Northeast SIG

CHAIR:

Ari Davidow
adavidow [at] jwa.org

MISSION:

The MCN Northeast Special Interest Group (NE SIG) serves as a regional forum to promote communication about the usage of digital technologies and personal networking for MCN members in the broadly-defined Northeast US (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania). The goal of the meeting is to share new developments and challenges, to visit each others' facilities, and to network. The NE SIG will also meet during the annual MCN meeting each fall.

First NE SIG Meet @ MFA, Boston, 10am - 4pm July 15, 2011, was a big success. Many thanks for everyone who attended, and in particular, the presenters and to Phil Getchell and the MFA staff who made it happen.

Program for the July 15, 2011 SIG meeting.

10am: Welcome (Rob Lancefield, former President, MCN) (also, a bit later, a welcome from Malcom Rogers, Director of the MFA, who stopped in.)

10:10: Digital Asset Management in the real world: Two recent installations--what worked, what didn't who is using what to solve what. Presentations by David Dwiggens (Historic New England), Melissa Fournier (Yale's Center for British Art), Howard Goldstein (consultant on workflow, DAM)

Noon-1:30: No host lunch. It was a lovely day for a walk - but we got a tour of one of the MFA's digital imaging labs first. K001!

1:30pm-2:30: "Stuff that Works" - two presentations: Aaron Rubinstein on "Linked Open Data" and how it makes museum websites more fun to use; Steffan Berelowitz, CEO and "Conductor" of BlueTrain Mobile will be speaking about mobile websites: best practices and recommendations.

2:30-3:00: Break

3:00-4:00: "Infrastructure" - The MFA's Phil Getchell hosted a discussion on infrastructure issues, starting with problems/new technologies that arose with the new wing.

Tour of the MFA followed the meeting, after which, we all spent time in the Chihouly exhibit

If you have questions, please send email to: adavidow [at] jwa.org.