workflow automation,<br>information retrieval in networks of diverse media assets, Linked Data,<br>and other opportunities for using metadata. It is a Joint Meeting of<br>ISKO UK, IRSG (Information Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the<br>Chartered Institute for IT) and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative).<br>The day will [...] Kajsa Hartig 2014-02-28T07:24:16+00:00 2014-02-28T07:24:16+00:00 Best of the Web https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bfa1dc4d.1402 Dear everyone,<br><br>today is the last day to nominate your museum's website for Best of the Web Awards, presented at the conference Museums and the Web on April 4 in Baltimore.<br><br>Please help us recognize the best museum work on the web by submitting your site: http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/best-of-the-web-2/<br><br>Best regards<br>Kajsa Hartig, co-chair of the Best of the Web Committee<br>Nordiska museet,<br>Stockholm, Sweden Mar Dixon 2014-02-27T11:19:27+00:00 2014-02-27T11:19:27+00:00 Fwd: #MuseumWeek https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;dc1702ce.1402 Twitter UK is running a campaign and would like all Museums to get involved<br>- please share. (Sorry for cross-post)<br><br>Calling all Museums!<br><br>Would you like to be part to be part of an exciting project that will<br>showcase the best of your collections and exhibitions through Twitter?<br><br>Then sign up<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i9AH1nBMFMDEV5bJOIOXATO3xX-mIf1E7D-GtSGbW6c/viewform>for<br>Europe's first ever #MuseumWeek!<br><br>#MuseumWeek is a completely free, week-long virtual event for museums<br>around the UK and Europe, taking place from Monday 24th to Sunday 30th of<br>March. [...] Overbeck, Anne 2014-02-27T09:18:22+00:00 2014-02-27T09:18:22+00:00 Enumerate - Statistical data about digitisation of cultural heritage https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;360c5bea.1402 Dear all,<br><br>within the ENUMERATE project, co-funded by the European Commission, we aim at creating<br>a reliable baseline of statistical data about digitisation, digital preservation and<br>online access to cultural heritage in Europe. A second core survey has been conducted in the last couple of months and is now available online.<br><br>The ENUMERATE core surveys focus on high level data on digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe, in order to get an overview of the progress being made.<br>Data are collected about: [...] Andrew Lewis 2014-02-26T13:09:49+00:00 2014-02-26T13:09:49+00:00 Culture in Numbers event by Leeds Data Mill https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f1fe17b3.1402 Dear All,<br><br>I'm sure quite a lot of people will have heard of the interesting Leeds Data Mill initiative<br>http://www.leedsdatamill.org/<br><br>This is looking at what gathering data across a whole city can do. They held an event on these matters yesterday.<br><br>Lots of examples of positive and negative aspects of data sharing in practise. All very good - I have posted a summary on the V& Digital Media blog here:<br>http://www.vam.ac.uk/b/blog/digital-media/leeds-data-mill-cultureinnumbers [...] Monique Szpak 2014-02-26T11:22:49+00:00 2014-02-26T11:22:49+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c25191fe.1402 Imperial War Museums new GitHub account and Open Source plugin!<br><br>The Culture24 API plugin for Wordpress has been pushed out with a<br>collective shout of "ffs just ship it".<br><br>Let the issues and pull requests commence!<br><br>https://github.com/iwmdigital/wp_culture24<br><br>Monique Szpak<br>Ravenous Consumer of APIs<br>Occasional Builder of APIs<br>Culture Collager<br>(http://zenlan.com) Phil Stuart 2014-02-25T14:09:47+00:00 2014-02-25T14:09:47+00:00 The potential of iBeacons to transform the visitor expeirence https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b9280ed7.1402 Hey there,<br><br>I've thought some of you might find my post on iBeacons and the future of<br>the visitor experience interesting: http://goo.gl/k7Cqhj<br><br>Would love to hear feedback, or examples implementations that have worked<br>or not. John Peel 2014-02-25T13:59:58+00:00 2014-02-25T13:59:58+00:00 Online image resolution https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;71572f10.1402 Hi,<br><br>Here at Manchester Art Gallery we have historically limited the maximum<br>resolution of all our collection images published online to 600x600. This<br>was to limit unauthorised downloading from online visitors. This detail<br>formed part of our standard online copyright permission request and was<br>applied to the rest of our collection that was not within copyright as a<br>matter of course. There have over the past 5 years been discussions (some<br>very heated) about whether this maximum pixel dimension should be changed<br>to reflect the shift in screen size/resolution. It remained the same. [...] Richard Langley 2014-02-25T12:42:33+00:00 2014-02-25T12:42:33+00:00 Re: FW: MODES complete https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;3560f45a.1402 Aneesa<br><br>I'd be happy to answer any questions off-list.<br><br>As Martin suggests, you will find case studies on our website.<br><br>Richard<br><br>Richard Langley | Modes Support<br><br>richard@modes.org.uk<br>01332 366616<br>www.modes.org.uk<br><br>On 25 Feb 2014, at 11:08, Martin Bazley <info@MARTINBAZLEY.COM> wrote:<br><br>> Hi all<br>> I am forwarding this to MCG as I imagine this will generate more responses for Aneesa, see below.<br>> An alternative approach for anyone else interested in this point is that MODES list some case studies on their site, and you can get in touch with people and chat to them individually about how they find [...] Richard Light 2014-02-25T12:16:16+00:00 2014-02-25T12:16:16+00:00 Re: FW: MODES complete https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a60a1ea6.1402 On 25/02/2014 11:26, Arran Bevington-King wrote:<br>> Martin, Aneesa,<br>><br>> I have used both MODES for Windows and we currently employ MODES Complete. i think that there is no comparison, MODES Complete is hands down a far superior product when compared to MODES for windows. I Would list the following as some of the basic benefits:<br>><br>> User friendly interface<br>> Export options are simple and quick (Exporting to PDF I use a lot)<br>> Backup process is simple and easy to manage<br>Just to clarify: Modes Complete is the current product, and has been<br>for some years [...] Arran Bevington-King 2014-02-25T12:34:40+01:00 2014-02-25T12:34:40+01:00 Re: Museum Volunteer Statistics https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f3129a5c.1402 Jenny,<br><br>i don’t think your message came through?<br><br>On 25 Feb 2014, at 12:17, Jenny Rosander <jenny.rosander@VIRTUALHERITAGE.SE> wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> Arran Bevington-King <bluenose5709@HOTMAIL.COM> skrev:<br>><br>>> Hi,<br>>><br>>> I am trying to ascertain what the statistics are for Volunteers within the Museum community.<br>>><br>>> My museum has one paid member of staff but the relies heavily upon a large group of volunteers in order for the Museum to function. does anyone know if there has been a study conducted to should that on average XX % or people in Museum are volunteers?<br>>><br>>> thank you<br>>><br> [...] Arran Bevington-King 2014-02-25T12:33:58+01:00 2014-02-25T12:33:58+01:00 Training costs https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4384ac3.1402 Hi,<br><br>I wonder if anyone could help me with some training costings?<br><br>I am trying to ascertain what funding, if any, exists for training within Museums.<br><br>with the advent of Collections management, Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Rights Management, etc etc there is a requirement to ensure that we train our staff in the areas we wish them to work. Indeed this includes volunteers too. [...] Jenny Rosander 2014-02-25T12:17:08+01:00 2014-02-25T12:17:08+01:00 Re: Museum Volunteer Statistics https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bfc18a4a.1402 Arran Bevington-King <bluenose5709@HOTMAIL.COM> skrev: >Hi, > >I am trying to ascertain what the statistics are for Volunteers within the Museum community. > >My museum has one paid member of staff but the relies heavily upon a large group of volunteers in order for the Museum to function. does anyone know if there has been a study conducted to should that on average XX % or people in Museum are volunteers? > >thank you > >regards >Arran >**************************************************************** > website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup > [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ >**************************************************************** Arran Bevington-King 2014-02-25T12:26:15+01:00 2014-02-25T12:26:15+01:00 Re: FW: MODES complete https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6ff86e8a.1402 Martin, Aneesa,<br><br>I have used both MODES for Windows and we currently employ MODES Complete. i think that there is no comparison, MODES Complete is hands down a far superior product when compared to MODES for windows. I Would list the following as some of the basic benefits:<br><br>User friendly interface<br>Export options are simple and quick (Exporting to PDF I use a lot)<br>Backup process is simple and easy to manage [...] Martin Bazley 2014-02-25T11:08:03+00:00 2014-02-25T11:08:03+00:00 FW: MODES complete https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;89da8511.1402 Hi all<br>I am forwarding this to MCG as I imagine this will generate more responses for Aneesa, see below.<br>An alternative approach for anyone else interested in this point is that MODES list some case studies on their site, and you can get in touch with people and chat to them individually about how they find it, which I think is quite a good way to assess whether it will work for your own situation.<br>Martin Dicken, Jude 2014-02-25T10:16:28+00:00 2014-02-25T10:16:28+00:00 API - The Essential Collection https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e1b66e70.1402 Many thanks again to everyone who has shared what they see as the essentials when developing an API. Hugely helpful.<br>I'm pulling together all the comments into one document - email me off-list if you'd like this digest.<br><br>Cheers again,<br><br>Jude.<br><br>Jude Dicken (Miss)<br>Documentation Officer<br>Manx National Heritage<br>Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin<br><br>Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3LY<br>t: +44 (0) 1624 648071<br>e: Jude.Dicken@gov.im<mailto:Jude.Dicken@gov.im><br>w: manxnationalheritage.im<http://www.manxnationalheritage.im/><br>[cid:3447139970_412422]manxheritageshop.com<http://www.manxheritageshop.com/engine/shop/index.html> [...] Arran Bevington-King 2014-02-25T09:09:28+01:00 2014-02-25T09:09:28+01:00 Museum Volunteer Statistics https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f5dcd587.1402 Hi,<br><br>I am trying to ascertain what the statistics are for Volunteers within the Museum community.