[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (104)
Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998
[2] From: Richard Rinehart <rinehart@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU> (52)
From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (24)
Subject: Museums & the Online Archive of California [New
Project]
[3] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (68)
Subject: Exhibit: Sarah Roberts: Physical Fiction
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:58:02 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 8, 1998
THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR--CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WEBSITE
<http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/>
This site was not only recommended by the current "Scout Report," but was
further praised by an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic
Design at the Norwegian School of Management on the DIGLIB list.
David Green
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>Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:16:07 -0500
>From: Scout Project <scout@CS.WISC.EDU>
>
>======== The Scout Report ==
>======== June 5, 1998 ====
>======== Volume 5, Number 6 ======
>====== Internet Scout Project ========
>==== University of Wisconsin ========
>== Department of Computer Sciences ========
>
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>
>5. The Life of Edward the Confessor--CUL
>http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
>
>Cambridge University library has recently made available online "the only
>copy of a thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, illuminated Life of St. Edward
>the Confessor." The manuscript, written in the 1230s or 40s and executed in
>the 1250s or 60s, is well-preserved, and its new availability should be a
>boon for medievalists. Cambridge's site allows users to page through all 37
>folios, beginning with the first, or to obtain descriptions of each folio
>and view them selectively. Users can zoom in on all or part of a page or
>view pages side-by-side. The site also includes a brief introduction to the
>manuscript and suggestions for further reading. [TK]
>
>The Scout Report (ISSN 1092-3861) is published every Friday of the year
>except the last Friday of December by the Internet Scout Project,
>located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer
>Sciences.
>
> Managing Editor Susan Calcari
> Editor Jack Solock [JS]
> Production Editor Travis Koplow [TK]
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>Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 13:03:24 +0200
>From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@BI.NO>
>Subject: This site is worth a visit ....... ------
>To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
>This is one of the best organized and most beautiful sites I've ever come
>across. The focus here is a medieval manuscript. The site features are a
>paragon of simplicity and user-friendly management of scholarly knowledge.
>The information structure and close-up zoom features can be adapted to
>dozens of disciplines.
>
>This site is worth a visit for anyone planning a web site or interested in
>information design, information structures and knowledge hierarchies.
>
>
>5. The Life of Edward the Confessor--CUL
>http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
>
>Cambridge University library has recently made available online "the only
>copy of a thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, illuminated Life of St. Edward
>the Confessor." The manuscript, written in the 1230s or 40s and executed in
>the 1250s or 60s, is well-preserved, and its new availability should be a
>boon for medievalists. Cambridge's site allows users to page through all 37
>folios, beginning with the first, or to obtain descriptions of each folio
>and view them selectively. Users can zoom in on all or part of a page or
>view pages side-by-side. The site also includes a brief introduction to the
>manuscript and suggestions for further reading. [TK]
>
>
>Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
>Department of Knowledge Management
>Norwegian School of Management - BI
>Box 4676 Sofienberg
>N-0506 Oslo, Norway
>
>+47 22.98.51.07 Direct Telephone
>
>+47 95.05.95.65 GSM Mobile Phone + Voice Mail (After June 20)
>+47 95.00.95.65 GSM Fax (After
June 20)
>+47 95.00.95.65 GSM Data (After June
20)
>
>+47 22.98.51.11 Telefax
>
>email: <ken.friedman@bi.no>
>
>
>
>****************************************************************************
>DIGLIB is a public service provided by IFLA (http://www.ifla.org) and
>sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "The Network is the Computer".
>
>Sun has published a new whitepaper, "The Digital Library Tool Kit".
>This paper by Peter Noerr addresses many of the leading questions that
>academic institutions, public libraries, government agencies, and
>museums face in trying to develop digital content and distribute it
>on the Worldwide Web.
>
>This 98 page document can be accessed in PDF or Postscript format via the
>Sun in Libraries webpage at; http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries/index.html.
>
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:25:39 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Museums & the Online Archive of California [New Project]
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 8, 1998
MUSEUMS AND THE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA (MOAC)
EAD Testbed for integrated access to museum/archive/library collections
<http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/>
FEEDBACK REQUESTED
Below is the announcement of a particularly interesting testbed project to
create a "virtual museum archive" integrating standardized "finding
aids" for museum and library special collections into a single source.
This extends work already being done on the Encoded Archival Description
as a tool to integrate archival finding aids (see for example the American
Heritage Virtual Archive Project at <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/amher/>).
It is a project conducted under the umbrella of the California Digital
Library's "Online Archive of California."
<http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/FindingAids/dynaweb/uc-ead/>
The prototype will work with EAD finding aids for 35,000 records and
images from 20 collections. Five California museums (the Berkeley Art
Museum/Pacific Film Archive, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the
Oakland Museum of California, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts,
and the UCR/California Museum of Photography) will join the Bancroft
Library in developing the testbed. Two other museums (Stanford University
Art Museum, Fowler Museum of Cultural History), which will not actively
participate in the grant, will also contribute collections to the testbed.
