Educational
Sessions
Thursday, September 5, 2002
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Break
Out #
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Title | Description | Presenters |
| 9:00am 10:30am |
1
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Form and Function: Evaluating Online Content | This panel provides a broad but concise review of current research, activity, and projects in the evaluation of web site content and useability. | Lynn Teather, University of Toronto; Tim Hart, J.Paul Getty Trust; Kate Haley-Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation, Inc.; Moderated by Layna White, Grunwald Center for the Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum |
| 9:00am 10:30am |
2
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Archiving Digital Assets for the Long Haul, Part I: Sustainable Media Production, Storage and Migration | The production of digital images entails risks to both the objectat time of image capture, and, in the long term, to the media on which the image is stored. This session focuses on processes essential to producing, protecting and documenting digital assets early in the process, including capture, color management, media storage and digital migration strategies. Co-sponsored by the Standards and Controlled Vocabulary SIG and the Digital Imaging SIG. | Amalyah
Keshet, The Israel Museum; Deborah Lenert of the Getty Research
Institute; Ben Blackwell, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive;
Tim Au Yeung, University of Calgary; Moderated by Rob Lancefield,
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University |
| 9:00am 10:30am |
3
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The Processes & Pitfalls of Technology Planning | The creation of a multi-year plan can be critical to an institution's acceptance, funding, and broad-based commitment to the use of technology, as well as implementation success. This session describes several scenarios for creating and implementing plans, covering needs analysis, product evaluation & selection, budgeting, project planning, and implementation. | Susan
Mann, SW Software, Inc. Other to be confirmed |
| 9:00am 10:30am |
4
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Meeting
the Digital Imaging Challenge: Content, Access, Utility, and Sustainability Presented by the Visual Resources Association |
How does an institution meet the increasing digital image needs of visitors, students, faculty, researchers, and staff effectively and efficiently? This session explores these issues through diverse and inventive models developed at major universities. Issues include database creation, software selection, funding, staffing, standards, collaboration, and more. | Jacqueline Spafford, University of California, Santa Barbara, Maureen Burns, University of California, Irvine; Susan Jane Williams, Yale University; Moderated by Eliza Lanzi, Visual Resources Association |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
BREAK
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| 11:00am 12:00pm |
GENERAL
SESSION/KEYNOTE
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Stan Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy, Princeton University | ||
| 12:00 1:30pm |
Lunch
on your own
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
1
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Designing Accessible and Maintainable Multi-platform MultiMedia in a Collaborative Effort |
CANCELED |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
2
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Museology Faces New Media / La museologie face aux nouveau medias | This session describes the research and development of OMIC, a tool for integration and presentation of digital content. | Alain MassŽ - LabidŽeclic! / Kanyasys |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
3
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For the Sake of Science & Sustainability: Herbarium Specimens Electric | An intriguing collaboration between Library and Natural History Museum, and others, in support of research and education, this project centers on the creation and management of high resolution images of herbarium specimens, and an image bank which generates revenue to sustain the program. Technologies used in image capture and management, and the field use of handheld devices, as well the collaborative and management models are discussed. | Michael
Bond, University of Florida Erich Kesse, Digital Library Center, University of Florida |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
4
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Some Universal Truths of Collection Management System Implementation | For anyone involved or interested in the current state of collection management systems, this session will provide a vital and pragmatic overview of potential system functions, data standards to be considered, client-vendor expectations, and those vital keys to a successful conversion/implementation. | Andrew Reinhard, Willoughby Associates; Lynn Underwood, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Robert Hickerson, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
5
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Orchestral Maneuvers: Conducting the Donor Information Tidal Wave | Is all of that information in your membership/development system producing a symphony or a cacophony. This session presents several case studies which will identify tools, techniques and lessons learned that will help participants get the greatest long term return on investment from their existing or forthcoming systems. | Steve Jacobson, JCA, Inc.; Gina Tan, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Steve Hines, The Field Museum; Moderated by Adriane Tafoya, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
6
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Museophile:
A Community for Museum e-Commerce
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The pilot e-commerce web site which will be demonstrated is designed to support a collaboration of three museum, and provides improved accessibility and discussion forums, all at very modest cost. The technology will be made available free of charge to museums wishing to use it. | Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, London, UK |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
7
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Archiving
Digital Assets for the Long Haul, Part II: Conceptual Frameworks
& New Media Meta-data Standards
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This session engages the issue of digital asset preservation with a focus on frameworks for long-term archiving and the description of content for purposes of discovery and exchange. Metadata issues related to Open Archival Information Systems, Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard and other systems will be discussed. | Brian Lavoie, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; Guenter Waibel, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Robin L. Dale, RLG Member Programs and Initiatives; Moderated by Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
BREAK
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| 3:30pm 4:30pm |
1