<br><br>My museum has one paid member of staff but the relies heavily upon a large group of volunteers in order for the Museum to function. does anyone know if there has been a study conducted to should that on average XX % or people in Museum are volunteers? [...] Dave Gerrard 2014-02-25T06:44:00+00:00 2014-02-25T06:44:00+00:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b40bcba4.1402 Hi, If anyone's interested in rolling their own APIs then some of the developers I used to work with swear by this as a motherlode of service design best-practice: http://www.soapatterns.org/ Cheers, Dave David Gerrard PhD Research Student Centre for Information Management School of Business and Economics Loughborough University ________________________________________ From: Museums Computer Group [MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Stephen McConnachie [stephen_mcconnachie@YAHOO.CO.UK] Sent: 24 February 2014 07:50 To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content One API nice-to-have from me: * delivers files eg JPG, MP4 with the same access controls as for metadata, and ideally offers [...] Richard Light 2014-02-24T18:42:13+00:00 2014-02-24T18:42:13+00:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content (and Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus as linked open data!) https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;9ba5882.1402 On 21/02/2014 10:52, Mia wrote:<br>> In other API/machine-readable data news, the Getty have just released<br>> their Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) as linked open data. More at<br>> http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/art-architecture-thesaurus-now-available-as-linked-open-data/<br>> It seems to be SPARQL only at the moment, and under an Open Data<br>> Commons Attribution License (which I'm not familiar with compared to<br>> Creative Commons) If you're not immediately familiar with the AAT, you<br>> might have encountered it in collections databases. There's a<br>> browseable version at<br>> http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATHierarchy?find=&logic=AND&note=&english=N&subjectid=300000000<br>You say "SPARQL only": what other formats would you ideally want to see?<br>My experience [...] Daria Cybulska 2014-02-24T15:44:30+00:00 2014-02-24T15:44:30+00:00 Wikimedia UK Wikimedian in Residence Program funding available https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;86de3656.1402 Dear all,<br><br>It may be of interest to some members of this mailing list that Wikimedia<br>UK has funding available for Wikimedians in Residence. Applications need to<br>be made by organisations rather than individuals, ideally by the end of<br>this month. Below is some background information; if you know anyone who<br>you think would be interested please do pass it on. [...] Fausto Fonseca 2014-02-24T14:01:33+00:00 2014-02-24T14:01:33+00:00 Tools for deploying and managing digital strategies https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;1ac81738.1402 Hello!<br><br>I have a team of people that are designing a tool that will help to<br>implement digital media strategies.<br>One of the markets we were really interested in is Museums.<br><br>As I'm certain lots of people in this mailing list has had to deal with<br>creating digital media strategies or at least a component of it for<br>museums, I would really love your input on your knowledge and experience<br>and also needs, by answering a few questions: [...] Cunnea, Paul 2014-02-24T10:52:30+00:00 2014-02-24T10:52:30+00:00 Job opportunity: Digitisation Programme Coordinator, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;12db40c0.1402 The National Library of Scotland is seeking applicants for the role of Digitisation Programme Coordinator.<br><br>This is an exciting opportunity to help make to internationally renowned collections accessible to the world.<br><br>As Digitisation Programme Coordinator at the National Library of Scotland you will lead the Library's digitisation strategy and take responsibility for the management and delivery of our digitisation programme. You will coordinate a team dedicated to making the Library's collections open and accessible to the people of Scotland and the rest of the world, and develop innovative new approaches to digitising our collections for online access. [...] Nick Poole 2014-02-24T08:33:23-00:00 2014-02-24T08:33:23-00:00 Re: API https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4c99d9ec.1402 Good morning everyone,<br><br>Apologies for the clunking plug, but I thought I should mention that the Collections Trust's Collections Management Software Survey includes details of the API support provided by SPECTRUM-compliant Collections Management Systems.<br><br>The survey allows you to compare features and pricing for 17 systems, and also includes details of DAMS and library/archive system integration. [...] Andrew Lewis 2014-02-24T08:20:28+00:00 2014-02-24T08:20:28+00:00 Re: API https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;158ffac5.1402 RE: "My advice to such people would be - DON'T!! ...Far better to adopt<br>the API/Linked Data interface<br>offered by your friendly SPECTRUM-compliant systems supplier, and give<br>them a target which they have already programmed for. That way, it is<br>more likely that your data will actually be used, and merged with data<br>from other institutions in newly-developed web offerings." [...] Stephen McConnachie 2014-02-24T07:50:05+00:00 2014-02-24T07:50:05+00:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b5f721fc.1402 One API nice-to-have from me:<br>* delivers files eg JPG, MP4 with the same access controls as for metadata, and ideally offers some server-side control over type/size of file delivered eg scale down to max 500px x 500px<br><br>Stephen<br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>> On 20 Feb 2014, at 11:29, Richard Light <richard@LIGHT.DEMON.CO.UK> wrote:<br>><br>>> On 20/02/2014 09:36, Dicken, Jude wrote:<br>>> API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content<br>>><br>>> In a short time I've learnt a lot about API - thanks again to everyone who shared info.<br>>> Maybe an unanswerable question, but if you [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-21T12:55:10+00:00 2014-02-21T12:55:10+00:00 Training: Wordpress for museums and non profits: beginners https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5a567e81.1402 Hey all<br><br>We’ve just announced our first online course: Wordpress for museums and non-profits (beginners).<br><br>As this is our first one, we’re limiting attendees to 20. More info and booking here: http://bit.ly/1fEX7sY<br><br>** Use the code “MCG" when you book and you’ll get 20% off - but only for the first 5 people who book...** [...] Mia 2014-02-21T10:52:26+00:00 2014-02-21T10:52:26+00:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content (and Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus as linked open data!) https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5032624d.1402 I've collected some information on 'making good APIs' on the GLAM API<br>wiki at http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/56963312/Making%20good%20APIs<br>but as Richard says, you shouldn't need to (or want to) roll your own<br>these days.<br><br>It might be worth looking at compatibility with the Europeana/Digital<br>Public Library of America APIs http://pro.europeana.eu/api<br>http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/ as it'd make it easy for someone<br>to update their code to include your sources. Or you could just<br>contribute your records to Culture Grid / Europeana and make them<br>available that way. [...] Andrew Stuck 2014-02-20T13:40:10+00:00 2014-02-20T13:40:10+00:00 Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Finnish Culture Institutes Launch MOBIUS Mobility Programme https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;70014624.1402 Thought this may be of interest to some on the list.<br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br>> From: "Animaya Grant" <info@finnish-institute.org.uk><br>> Date: 20 February 2014 13:27:27 GMT<br>> To: "Andrew Stuck" <talkingwalking@museumofwalking.org.uk><br>> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Finnish Culture Institutes Launch MOBIUS Mobility Programme<br>> Reply-To: info@finnish-institute.org.uk<br>><br>> Open in browser.<br>><br>><br>> PRESS RELEASE<br>><br>> 20 February 2014<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> MOBIUS: Finnish Cultural Institutes Launch a Mobility Programme for British, Irish, American and Finnish Culture Professionals<br>><br>> The Finnish Institute in London and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York have kick [...] Richard Light 2014-02-20T11:29:15+00:00 2014-02-20T11:29:15+00:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;78021dc8.1402 On 20/02/2014 09:36, Dicken, Jude wrote:<br>> API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content<br>><br>> In a short time I've learnt a lot about API - thanks again to everyone who shared info.<br>> Maybe an unanswerable question, but if you were to write a checklist for what is essential (and desirable) in an API for sharing collections content, what would it contain?<br>OK, I'll have a go: [...] Bert Degenhart Drenth 2014-02-20T10:54:52+01:00 2014-02-20T10:54:52+01:00 Re: API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;37709a64.1402 Hello Jude,<br><br>You might already know this, but our API has been fully documented, you can find the info and a sandbox implementation on http://api.adlibsoft.com<br><br>The site might also give you pointers about required functionality.<br><br>Greetings<br><br>Bert Degenhart Drenth<br>CTO Axiell AB<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dicken, Jude<br>Sent: 20 February 2014 10:37<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: [MCG] API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content [...] Matthew Cock 2014-02-20T09:45:43+00:00 2014-02-20T09:45:43+00:00 BM looking for short term Comms and Web person for Vikings Live project. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;778b814.1402 We're looking to employ a Communications and Web Contact to work with the British Museum team delivering the Vikings Live and Vikings Adventures cinema broadcasts.<br><br>This freelance position will be for 10 to 13 weeks depending when you can start. Monday to Friday, 8 hour days.<br><br>Interested parties should send a CV and a covering note to TJaffray@britishmuseum.org<mailto:TJaffray@britishmuseum.org>, who can provide more information about the post. [...] Dicken, Jude 2014-02-20T09:36:53+00:00 2014-02-20T09:36:53+00:00 API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;de72f5cb.1402 API - Essential (Desirable) Checklist for sharing collections content<br><br>In a short time I've learnt a lot about API - thanks again to everyone who shared info.<br>Maybe an unanswerable question, but if you were to write a checklist for what is essential (and desirable) in an API for sharing collections content, what would it contain? [...] Andrew Lewis 2014-02-20T07:58:16+00:00 2014-02-20T07:58:16+00:00 Can you help collect crowdsource examples of wifi splash screens as viewed on mobiles? https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;64179f05.1402 Dear All,<br><br>We are trying to collect screenshots of wifi splash screens as<br>experienced on a mobile phone. We are interested to see how visitors to<br>museums experience the organisation at this point. This is<br>micro-research to help us scope out the full range of digital points of<br>contact that people have with us when they visit. [...] Ivan Teage 2014-02-19T17:40:05+00:00 2014-02-19T17:40:05+00:00 NHM Mobile study https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;740886e.1402 Dear MCG<br><br>Better late than never! We have now published selected results from our onsite mobile survey we conducted last August with Fusion Analytics.