A DAM survey
In conjunction with MCN’s 2005 conference in Boston, ClearStory distributed a technology survey on current practices and outlooks in digital asset management in museums. While one presumes that ClearStory gained …
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Blogging for art’s sake
Following up on my previous post on blogs in museums, it looks like the issue continues to enjoy interest. Two of the Walker blogs have some interesting write-ups of museum …
Read MoreNo poor substitute
Since the hangingtogether.org crew hasn’t offered much choice reading in the New Year so far (some of us are nursing colds, some of us are on the road), I thought …
Read MoreBetterLight, BetterMetadata
On my way back home from work last Thursday, I stopped by the BetterLight headquarters in San Carlos to chat with Mike Collette about his scanning backs and how they …
Read MoreMore Flickr fun
Since Merrilee’s post on trading cards was such a crowd-pleaser, I thought I’d pass on this alert on yet another fun niche of Flickr for librarians: Jill Hurst-Wahl just posted …
Read MoreGot Subjects?
In the wake of a great conference in Boston, the listserv [link to sign-up – sorry, no archive!] of the Museum Computer Network (MCN-L) has been teeming with stimulating discussion. …
Read MoreGiving thanks to PREMIS!
I greeted my co-worker Robin Dale with a big smile today and told her I have some really good news. She proceeded to ask me whether I’m getting married, which …
Read Morepod-cast with Jim
Paul Miller just announced that he’ll record a Talking with Talis pod-cast with hangingtogether’s very own Jim Michalko (who incidentally also happens to be the president of RLG.) Paul wants …
Read MoreGoogle smarts vs my bandwidth
Merrilee wrote how Google got smarter the other day, and provided a neat dog example. Since they get smarter so often, and I have only so much bandwidth to keep …
Read MoreMore museum blogs
I recently had contact with a writer from the Wall Street Journal who researched a story on blogs in museums (Jennifer Trant had been kind enough to mention my name …
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