Once again, it was down to the wire for proposals for Museums and the Web 2009. If we didn't know you better, we'd be worried that we wouldn't have a program, but, true to form, the MW community came through, with most of your 150+ proposals arriving right before the deadline. That's in the last 24 hours before the deadline ... and in the 12 hours after the deadline here, when it still wasn't the deadline where you are ...
Conference organizing is not for the faint of heart!
Proposals are now out for peer review by the MW2009 Program Committee. You've given them a difficult task, and we're very grateful for their assistance.
Watch for the results of their deliberations and the announcement of the preliminary program in mid-November.
COLLECTIONS DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Part-Time (24 hrs/week); Two year fixed-term position with possibility of extension
The Asian Art Museum is seeking an experienced database administrator to maintain and enhance the art collections management database, ARGUS Open Edition (AOE), and its smooth and accurate interface with an on-line collections database. Reporting to the Head of Registration, the incumbent oversees the continued development and implementation of the AOE system; trains and assists users; documents data standards; acts as planning liaison between the Registration, Curatorial, and IT departments for AOE-related projects; enters new data and successfully refreshes the on-line database at relevant intervals.
This fixed-term, part-time position is funded through October 2010 with a possibility of renewal. Examples of Duties: Manages the collections management database ARGUS Open Edition (AOE); acts as principal AAM liaison with outside vendors; serves as Registration department liaison to other departments regarding Argus-related projects. Coordinates regular updates of the on-line collections database and assists with the ongoing digitization project by ensuring the smooth functioning of the online database. Trains staff in use of the collections management system; prepares user documentation and training materials, and compiles system documentation. Inputs new data; updates and corrects existing data; and ensures the integrity of information in AOE and on-line databases. Customizes AOE for the museum’s use; designs and generates forms and reports; monitors adherence to, and documents, data entry standards.
Minimum Qualifications
Compensation $23.80-28.58/hr.* with generous benefits package *
Please note: 1. New hires start at the beginning of the salary range. 2. This position is represented by SEIU 1021.
Application Procedure Apply online at www.asianart.org or send a letter of interest and resume IMMEDIATELY to: HUMAN RESOURCES Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 FAX: 415.861.2359
The Asian Art Museum, a premier San Francisco institution, is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. The museum’s magnificent and priceless collection of more than 17,000 objects, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades and textiles, exemplifies the artistic accomplishments of countries and cultures throughout Asia. The museum has relocated to an historic Civic Center building which has undergone a multi- million dollar renovation to become the Asian Art Museum’s new home. The museum opened to the public in March 2003.* The Asian Art Museum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Use the MW2009 tag when you blog about the conference. Use it's special #mw2009 form when you tweet and want to be found in twitter aggregators.
Tag your pictures on flickr with MW2009 and put them in the MW2009 group!
We'll pick you up in the MW2009 on the Web sidebar here, and we'll all be able to see what's going on, or at least what's on your mind.
/jt
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Author: sagitariusz
Keywords: Maraton Warszawski 2008
Added: September 30, 2008
Don't miss this great chance to present your best work at the only international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and science on-line: Museums and the Web. MW2009 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 15-18, 2009.
Submit your proposal using our on-line form.
Proposals for MW are peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. We're open to proposals on on any topic related to museums and their communities creating, facilitating, or delivering culture, science or heritage on-line.
Full details about MW2009 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/
We hope to see you there!
3-D Virtual Reality Technology for Cultural Heritage:
More than computer game
7.30 pm, 24 September 2008
Regency Town House, Brighton & Hove
A quick reminder to those who share a common interest in integrating technology and culture, that on Wednesday the 24th of September, Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria will give a talk on 3D
visualizations technologies for Cultural Heritage, which will be
followed by a Q&A session.
The talk has been organised by
a newly formed community based in Brighton, Culture Geeks, and will be hosted at the Regency Town House, Hove.
You can confirm your attendance on Upcoming , by replying to this email or calling 01273206306.
Please note this is free to attend and you are welcome to bring your own drinks.