<br>This has formed part of a larger internal mobile evaluation report so I might be able to also answer further questions additional to those in this presentation, for those that are interested. [...] Ian Rowson 2014-02-18T15:52:11+00:00 2014-02-18T15:52:11+00:00 Job vacancies at Axiell ALM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;ed96670b.1402 Hi All,<br><br>We have two full-time permanent vacancies in our Nottingham office, with<br>salaries in the region of £25K - £33K.<br><br>*Software Sales Consultant *<br><br>*Product Consultant *<br><br>Please see http://www.adlibsoft.com/jobs for full details<br><br>If you have two or more years experience working with technology and<br>collections, have a friendly, outgoing personality and enjoy a challenge,<br>we'd like to hear from you. [...] Eleanor Lisney 2014-02-14T22:33:23+00:00 2014-02-14T22:33:23+00:00 EVA- London Conference 2014 Research Workshop proposals, deadline 21th March https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4088330f.1402 [image: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts]<br><br>*EVA London 2014*<br><br>​​​​<br>*Tuesday 8th July – **Thursday 10th July 2014*<br>Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA<br>www.eva-london.org<br>​​​Calling Masters and PhD students working in visualisation!<br>​​<br>Research Workshop proposals<br>* Deadline: ​end of day Friday 21st March 2014* ​​​<br><br>​Submit your proposal for the EVA London 2014 Research Workshop [...] Jon Pratty 2014-02-14T16:51:17+00:00 2014-02-14T16:51:17+00:00 Re: Disaster planning and digital https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;74005ff9.1402 Rebecca - there's some great resources about disaster planning on Collections Link, I believe.<br>All best<br>Jon<br><br>Sent from my Xperia SP on O2<br><br>Rebecca Atkinson <rebecca.atkinson@MUSEUMSASSOCIATION.ORG> wrote:<br><br>Hi,<br><br>Does anyone have a disaster plan specifically for digital emergencies that they would be willing to share or discuss with me?<br><br>Or has anyone had to implement a strategy following a digital disaster (as in a hack, not a lacklustre app...) [...] Rebecca Atkinson 2014-02-14T16:41:14+00:00 2014-02-14T16:41:14+00:00 Disaster planning and digital https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7978b74.1402 Hi,<br><br>Does anyone have a disaster plan specifically for digital emergencies that they would be willing to share or discuss with me?<br><br>Or has anyone had to implement a strategy following a digital disaster (as in a hack, not a lacklustre app...)<br><br>Feel free to contact me off list - rebecca.atkinson@museumsassociation.org<br><br>Thanks - best wishes for the weekend! [...] Christina McGregor 2014-02-14T14:50:33+00:00 2014-02-14T14:50:33+00:00 Google Open Gallery https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;42260ae.1402 Dear List,<br><br>Having read the December list archive on this topic with the very useful clarification from James Davis on the terms, and contributions from others, I would like to hear from anyone, on or off list, who is using or planning to use Google Open Gallery for their organisation's collections information. [...] David Croft 2014-02-14T10:09:35+00:00 2014-02-14T10:09:35+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;1416430b.1402 Hi all,<br>I'm currently working on the FuzzyPhoto research project at De Montfort University with a series of partner collections (http://fuzzyphoto.edublogs.org/).<br>We are trying to do cross collection co-reference identification for photographic records (i.e identifying multiple occurrences of the same image) but it has broader search applications. We're trying to get around the limitations of current keyword based search systems with the aim of making discovering similar items much easier for researchers.<br>However, what has been really apparent is that while collection APIs are making it much easier to access records and whilst shared schemas are slowly pushing people towards [...] Mia 2014-02-14T09:41:20+00:00 2014-02-14T09:41:20+00:00 Fwd: [Antiquist] Heritage vocabulary user interface controls made available https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;cd53cff8.1402 This post to the Antiquist seems relevant to recent discussions about<br>Linked Open Data publishing...<br><br>Cheers, Mia<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Ceri Binding <cbinding@glam.ac.uk><br>Date: 5 February 2014 17:11<br>Subject: [Antiquist] Heritage vocabulary user interface controls made available<br>To: antiquist@googlegroups.com<br><br>A recent blog post from the AHRC funded SENESCHAL project describes a<br>suite of functional user interface 'widget' controls that can be<br>embedded directly within browser based applications providing access<br>to online Linked Open Data vocabulary resources. The controls use a<br>set of web services to provide access to the vocabularies hosted on<br>http://www.heritagedata.org facilitating vocabulary navigation, search<br>and [...] Rayner Jane 2014-02-13T23:54:36-00:00 2014-02-13T23:54:36-00:00 Re: Analytics for Audience Research https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;238029e5.1402 HI Zak<br><br>Thank you for your response, both good tips.<br>Best Wishes<br>Jane<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group on behalf of Zak Mensah<br>Sent: Wed 12/02/2014 12:20<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: Re: Analytics for Audience Research<br><br>Hi Jane<br><br>I'd suggest you google GDS and analytics for a whole bunch of really interesting posts on the subject e.g. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/category/measurement-analytics/<br><br>In my last role I enjoyed the Jisc Netskills training http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/event/ncl-feb14-googana-r1/index.html [...] Monique Szpak 2014-02-13T11:07:37+00:00 2014-02-13T11:07:37+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;2c15c723.1402 Culture24 built a new events API last year, I helped test and built a Wordpress plugin for it (see 1914.org). Plugin is the property of the IWM and I'm not sure if C24's API is for general consumption yet but anyone interested in them could contact the respective org for more info. [...] Julia Ankenbrand 2014-02-13T10:33:40+00:00 2014-02-13T10:33:40+00:00 Open Data Debate at MA Conference - looking for panel members https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;82effc7b.1402 Hi<br><br>Sorry for posting this again, I just want to make sure the message is seen<br>by everybody who might be interested.<br><br>The Sysemia team is currently putting together a session proposal for a<br>debate on Open Linked Data with the working (!) title "Bodacious Potential"<br>or "Dude - where is my data?" for the MA Conference in October. [...] Richard Light 2014-02-13T10:29:37+00:00 2014-02-13T10:29:37+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;8a42de1c.1402 On 13/02/2014 09:43, James Grimster wrote:<br>> All,<br>><br>> a recent effect has been that a lot of regional and national aggregators have been using variants of Apache Lucene / SOLR or Elasticsearch indexing fronted with common forms of facet refining REST APIs; this is the case for CultureGrid, Europeana, DigitalNZ, Trove, our CollectionsBase and Rob's CIIM (he'll correct me if I'm wrong) . With the work being done at TNA and EH , a self organising distributed 'grid' as it were is emerging. Creating a federating meta, meta search on top should be reasonably trivial.<br>It's interesting, though [...] James Grimster 2014-02-13T10:18:52+00:00 2014-02-13T10:18:52+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;48c9fe59.1402 as in:<br><br>http://wordpress.org/plugins/collections-base-lite/<br><br>change the API calls to CultureGrid, and you should be good to go pretty much.<br>Mods, improvements and fixes would be much appreciated. uses shortcodes. no collections data is within WordPress : if you make WordPress think a record's metadata is a post,<br>then you can leverage all the standard UGC stuff [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-13T09:56:05+00:00 2014-02-13T09:56:05+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;2a81472.1402 Since we are on a roll with the API love, do any museums offer/encourage access to their APIs by third parties? If so, has there been any use of them? If not, what are the barriers?<br><br>Owen<br><br>Owen Stephens<br>Owen Stephens Consulting<br>Web: http://www.ostephens.com<br>Email: owen@ostephens.com<br>Telephone: 0121 288 6936<br><br>On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:48, Dicken, Jude <Jude.Dicken@GOV.IM> wrote: [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-13T10:01:23+00:00 2014-02-13T10:01:23+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c8415380.1402 Mike - in case of any interest at all, Mia Ridge and I worked on a WP plugin that brought in records from Europeana at a Europeana hack day at the BL. We did the work in just a few hours so obviously it is very rough and ready, but the code is at https://github.com/mialondon/Share-what-you-see if you want to have a look [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-13T09:58:19+00:00 2014-02-13T09:58:19+00:00 Re: API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f849d255.1402 On a (kind of) related note - we’re in the process of building a Wordpress Culture Grid plugin which will aim to hoover up records and create Custom Post Types in the Wordpress backend.<br><br>In layman’s terms this would give users an extra box in the Wordpress admin interface for “objects” (to go with the native “pages” and “posts”) - probably something similar to the work we did for the American Museum which is screen-grabbed here: http://bit.ly/1heWgpP [...] Dicken, Jude 2014-02-13T09:48:40+00:00 2014-02-13T09:48:40+00:00 API - got my vote https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;96f0c26d.1402 Many thanks to everyone who has given their views and experiences of API for delivering collections content in the 'Collections Search' standard way but also as options for re-purposing collections data, anything from exhibition labels, marketing, online pop-up exhibitions, collaborative sharing, workflow management, commercial customers...the list goes on.<br><br>It's this sustainable, reusable approach to collections data that attracts me most - moving the spotlight away from a one-system 'collections online' delivery vehicle (costly) to the 'collections data' itself and being promiscuous with that. [...] James Grimster 2014-02-13T09:43:41+00:00 2014-02-13T09:43:41+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7705abd7.1402 All,<br><br>a recent effect has been that a lot of regional and national aggregators have been using variants of Apache Lucene / SOLR or Elasticsearch indexing fronted with common forms of facet refining REST APIs; this is the case for CultureGrid, Europeana, DigitalNZ, Trove, our CollectionsBase and Rob's CIIM (he'll correct me if I'm wrong) . With the work being done at TNA and EH , a self organising distributed 'grid' as it were is emerging. Creating a federating meta, meta search on top should be reasonably trivial. [...] Stephen McConnachie 2014-02-12T18:00:37+00:00 2014-02-12T18:00:37+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f0a85df5.1402 I'll pitch in on the API fanclub..