Professional Exchange

A resource that enables Canadian museum heritage professionals to excel.

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Canada's network of museums that engage their audiences through the use of innovative technologies.

CHIN’s Professional Exchange

Heritage professionals who are interested in technologies will find, in the Professional Exchange, a vast number of learning and reference tools, such as Artefacts Canada. Join this group to share knowledge, take part in communities of practice and gain access to experts through audio and video clips, workshops and webinars. Discover the resource par excellence in the field of technology for heritage professionals.

Audience-Based Measures of Success, Babara Soren

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Audience-Based Measures of Success, Babara Soren

Audience-Based Measures of Success; Evaluating Museum Learning

Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Du site W3 : "Le catalogue comprend les livres, les catalogues d'exposition, les périodiques, les microformes, et les documents audiovisuels et électroniques.
Les catalogues de vente aux enchères, les archives et les dossiers documentaires ne sont que partiellement représentés dans le catalogue; les diapositives et les photographies de recherche n'y figurent pas."

Alliance numériQC

Alliance numériQC

Du site W3 : "Alliance numériQC - Réseau de l'industrie numérique du Québec - vise à soutenir et à accélérer la croissance et la compétitivité de son industrie dans le respect de tous ses intervenants."

AGORA-L

AGORA-L

Agora-L is a free email-based tool for discussion and exchange of ideas about heritage conservation in Canada. Connect with peers across the country and share issues, questions and solutions without ever leaving your desk. Messages will come directly to your inbox. You can help make Agora-L a source of success stories, conservation resources, and advice from colleagues who've faced similar projects and challenges.

Managing Museum Digital Assets: A Resource Guide for Museums

Managing Museum Digital Assets: A Resource Guide for Museums

From the document / du document : "This objective of IIPI's "World Museums & Economic Development" project is to assist museums to develop the capacity to digitize, protect and license their collections, thereby demonstrating the importance of intellectual property as a tool for economic, social and cultural development.

The development of Managing Museum Digital Assets: A Resource Guide for Museums is the first step in this process. The guide collects in a single place a number of model licenses, notes and comments, and resource materials to assist the world museum community to better manage its portfolios of cultural and intellectual property assets."

Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property

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Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property

This paper creates a snapshot of how the heritage community has responded to intellectual property law and practice regarding digital art.

Managing Digital Assets in US Museums

Managing Digital Assets in US Museums

Includes: 1: Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study; 2: Digital Image Asset Management at the National Gallery of Art (US); 3: In Pursuit of Efficiency: Traversing the Boundaries of a Collection Information System; Highlighted Web Site: Museum Computer Network; FAQ: The Missing Dimension in Web-based Museum Exhibitions: Obstacles to Adding Depth to Digital Data

SaskCulture

SaskCulture

Du site W3 : "SaskCulture Inc. is a community-driven, non-profit organization that works with our members to build a culturally vibrant Saskatchewan. where all citizens celebrate value and participate in a rich, cultural life."

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)

Du site W3 : "IATH's goal is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research."

Portail de la Propriété Intellectuelle

Portail de la Propriété Intellectuelle

Du site W3 : "Sa caractéristique principale est de permettre l'accès direct au plus profond d'un site à l'information recherchée (qui n'a pas déjà perdu patience dans la recherche laborieuse d'une information annoncée dans un site)."

Institut canadien de la propriété intellectuelle (IPIC)

Institut canadien de la propriété intellectuelle (IPIC)

Du site W3 : "Fondé en 1926, l'Institut de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada (IPIC) est la plus importante association canadienne de professionnels spécialisés en propriété intellectuelle : brevets d'inventions, marques de commerce, droit d'auteur et dessins industriels. L'IPIC se consacre à la protection et à la promotion de la propriété intellectuelle au sein de l'économie canadienne."

ArchaeoFacts

ArchaeoFacts

News in Sri Lankan Archaeology

An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software for Museums

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An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software for Museums

Open Source Software

Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)

Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)

Du site W3 : "L'OVPM a pour mission de promouvoir la mise en oeuvre de la Convention du patrimoine mondial en facilitant l'accès des administrateurs municipaux à l'information qui leur est nécessaire pour relever le défi. À cet égard, elle organise des colloques et des séminaires portant sur les défis à relever en matière de gestion ainsi que sur les stratégies de mise en valeur et de conservation des ensembles historiques."

Australia's Culture and Recreation portal

Australia's Culture and Recreation portal

From the Web site / du site W3 : "The Culture and Recreation Portal provides access to online services and information in the fields of culture and recreation, from all levels of government and the non-government sector. We provide access and search facilities for over 2,700 Australian sites."

Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums

Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums

**Taken from the description**
"This study explores the cost and policy models adapted by US arts museums in arriving at pricing structures for delivering imaging and rights services. It examines the new market realities and opportunities cultural institutions face due to the transition to digital collections.

One hundred US art museums were surveyed and in-depth interviews were carried out with 20 museums."

Cours de numérisation d'images

Cours de numérisation d'images

"NUMÉRISATION D'IMAGES : de l'acquisition à la publication Un cours proposé par le service photographique de l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (I.R.H.T.), rédigé par Gilles Kagan et Thierry Buquet."

Canadian Centre for Biodiversity

Canadian Centre for Biodiversity

From the Web site: "The Canadian Museum of Nature established the Canadian Centre for Biodiversity (CCB) in 1991. Its purpose is to bring together Nature's expertise and experience in systematics research and education to help resolve issues related to biodiversity and conservation, and, in national and international contexts, to act as a central focus for biodiversity information and collaboration efforts."

Renseignements sur le droit d'auteur

Renseignements sur le droit d'auteur

Du site W3 : "Panorama des services à l'édition du gouvernement canadien. Communiqués de presse. Loi et règlements. Rapports, guides et documents de réflexion. Organismes du droit d'auteur."

La mission pédagogique des musées sur l'autoroute de l'information - Bulletin du GIS Musées et diffusion électronique

La mission pédagogique des musées sur l'autoroute de l'information - Bulletin du GIS Musées et diffusion électronique

Bulletin du Groupe d'intérêt spécial « Musées et diffusion électronique » (AMC) : La mission pédagogique des musées sur l'autoroute de l'information -

Comment citer un document électronique?

Comment citer un document électronique?

Du site W3 : "Les documents électroniques sont maintenant reconnus comme un moyen privilégié de diffusion de l'information. Aussi est-il nécessaire d'utiliser une méthode appropriée, adaptée aux nouvelles technologies, pour les citer correctement afin de les décrire avec exactitude et de les retrouver facilement. La méthode donnée ici cherche à établir une façon normalisée de procéder."

Copyright and Digital Distance Education: report

Copyright and Digital Distance Education: report

Du site W3 : "Part I of the Report gives an overview of the nature of distance education today. Part II describes current licensing practices in digital distance education, including problems and future trends. Part III describes the status of technologies relating to the delivery and protection of distance education materials. Part IV analyzes the application of current copyright law to digital distance education activities. Part V discusses prior initiatives addressing copyright and digital distance education. Part VI examines the question of whether the law should be changed, first summarizing the views of interested parties and then providing the Copyright Office's analysis and recommendations."

Grands sites archéologiques

Grands sites archéologiques

La collection compte actuellement 10 volumes, de la Préhistoire au Moyen Age, rédigés par les plus grands spécialistes et conçus à l'intention d'un large public.

Collection Level Description - the Museum Perspective

Collection Level Description - the Museum Perspective

Du site W3 : "Many organizations -- libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and others -- have content that they need to make accessible on the Internet. Museums have long had computerized collections management databases, and many of them are offering item-level meta-data to the public on the Web. But the content of museums' collections databases is invisible to search engines -- so what is the means for resource discovery on the Web?

Radio-Past Project

Radio-Past Project

Radio-Past (Radiography of the Past) concerns a project of the "family" People - Marie Curie Action IAPP (Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways), where 4 academic and 2 industrial partners join their resources to develop integrated non-destructive approaches to understand and valorise complex archaeological sites. The Radio-Past website offers up-to-date and elaborated information on the aims of the project, the research techniques applied, the partners involved, and the results gained.

Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

Du site W3 : "The Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The two classes of works are:
1.Compilations consisting of lists of websites blocked by filtering software applications; and
2.Literary works, including computer programs and databases, protected by access control mechanisms that fail to permit access because of malfunction, damage or obsolescence.
These exemptions are in effect from October 28, 2000 to October 28, 2003."

Le Portail mondial

Le Portail mondial

Du site W3 : "Le Development Gateway aide les communautés, les organisations et les individus à former des partenariats, à échanger leurs idées et à  travailler ensemble pour réduire la pauvreté."

Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)

Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)

Du site W3 : "ALHFAM is the museum organization for those involved in living historical farms, agricultural museums, outdoor museums of history and folklife and those museums - large and small - that use "living history" programming."

BC Association Of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

BC Association Of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Du site W3 : "Located downtown Victoria BC, the BCAAFC is the umbrella association for 24 Friendship Centres throughout the Province of British Columbia. Friendship Centres provide a number of quality services to the Aboriginal communities located in an urban setting."

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ACCESS TO ARCHIVES
CHIN’s Digital Heritage Symposium
February 4th and 5th, 2010

Video of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, presenting the renewed virtualmuseum.ca.