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Mystic Seaport's Thick Book: A Narrative Approach to Integrated Access | The innovative "thick book" provides a narrative interface which uses exhibition labels, oral histories, and text as the access points to digital assets of all kinds. The underlying technologies used, the learning theories embraced and the development experience all promise a thoughtful and useful demonstration and discussion. | Jim
Blackaby, Mystic Seaport; Rachel Thomas, Mystic Seaport |
| 3:30pm 4:30pm |
2
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Role & Impact of Information & Communication Technologies on Museums | How does the focus and objective of information and communcation technologies generally relate to the overall focus and objectives of the museum itself? And what is the consequential impact of this synergy or discord? This thought-provoking session presents current methodology and findings in this area. | Saskia Meulemans, London School of Economics |
| 3:30pm 4:30pm |
3
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Digital Asset Management Solutions and the Intersection of Multiple Systems and Multiple Uses | This session presents several image management implementations using home grown and commercial software. It will explore standards and multi-institution issues in this context as well as the relationship of image management systems to collection management systems. | Guenter
Waibel, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and Judy Tomlin,
Canadian Museum of Civilization; Moderated by Marla Misunas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 3:30pm 4:30pm |
4
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Son of No Data is an Island: A Year One Update on an Integrated Information Plan | Having installed a membership/development system as its core, the Minneapolis Institute of Art are now in the process of implementing additional systems as part of an integrated information environment. Presenters promise a forthright and honest look at what has and hasn't worked, and challenges of choosing between "best of breed" or highly integrative applications. | Steve
Jacobson, Jacobson Consulting Applications,
Inc., Merry Brodzinski, Sunergi; John R. Bedard, Minneapolis Institute of Art |
| 3:30pm 5:00pm |
5
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The AMICO Sustainability Model | The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) has been making museum multimedia available for educational use since 1998, without government or grant funding, and currently serves 3 million users. Panelists will offer personal perspective on AMICOs strategy and objectives, as initially articulated, as they have evolved. Attendees will consider how AMICOs success was achieved and how they can apply lessons to their own current and prospective projects. Presented by AMICO in association with MCN. | David Bearman, AMICO; Rich Cherry, Albright Knox Art Gallery; Scott Sayre,AMICO, Minneapolis, MN; Roberly Bell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Kris Wetterlund, AMICO, Minneapolis, MN; Jennifer Trant, AMICO |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
BREAK
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| 5:30pm-9:00pm |
GRAND
OPENING AND RECEPTION IN EXHIBIT HALL
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Friday, September 6, 2002
| Time |
Break
Out #
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Title | Description | Presenters |
| 8:00am 5pm |
Registration
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| 9:00am-5:30pm |
Exhibit
Hall OPEN
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| 8:00-9:00 am |
1
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Adding the Third Dimension: 3-D Imaging Research and Applications | This session brings a new dimension to the understanding of digital imaging. It explores current research, and cutting-edge developments in the use of three-dimensional representations in the service of cultural heritage collections. | Samantha
Hastings, University of North Texas Elise Lewis, University of North Texas Jo Glenny, University of North Texas |
| 8:00-9:00 am |
2
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Still Learning from Las Vegas: Developing Web Architecture | In describing the evolution of Mystic Seaports web site from serving a single purpose to serving many, theory and practice will be explored, what worked and what didnt will be explained, and participants should get a clear sense of what lessons can be applied to their own situations. | Jim Blackaby, Mystic Seaport |
| 8:00-9:00 am |
3
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Digital Renaissance: The Remaking of Canadas Royal Ontario Museum | Digital ROM is the planned new information architecture to complement the planned architectural expansion Renaissance ROM. Key aspects of ROM`s institutional and digital goals will be examined, along with the technologies envisioned and organizational structure needed to support them. Lesson learned to date should prove useful to those involved in emerging institutional technology strategy. | Tony Hushion, Royal Ontario Museum, Brian Porter, Royal Ontario Museum |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Break
in Exhibit Hall
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| 9:30-11:00 am |
1
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Powerful Words: Subject Description & Classification of Cultural Resources | Subject descriptions capture the gist of a work, making it accessible to prospective users on their own "terms." Yet, the actual provision of subject classification and description raises passionate debate among curators, catalogers, administrators, and advocates of user centered design as needs conflict and items themselves cross multiple disciplines. This debate is explored using practical examples as well as theory, touching on differences among archival, museum, and library approaches. | Layna White, UCLA Hammer Museum; Lynn Underwood, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; James M. Turner, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal; Bill Landis, University of California |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
2
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On-line Museum Forums: Whence and Whither? | Although virtual communities (chat groups, listservs, etc.) have proliferated in general, online forums engaging museum professionals and the public have not. This session presents research about what groups do exist, and the potential for creating more or better communities by the understanding the demographics and interests of prospective members. | Jonathan
Bowen, South Bank University, London, UK Roxane Bernier, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
3
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Bringing Content DeliveryTechnology to Your Museum's Future | Successful integration of content delivery technology requires both keeping up with the tools and marketing your product internally. This session both identifies the key success factors in integrating content delivery technology into institutional plans and demonstrates some of the new technologies that may just become part of those plans. | Barbara Roberts, Acoustiguide |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