<br><br>At the BFI we make extensive use of our Adlib API, which I can configure and extend myself (it's reasonably simple to do with reference to the documentation and some advice from Adlib), to deliver our collections data and associated descriptive data to a broad range of platforms and operational points:<br>- the BFI Collections Search interface which is a straightforward search interface against the collections data<br>- the BFI website's Explore Film area, offering a non-collection dataset with editorial enrichment, posters, stills, etc<br>- the BFI Player VOD platform: all data about [...] Julia Ankenbrand 2014-02-12T17:25:55+00:00 2014-02-12T17:25:55+00:00 MA session proposal https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;55b46e8d.1402 Hi<br><br>The Sysemia team is currently putting together a session proposal for a<br>debate on Open Linked Data with the working title "Bodacious Potenatial" or<br>"Dude - where is my data?" for the MA Conference in October.<br><br>I am posting this because we are looking for institutions and individuals<br>with different backgrounds and varying experiences and opinions to be part<br>of the debate. [...] Bleck, Helen 2014-02-12T16:47:59+00:00 2014-02-12T16:47:59+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f590ebab.1402 Hi,<br><br>We do the same as The Keep at the John Gray Centre (www.johngraycentre.org), also with Orangeleaf, though our data comes from several different databases all developed on different platforms (custom Drupal, CALM, Access, etc). Each catalogue/database uses different structures and even different keywording, which has complicated the search facilities a bit, though not enough to impede users. [...] Kevin Bacon 2014-02-12T13:52:08+00:00 2014-02-12T13:52:08+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;ed84620f.1402 Hello Jude,<br><br>We're also going down the API route, working with Orangeleaf to deliver this. As a partner in The Keep, a new historical resource centre that's opened in East Sussex (http://www.thekeep.info/), some of our local history collections data is already available via their API: http://www.thekeep.info/api/. A lot more of our data from across our other collections will be available very soon. [...] Rob Tice 2014-02-12T13:33:33-00:00 2014-02-12T13:33:33-00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;9bcae8ec.1402 Hi Jude<br><br>The Horniman Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich and Museum of London are using our open-source middleware solution to provide (among other things) an API onto collections, authority data and media from MIMSY XG. It is also being used to supply data to Historypin, Google Cultural Institute and Culture Grid (to name but a few). [...] Rebecca Atkinson 2014-02-12T12:20:51+00:00 2014-02-12T12:20:51+00:00 Propose a session for MA Conference in Cardiff https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;31a831ec.1402 Hi and apologies for any cross-posting.<br><br>As you might be aware, the deadline for session proposals for the MA Conference 2014 in Cardiff is approaching (17 February).<br><br>In the past few years we've had some really great digital sessions that make creative use of the time and spaces available. This year we're looking challenging, original and dynamic sessions - and welcome proposals from members of this group. [...] Zak Mensah 2014-02-12T12:20:11+00:00 2014-02-12T12:20:11+00:00 Re: Analytics for Audience Research https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a4f6bcd3.1402 Hi Jane<br><br>I'd suggest you google GDS and analytics for a whole bunch of really interesting posts on the subject e.g. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/category/measurement-analytics/<br><br>In my last role I enjoyed the Jisc Netskills training http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/event/ncl-feb14-googana-r1/index.html<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Zak Mensah<br>Digital Manager<br>Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives<br>@zakmensah<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Rayner Jane<br>Sent: 12 February 2014 12:02<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: [MCG] Analytics for Audience Research [...] Rayner Jane 2014-02-12T12:01:44-00:00 2014-02-12T12:01:44-00:00 Analytics for Audience Research https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;93da7d7b.1402 HI All,<br><br>There is an interest in our department in getting some more Analytics<br>training.<br><br>We currently rely on our web team to access analytics data for us, and<br>we then use these to add another dimension to understanding our<br>audience.<br><br>We use analytics as part of our data for both summative evaluation of<br>websites, and prototype testing of web applications. [...] Rick Lawrence 2014-02-12T11:49:04+00:00 2014-02-12T11:49:04+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e31a9520.1402 Thanks to everyone for the thoughts and ideas shared on and off list about this.<br><br>Should we discover the holy grail of museum friendly bookings, events, etc software I'll let everyone know!<br><br>Regards<br><br>Rick<br><br>Rick Lawrence | Digital Media Officer<br>Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery | Bradninch Offices | Bradninch Place | Gandy Street | Exeter | EX4 3LS<br>(t) 01392 265303 (f) 01392 421252<br>(e) rick.lawrence@exeter.gov.uk<br>(w) http://www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm Richard Light 2014-02-12T11:20:12+00:00 2014-02-12T11:20:12+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;cc1f5018.1402 On 12/02/2014 10:35, Nick Poole wrote:<br>> For people with big budgets and in-house IT capability, a combination of legacy systems, API and middleware is clearly a popular way to go. For people who don't have this capability, configuring and running and API may be a bit too much like hard work.<br>The key thing is your hard-won data, and the key trick is to avoid<br>locking it into a delivery platform (/any/ delivery platform). [...] Nick Poole 2014-02-12T10:35:48-00:00 2014-02-12T10:35:48-00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;16f36898.1402 Hi all,<br><br>I'm just back from the IMLS WebWise conference in Baltimore, which included some really useful discussions on this question of opening up cross-organisational collaborations around collections.<br><br>The idea behind the discussions towards the end of last year about COPE (Create Once, Publish Everywhere) was to start working with museums to create future-friendly systems very much along the lines that Jude and Andrew have described. The issue has traditionally been that each time a new platform, application or channel has come along, museums have had to create workarounds that are specific to that particular project. [...] Graeme Farnell 2014-02-12T10:24:04-00:00 2014-02-12T10:24:04-00:00 Announcing - 10 Must Reads: Learning, Engaging, Enriching https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7417ff02.1402 List members may be interested in this new book, currently available with<br>over 10% savings.<br><br>Learning, engagement and enrichment are at the very core of any museum’s<br>mission. This new collection shares the global experience of innovative<br>professionals - in museums and galleries large and small - who have<br>expanded the effectiveness and the boundaries of the museum learning<br>process. [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-12T09:58:18+00:00 2014-02-12T09:58:18+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;df8d83db.1402 A project I worked on over the last couple of years did a series of case studies including the V&A and this highlights the use they make of their API internally http://guidance.discovery.ac.uk/archives/casestudies/vanda. The same project published some guidance on APIs and their potential use, especially in relation to 'discovery' http://guidance.discovery.ac.uk/guidance/releasing-data-through-apis. [...] Dicken, Jude 2014-02-12T09:44:30+00:00 2014-02-12T09:44:30+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;ea3c3183.1402 Hello Andrew,<br><br>Your API-approach at V&A I find really interesting - thanks for explaining it so clearly.<br><br>I'm in the process here of designing a project for 2014/15 on how we improve delivery of our own 'collections online' through iMuseum (www.imuseum.im), key to this is making our data & images more nimble in terms of web delivery - we don't want to spend money on a re-design only to want to reconfigure it in 2yrs time as audience demand, web-style changes. API-approach sounds like it would put us in the driving seat. Did V&A develop their API in-house or did [...] Helen Fothergill 2014-02-12T08:26:02+00:00 2014-02-12T08:26:02+00:00 role profile for digital engagement officer https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b0b5cb19.1402 Dear MCG chaps<br>Would anyone be willing to share a job description / role profile for a digital engagement officer?<br>Many thanks - Helen<br><br>Helen Fothergill<br>Head of Collections<br><br>Museums & Galleries<br>Education, Culture and Sport<br>Aberdeen City Council<br>(M, Th, F) Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Shiprow, Aberdeen, AB11 5BY<br>T: 01224 33 7704<br>(Tu, W) Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, AB10 1FQ<br>T: 01224 52 3676 [...] Sarah Saunders 2014-02-11T20:16:31+00:00 2014-02-11T20:16:31+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;8592b085.1402 Hi Mike<br><br>I have been through some of these arguments recently and would make the following points<br><br>1) expensive to procure, maintain and change<br>Can be true - but also true that organisational inefficiency probably costs far more for many organisations than working with a good software as a service company where development is ongoing and maintenance is taken care of . ( I know I am straying into another debate here, but SAS does offer a solution to complexity if they take on the problem ) [...] Sarah Saunders 2014-02-11T18:11:32+00:00 2014-02-11T18:11:32+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;eebce3a5.1402 I understand the scepticism about joined up systems, and that's where I was in past years. Mostly it was because no collections management system could do what's needed to handle images properly. That still stands for a many systems, but I have found myself looking at joined up options because the technology is likely to be more up-to-date and the data is shared. [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-11T17:51:31+00:00 2014-02-11T17:51:31+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5d4de38a.1402 Hi Cristiano<br><br>First off, I should make it clear that, no, I haven’t tried your system and therefore have no direct experience of it - so should apologise if I appeared negative about something I haven’t tried. That wasn’t my intention - I was making a general point.