Culture Geeks
http://www.culturegeeks.org.uk
i gave a keynote this morning at the Dublin Core Metadata Meeting - DC2008 on access to art museums on-line: a role for social tagging and folksonomy? that reports on more of the steve.museum tagging data analysis. this talk built on what i reported at NKOS last week [steve.museum: public and professional vocabularies. presentation @ NKOS 2008] and extended it to include some thoughts on user-generated metadata – useful in the context of DC, which began its life as a format for encoding user-created metadata – and a bit of work about the relationships between tags and search logs.
my slides are here (without some of the funky builds).
while we'd hypothesized that there might be a tight relationship between tags and search terms, what we found was a much looser coupling. whether this is a self-fulilling prophesy – because searches on the kinds of subject and genre terms that they use to tag fail, people don't use them – or because description and retrieval vocabularies vary at some other level still needs some thought. that's what the examples we looked at seemed to indicate, and a place i'll be looking further.
/jt
CHArt TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Seeing…Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 November 2008
The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX.
THEME
This year's CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis.
What does it mean to see and be seen nowadays? How have advances in neuroscience or developments in technology altered our understanding of vision and perception? What kind of visual spaces do we now inhabit? What new kinds of visual experiences are now available? And what are now lost or no longer possible? How does the increasing digitalisation of media affect the experience of seeing? What and who might be rendered invisible by the processes of digital culture? What are our current digital culture's blindspots? What are its politics of seeing? The 2008 conference investigates such questions.
Places are limited so early booking is recommended.
The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk <http://www.chart.ac.uk> . Bookings made before 1 October 2008 will be entitled to a discount. Conference fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Paul Brown, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
SESSION 1 – REPRESENTATION
Night-Colored-Eye: Night vision in Video or the Mediated Perception of Invisibility
Eduardo Abrantes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Realism vs Reality TV in the War on Terror: Artworks and Models of Interpretation
David Crawford, Göteborg University, Sweden.
Amalgamating Vision: Photography, Artificial Intelligence and Visual Art
Simone Gristwood, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Digital Synaesthesia: Hearing Colour/Seeing Sound/Visualising Gesture
Birgitta Hosea, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, UK.
SESSION 2 – REPRESENTATION (cont.)
Seeing What You Believe, Believing What You See: Revisiting 'Photorealism'
David Humphrey, Royal College of Art, London.
The Participatory Off-screen: Spatial Perception and Suture in Interactive Soap KateModern
Valentina Rao, Factory Girl Games; Pomaia, Pisa, Italy.
Not-just-seeing, not-just-reading (On the perception and cognition of digital literature).
Janez Strehovec, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SESSION 3 – SPACE
GIS and WebGIS Technologies for Enhanced Seeing in Archeology. The Case of the Roman Aqueducts
Luciana Bordoni, ENEA; Attilio Colagrossi and Lorenzo Felli, Institut for Research and Protection of the Environment (IRPA), Italy.
Performing the Archive for the Visibility of Information in Space
Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss
Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, MARS - Media Arts and Research Studies, Germany.
Seeing in 3D: New Problems In Accessibility
Graham McAllister, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
SESSION 4 – SPACE (cont.)
Configurations of the Unseen: Installation Art and Information Overload
Jennifer Steetskamp, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Architectural Space as Virtual Reality: Regarding Perceptional Parameters in Digital Culture
Pelin Yildiz, Hacettepe University. Ankara, Turkey.
FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER
SESSION 5 – BEYOND THE PIXEL
Seeing Software: The Biennale.py Net Art Virus and Visuality of Software
Jussi Parikka, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Subject to Change Without Notice: How Advances In Modern Holography and Digital Imaging Have Altered Our Understanding of Vision and Perception
Paul Edward Scattergood and Martin John Richardson, Institute of Creative Technologies, UK.
Seeing Through Imaging: An Exploration of Technology and Transparency
Nola Semczyszyn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
The Art and Science of Colour: Bridging the Gap between Art and Perception
Carinna Parraman, University of the West of England, UK; John J. McCann, McCann Imaging, Belmont, MA; USA; Alessandro Rizzi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
SESSION 6 – BODY AND PERCEPTION
Perception and Representation: the Visual Cortex and Landscape Art.
