The CID Circular
April 2008
01. Dance History/Studies Survey, USA
Survey of dance courses such as Western dance history, world dance, dance theory/criticism, dance ethnography, and any other academic dance courses offered. Your participation would be greatly appreciated. Ask for the survey form to fill and return.
02. Forum in Portugal
Dance company organizes a forum for performing, meeting, dancing and interacting, to be held in Almada from 30 October to 01 November 200…
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Posted by Judith on April 27, 2008 at 11:06am —
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This forum is one event in a week of activities for dance.
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Posted by Judith on April 22, 2008 at 2:10am —
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"Transformational Space: Japanese Reflections in Frank Lloyd Wright’s House Beautiful"
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 7:00-8:15p.m.
Margo Stipe, Curator and Registrar of Collections, The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright’s revolutionary reworking of architectural space has long been credited with changing the way Americans live. Dissolving interior walls and opening the interior spaces to the exterior created a new sense of shelter while allowing communion with the natura…
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Posted by TheWestcottHouse on March 30, 2008 at 6:01pm —
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Two meetings in the last couple of weeks - one with the Portraiture SSN in the magnificent Board room at the National Portrait Gallery and the other one toay up at the Museum of English Rural Life - has convinced me that Subject Specialist Networks are, quite frankly and without exaggeration, brilliant.
Why? Because they get on with it. Both the Portraiture SSN and the Rural Museums SSN have just taken the money MLA gave them and done really good, solid, interesting work with it. They've develo…
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Posted by Nick Poole on February 21, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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I've had a number of chances to hop back onto my hobby horse about Digitisation recently - most notably when a very senior politician at a meeting recently leant over to me and said 'of course, the priority for museums has got to be digitisation and making things accessible on the web'.
No. No no no. Stoppit. No.It has absolutely, categorically GOT to stop now.
Think about it this way - most of the big problems we're facing at the moment originate with the absolutely insane rate of acquisition…
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Posted by Nick Poole on February 21, 2008 at 1:33pm —
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Tuesday I went to the launch of the AHRC and EPSRC funded Science and Heritage Programme at the Institute of Education in London. See
http://www.heritagescience.ac.uk for more info.
Entitled 'Managing Material Change', I missed day 1 on Monday, but day 2 just blew me away. I was a fascinating mix of climatologists, conservationists, the editor of Nature, cultural heritage people and conservators. Highlights of the day was Heather Viles of…
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Posted by Nick Poole on December 12, 2007 at 8:00pm —
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Had a really exciting couple of weeks, mainly because of a series of conversations with the team at the newly re-launched Culture24 (formerly known as the 24 Hour Museum).
It started with their re-launch at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. James Purnell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport gave a thoroughly invigorating keynote where he spoke about the need to move from mass-broadcast and content creation towards more intelligent and market-driven approaches to…
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Posted by Nick Poole on December 9, 2007 at 5:51pm —
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Just email us if you want your museum podcast RSS Feed featured on our new RSS museum featured section.
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Posted by Museums on October 1, 2007 at 9:12pm —
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I thought some people might be interested in these applications if you
interact with social web sites and media.
There are now museum
specific video, audio, and image widget players for
individuals with
Facebook accounts. These widgets are a great resource if
you want to bring
exposure to your media in Facebook, MySpace or add embed
code to a web site,
blog or other platforms. The widgets have been approved
by Facebook and are
listed on the educational widget di…
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Posted by Museums on October 1, 2007 at 2:59pm —
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I've been thinking about 'where' diversity happens in museums this afternoon - mainly because of a letter someone sent me to comment on.
The letter was about the UK Museum Accreditation Scheme and the need to ensure that minimum standards for museums promote diversity. It was fascinating - at least partly because it was like watching two world collide.