<br><br>[ And yes, I’d like to try it - and would be delighted to be proved wrong ] [...] Cristiano Bianchi 2014-02-11T17:33:39+00:00 2014-02-11T17:33:39+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;1ab444f6.1402 On another note, Mike, may I ask you why loosely would connected bits be in<br>general better than an integrated system? Isn't the case that as soon as<br>you upgrade or change one of the bits, in most cases you break the<br>connections and have to also recreate those?<br><br>In my experience, whilst it is true that APIs are an absolute priority (and<br>often the only way to integrate) for everything and far too many systems on<br>the market should not be excused for not having one, it's all too easy to<br>put together something that works as long as [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-11T17:17:45+00:00 2014-02-11T17:17:45+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e0ac6217.1402 Hi<br><br>Yes, I’d be delighted to try it (and we should probably be having this conversation off-list) :-) -<br><br>I think my point was more general: IMO it’s rare to find systems that excel at everything, and mostly better to go for best of breed for each component and then knit them together via APIs, etc. [...] Cristiano Bianchi 2014-02-11T17:15:24+00:00 2014-02-11T17:15:24+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;9b19a3c6.1402 Hi Mike,<br><br>I always read your contribution with great interest, as you very often<br>bring up fantastic ideas and produce excellent work.<br><br>I am slightly surprised by your comments about Qi (disclaimer: we are<br>Keepthinking and produce and maintain Qi) - as far as I am aware you<br>probably have not seen it nor tried it. [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-11T17:05:55+00:00 2014-02-11T17:05:55+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;8904b66b.1402 FWIW, American Museum (one of our clients) are going down the tickets.com route.<br><br>I believe - but not 100% sure of the FOH bit - that there will be till integration and so on.<br><br>We’ll be building the necessary bits into the Wordpress backend of the website - it’ll basically be custom fields on events so staff at the museum can fill in a unique id per event - then users will head off to tickets.com to purchase. [...] Sarah McHugh 2014-02-11T16:51:55+00:00 2014-02-11T16:51:55+00:00 Re: Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;136507ab.1402 Good afternoon from a snowy NI. This enquiry is of particular interest to<br>us too although we are only at an intial stage of developing e-commerce,<br>booking systems (Ticketsolve) and reviewing our existing collections<br>management system (in-house).<br><br>Qi looks interesting:<br>http://www.keepthinking.it/qi-the-universal-content-management-solution. I<br>have no experience of using it and the add-on elements could work out to be<br>expensive, particularly for ourselves, a smaller museum service. Would be<br>interested in any feedback on this or other alternatives. [...] Rick Lawrence 2014-02-11T15:55:08+00:00 2014-02-11T15:55:08+00:00 Linking events, shop sales, bookings and CRM https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c75647b4.1402 A good afternoon from the soggy south west to everyone!<br><br>At present we use several different systems to book rooms and resources for events, sell tickets online, take corporate room bookings and capture visitor information.<br><br>We are looking at a system that will do all of this in one package. The aim being to get better value for money and greater efficiency. It must link till tickets sales with online ticket sales. [...] Laura Carletti 2014-02-11T13:37:07+00:00 2014-02-11T13:37:07+00:00 Call: Digital Research in the Humanities & Arts https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;aa79685e.1402 Dear all,<br><br>Please find below the DRHA Call for Submissions (papers, performances, exhibits, workshops), which might interest some of you.<br><br>Best wishes<br><br>Laura<br><br>We are pleased to announce the next Call for Submissions for the<br>DRHA 2014 Conference - University of Greenwich, London, UK.<br>31 Aug - 3 Sept 2014<br><br>Deadline Proposals: Monday, 14th April 2014 (300 word abstract)<br>Conference website: www.drha2014.co.uk<br>Conference email: DRHA2014@greenwich.ac.uk Andrew Lewis 2014-02-11T09:55:29+00:00 2014-02-11T09:55:29+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;216d4601.1402 Hi Owen,<br><br>interesting work.<br><br>Here at the V&A, we have an API-based approach. This assumes that for<br>digital services, the first thing you should do with content is convert<br>it into web-portable data. Then you build services from the data. Our<br>main use of this is to build our web features (although not the only<br>one, we have some digital gallery labels based on it too).<br>Our collections API was launched in 2008 and in 2009 we relaunched<br>Search the Collections based on this. Although that service is not<br>collaborative in itself, the important principle is that the front end<br> [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-11T09:47:09+00:00 2014-02-11T09:47:09+00:00 Re: Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;cf13932b.1402 > you want your visitors to focus on your collection and not be distracted by opening their emails<br><br>I’d assume that forcing people to do things they don’t want to do (and at the same time not letting them do things they do want to do..) is simply going to annoy them. Like when you get those city-wide wifi networks that only allow you to look at council websites.. [...] Peter Pavement 2014-02-11T09:39:10+00:00 2014-02-11T09:39:10+00:00 Re: Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7373e6b1.1402 Hi Emily<br><br>We've been encountering many different approaches to wifi provision at the different museums and arts organisations we work with. But you have an advantage in that your two spaces are relatively small and so you won't need a lot of infrastructure. You may well find a separate, small business type package for each building will be a lot cheaper than a unified, specialist service. Have a look at what the major suppliers are offering but do check their ts & cs (grit your teeth). [...] Tony Crockford 2014-02-11T08:50:11+00:00 2014-02-11T08:50:11+00:00 Re: Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c0eb10d7.1402 On 11 Feb 2014, at 08:10, Neil Rathbone <neil.rathbone@WEBNEBULUS.CO.UK> wrote:<br>><br>> We make a product that does open access Wi-Fi for delivering web-based content without connecting to the Internet.<br><br>And so can we, but we didn’t pitch it.<br><br>I thought there were guidelines for this list that prevented overtly commercial posts?<br><br>Surely a *quote* for services would be best off-list? Neil Rathbone 2014-02-11T08:10:03+00:00 2014-02-11T08:10:03+00:00 Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c26f40ba.1402 Hi Emily<br><br>Do you want to give them internet access as a visitor benefit or are you<br>interested in them accessing your<br>information/collections/interpretation? We make a product that does open<br>access Wi-Fi for delivering web-based content without connecting to the<br>Internet. It won't let your visitors open their emails or browse the<br>web, but they can use their normal browser to see your museum or<br>interpretive content, which is loaded directly onto it. To answer your<br>questions: [...] Hess, Mona 2014-02-10T19:10:43+00:00 2014-02-10T19:10:43+00:00 Invitation to Darwin or Bust https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6429ae9e.1402 Dear all, I would like to invited you to the exhibition "Darwin or Bust" which is due to open on Wednesday at the Grant Museum. Why do I direct this invite to the computer group? : From an initial 3D laser scan I did with a handheld metrology device, students and staff at UCL Institute of Making members have created creative physical replicas of the Darwin bust including CNC milling, 3D printing and other methods. The exhibition has already been featured in Londonist and Culture 24. (No links to not spoil the experience for you ;) ) Enjoy. More information [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T16:55:26+00:00 2014-02-10T16:55:26+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;3e1d7903.1402 Thanks Stephen - that looks very interesting - I'll have a look in more detail later<br><br>Owen<br><br>Owen Stephens<br>Owen Stephens Consulting<br>Web: http://www.ostephens.com<br>Email: owen@ostephens.com<br>Telephone: 0121 288 6936<br><br>On 10 Feb 2014, at 15:41, Stephen Brown <sbrown@DMU.AC.UK> wrote:<br><br>> Hi Owen, Im currently directing an AHRC project called "FuzzyPhoto" that is developing computer based methods for extracting image object metadata from partners’ collections, storing it in a data warehouse where it is searched for potential matches. Results are stored in a second “links” database which is interrogatable by a “widget” embedded in partners’ Web sites. When visitors to [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T16:54:30+00:00 2014-02-10T16:54:30+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;2c3f301b.1402 I meant to post earlier, I wrote a short blog post about the item vs collection level pages and indexing in Google at http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/11/18/discovery-of-digitised-collections-vs-items/ - this was based on a review of 90 digitisation projects.<br><br>There are some other blog posts from the project at http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/category/spotlight/, including this one about what Wikimedia can do for digitised content http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/12/05/what-wikimedia-can-do-for-digitised-content/ [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T16:50:45+00:00 2014-02-10T16:50:45+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6250a83b.1402 Thanks Jon,<br><br>We've tried to cover non-technological aspects as well, but of course these are often the more complex areas and difficult to tackle in the type of guide we are creating which tries to be pithy in its advice. Some advice touches on areas of management and strategy, but we are pointing at possible approaches and examples of where it has (in our view) 'worked' rather than giving advice (for example) on how to make a collaboration a success - which we hand off to more in depth work such as the Culture24 work mentioned by Anra, or the [...] Rick Lawrence 2014-02-10T15:48:50+00:00 2014-02-10T15:48:50+00:00 Re: Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;75d998d4.1402 Hello<br><br>Just a few thoughts to add to Graham's comments.<br><br>We have wifi throughout the public areas of the museum and in a couple of offices.<br><br>In addition to the open public account, that has a login with user name and password on the login page, we have accounts for different departments and one for guests at events. These extra accounts ensure uninterrupted wifi for Skype etc. [...] Stephen Brown 2014-02-10T15:41:36+00:00 2014-02-10T15:41:36+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;d77b0552.1402 Hi Owen, Im currently directing an AHRC project called "FuzzyPhoto" that is developing computer based methods for extracting image object metadata from partners’ collections, storing it in a data warehouse where it is searched for potential matches. Results are stored in a second “links” database which is interrogatable by a “widget” embedded in partners’ Web sites. When visitors to any one of these sites visit an individual image record, the widget will offer them a selection of hyperlinks to potentially related records held in other partners’ collections. The project is a partnership between De Montfort University; Birmingham City Library, the [...] Graham Walden 2014-02-10T15:27:01+00:00 2014-02-10T15:27:01+00:00 Re: Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e4bf1c64.1402 On 10 February 2014 15:08, Emily Hicks <curator@bridportmuseum.