4
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Just in time. Just where you need it | Scalable solutions to creating affective mobile context and location-aware applications for the physical museum exhibition space using wireless technologies, based on art museum case studies | Nita Sturiale, Giuseppe Taibi, Karen Pfefferle, Smartworlds |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
5
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From Entertainers to Educators: The IP Maze for Museums On-line. MCN's Annual IP Update | More daunting than technology management is intellectual property management, This session provides an update on and discussion of the primary issues and recent developments in intellectual property management, including policy development, licensing strategies, use of trademarks, and implications of recent copyright legislation and rulings. | Lesley Ellen Harris, Copyright and New Media Lawyer; Andrea Rush, Heenan Blaikie; Tyler Ochoa, Whittier Law School; Richard Weisgrau, ASMP. Co-moderators are Rina Pantalony, CHIN and Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
6
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Ready, Set, Go: New Media at the Cleveland Museum of Art | Lessons learned in content development and delivery using case studies of several projects at Cleveland Museum of Art | Holly Witchey, Cleveland Museum of Art; Jason Ryan, Cognitive Applications, Inc. |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
7
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Case studies in content delivery. | This session presents diverse projects presenting cultural content, including CD-ROM interactive catalog of the recently-destroyed Ou Mong frescoes, two large scale exhibition interactives, a smaller scale experiment with interactive displays in a permanent gallery, and a web updating tool. But this session is not just "show and tell" - it focuses on project feasibility, content delivery issues, and core elements of learning styles, navigation, interface and interactivity. | Alan Potkin, Laos; Catherine Raymond, Northern Illinois University |
| 9:30-10:30 am |
8
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The Next Generation: Rethinking On-line Collections | The next generation of on-line collection databases will have to meet the needs of increasingly diverse users demanding "knowledge environments" - not just data and images. This session presents results of research conducted by the University of Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum which explore new paradigms for online collection access and interpretation. This session also presents the implementation of web site accessible digital image database using off-the-shelf software, and its advantages and limitations. | Fiona Cameron, University of Sydney |
| 11:00am - 11:30 am |
Break
in Exhibit Hall
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| 11:30am-1:00pm |
GENERAL
SESSION/KEYNOTE II
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Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) | ||
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
1
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Harder, Longer, Smarter:How to Make Digitized Collections Meet Evolving Needs | The ways in which image databases, often available 24/7, are used by diverse internal and external audiences in surprising ways can place new demands on many levels of staff. This session explores the anticipation and meeting of demand and the need to educate staff and the public with respect to ex-pectations and responsibilities. | Mary Elings, University of California, Berkeley Snowden Becker, Japanese American Museum National Museum |
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
2
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Whither New Media: A Cautionary Tale | What lessons can new media producers learn from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Land of Cockaigne"? Leadership roles, fiscal responsibility, intellectual rigor and more. | Holly Witchey, Cleveland Museum of Art; Other to be confirmed. |
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
3
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Standards, Sustainability, and Interface Design: Vital to Even Small Collections | For many small museums and special collections the added value of investing in image and data standards is not clear. First, this session describes the process and purpose of using technical protocols and standards to relate the database of a small historic costume collection to the Open Archives Initiative [Martin]. Then a textile collection demonstrates an integrated information system interface for the cataloguing of its artifact conservation information. [Borda]. | Kathi Martin, Drexel University; Sylvia Borda, University of British Columbia |
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
4
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More than Content: New Research into the Importance and Impact of the User Interface | This session highlights research and projects related to the importance of information about the user in information retrievel design, the physiological and cognitive aspects of reaction to user design, new information about what various categories of users need and expect from the web sites they go to. | Robin Bartoletti, Stan Shultz, Vika Kravchyna, University of North Texas |
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
5
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Developing a Digital Identity for a Childrens Museum; a Museum explores childrens lives through their own digital identity | This session explores two ways in which museum approach children in the digital age. First, the issues and process of devloping the digital identity for the Childrens Museum of Los Angeles is explored. Then, travel to an international exchange project directed for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that saw photographers in a small town in Italy and in New York City working with elementary school teachers and immigrant students to create a digital, bilingual magazine. | Candace Barrett, Wendy Levy, Childrens Museum of Los Angeles; Marilyn JS Goodman, Ed.D., Arts and Museum Education Consultant |
| 2:30pm - 3:30 pm |
6
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Unpacking the Big Box:Making Multi-Disciplinary Description Work | This session describes the Historic New Orleans' Collection's five year mission to create a system that will "find everything," yet allow catologuers from the curatorial, library, and manuscript departments apply their own knowledge and expertise, even when objects are described in a way most comfortable to the department which acquired it. This requires news ways of collaborating and incorporating outsiders' knowledge. | Charles
Patch, Director of Systems; Carol Bartels, Documentation Coordinator, The Historic New Orleans Collection |
| 6:30 - 9:30pm |
Reception/
Keynote III
Royal Ontario Museum Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director General, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) |
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