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Any advice on image metadata?
April 30, 2013 - 6:27amActually, it is already illegal to remove or strip rights management
information and also illegal to remove any technical protection measures
that might be embedded in a work.
The new legislation will require reasonable searches to try and find the
rights holders, and money will be paid by users in order to use the orphan
works under a licensing scheme which will have detailed requirements
attached to it. [...]
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Re: Any advice on image metadata?
April 30, 2013 - 6:13amOn 30 Apr 2013, at 10:58, SUBSCRIBE MCG Anonymous wrote:
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> I am currently doing a digitisation project in a museum. I need to digitze all the museum's collections into images. Do you know anyone who is using free software to manipulate really simple image metadata . I want to attach copyright and object number into the metadata of our collection images. I was thinking of PhotoMehttp://www.photome.de/, but I'm not sure if there are any other new boys in town?
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> Any advice you have would be great. [...]
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Any advice on image metadata?
April 30, 2013 - 5:58amHi,
I am currently doing a digitisation project in a museum. I need to digitze all the museum's collections into images. Do you know anyone who is using free software to manipulate really simple image metadata . I want to attach copyright and object number into the metadata of our collection images. I was thinking of PhotoMe http://www.photome.de/, but I'm not sure if there are any other new boys in town? [...]
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BFI recruitment: National Catalogue Data Specialist x 2
April 30, 2013 - 4:02amHi everyone,
In the BFI Information department we are recruiting two National Catalogue Data Specialists, a four year fixed term role contributing to the BFI's Unlocking Film Heritage project (part of our published Film Forever plan).
Details on the role and the application process can be found here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/job-opportunities/current-vacancies/national-catalogue-data-specialist-fixed-term-31-march-2017
The core work is data analysis and enhancement, to achieve a national catalogue of UK film in our CID database (an Adlib system combining Adlib Museum, Archive and Library modules with a new Adlib Film module), to bring the records up to minimum requirements for achieving registration with EIDR (a new [...]
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Knowledge Exchange - How widespread are RP objects in UK collections?
April 29, 2013 - 6:02amAs part of the AHRC funded Material Migrations knowledge-exchange project ( http://www.designwithheritage.org/material-migrations/ ) we aim to create an overview of heritage institutions and galleries across the UK that presently hold 3D prints/rapid prototypes in their collections.
If you know of such collections, or have had some experience with the curation/preservation or digital borne objects we would welcome your experiences, insights and thoughts. [...]
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Treasures of Cumbria - Job Opportunity
April 26, 2013 - 6:48amCumbria Museum Consortium
TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY TRUST
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Treasures of Cumbria: Digital Project Co-ordinator
Contract until March 2015
Grade: G (£24,646 - ££26,276 per annum)
Overview
A fantastic opportunity to be involved at the heart of a ground-breaking public engagement project.
The Cumbria Museum Consortium, comprising Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Wordsworth Trust and Lakeland Arts Trust, are Major Partner Museums in the Arts Council England funded programme. Over the next two years we will be delivering exciting and innovative programmes celebrating excellence and ensuring more people experience and are inspired by [...]
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EVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013 and Call for Research Workshop Participants
April 26, 2013 - 5:18amEVA London Conference 29th - 31st July 2013
A reminder of the terrific conference programme recently published on our website. Three days of inspiring and imaginative Keynote Speeches, , Cutting Edge Papers, Demonstration and Exhibits bringing together Artists, Researchers, Technologists and Academics from all over the world in this fantastic futuristic EVA Annual International Conference ! [...]
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National Digital Forum 2013: call for presentation proposals now open
April 25, 2013 - 11:15pmApologies for cross posting:
We're delighted to open the call for presentations for NDF2013, the
National Digital Forum's 2013 conference. It's on at Te Papa in
Wellington, New Zealand, 26 and 27 November. Submissions are due by
Monday 17 June 2013. If you've got something to share then we'd love to
hear from you.
See more here: http://www.ndf.org.nz/speaking-proposal [...]
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Early bird booking for ISKO UK conference ends on 30th April
April 25, 2013 - 10:12amIf you would like to attend the forthcoming conference of ISKO UK
(International Society for Knowledge Organization - UK Chapter) on 8th -
9th July, you can save up to £30 by booking within the next few days.
The fees for the two-day meeting are
Speakers, ISKO Members and Students: Early: £130; standard: £150 [...]
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Jisc "Wikimedia Ambassador" residence opportunity
April 24, 2013 - 9:04amDear all,
Some of you may be interested in this opportunity for a Jisc "Wikimedia Ambassador" residency, more details at http://bit.ly/XWiKjM. Closing deadline for tenders is 12 noon UK time on Wednesday 22 May 2013.
