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Consultant: Museum of London: Options Appraisal for Cataloguing Strategy

Sat, 2008-01-05 13:13 — updates

** Invitation to quote: Options Appraisal for Cataloguing Strategy: Museum in Docklands Archive Collections. **

In early 2008, Museum of London's Information Resources Section will work with a specialist consultant to appraise and evaluate the options available for cataloguing the archive collections held at Museum in Docklands (MiD). The study will focus on archival and museum cataloguing methodologies and options for the accompanying software. It will indicate the preferred option, and outline the actions required for implementation.

Key Objectives

The overall objective of the work is to assess and write a cataloguing options appraisal for the MiD archive collection. In consultation with the archivist, the museum's Documentation Officer and other museum staff, the consultant will:

1) Assess and analyse key cataloguing issues unique to this collection, focussing on the different approaches, needs and issues presented by an archival or a museum approach to cataloguing as well as specific issues foreseeable in the creation of a catalogue structure for the MiD archive collections

2) Conduct consultations with parallel institutions examining how they have dealt with cataloguing archival collections within a museum context.

3) Conduct consultations with relevant museum staff on archival/museum cataloguing issues

4) Appraise cataloguing systems, both archival and museum (to include MIMSY XG) and make recommendations

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Jobs: Digital Collections: Imperial War Museum, London

Fri, 2007-11-23 10:02 — jtrant

The Imperial War Museum is hiring!

The Imperial War Museum is undertaking a major project to procure and implement a collections management system, comprising collections, library nd archive elements. This is coupled with a project to implement an ntegrated digital asset management system.

The project will ensure that the Museum can centralise collections information from its eight collecting departments, covering the widest
range of media.

The museum is now looking to recruit the following additional staff for this project:

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Fondation Daniel Langlois: Grants for Researchers in Residence

Wed, 2007-09-05 12:45 — jtrant
The Foundation Daniel Langlois in Montreal offers research grants for those interested in pursuing the problems of documenting contemporary media arts.
The deadline for submission of research proposals for the Grants for Researchers in Residence Program is September 30, 2007.
The two research components include: CR+D documentary collections and archival fonds and Information architecture and online publishing. As in previous years, the Daniel Langlois Foundation will award two research grants for 2008. The proposals selected will allow researchers to work at the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D).
For more information, please consult the program's guidelines at:

An application form is available online, and must be used to submit a proposal:

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3rd DOCAM Annual Summit: September 27, 2007: Montreal

Wed, 2007-09-05 12:42 — jtrant
The Daniel Langlois Foundation is pleased to announce that the third annual Summit of the DOCAM Research Alliance (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) will be held at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on September 27, 2007.
DOCAM is a major multidisciplinary research endeavour initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation in collaboration with numerous national and international partners and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The third annual international Summit will provide an opportunity for members of the DOCAM research committees to begin presenting their research results delving into the challenges of preserving and documenting technology-based works of art.
Among the guest speakers slated to appear at the Summit are Richard Rinehart of the Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archives & Rina Pantalony from the Department of Justice Canada, Dieter Daniels, director of the Boltzmann Institute, and Canadian artist Stan Douglas.
For more information and the complete Summit program, please consult the Alliance's Web site at: http://www.docam.ca/
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MW2007: Professional Forum

Fri, 2007-02-23 13:10 — ThT

Participants of MW2007 are kindly invited to attend the

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