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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.
Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
Du site W3 : "The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to 'advancing the application of technology to the conservation of the built environment.'"
Guide to Good Practice Creating Digital Performance Resources
Guide to Good Practice Creating Digital Performance Resources
Du site W3 : "This first title in the PADS' Guide to Good Practice Series - 'Creating Digital Performance Resources' is intended to support data creators in dance, theatre and other performance arts and advise on working methodologies, best practice in digital encoding, documentation and presentation and to present the experiences of professionals creating a wide variety of performing arts resources."
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 -
Digitization Standards for the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: Scan and Artifact Photography
0 commentsDigitization Standards for the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: Scan and Artifact Photography
This document is a tool based on the digitization process adopted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Technical data and Preservation needs
Technical data and Preservation needs
"Présentation : Les besoins et les données techniques de préservation Catherine Lupovici Head, Digital Library Department Network and Services Direction Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, France"
BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0
BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0
From the Document: "BCR is pleased to make available the 2008 version of BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices. It is intended to serve as a guide for practitioners in cultural heritage institutions that seek to create images from physical objects. Originally published by the Colorado Digitization Program in 2003 as the Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices, this updated version reflects the many changes that have occurred in the field during the last five years."
Information Longevity
Information Longevity
"... links to resources on Digital Longevity (including several articles he's [H. Besser] written on subtopics like preserving electronic art, and longevity of moving image material) ."
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)
From the Web site: "ISEA is a non-profit international organization whose membership and collaborators consists of a wide range of individuals and institutions involved in the creative, theoretical and technological aspects of electronic arts."
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."
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The Society for Imaging Science and Technology is an international non-profit organization whose goal is to keep members aware of the latest scientific and technological developments in the field of imaging through conferences, journals and other publications. We focus on imaging in all its aspects, with particular emphasis on silver halide, digital printing, electronic imaging, photofinishing, image preservation, image assessment, pre-press technologies and hybrid imaging systems."
Louise Renaud and Kathleen Brosseau share digitization recommendations.
0 commentsLouise Renaud and Kathleen Brosseau share digitization recommendations.
Listen to Louise Renaud from the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Kathleen Brosseau from the Canadian War Museum speak about digitization guidelines.
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) creates connections and collaborations across art, culture, science and technology. It is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology, creating opportunities for innovation, research and development both nationally and internationally."
MICHAEL-UK: Multicultural Inventory of Heritage in Europe
MICHAEL-UK: Multicultural Inventory of Heritage in Europe
From the Web site / du site W3 : "Our aim is to offer you simple and quick access to the rich variety of digital material from UK museums, libraries and archives. The online catalogue describes digital collections and associated services or multimedia productions (such as websites, electronic learning resources and CDs). Whether you are interested in Fine Art or History, the Middle Ages or the Victorians, your local area or the collections that have been digitised by your local cultural institutions, MICHAEL-UK can help you to find out what is available and how to see it."
Capture Your Collections—Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects
0 commentsCapture Your Collections—Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects
This course helps heritage workers with planning and implementing digitization projects at their museums.
Digital Preservation Management: Cornell University
0 commentsDigital Preservation Management: Cornell University
This is a course on the preservation of digital content. It is designed for librarians, archivists, curators, managers and technical specialists.
A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
From the Web site / du site W3 : "In 2002, CLIR commissioned a survey of North American-based digital cultural heritage initiatives (DCHIs). The purpose of the survey was to identify the scope, financing, organizational structure, and sustainability of DCHIs. To gain a funder's perspective on these initiatives, the survey also included a few public and private funding organizations that support projects with a digital cultural heritage component. The survey was a preliminary step in a larger effort aimed at developing recommendations for a coordinated strategy to sustain and strengthen digital cultural heritage initiatives and their by-products.
Survey results and recommendations are in this report."
Available for purchase, or online in full text or PDF.
Digital Culture (DigiCULT)
Digital Culture (DigiCULT)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004)."
A Detailed Description of the Use of Portfolio and Other Software
A Detailed Description of the Use of Portfolio and Other Software
A Detailed Description of the Use of Portfolio and Other Software
Digital Imaging
Digital Imaging
Du site W3 : "Imaging and imagebases."
BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP)
BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP)
From the Web site: "BCR's CDP enables access to cultural, historical and scientific heritage collections of the West by building collaboration between archives, historical societies, libraries and museums. The key to its success is collaboration.
BCR's CDP provides assistance to the cultural heritage community through best practice guidelines, workshops and digitization grant funding. BCR's CDP also delivers access to thousands of digital photographs, text, and sound files documenting the history, culture and science of the west through Heritage West.
Originally established as the Colorado Digitization Project in 1999, the CDP later evolved into the Collaborative Digitization Program with its nationally recognized digitization expertise. The CDP merged into BCR in April 2007, creating the BCR's CDP and the opportunity to build new service programs in the area of digitization and continue to reach out to cultural heritage organizations everywhere."
Good practices in digitisation
Good practices in digitisation
From the Web site / du site Web : "MINERVA is collecting a list of good practices in digitisation, according to the ten categories selected in the Good Practice Handbook, edited by the MINERVA Working group 6 - Identification of good practices and competence centres.
Here, you find the list of good practices already approved, followed by the date of approval by the NRG (between square brackets, example [YYMMDD] )and the filled in compilation form containing the description of the good practice and lessons learned."
Saskatchewan Digital Alliance (SDA)
Saskatchewan Digital Alliance (SDA)
The Saskatchewan Digital Alliance is a group established by the Multitype Library Board to facilitate greater
digitization of library resources and collections in the province. Our vision is to develop a locus of knowledge and support that enables the public to find, locate, and utilize Saskatchewan knowledge and information created through co-operative Saskatchewan digitization initiatives.
Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
From the Web site: "The Canadian Inventory of Digital Initiatives provides descriptions of Canadian information resources created for the Web, including general digital collections, resources centred around a particular theme, and reference sources and databases."
Digitization Fundamentals
0 commentsDigitization Fundamentals
This free tutorial provides you with basic information on digitization. It helps heritage professionals effectively manage digitization of collections.
Photoshop
Photoshop
Tips and tutorials on the use of photoshop.
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS)
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS)
Du site W3 : "By applying the best of what libraries and librarians have to offer (structure and organization, in-depth subject expertise, and analog collections) to the labyrinthine universe of unstructured and unverified information on the Internet, we can begin to bridge the gulf that exists between providers and users of information. The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS), currently being launched by the Library of Congress and its partner libraries, provides just such an opportunity to connect users with accurate, timely, and credible information anytime anywhere."
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Standards for Cultural Heritage Digitization Projects
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Standards for Cultural Heritage Digitization Projects
NB Copy and paste the URL into the address bar of a web page (browser) in order to open the document.
Lessons Learned from Digitisation Projects
Lessons Learned from Digitisation Projects
This paper provides a selection of lessons that have emerged from various digitisation projects. The list does not claim to be exhaustive, but should provide some insight into issues commonly encountered by digitisation projects and the staff who work on them.
Papers on Copyright and Intellectual Property
Papers on Copyright and Intellectual Property
I. Papers and Projects
on Copyright and Intellectual Property
including
Projects and Activities of the
Committee on Intellectual Property
of the College Art Association
by Robert A. Baron
Digital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF) 2007
0 commentsDigital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF) 2007
Digital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF) 2007CHIN welcomed a number of thought-leaders from government, museums, archives, academia and the private sector to Montreal earlier this year to explore how heritage institutions can better engage audiences through innovative technologies.Part of the international digital Cultural Content Forum (dCCF) partnership which CHIN has helped lead since 2001, this year’s event focused on best practices, collaborative networks and learning through technology.National Museum of the American IndianJane SledgeGlenbow MuseumCherry ShamWeb 2.0 at the Powerhouse MuseumKevin SumptionA Network of Expertise for Cultural Heritage Based upon SMEsDaniel PletinckxDigital Cultural Heritage Practice and ExplorationDr. Qingqiao YouStrategic e-Content AllianceStuart DempsterSpaces and Structures of Tomorrow's LearningGeorge Siemens
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February 4th and 5th, 2010
Video of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, presenting the renewed virtualmuseum.ca.