David Green
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:54:20 -0700
From: Richard Rinehart <rinehart@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: new EAD project
Hello,
I'd like to introduce a new project underway to test implementation of the
EAD in a museum setting, specific issues of EAD's application to pictorial
and object collections, and integrated access to museum/archive/library
collections. This is a museum/library collaboration project under the
auspices of the California Digital Library's "Online Archive of California"
(formerly UC-EAD project), and co-managed by Tim Hoyer of the UC Berkeley
Bancroft Library and myself, Richard Rinehart of the UC Berkeley Art
Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
This testbed project involves 8 institutions of very different sizes,
collections holdings and technical expertise in order to test real-world
issues of collaboration and scalability. I would love to hear any feedback
or ideas from this group as to issues we should be addressing, related
projects we should know about, and generally any input. The project has a
website with a brief and a full project description, as well as links to
some existing instances of museum and pictorial or object collections
accesss using EAD. It's at http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/
This description below is taken from the website:
Museums and the Online Archive of California Project (MOAC), will
investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers
everywhere, the geographic distribution and limited access to the
collections of unique materials -- primary sources for research in all
areas of our cultural heritage -- that are held in libraries, museums, and
archives around the world. We propose to solve this problem by creating a
prototype "virtual museum archive" that integrates standardized "finding
aids" for museum and library special collections into a single source, thus
providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries
throughout the state of California.
We will create this prototype within an existing online union database of
finding aids, the Online Archive of California (OAC), which is being
developed as a primary resource for the public, schools, and universities,
enabling cross-disciplinary education and research. The OAC employs Encoded
Archival Description (EAD), the standard for archival finding aids (in the
form of an SGML DTD) supported by the Society of American Archivists and
maintained by the Library of Congress, which will be evaluated for
providing collection-level access in the museum community.
The MOAC prototype within the OAC will be comprised of EAD finding aids for 20
collections, including 35,000 item records and images. Five California
museums (the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, the Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, the Oakland Museum of California, the Grunwald Center for the
Graphic Arts, and the UCR/California Museum of Photography) will join the
Bancroft Library in developing the testbed. Two other museums (Stanford
University Art Museum, Fowler Museum of Cultural History), which will not
actively participate in the grant, will also contribute collections to the
testbed.
Richard Rinehart
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Information Systems Manager & Education Technology Specialist
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
@ University of California
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
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& President-Elect, Museum Computer Network, http://www.mcn.edu/
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:36:45 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Exhibit: Sarah Roberts: Physical Fiction
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 9, 1998
EXHIBITION: SARA ROBERTS: PHYSICAL FICTION
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
<http://www.artcenter.edu/exhibit/williamson3.html>
It's rare that we announce art exhibits, but this seemed particularly
interesting, even though its web appearance seems uncertain.
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Judy Malloy <jmalloy@artswire.org>
>>
>_______________________________________________________
>Arts Wire CURRENT June 9, 1998
>Arts Wire CURRENT Volume 7, No. 23
>Arts Wire CURRENT
>Arts Wire CURRENT Judy Malloy, Editor
>Arts Wire CURRENT jmalloy@artswire.org
>_______________________________________________________
Arts Wire CURRENT is available at
<http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/current.html> and an archive
of past issues can be found at
<http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/current/archive.html>
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ARTS EVENTS
PASADENA, CA
through July 19
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design
SARA ROBERTS: PHYSICAL FICTION
In PHYSICAL FICTION, four interactive computer installations by
Sara Roberts (http://shoko.calarts.edu/faculty/sroberts.html) explore
the emotional frontier of human-machine relations. The works -- EARLY
PROGRAMMING; DIGITAL MUSEUM; ELECTIVE AFFINITIES; and UNTITLED, GAME --
span a decade in the development of hypermedia art.
"My fascination with mechanism - that is not mechanism as a noun but as
the practice of making things that go without our pushing them...
relates to the way that throughout history people have used the
technology of the time to interpret their own internal and psychological
workings," Roberts has stated, in an interview on Arts Wire's Interactive
Arts Conference. "....early man tended to think of themselves as types of
vessels, alchemical times saw psychology as the result of combinations
of substances called humors, In Freud's time the general populace was
coming in contact with hydraulic and steam engine technology - mental
states were a matter of pressures released and suppressed...now we are on
autopilot, in default mode, computer culture provides us with all kinds
of metaphors for what's going on inside..people have made mechanistic
representations of living things for ages, and I see myself as carrying
on in that tradition."
For taped gallery information call (626) 396-2244. Directions to the
gallery and an exhibition archive can be found on the World Wide Web, at
<http://www.artcenter.edu>
Interviews with artists who use interactive elements in their work are
available on Arts Wire's Interactive Art Conference (Co-hosted by Anna
Couey and Judy Malloy) at
<http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/interactive/www/guests.html>
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
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