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CHIN’s Professional Exchange
The Canadian museum reference for technologies, enabling heritage professionals to excel.
Mobile Technologies
Mobile devices and handheld electronics have quickly become commonplace within the museum world.
This featured selection of resources provides an overview of the technologies available, and their potential use in museums.
2011 Horizon Report
2011 Horizon Report
From the website / du site W3: "The 2011 Horizon Report examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. It is the eighth in the annual series of reports focused on emerging technology in the higher education environment." Traduction Google est disponible.
Using Sketchup to Represent Your Museum as a 3D model in Google Earth
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An account of CHIN’s use of Sketchup to reproduce a 3D model of the Bytown Museum, posting it to the Google 3D Warehouse, and publishing it on the Google Earth and Google Maps 3D buildings layer.
Eric Langlois Speaks about Mobile Technology
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A series of video presentations by Professor Eric Langlois on mobile technologies such as QR Codes, Augmented Reality and RFID.
Location-Based Services
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A brief description of location based services describing what they can do and what they offer to museums.
Augmented Reality
0 commentsAugmented Reality
A brief description of augmented reality describing what it is and how it can be used by museums.
Near Field Communication
0 commentsNear Field Communication
A brief description of near field communication describing what it is and how it can be used by museums.
Case Study: Canada's Got Treasures!
0 commentsCase Study: Canada's Got Treasures!
One of a series of VMC lab project reports, this report provides lessons learned on a collaborative museum project intended to engage audiences and encourage content contribution.
Reciprocal Research Network
Reciprocal Research Network
An online collaborative research tool for Northwest Coast Artifacts featuring objects from 18 different Partner Institutions.
Digital Cultural Collections in an Age of Reuse and Remixes
Digital Cultural Collections in an Age of Reuse and Remixes
This paper explores the circumstances under which cultural institutions (CI) should seek to control non-commercial reuse of digital cultural works. It describes the results of a 2008 survey of CI professionals at U.S. archives, libraries and museums which gathered data on motivations to control access to and use of digital collections, factors discouraging control, and levels of concern associated with different types of unauthorized reuse. The analysis presents three general themes that explain many of the CI motivations for control: "controlling descriptions and representations"; "legal risks and complexities"; and, "getting credit: fiscal and social costs and revenue." This paper argues that CI should develop a multiplicity of access and use regulations that acknowledge the varying sensitivity of collections and the varying level of risk associated with different types of reuses. It concludes by offering a set of examples of collections employing varying levels of reuse control (from none to complete) to serve as heuristics.
Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections
Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections
This article describes the results of a survey investigating the use of technological protection measure (TPM) tools to control patron access to or use of digital cultural materials made accessible by U.S. archives, libraries and museums. Libraries reported using a broader range of systems than archives or museums including repository software, streaming media servers, digital library software and courseware. In terms of controlling access to collections, most respondents reported using IP range restrictions and network-ID based authorization systems. Some reported restricting access to approved terminals or individual user registration systems. In terms of controlling use of collection items, respondents reported reliance on resolution limits, clips and thumbnails, and visible watermarking. A lower percentage reported use of click-through license agreements. Few institutions reported using new technologies to control access or use such as pop-ups, disabling right click copy and save functionality, invisible watermarks, viewers or cross-institutional authentication s
Curators in Context
Curators in Context
31 Canadian visual art curators talk about curating.
ICOM Canada
ICOM Canada
ICOM Canada is ICOM's national committee representing canadian museums and encouraging their influence on an international level.
The 3D Thule Whalebone House Project: Virtual Museum of Canada Experimental Lab Project Report
0 commentsThe 3D Thule Whalebone House Project: Virtual Museum of Canada Experimental Lab Project Report
Lessons learned from 3D Adobe Flash project. 3D online experience of 1,000-year-old Arctic houses: an Inuvialuit sod house and a Thule-era whalebone structure, preserving access to Inuit intangible cultural heritage.
Case Study: Young Curators of the Future
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One of a series of VMC lab project reports, this report provides lessons learned on a on collaborative project working with museums and galleries, schools, and youth and social media.
OMA Video Production How-To Guide | First Steps to Digital Storytelling in Museums
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A How-to guide for museums on the production and publication of video.