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> We are considering installing free wi-fi broadband in the museum.<br>><br>> Can anyone advise regarding this?<br>><br>> 1. do you know roughly what your annual cost is (I know this will vary<br>> depending on contract types)<br>><br><br>annual cost will be your internet connection, plus some maint on the<br>equipment and a bit of management [...] Emily Hicks 2014-02-10T15:08:52+00:00 2014-02-10T15:08:52+00:00 Open access Wi-fi in Museum https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;2b8779d1.1402 Hi All,<br><br>We are considering installing free wi-fi broadband in the museum.<br><br>Can anyone advise regarding this?<br><br>1. do you know roughly what your annual cost is (I know this will vary depending on contract types)<br>2. Do you password protect the wi-fi, or allow completely open access?<br>3. Does your contract have a download limit on it?<br>4. Do you think it's worth it?!<br>5. Is there anything else you would advise us thinking about? e.g. benefits or pitfalls? [...] Jon Pratty 2014-02-10T13:13:40+00:00 2014-02-10T13:13:40+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;fd551248.1402 Hi Owen<br><br>I'm also interested in how discoverability of online collections can be enhanced; I'm keen to find out more about the basics from the point of view of smaller and middle-scale cultural organisations. This may be less about a technological approach, and more about the politics of joining collections, or the educational, content or audience-led reasons for doing so. While lots of museums have lots of stuff, what choices do they face about making their holdings relate to objects in other places, in other sectors, and so on? [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T13:08:11+00:00 2014-02-10T13:08:11+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e5a74306.1402 Thanks Peter - that's a good point. As you say it's hard to tell if search engines might still use the presence of the links to affect ranking even though the crawler doesn't follow the link. I agree - the key point is the human level - and this can also have an impact on discoverability because use begets use - a nofollow citation in wikipedia may lead to a link from a blog or a citation in a research paper etc. etc. [...] Peter Pavement 2014-02-10T13:02:49+00:00 2014-02-10T13:02:49+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;1b961388.1402 Hi Owen<br><br>Citations in Wikipedia (or any other link) shouldn't "officially" have any influence on search engine rankings as they all use the "nofollow" attribute (which effectively instructs search engine spiders to ignore the connection). Adding nofollow was stemmed from a policy change at Wikipedia to try to reduce people using the platform to help their outfit/clients spam the search results pages. However, the search engine ranking algorithms are complex and other aspects might be considered. But mostly, the benefit of having your content or references to your content on Wikipedia is at the human level! [...] James Morley 2014-02-10T12:46:41+00:00 2014-02-10T12:46:41+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c7eebca4.1402 A small addition to this, related to Mike's SEO point ...<br><br>I've been looking lately at Facebook OpenGraph, Twitter Cards,<br>Instagram Rich Pins, and more broadly oEmbed.<br><br>An interesting strength of, for example, Europeana is that if you<br>share an item from there on various social platforms you will<br>frequently give viewers a 'richer' experience than if shared from the<br>original collection. [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T12:25:20+00:00 2014-02-10T12:25:20+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6ae2803c.1402 On 10 Feb 2014, at 12:16, Mike Ellis <mike.ellis@GMAIL.COM> wrote:<br><br>> Ha, thanks Owen. Those “book” things, I remember them… :-)<br>><br>> Interesting re. the level of spidering on item-level pages vs collection-level stuff. Have you looked at all on the merits of surfacing stuff on other sites - i.e. the benefits of putting objects on Wikipedia vs own site? I’m guessing this is probably a step too far..?<br>><br>Yes we have looked at surfacing content on other sites and looked at the use of Wikipedia in particular - it is trickier here to be sure of the [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-10T12:16:14+00:00 2014-02-10T12:16:14+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4af28b5.1402 Ha, thanks Owen. Those “book” things, I remember them… :-)<br><br>Interesting re. the level of spidering on item-level pages vs collection-level stuff. Have you looked at all on the merits of surfacing stuff on other sites - i.e. the benefits of putting objects on Wikipedia vs own site? I’m guessing this is probably a step too far..? [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T11:15:57+00:00 2014-02-10T11:15:57+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;21baf95c.1402 We don't have a definite date yet (and partly depends on me getting the copy to the team putting the materials on the web - I'm just going through copy for the last time now!). There will be a workshop about the work, (and if all has gone well we will have the resource available), at the Jisc Digital Festival next month http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digifest [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T11:11:10+00:00 2014-02-10T11:11:10+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bf17def7.1402 It is also interesting that looking at search engine indexing in our work (which was focused on collections created through digitisation of resources but I think would be relevant to most digital collections no matter how the digital objects were created) we found that it was the item level pages that really suffered in the SEO. Generally 'collection' level descriptions and appearance in search results was good. However, going down to item level we saw a marked fall off in terms of ranking in Google search results and saw much more 'bad practice' in terms of page titles, use of [...] Anra Kennedy 2014-02-10T11:08:56+00:00 2014-02-10T11:08:56+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;614c0caf.1402 Hi Owen<br><br>When's your resource being published?<br><br>Anra<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Owen Stephens<br>Sent: 10 February 2014 11:06<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: Re: [MCG] Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections<br><br>Thanks Mike - definitely agreed. The resource has a series of advice aimed at 'working well with search engines' (this is one section out of 9) which includes: [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T11:06:17+00:00 2014-02-10T11:06:17+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a3414aef.1402 Thanks Mike - definitely agreed. The resource has a series of advice aimed at 'working well with search engines' (this is one section out of 9) which includes:<br><br>* the use of well structured URLs for collections and items<br>* Appropriate use of various html elements include page title, description, image alt, and headings h1-h6<br>* Using robots.txt and sitemap.xml<br>* Using audience specific language<br>* Removing registration/authentication barriers where possible<br>* for the cutting edge using Schema.org markup [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-10T10:59:32+00:00 2014-02-10T10:59:32+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5fa4a432.1402 Morning.<br><br>I’d imagine SEO is absolutely key to this. Like, probably more key than almost anything else, given the % of traffic that comes to most sites from Google?<br><br>So many of the current online collections vendors are still doing horrible things with URLs…<br><br>Here’s a randomly-picked querystring:<br><br>do=cf_all&qu=Collection:William%20AND%20Collection:Conte&size=25&dti=text&fi=%7B"term"%3A%7B"Dept"%3A"cm"%7D%7D<br><br>HTML source looks like this (numbers changed as I’m not pointing at specific examples…) [...] Owen Stephens 2014-02-10T10:48:32+00:00 2014-02-10T10:48:32+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7b4ada86.1402 Thanks Anra and Rich, I'll have a look at both of these<br><br>Best wishes<br><br>Owen<br><br>Owen Stephens<br>Owen Stephens Consulting<br>Web: http://www.ostephens.com<br>Email: owen@ostephens.com<br>Telephone: 0121 288 6936<br><br>On 10 Feb 2014, at 10:44, Anra Kennedy <Anra@CULTURE24.ORG.UK> wrote:<br><br>> Hi Owen<br>><br>> This is really interesting - I'm running an ACE-funded project at the moment with the aim of embedding the use of digital collections content into learning and teaching for KS2&3 children and their teachers. Our project, Connecting Collections, is a partnership between Culture24, Collections Trust and Culture Street and Trinity College's Arts Award, plus a range of [...] Anra Kennedy 2014-02-10T10:44:25+00:00 2014-02-10T10:44:25+00:00 Re: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;910d14b0.1402 Hi Owen<br><br>This is really interesting - I'm running an ACE-funded project at the moment with the aim of embedding the use of digital collections content into learning and teaching for KS2&3 children and their teachers. Our project, Connecting Collections, is a partnership between Culture24, Collections Trust and Culture Street and Trinity College's Arts Award, plus a range of museums. There's an overview here: http://weareculture24.org.uk/projects/connecting-collections/ [...] Kate Woodall 2014-02-10T10:11:32+00:00 2014-02-10T10:11:32+00:00 Re: Seeking sound walk advice https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;7fc1bf.1402 Hi Andrew<br><br>One of all time favourite audio guide is the Williamsburg women's Hasidic tour by www.soundwalk.com<http://www.soundwalk.com>. This is immersive<br>Narrative , as if the person is just behind you.<br><br>Kate<br><br>Audience Engagement Manager<br>Te Papa Tongarewa<br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>On 10/02/2014, at 9:01 PM, "Andrew Stuck" <andrew@RETHINKINGTRAVEL.NET<mailto:andrew@RETHINKINGTRAVEL.NET>> wrote:<br><br>Dear All<br><br>Many thanks, for the various suggestions - I have collated them and reproduce them below. Apologies if I have overlooked a suggestion, just send me a reminder, and if you have any further suggestions, then do send them in to me. [...] Andrew Stuck 2014-02-10T08:00:47+00:00 2014-02-10T08:00:47+00:00 Seeking sound walk advice https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;79d486ce.1402 Dear All<br><br>Many thanks, for the various suggestions - I have collated them and reproduce them below. Apologies if I have overlooked a suggestion, just send me a reminder, and if you have any further suggestions, then do send them in to me.