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Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Photographing art high on a wall

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:57:04 -0400

Dear Alun,
As current Chair of the UK museum photography group (AHFAP) with 200 members across the UK, could I help you find a suitable solution? If you wish you can either post a message to our JISC list (www.Jiscmail.ac.uk/ahfap) or contact me off list.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Photographing art high on a wall

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:59:43 -0400

Hi Alun,

If the object is two dimensional you will probably be able to take the
picture from below and 'distort' it in Photoshop afterwards to correct the
skew.
For objects behind glass, that also enables a surprising 'trick of the
trade' that dramatically reduces the effects of reflections.
Alternatively there are perspective control lenses but I don't think

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Photographing art high on a wall

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:13:39 -0400

On 21 July 2013 12:12, Alun Edwards wrote:

> I am considering how to photograph a large inscription on a wall in a public atrium.

Consider also those remote controlled "toy" helicopters, which can
carry a camera:

http://www.buzzflyer.co.uk/quadcopters.asp

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Photographing art high on a wall

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:12:27 -0400

Dear all,

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:48:31 -0400

On 19 Jul 2013, at 17:41, John Benfield wrote:
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> Busy developing a business case to give to the powers that be in the near future.

It should be said that if you *start* out planning a responsive web design it costs no more.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:41:01 -0400

Dear all

Many thanks for all those responses on and off-list.

Unsurprisingly most of you are on track with RWD.

As you may have guessed I am mid-planning our site redevelopment and am probably my poll cat 3 stage. Busy developing a business case to give to the powers that be in the near future. Your data will be very useful. [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: FW: Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:21:42 -0400

Hi Sara,
I was responsible for the project that Trevor mentioned below, to digitise and publish to the web the early exhibition catalogues of the Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Last Call to Register for EVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:13:05 -0400

Last Call to Register for EVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013

A few places still remaining !

Please check out our terrific conference programme and keynote speakers and register now!

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Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:39:58 -0400

Oh indeed - beware the printed page mock up with neatly lined up boxes of "Lorem Ipsum" that falls apart horribly once you actually place some real content in the live site!

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Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:23:56 -0400

On 19 Jul 2013, at 09:45, "Bonewell, Perry" wrote:
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> I'd also be interested in asking a prospective tender what their development environment looks like.

I'd also be prepared to be asked for all your content (or at least real working examples) up front.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:45:23 -0400

One word of advice - as if it really needs stating at all - whatever you do: if you are going to do RWD make sure you hire someone with past experience.

I'd also be interested in asking a prospective tender what their development environment looks like.

Perry

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Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:36:23 -0400

Lucia

Whatever the issues it looks like a nice clean site - I see you used Twitter Bootstrap to address the RWD.

Perry

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Subject: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:18:48 -0400

At Leicestershire County Council we are in the process of developing externally hosted websites for our three sites. These sites are being built using RWD:

The first live one is at http://www.snibston.org.uk/

It hasn't been without it's issues either

Lucia Masundire - AD:uk (SF)
Project Manager - Click; Connect; Curate; Create
0116 305 4119

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:08:28 -0400

Hi John,

First up, I have to agree with Mike - not considering this for two years from now, or even longer, is something to think very hard about!

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:14:35 -0400

Around a quarter of our visitors are now on mobile, so we are now considering our approach to a mobile site for build in next 6 months. It will most likely be a responsive site.

Adrian

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:40:28 -0400

As with Mike's practice, our policy at Surface Impression is to make new sites mobile device friendly (mostly using responsive design) - even if it's not on the brief. We've been experimenting with a number of techniques to try to get responsive to both be aesthetically pleasing and effective/sustainable to build and manage.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Web jobs at Kew

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:32:01 -0400

Just a quick reminder that my old job at Kew (Website Manager) and
that of my Senior Developer who left just after me, are both currently
advertised on the Kew site, with applications closing on 24th July.

There are also a couple of editorial jobs on offer ...

http://www.kew.org/about-kew/jobs/

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:16:01 -0400

At Southbank Centre our site is completely responsive.

However this is not without issue. There is a feeling, which needs validating, that the site is too image led and does not serve desktops particularly well.

Nevertheless we have seen a massive increase in mobile transactions since making the move in to a responsive site in January. [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:34:36 -0400

Hey John

Everything we do for clients now is responsive: there's very little point in not. (this is all Wordpress btw, not that it makes any difference..).

We've also gone back and retrofitted a couple of sites, which is a bit more painful but mostly doable.

I'd say anyone in category 3 and definitely anyone in category 4 should probably think quite hard :-) [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:29:00 -0400

HI We've already got most of the pages (well, ones that sit in Drupal, less the online collection, ticketing, shop...) responsive, well, optimised for some mobile devices.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:55 -0400

On 18 Jul 2013, at 18:08, John Benfield wrote:
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> I was just wondering who in the museum/heritage sector had considered responsive web design (RWD) for their site, so a little straw poll:
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> 2) In the middle or redeveloping using RWD

for daventrymuseum.org.uk

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Responsive web design straw poll [Scanned]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:08:12 -0400

Hi

I was just wondering who in the museum/heritage sector had considered responsive web design (RWD) for their site, so a little straw poll:

1) Already created a RWD site

2) In the middle or redeveloping using RWD

3) Considering RWD within next 2 years

4) Not going to do anything for at least next 2 years [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Digital Benchmarking Tool adopted by Te Papa

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:00:53 -0400

Dear MCG colleagues,

Further to my previous message about the Digital Benchmarking Tool for
Museums, I wanted to share with you the news that Te Papa museum in New
Zealand has formally adopted the Digital Benchmarks tool as part of the
planning and monitoring of their digital development in their 'Statement
of Intent 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16'. [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: NMDC news survey

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:54:31 -0400

Dear all,

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Digital Trends in Museums 2013 presentation

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:28:17 -0400

Thanks Nick - this is a quick and easy tool to use and provides a useful snapshot of where an organisation is at any given time.

I guess it would be hard to express with this tool but I would be interested to know, for instance, the degree of autonomy of organisations or departments in developing digital projects. [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Digital Trends in Museums 2013 presentation

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:34:18 -0400

Dear Perry (and MCG colleagues),

Apologies for the prolonged delay in coming back to you about this, but I just wanted to let you know that the full Excel version of the free 'Digital Benchmarks for Museums' tool is now up on Collections Link at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/sustaining-digital/1608-digital-benchmarks-for-the-culture-sector.

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:30:16 -0400

Dear Sara,
This sounds like you should join the US based ImageMuse Yahoo group for advice on the digitisation and copyright aspects, you could also get advice from the UK equivalent, AHFAP if you wished.

*Assuming* you do not have an in-house photography team, ImageMuse would be able to advise on US based freelancers. [...]

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Freelance Technical Consultant needed - Science Museum

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:06:37 -0400

Scope of works for Web Consultant (SMG e-journal) role

Description:

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Re: Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:19:42 -0400

The Royal Academy has done this in a way I find very useful:

http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/pages/exhibition_list.html

Trevor Reynolds, Registrar
English Heritage, 37 Tanner Row, York, YO1 6WP
+44 (0) 1904 601905

Museum Computer Group (MCG, UK) list feed: Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:56:05 -0400

Apologies for the cross-posting.

Hi Everyone,

An idea of digitizing all of our exhibition catalogs has been thrown on the table. Has anyone done this before? What were the copyright/logistical challenges? The ideal would be to put the catalogs online eventually. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Sara Patrello
Assistant Registrar