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Calling All Angels -ArchiveGrid.org needs you

April 7, 2006April 7, 2006 - by Anne Van Camp - 1 Comment

Hi. My name is Anne and I’m addicted to access to archives. I have had this passion since the first time I started to work in an archive processing a …

Collection Description for bugs and butterflies

April 3, 2006April 3, 2006 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

In a previous post, I hinted at the collaborative work I’m engaged in with a number of natural history institutions. Our working group ominously titled itself RAVNS or Resources Available …

Metropolitan’s Scholars’ License

March 20, 2006June 20, 2017 - by Günter Waibel

I had a chat with Susan Chun of the Metropolitan Museum a couple of weeks ago, and she told me how their 3 year investigation into procuring a digital asset …

Collaborative Sourcing

March 16, 2006September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko - 1 Comment

Aggregation – somebody has to pay. In an earlier post I referred to an article by Lorcan Dempsey in which he’s quite convincing about the power that flows from aggregating …

Museums

Museum blogs – “one in a million”

March 7, 2006March 14, 2006 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

My friend and colleague Rob Lancefield from Wesleyan U just alerted me to a museum blog survey by ideum, a company specializing in new media installations at and for museums. …

ArchiveGrid.org – the boon of my existence

March 6, 2006March 6, 2006 - by Anne Van Camp - 5 Comments.

Archives, the historical records, documents, evidence created by people, families, organizations and governments are essential for understanding our achievements and failures, our social and ethnic heritage. These resources are used …

Must-read articles – is it too early for best of 2006?

February 24, 2006September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko

I finally had the opportunity to catch up and read some articles that had been pointed out to me by others and with which many of you are already likely …

Handcrafted Metadata

February 24, 2006February 24, 2006 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

Last week I went to WebWise in LA, now a conference sponsored jointly by IMLS, the Getty and OCLC, where about 350 folks had gathered to explore the theme “Inspiring …

Measurement and Behaviors / Museums

good news

February 22, 2006February 22, 2006 - by Günter Waibel

With so much bad news for the Getty lately (I’m not even going to link here), I thought it would be nice to give them some good press on their …

Archives and Special Collections

Archival Metrics

February 17, 2006February 17, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Last week I went to North Carolina for a meeting of the Archival Metrics Sustainability Advisory Group (you will need to scroll down to see who else is on the …