ANSM QR Code How-To Guide
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A guide for museums on how to use and generate QR (Quick Response) codes. Includes suggested content, examples from museums, resources, and a glossary.
The Impact of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) On Canadian Museum Websites
0 commentsThe Impact of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) On Canadian Museum Websites
SEO case studies with three Canadian museums: the Musée Marguerite-Bourgeoys (MMB), the Wetaskiwin and District Heritage Museum (WDHM) and the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG).
Lesley Ellen Harris Speaks about Developing a Digital Licensing Strategy
0 commentsLesley Ellen Harris Speaks about Developing a Digital Licensing Strategy
Lesley Ellen Harris, author of a A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Licensing Strategy, gives insight on this topic in an interview with CHIN.
Jennifer Carter speaks about the Museum Knowledge Workers for the 21st Century project
0 commentsJennifer Carter speaks about the Museum Knowledge Workers for the 21st Century project
Jennifer Carter from the University of Toronto speaks about the Museum Knowledge Workers for the 21st Century project - the scope, methodology, and findings of the project are discussed in an interview with CHIN.
2010 Horizon Report
2010 Horizon Report
The seventh in the NMC's series of annual reports on key emerging technologies that are likely to impact teaching, learning, research or creative expression in higher education.
Social Media Governance Policies
Social Media Governance Policies
This site provides links to the policies of several organizations regarding their use of social media.
Tip Sheet on Writing Effective Communications
0 commentsTip Sheet on Writing Effective Communications
Learn principles on writing effective communications (journalistic style) that will help you optimize your Web page’s central idea. Discover simple tips to write powerful texts.
Tip Sheet on Video Content Creation
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Learn how to create videos (storyboard, production and content plans, formats, etc.) and how to use video platforms as part of your site and as a marketing channel.
The Mystery of the '1940s Time Traveller' | The Changing Face of Online Brand Monitoring
0 commentsThe Mystery of the '1940s Time Traveller' | The Changing Face of Online Brand Monitoring
A case study from virtualmuseum.ca which looks at museum issues related to brand monitoring, viral marketing, Social Web, copyright, and conversational capital.
A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Digital Licensing Agreement Strategy
0 commentsA Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Digital Licensing Agreement Strategy
This second edition addresses the important questions museums face in developing a licensing strategy for digital content.
Augmented Reality and Wonderment in exhibit design and museums
Augmented Reality and Wonderment in exhibit design and museums
Interview with Canadian artist and researcher Helen Papagiannis on Augmented Reality and Wonderment in exhibit design and museums. Helen's TEDx talk discussing her recent exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre is also embedded in the interview and available to watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScLgtkVTHDc
DOCAM Glossaurus
DOCAM Glossaurus
The DOCAM Glossaurus is a bilingual glossary of terms used in documentation, preservation, technologies, and practices used with new media art. The glossary is arranged as a facetted thesaurus; the five main facets include: Activities, Agents, Art Practices, Components, and Manifestation & Reception. Available in English and French.
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) XML Schema
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) XML Schema
LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects):
- Is an XML harvesting schema intended to transfer data from museum collections databases to data aggregations (such as Artefacts Canada) and for sharing museum data on the web
- Can represent the full range of descriptive information about museum objects
- Can be used for museum data of many disciplines (e.g. art, cultural, natural science)
- Can be used in multilingual data aggregations
- Is the result of an international collaboration based upon CDWA Lite and museumdat schemas
- Is compliant with CIDOC CRM and aligned with SPECTRUM.
Some collections management software systems are able to export LIDO records, enabling easier interchange. LIDO was announced in late 2010. It is available in English only.
DOCAM Conservation Guide
DOCAM Conservation Guide
The DOCAM Conservation Guide provides some tools and principles for the preservation and conservation of time-based media artworks and technology-based artworks. It was prepared by the Conservation and Preservation Committee of DOCAM.
Provides "observations and approaches based on particular examples", as well as "practical methods of implementing preservation and curatorial measures for these works, whose major weaknesses are related to their risk of obsolescence and the limitations of their use". Based on case studies of specific works at the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Available in English and French.