Ada Henskens, Tasmania, Australia.
A Presentation of 'Saccadic Sightings', Reflections on the Process of Working with a MobileEye and on the Difficulty of Visualising Sensory Experience.
Rune Peitersen, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Attentional Surplus: Ambient Media Art and the Myth of Looking
Brett Phares, Marist College, USA.
Seeing Things: Ghosts in the Machine
Alan Dunning, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Paul Woodrow, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
SESSION 7 – BODY AND PERCEPTION (cont.)
SCANPATH
Catherine Baker, Norwich University College of the Arts, UK.; Iain Gilchrist, University of Bristol, UK.
Play it Again, SAM
Dirk de Bruyn, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
Creative Perception: Sensory, Conceptual and Relational Ways of Seeing
Stuart G. English, Northumbria University School of Design, UK.
SESSION 8 – PRACTICE
Machines, Drawing and Vision
James Faure Walker, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London.
Conference Behind the Canvas, an Algorithmic Space: Reflections on Digital Art
Frieder Nake and Kolja Köster, Informatik, University of Bremen, Germany.
The (In)Visibility of Digital Images
Søren Pold, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Medical Imaging in the Digital Age: Fusing the Real and the Imagined
Dolores A. Steinman and David A. Steinman, Biomedical Simulation Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
DEMONSTRATIONS
To be confirmed
BOOKING FEE
CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £120 (£100 before 1 Oct 2008)
CHArt Member: ONE DAY £80 (£70 before 1 Oct 2008)
Non-member: TWO DAYS £160 (£140 before 1 Oct 2008)
Non-member: ONE DAY £110 (£100 before 1 Oct 2008)
CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 1 Oct 2008)
CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 1 Oct 2008)
Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 1 Oct 2008)
Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 1 Oct 2008)
*CHArt CONFERENCE EARLY BOOKING DEADLINE 1 OCTOBER 2008*
Proposals are now being accepted for Museums and the Web 2009.
If you have work you would like to share, please review the Call for Participation, and submit your proposal using the on-line form.
As always, we're accepting proposals for a variety of types of sessions, including papers, workshops, mini-workshops, professional forums, and demonstrations. We're also open to proposals for other kinds of interactions: just explain what it is you have in mind. See the Call for Participation and the description of session formats for further details.
Deadlines
Proposals for papers, workshops, mini-workshops, and professional forums are due September 30, 2008.
Proposals for demonstrations will be accepted until December 31, 2008.
Proposal Review
The MW2009 Program Committee will review all proposals. Results will be available by the end of November, 2008.
Conference Web Site
You can find full details about the conference on the MW2009 Web site.
David and i presented the first of the steve.museum research results at the NKOS workshop today. the [many] slides are attached to this post. the take aways, though, can be easily summarized:
85%+ of tags are not found in museum documentation
60%+ tags don't match vocabularies [and those that do match ambiguously]
most tags can't be mined from other sources [like published catalogues or other scholarly works]
Contribute to what? well, we still need to look further into the details, particularly the relationships between tags and search terms to talk about that with more confidence. Watch for that from the Dublin Core (DC2008) meeting next week.
From: Alastair Dunning <a.dunning@JISC.AC.UK>
Digitiation Programme Officer JISC Collections / JISC Executive
Salary: £28,000 to £32,800 depending on experience
Based in: Central London
JISC Collections negotiates agreements for and acquires online content to support education and research. The key ambition in establishing JISC Collections is to widen accessibility to online resources, to save the academic sector time and money, and to improve management of licensing by the sector.
JISC Collections is undertaking two projects in association with the JISC Digitisation Programme and requires a programme manager to support these projects and ensure that their successful delivery.
You will be required to:
You will need an understanding of the issues related to the digitisation of scholarly resources, such as data capture, resource discovery, rights clearance and usability. In addition an understanding of the issues related to the procurement and provision of online information resources in particular negotiation and licensing.
For a full copy of the job description please visit our web site at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk or email Liam Earney at L.Earney@jisc.ac.uk
Closing date for applications Monday 29th September
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