<br><br>Thx to Mia for reminding me about the lack of attachments in a previous e mail... [...] Rich Cherry 2014-02-09T21:17:08-08:00 2014-02-09T21:17:08-08:00 Re: MCG Digest - 7 Feb 2014 to 9 Feb 2014 (#2014-30) https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;41a41373.1402 Owen,<br><br>You might want to chck this out:<br>http://www.balboapark.org/bpoc/blog/balboa-park-commons-launches-more-20000-digitized-materials-seven-san-diego-museums#.UvhglfldWSo<br><br>Rich<br><br>On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, MCG automatic digest system <<br>LISTSERV@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:<br><br>> There are 2 messages totaling 100 lines in this issue.<br>><br>> Topics of the day:<br>><br>> 1. Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections<br>> 2. Seeking sound walk advice<br>><br>> ****************************************************************<br>> website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/<br>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg<br>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup<br>> [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/<br>> ****************************************************************<br>><br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 11:02:31 +0000<br>> From: Owen Stephens <owen@OSTEPHENS.COM><br>> Subject: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections<br>><br>> I'm [...] Andrew Stuck 2014-02-09T22:57:40+00:00 2014-02-09T22:57:40+00:00 Seeking sound walk advice https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6b9177ee.1402 Dear All<br><br>Many thanks, for the various suggestions - I have collated them in the attached. Apologies if I have overlooked a suggestion, just send me a reminder, and if you have any further suggestions, then do send them in to me.<br><br>Best, Andrew<br><br>Andrew Stuck<br>Managing Director<br>Rethinking Cities<br>07725555460<br>andrew@rethinkingcities.net<br>http://www.rethinkingcities.net<br>@RethinkCities Owen Stephens 2014-02-09T11:02:31+00:00 2014-02-09T11:02:31+00:00 Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c887e914.1402 I'm currently writing a web resource about improving 'discoverability' of digital collections as part of a Jisc project. The resource is meant to give small pieces of 'actionable' advice looking at a wide range of aspects - SEO, UX, metadata schemas, data formats, APIs, collaboration with others etc. etc. The things being recommended are based on looking at a range of digitisation/digital collection projects have done successfully. [...] Matthew Cock 2014-02-07T13:36:49+00:00 2014-02-07T13:36:49+00:00 BM looking for Illustrator genius https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;3a02261f.1402 Hi,<br><br>The BM is looking for an independent contractor to help prepare the assets for our digital floorplan.<br><br>Someone well-versed in manipulating Illustrator files, and preferably with experience of designing maps / floorplans<br><br>More details will be provided on request.<br><br>Please contact Matthew Cock, Head of Web (mcock@britishmuseum.org<mailto:mcock@britishmuseum.org>) for further details.<br><br>We will be asking for a quote for completion of the work on a fixed cost basis. [...] Ken Bailey 2014-02-06T16:23:44+00:00 2014-02-06T16:23:44+00:00 Re: Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c9f17bd9.1402 Glacier is certainly setting a useful price-performance benchmark. The observations in Howard Marks' 2012 blog article still seem relevant:<br>http://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-storage/is-amazons-glacier-cloud-storage-a-good/240006352<br><br>Ken Michael Stocking 2014-02-06T15:44:44+00:00 2014-02-06T15:44:44+00:00 Re: Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;8c1bafe5.1402 Duracloud have some interesting approaches including S3/Glacier combos. Not used it myself, but 1Tb for $1,500 pa.<br><br>http://www.duracloud.org/pricing Mike Ellis 2014-02-06T15:28:21+00:00 2014-02-06T15:28:21+00:00 Re: Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6b1acc73.1402 Presume you’ve all looked at AWS Glacier https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ ?<br><br>Be interested to know of anyone who has used it in anger... Graham Sherwood 2014-02-06T15:08:08+00:00 2014-02-06T15:08:08+00:00 Re: Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;63e90dd9.1402 Hi Tony,<br><br>I've certainly looked at it as a possibility for our regular backups but as you probably know it costs a fortune for TB's of storage which makes it prohibitively expensive. We just stick with Disk to disk or disk to tape and tape being very good for archival.<br><br>, Graham [...] Zak Mensah 2014-02-06T14:49:00+00:00 2014-02-06T14:49:00+00:00 Re: Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a179b17b.1402 Hi Tony,<br><br>We are looking at cloud storage and pretty much every public sector service will consider using http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/<br><br>Even if you search around online, most of those companies will be found in G-cloud too. They cover all the areas you'd expect and many public sectors are moving server capacity and storage to this framework. [...] HARRIS TONY 2014-02-06T12:12:50+00:00 2014-02-06T12:12:50+00:00 Terabyte Cloud backup - was Spare server capacity https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;d4dd75ff.1402 Taking this thread in a different direction, is anyone using cloud storage to backup terabyte quantities of images? I'm looking at a variety of commercial options but would be interested to know if anyone is doing this already and has any views on it? 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 -----Original Message----- From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis Sent: 06 February 2014 10:23 To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [MCG] Spare server capacity? Hi Andrew, Simon I can’t recommend Vidahost enough. I’ve had lots and lots [...] John Benfield 2014-02-06T13:40:18+00:00 2014-02-06T13:40:18+00:00 Job Alert: (Web) Content Manager (Maternity Cover) [Scanned] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;99b5c705.1402 Below is an advert for a temporary job at the RSC. Please feel free to circulate if you think you know anyone who might be interested. Mike Ellis 2014-02-06T10:22:31+00:00 2014-02-06T10:22:31+00:00 Re: Spare server capacity? https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;db5f4db7.1402 Hi Andrew, Simon<br><br>I can’t recommend Vidahost enough. I’ve had lots and lots of web hosts over the years, and these guys are the best by a long way. Excellent, robust, cheap hosting (I use their Cloud Hosting but they do dedicated / managed etc as well), brilliant support - not just quick responses but also intelligent people on the other end of the line… also a great, usable, beautiful control panel. They’re also UK-based which I know makes a big difference to some people. [...] Andrew Stuck 2014-02-06T06:52:25+00:00 2014-02-06T06:52:25+00:00 Spare server capacity? https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;a13f129a.1402 Dear All<br><br>I am in search of new base for the Rethinking Cities website as my present server host will terminate shortly.<br><br>So we are looking for affordable MS ASP and MS SQL server capacity available immediately - if you can help (or know of someone else who might) please e mail our web guru Simon Sanders <simon@ezme.com> [...] Susan Lambert 2014-02-05T17:14:15+00:00 2014-02-05T17:14:15+00:00 Online game to identify information about cultural artefacts https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;66329129.1402 The Museum of Design in Plastics is one of three partners in a research project here in the UK. It is called 10 Most Wanted and uses social media to encourage people to engage with galleries and museums.<br><br>Arts partner: The Museum of Design in Plastics<http://www.modip.ac.uk/><br>Research partner: University of Brighton<http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/><br>Technical partner: Adaptive Technologies Ltd<http://www.adaptivetechnologies.com/>. [...] Annabelle Campbell 2014-02-05T13:52:25+00:00 2014-02-05T13:52:25+00:00 Re: Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6e2405fb.1402 Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for - but I love this site, and is a lovely source of London site specific field recordings as well as much more.<br>http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/<br><br>Best,<br>Annabelle<br><br>Annabelle Campbell<br>Head of Exhibitions and Collections<br><br>Direct line: 020 7806 2521<br>Mobile: 07530 285685<br><br>soundmatters.org.uk<br>onviewonline.org.uk<br>addedvalue.org.uk<br>rawcraft.org.uk<br>blockparty.org.uk<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Andrew Stuck<br>Sent: 05 February 2014 11:18<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: [MCG] Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions [...] John Benfield 2014-02-05T13:43:42+00:00 2014-02-05T13:43:42+00:00 Re: Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions [Scanned] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5742b5de.1402 Hi<br><br>You might be interested in Adelaide Road, an interactive poetry/prose journey along the Adelaide Road in North London created by the RSC working with Aoife Mannix and inspired by As You Like It.<br><br>As well as an online map there is an iPhone version that allows you do explore the journey on the go... [...] kwatson 2014-02-05T11:52:16+00:00 2014-02-05T11:52:16+00:00 Re: Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c290684d.1402 you can get the Multiwalks App<br><br>regards<br>Keith Watson<br>skype: kw1330<br>Facebook: Keith Watson<br>Twitter: @kw1330<br>M:+44 (0) 7802 748484<br><br>On 5 Feb 2014, at 11:18, Andrew Stuck <andrew@RETHINKINGTRAVEL.NET> wrote:<br><br>> Dear All<br>><br>> Slightly off beam<br>><br>> Next week I am working with dance and music students from Trinity Laban (Deptford & Greenwich, London) and I would like to offer them some suggestions of audio and / sound walks that they might listen to read up about (or even walk!). Especially those that include geo-located media linked to cultural or heritage assets. So if you have created [...] Birchall, Danny 2014-02-05T11:25:02+00:00 2014-02-05T11:25:02+00:00 Re: Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4e4659c4.1402 Hi Andrew<br><br>I'd love to recommend our 'Magic in modern London' iphone app: it's an Edwardian geo-located treasure hunt based on the amulet collection of Edward Lovett:<br><br>http://www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/play/magic-in-modern-london.aspx<br><br>Best,<br><br>Danny<br><br>Danny Birchall<br>Digital Manager, Wellcome Collection<br>Wellcome Trust<br>Gibbs Building<br>215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK<br>Tele: +44 (0) 207 611 8894<br>email: D.Birchall@wellcome.ac.uk<br>www.wellcomecollection.org / @ExploreWellcome<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Andrew Stuck<br>Sent: 05 February 2014 11:18<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: [MCG] Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions [...] Andrew Stuck 2014-02-05T11:18:23+00:00 2014-02-05T11:18:23+00:00 Seeking sound walk / audio walk advice & suggestions https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f4ab1dc8.1402 Dear All<br><br>Slightly off beam<br><br>Next week I am working with dance and music students from Trinity Laban (Deptford & Greenwich, London) and I would like to