Variable Media Network
Variable Media Network
The Variable Media Network has many different institutional and individual contributors that have developed tools, methods, and standards for the preservation of conceptual, minimalist and video art. Major partners include the Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Available in English and French.
DOCAM Technological Timeline
DOCAM Technological Timeline
The DOCAM Technological Timeline "is designed to show, in clear and graphic form, the ways in which art history and the history of technological invention run alongside each other". Although it is not an exhaustive history of technology used to produce artworks, it illustrates the "complex relationship between the history of technology and the development of media-based art forms".
Although the timeline itself is available only in English, presentations about the timeline are available in English (http://www.docam.ca/en/technological-timeline.html) and in French (http://www.docam.ca/fr/timeline-des-technologies.html).
DOCAM Documentation Model
DOCAM Documentation Model
The DOCAM Documentation Model provides a framework for organizing the documentation relating to a media artwork. Documentation throughout the lifecycle of the artwork is supported, including "the work's documents, producers, lifecycle steps, successive iterations, and components", as well as the links among these elements. Available in English and French.
Core Standards for Canadian Museums
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Information on standards commonly used by Canadian museums and recommended by CHIN. Includes Canadian museum standards for metadata, terminology and classification, and cataloguing rules.
CHIN Guide to Museum Standards
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This guide explains why museum documentation standards are important, describes the main types of data standards and how they are used in Canadian museums, and provides access to the standards.
Caitlin Fisher Talks About New and Emerging Technologies
0 commentsCaitlin Fisher Talks About New and Emerging Technologies
Caitlin Fisher discusses the work of the York University Augmented Reality Lab's museum projects, RFID, GPS, 3-D, telepresence, augmented reality, and other new and emerging technologies.
Digital Photography and Digitization of Museum Collections
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Digital Photography Course providing highly detailed information about every stage of digital photography and scanning of cultural artefacts.
Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE)
Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE)
From the Web site: "Eurodicautom is the European Commissions multilingual term bank."
David Green speaks about intellectual property
0 commentsDavid Green speaks about intellectual property
David Green, author of A Museum Guide to Digital Rights Management, gives insight on issues surrounding intellectual property.
MPEG-7
MPEG-7
MPEG-7 is a standard for describing features of audio and video content "so that users can search, browse, and retrieve that content more efficiently and effectively". It combines content metadata (title, creator, rights, information about people, objects, and events represented in the multimedia file, etc.) as well as technical metadata about the file. MPEG-7 is an ISO standard developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). Available in English only.
OAICatMuseum
OAICatMuseum
OAICatMuseum is a museum-specific version of the OAICat software originally created by OCLC. It can expose harvestable metadata in Dublin Core format as a lowest common denominator, with CDWA Lite records as a richer format. Access to the harvestable data can be controlled through IP filtering, allowing only trusted partners access to the server. Available in English only.
Thesaurus of Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)
Thesaurus of Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)
TGM I was created by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division to support both cataloguing and retrieval needs. It is used for subject indexing of graphical materials, including historical photographs, architectural drawings, artwork, etc. Includes a controlled vocabulary for describing "a broad range of subjects depicted in such materials, including activities, objects, types of people, events, and places". Proper names of people, organizations, events, and geographic places are not included. Available in English only.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Processes and Techniques Hierarchy
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Processes and Techniques Hierarchy
Created by the J.Paul Getty Trust, the AAT is a thesaurus of terms used in the cataloguing and indexing of art, architecture, artifactual, and archival materials.
The Processes and Techniques of the AAT contains terminology for "actions and methods performed physically on or with materials and objects, and for processes occurring in materials and objects."
CHIN recommends the use of the AAT for museums with broad humanities collections. The terminology found in the AAT Processes and Techniques Hierarchy is appropriate for use in the Technique and Decorative Technique fields of the Artefacts Canada: Humanities database, as well as some Condition fields within museum collections management systems.
CHIN has contributed approximately 2600 French terms to the AAT; these are now visible within the AAT as French language equivalents for the most common terms. This bilingual version of the AAT is used to assist with searches in CHIN's Artefacts Canada:Humanities database and in the Virtual Museum of Canada.
Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Written by the International Terminology Working Group and sponsored by the Getty Information Institute, this document was created to assist the International Terminology Working Group in the task of forming equivalents between AAT terms and existing controlled vocabularies in other languages. It is useful for any project that aims to link vocabularies in different languages. Available in English and French.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Physical Attributes Facet
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Physical Attributes Facet
Created by the J.Paul Getty Trust, the AAT is a thesaurus of terms used in the cataloguing and indexing of art, architecture, artifactual, and archival materials.
The Physical Attributes Facet of the AAT contains terminology for aspects of artifacts and materials such as "size and shape, chemical properties of materials, qualities of texture and hardness, and features such as surface ornament and color."
CHIN recommends the use of the AAT for museums with broad humanities collections. The terminology found in the AAT Physical Attributes Facet is appropriate for use in fields such as Decorative Motif, Decorative Element, and other physical description fields of the Artefacts Canada: Humanities database. The Physical Attributes Facet includes a hierarchy for Conditions and Effects which would be useful vocabulary control for Condition fields within museum collections management systems.
CHIN has contributed approximately 2600 French terms to the AAT; these are now visible within the AAT as French language equivalents for the most common terms. This bilingual version of the AAT is used to assist with searches in CHIN's Artefacts Canada:Humanities database and in the Virtual Museum of Canada.
CHIN Discipline Authority List proposed for the Humanities (Derived from the Art & Architecture Thesaurus), 2006.
CHIN Discipline Authority List proposed for the Humanities (Derived from the Art & Architecture Thesaurus), 2006.
This paper has been prepared from a research report produced in 1994 by Kerridwen Harvey for CHIN . The present document relates exclusively to the "Discipline" field and proposes a list of terms that should be used for that field in Artefacts Canada. Even though discipline-specific museums (such as fine art museums) may not record the discipline within their institutional databases, the use of the Discipline field is important in a central repository such as Artefacts Canada, which contains records from many different disciplines. Available in English and French.
Référence bibliographique pour vos recherches toponymiques - Capsule documentaire no 2
Référence bibliographique pour vos recherches toponymiques - Capsule documentaire no 2
Published by La Société des musées québécois (SMQ), this guide recommends and explains the use of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) within museums. Available online in French only.
Interoperability of Data for Electronic Commerce Systems (INDECS)
Interoperability of Data for Electronic Commerce Systems (INDECS)
The INDECS framework was created by many organizations involved in the creation and management of digital content, for the purpose of supporting electronic commerce and the management of intellectual property rights. The INDECS model can be used to describe and identify intellectual property, the parties involved in the exchange of intellectual property, and the agreements between them. Available in English only.
Association of Manitoba Museums Standards for Manitoba Museums
Association of Manitoba Museums Standards for Manitoba Museums
This Association of Manitoba Museums publication is a guide to good standards of practice for Manitoba museums. Available in English only.
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) is a new vocabulary that is currently under development by the J. Paul Getty Trust. CONA is scheduled to be available to the user community in 2011, and will join the other Getty vocabularies (the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), as a tool for cataloging and retrieval of art information.
CONA will contain titles, current location, and other core information for cultural works. The scope of CONA will include architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, ceramics, textiles, furniture, and archaeological artifacts. As with the other Getty vocabularies, the primary focus is on art, architecture, and archaeology. CONA will include works from all over the world and from prehistory to the present. Names of works may be current or historical, and in multiple languages. CONA will not include records for natural history specimens or scientific collections, unless they exhibit fine craftsmanship of the type collected by art museums. CONA will not include names of musical or literary works. Like the other Getty vocabularies, CONA will have a thesaural structure.
CONA records will contain enough information so that users can uniquely identify each object, differentiating each object for other similar or related works. The data entry rules for a CONA record comply with Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO). Like the other Getty vocabularies, CONA will grow through contributions of the user community, and contributors will be credited.
It will be freely available as search interface online at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/
CONA will be a multilingual resource, but the interface will be available in English only.
The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
OAIS is a "conceptual framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term". OAIS is of interest to libraries, archives, museums, and other research repositories. The OAIS information model "provides a conceptual foundation" on which the PREMIS (PReservation Metadata) Data Dictionary is based. Available in English only.