Paola
Paola Marchionni I Programme Manager Digitisation I Jisc
T: 020 30066064 I M: 07890 511869 I Twitter: @paolamarchionni I Skype: paolamarchionni_jisc [...]
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Re: Recording audio
April 24, 2013 - 7:54amHi Linda
For Android devices I would recommend TapeMachine Recorder. I have used
this on a variety of phones for as a cheap substitute for an industry
standard digital microphone (such as as the DRM85) and have found it to
work brilliantly. There is a nice live waveform when recording (to monitor
clipping and background noise) and has some basic editing tools. The audio
quality is excellent. However, I would only recommend this method if the
recording is going to be performed indoors. For outdoors audio, I would
recommend a digital mic, either bought or hired. [...]
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Re: app for audio and video content
April 24, 2013 - 7:14amHey there I work at the British Museum with the young people and schools department. Have you thought of using a program called wildform. This app and program is excellent for collecting date such as audio, video and pictures. Check it out there is an annual fee but its not much its about £4.00 a year here in Britain but I'm sure it will only cost a couple of euros in Austria. Hope this helps. [...]
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app for audio and video content
April 24, 2013 - 7:00amDear all,
we are discussing a project at NOUS where an app is needed for a city audio and video tour on Jewish life. We are looking for an app that handles such content well.
Does anyone know a good example or can recommend a tool?
Many thanks and greetings from Austria.
Claudia
Project Manager [...]
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Re: Diary studies
April 23, 2013 - 11:56amHi David, Giasemi Vavoula's phd thesis may be useful for you. Amongst several methods, she used "diary study" technique as a qualitative method of research: http://www2.le.ac.uk/Members/gv18/downloads/publicationpreprints/Thesis-GVavoula.pdf She wrote the thesis 12 years ago, so, uint eh main time, she has wrote other interesting papers and books. I link them, just in case: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-Sy9ogkAAAAJ&hl=en I hope it helps Best, marco mason -- Dr. Marco Mason Marie Curie fellow at MIT Science, Technology, and Society Program in Boston and the School of Museum Studies in Leicester. marcomason.mit.edu ________________________________________ From: Museums Computer Group [MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk] on behalf of Little, David [david.little@KCL.AC.UK] Sent: Tuesday, April [...]
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Diary studies
April 23, 2013 - 11:28amDear all,
Has anyone on the list been involved in running a diary study as a research method to engage with users (as part of a design process)? As part of a project I'm working on we're planning to use this as method into researching user behaviours and motivations around mobile usage (specifically around arts/cultural heritage but also considered in a wider context). [...]
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Fwd: Great Opportunity for Postgraduate Students: The Heritage Apprentice
April 23, 2013 - 10:56am[Forwarding this from the spam trap it found itself in...]
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From: "Spiller K."
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:28:52 +0100
Subject: Great Opportunity for Postgraduate Students: The Heritage Apprentice
The below opportunity is open to postgraduate students at all levels and
of all disciplines nationally. Please circulate as appropriate. Thank
you.
Research Institute for Arts and Humanities [...]
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Treasures of Cumbria – Website creation – Invitation to Tender
April 23, 2013 - 7:47amTreasures of Cumbria – Website creation – Invitation to Tender
Treasures of Cumbria is an exciting new project which looks to stimulate the people of Cumbria into becoming interested in and actively engaged with both its museum collections, and its wider heritage and history.
Delivered across a mix of platforms - online, mobile, print, radio and more - Treasures of Cumbria creates a level-playing field for museums, community groups and individuals to create, edit, vote and comment on the 'Treasures' of the county. [...]
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Re: CIDOC CRM Semantic Search - ResearchSpace system
April 22, 2013 - 2:33pmHey Dominic
This is really very impressive - thank you so much :-)
Just brilliant to see some actual, real demos of this stuff. If you don't watch out I might become a Linked Data advocate.. [ shock, horror ]
cheers!
Mike
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An off topic question (sorry!)
April 22, 2013 - 12:23pmHi all
Forgive the non-tech question but a client of ours is looking to
commission some museum furniture for on-gallery and I wondered if
anyone could recommend where I should point him to? I have absolutely
no idea where to start...
Please reply off list to avoid non-topical noise!
Thanks lots
Mike
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Re: CIDOC CRM Semantic Search - ResearchSpace system
April 22, 2013 - 12:05pmHi Mike,
I posted a demo with audio. See www.researchspace.org.
I hope it's OK and would be interested in your comments. It is HD so you can make it full screen. It also gives a glimpse of the annotation tools and databasket also. I will do a separate video for these.
Cheers,
Dominic
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