Moving Museums to the Network Level
One of the most stimulating events of this year’s MCN conference in Pasadena was Ken Hamma’s keynote on Thursday morning. In essence, Ken shared a vision of how museums can …
Read MoreRediscovering “It” Online
Anne’s posting prompts me to recall a favorite book from my own childhood: Edith Nesbit’s Five Children and It (1902), in which a group of young Londoners, exiled to the …
Read MoreChildren’s Book Week – a tribute to my nephews
Here at hangingtogether.org we don’t often blog about our personal stuff or interests beyond our professional ones. The fact that this is Children’s Book Week gives us the rare opportunity …
Read MoreNot yet laid to rest – Digital Images in the Classroom
I live in San Francisco’s Mission district, a neighborhood teeming with Mexican and Latin American immigrants, where Dia de Los Muertos gets honored with a fantastic parade and exhibit of …
Read MoreArchival scams
I recently heard that emails have been making the rounds to archives and special collections, along the lines of the Nigerian businessman spams. The emails go like this: We have …
Read MoreMass Digitization and the Collective Collection
Barrie Howard, over at DLF, recently did us a good turn by helping to distribute a short survey that we compiled as part of our session on “Mass Digitization and …
Read MoreICDAT Taiwan wrap-up
The aforementioned Jerry and myself spent a good bit of time together in Taipei: after long days at the conference, we’d unwind visiting Longshan Temple, or cruising one of the …
Read MoreMore on ICDAT 2006
Jerry McDonough, another invited speaker at the ICDAT, kindly commented that my talk sparked 3 new ideas for research projects in his mind. I highlighted what I like to call …
Read MoreBuying our way out of the copyright dilemna?
A post on BoingBoing led me to this email from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In it, Wales asks for: …some examples of works you would like to see made free, …
Read MoreICDAT 2006 Tapei, Taiwan
Having recently returned from the International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies in Taiwan, I am still struck by both the event and the location. A note about Taipei: it has …
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