offer them some suggestions of audio and / sound walks that they might listen to read up about (or even walk!). Especially those that include geo-located media linked to cultural or heritage assets. So if you have created something you are happy to share, audio / sound / immersive / locative / geo-located etc. please do send me a link to a website or relevant media, so I can include it in the [...] Marion Crick 2014-02-05T11:00:37+00:00 2014-02-05T11:00:37+00:00 Collections Systems Administrator Vacancy at V&A https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;5ee079ba.1402 Due to our Collections Systems Administrator receiving an offer he couldn't refuse elsewhere, we have a six month vacancy on our Collections Management Programme. The Collections Management Programme is delivering workflows without our Collections Management System to help users complete collections management procedures. We are about to deliver technical and photographic work requests and the remainder of the programme will support other procedures including loans, use of collections and conservation. [...] Lucia Masundire 2014-02-04T14:18:42+00:00 2014-02-04T14:18:42+00:00 Research Commission: Evaluating museum collections to understand their potential to support STEM learning https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;432e68e4.1402 We also have another research commission<br><br>Evaluating Leicestershire County Council Museum Service Collections to understand how they can be utilised to support STEM learning for Children and Young People<br>As part of our wider research into how we can engage audiences with our collections using digital and social media, we want to explore how we can develop online resources based on our collections to support STEM learning. We are looking for a researcher(s) or educational consultant to undertake an assessment of our existing collections and make recommendations on how we can use these to create STEM related online resources (games, [...] Ciolfi, Luigina 2014-02-04T14:10:29+00:00 2014-02-04T14:10:29+00:00 Introducing the EU "meSch" Project https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;b30fbfcc.1402 Dear All,<br><br>You might be interested in a current research project that I am involved in together with colleagues here at Sheffield Hallam University and European partners across five countries.<br>meSch (Material Encounters with Digital Cultural Heritage) is a 4-year EU funded project with the goal of co-designing a novel do-it-yourself platform for the creation of tangible exhibits at heritage sites: cultural heritage professionals will be able to offer visitors new interactive experiences by means of material interaction with smart objects. The goal of meSch is to create an easy-to-use, web-wased and open source platform where "templates" for interactive smart [...] Nick Poole 2014-02-04T13:36:16-00:00 2014-02-04T13:36:16-00:00 Collections Trust announces launch of SPECTRUM Digital Asset Management Partners Scheme https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;e6def63d.1402 *With apologies for cross-posting*<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>I am pleased to share with you the following announcement, which has<br>been issued by the Collections Trust today:<br><br>Collections Trust Announces Launch of SPECTRUM Digital Asset Management<br>Partners Scheme<br><br>A new SPECTRUM DAM Partner scheme for suppliers of Digital Asset<br>Management software has been formally launched by Collections Trust. The<br>first company to join is Extensis. [...] Lucia Masundire 2014-02-04T12:48:58+00:00 2014-02-04T12:48:58+00:00 Digital Content Commissions - Click; Connect; Curate; Create https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;f317586.1402 Click; Connect; Curate; Create is looking to commission a series of development projects that will allow us to explore what potential digital content we can use to encourage engagement with and visits to our collections (either within museums or within our Collections Resource Centre). By working with creative practitioners / researchers/ creative media & digital heritage companies we would like to have range of projects that will allow us to understand different opportunities for exploiting our content online. [...] Jonathan Cardy 2014-02-04T11:57:31+00:00 2014-02-04T11:57:31+00:00 Presentation opportunity this August https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;6e47b815.1402 Dear MCGers, and especially those of you in or near London.<br><br>This August Wikimedia's annual global conference Wikimania will be coming<br>to London <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, the first<br>time it has been in Europe for four years.<br>We will be in the Barbican centre in London from the 8th to the 10th August.<br><br>Wikimania covers Wikipedia, our media library Wikimedia commons and other<br>issues relating to the global Wikimedia movement. [...] Bonewell, Perry 2014-02-04T10:16:02+00:00 2014-02-04T10:16:02+00:00 Re: Follow the progress of the new Bristol Museums website https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;4b7bc47.1402 Seconded!<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis<br>Sent: 04 February 2014 07:31<br>To: MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>Subject: Re: [MCG] Follow the progress of the new Bristol Museums website<br><br>Brilliant stuff, Zak.<br><br>Rapid, iterative, transparent... and all this with a council involved, too<br>:-)<br><br>Looking forward to seeing where it all goes!<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mike Rebecca McGuinness 2014-02-04T09:10:42+00:00 2014-02-04T09:10:42+00:00 Managing Digital Preservation: A SCAPE & OPF Seminar, 2 April, The Hague https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c32aeb22.1402 This one-day seminar, hosted by the National Library and National Archives of the Netherlands, will focus on the issues that managers face when implementing digital preservation in their organisation. It aims to bring together managers who have a responsibility for digital preservation, but who are not necessarily technical experts in this area. [...] Mike Ellis 2014-02-04T07:31:24+00:00 2014-02-04T07:31:24+00:00 Re: Follow the progress of the new Bristol Museums website https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;c14f7d43.1402 Brilliant stuff, Zak.<br><br>Rapid, iterative, transparent... and all this with a council involved, too<br>:-)<br><br>Looking forward to seeing where it all goes!<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mike Zak Mensah 2014-02-04T07:25:30+00:00 2014-02-04T07:25:30+00:00 Follow the progress of the new Bristol Museums website https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;1479877e.1402 Hello all,<br><br>We have just started a new project to produce a service wide website and will be sharing our progress and thoughts as we go along.<br><br>You can read the first kick-off post at http://www.labs.bristolmuseums.org.uk/kickoff/<br><br>we hope to have an initial prototype within the next 10 days and we'd love your feedback and support! [...] Creating Capacity - Henrietta 2014-02-03T13:36:24-00:00 2014-02-03T13:36:24-00:00 Training: Getting your message out to users https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;baf3682b.1402 Dear MCG list members,<br><br>On **Tuesday 25 February** Frances Booth will return to Creating Capacity<br>with the Writing with Oomph, the course that gets you thinking about how you<br>use words and the impact they have. Frances is the author of The Distraction<br>Trap: How to Focus in a Digital World (Pearson, 2013). She is an experienced<br>journalist, having worked for 8 years for The Guardian and The Daily<br>Telegraph. She is the founder of Here are some words:<br>www.herearesomewords.com and will pass on her top tips for making words<br>powerful. [...] Katy Beale 2014-02-03T12:45:18+00:00 2014-02-03T12:45:18+00:00 Announcing: new Culture Hack Data and the Culture Hack Toolkit https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;d3e791c6.1402 Hi all<br><br>We're so pleased to announce the new Culture Hack Data site and Toolkit are<br>now live and, as always, welcome your thoughts and feedback.<br><br>In just over three years, Culture Hack has grown from a 'one-off' hack day<br>to a digital prototyping programme for the arts sector, with hundreds of<br>people from creative, technology, cultural, arts and heritage organisations<br>participating. [...] Ellis, Linda 2014-02-02T19:34:14+00:00 2014-02-02T19:34:14+00:00 FW: Invitation to Quote: Technical support for 'What Decade Are You?' digital marketing campaign https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;71d2c0a2.1402 Sorry to any of you interested in quoting for this work for forgetting to include the link to the full document - here it is https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0aD4nDIDg7TbjVXX091UWhwcmM/edit?usp=sharing<br><br>Linda Ellis<br><br>From: Ellis, Linda<br>Sent: 02 February 2014 19:30<br>To: 'MCG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK'<br>Subject: Invitation to Quote: Technical support for 'What Decade Are You?' digital marketing campaign<br><br>On behalf of the 'Stronger and Bolder Together' partnership Hampshire County Council is looking for technical support to develop the online presence for a new digital marketing campaign, "What Decade Are You?", which we will launch in May 2014. [...] Ellis, Linda 2014-02-02T19:30:20+00:00 2014-02-02T19:30:20+00:00 Invitation to Quote: Technical support for 'What Decade Are You?' digital marketing campaign https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;bfe171ce.1402 On behalf of the 'Stronger and Bolder Together' partnership Hampshire County Council is looking for technical support to develop the online presence for a new digital marketing campaign, "What Decade Are You?", which we will launch in May 2014.<br><br>The full document for this invitation to quote can be found at [...] Ellis, Linda 2014-02-02T19:10:37+00:00 2014-02-02T19:10:37+00:00 Invitation to quote: Technical support to develop Great Object Race website https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;10747b58.1402 On behalf of the 'Stronger and Bolder Together' partnership Hampshire County Council is looking for technical support to develop the online presence for a new digital marketing campaign, "Great Object Race", which we will launch in May 2014.<br><br>The full document for this invitation to quote can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0aD4nDIDg7Tb2J1QmNJVUdsWWc/edit?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0aD4nDIDg7TWjZnSjFDQUpzZHM/edit?usp=sharing> and any interested parties must consult this document before sending in quotes for the proposed work. If, having read the document, you require further information please contact me by email linda.ellis@hants.gov.uk<mailto:linda.ellis@hants.gov.uk> or telephone 01962 826719. [...] Andy Mabbett 2014-02-01T08:06:37+00:00 2014-02-01T08:06:37+00:00 Strasbourg https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MCG;15c35c30.1402 I shall have some free time in Strasbourg this week. Is there anyone there<br>who would like to meet over coffee, hear about QRpedia and my work as a<br>Wikipedian-in-residence, and share their stories?
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