In the blue corner, we have a well-established, articulate and impassioned diversity lobby. The best summary I have heard of t…
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Posted by Nick Poole on September 6, 2007 at 12:39pm —
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The Museum Podcast Directory
Seattle Art Museum
SAM Audio: Seattle Art Museum Collection
The SAM permanent collection audio guide shares unique perspectives and commentaries by curators, arti…
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Posted by Museums on August 31, 2007 at 6:46pm —
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We have a very basic free service for museums and libraries to post jobs at museumpods - there are a few new postings if anyone is interested at:
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Posted by Museums on August 29, 2007 at 12:36pm —
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You can add MESN museum audio and video podcast players, as well as, the MESN image slideshow to Facebook accounts.
Now anyone with a Facebook account can watch and listen to museum podcasts and museum related streaming media. So please add our widgets so your friends on Facebook can include them on their accounts, and so on...
Give it a try and please upload your museum MP3 and video files to the players on MESN and gain even more exposure for your media through Facebook.…
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Posted by Museums on August 28, 2007 at 4:03pm —
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I've created a group on Facebook called Learning in Museums and Galleries. It isn't intended as a rival to MESN, as it doesn't have the stated purpose of enabling students and school systems to interact with museums. It's simply for Facebook users to have a place of connection around their professional interests. If you're not on Facebook yet, though, it might be the time to join!
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Posted by Bridget McKenzie on August 27, 2007 at 4:13am —
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I am hoping to gain insight about the new direction we are heading in this digital world. Two things we are considering for the museum here that I would appreciate some input on...first we are looking to use recorded tours of our historic homes and have them available for visitors on small hand-held MP3 players. I have seen these used in other museums and they are quite effective, and the advantages we see are not only the ability to reduce staff, but also to cut down on the misinformation and f…
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Posted by Darlys Wynn on August 24, 2007 at 11:17am —
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Video advertising has started on the YouTube website, its owner - internet
giant Google - has confirmed. Google said it had designed the way the adverts work on the video-sharing
website to be as unobtrusive and undisruptive as possible.
Click to read full article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6958103.stm Museums you can upload video directly on MESN without advertising!…
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Posted by Museums on August 22, 2007 at 12:05pm —
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Well, I thought I would try writing something as there's a blank text box here .. I'm busy managing a team dragging in data from 16 different collections / archives / HER sources, squashing it all into an interchange using MDA's SPECTRUM xml, indexing it with Lucene and splurging it out using XSLTs into various platforms. Wrapping that all up with GIS, a mix of thesauri from different domains and allowing users to tag the end result. Result, at the moment, er, organised chaos? Not too bad really…
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Posted by James G on August 21, 2007 at 3:44pm —
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Mike Ellis, System Administrator has supplied us with the step needed to insert an image to a "Comment Box."
The image needs to be visible on the internet - it doesn't look like there's a way of uploading one. So you just use the HTML to reference it.
You need to copy the image location URL and paste it within the working example below and then copy and paste it in the Comment Box.
<img src="…
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Posted by Museums on August 20, 2007 at 12:22pm —
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What value does your account/personal page on MESN present for students and people interested learning about the arts. Having a nice account page is one thing and a great start but what if a student or school system signs up and visits your page -- does it provide an educational value proposition?
Ask yourself what types of educational media can you provide that will enhance the curriculum of students, teachers, and classrooms so they have a reason to interact with your s… Continue
Posted by Museums on August 18, 2007 at 9:59pm —
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No, come back, it's ok!
I've been involved in Intellectual Property Rights for museums for nearly 10 years now, and there's some really interesting stuff going on at the moment.
As we move into what I like to think of as the next generation of museum services, being able to balance risk and reward in a sustainable and entrepreneurial way is going to be a key factor in deciding how successful museums are.
Museums have always occupied a funny grey area in relation to co…
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Posted by Nick Poole on August 14, 2007 at 11:15am —
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Hello there. I have actually been blogging about museums for a while over at
People Aggregator but I like this Museums place, so I'm going to shift over to here.
So, what am I doing at the moment? I seem to have been having a fair few conversations about digital strategy for museums recently. Our last 'proper' digital strategy was Netful of Jewels in 2000/2001 and it's amazing just how far things have come since then.
A brief look…
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Posted by Nick Poole on August 14, 2007 at 10:58am —
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We wanted to post an article just released about MESN on
Arts Hub UKRead ArticleArts Hub has given us a free link to read the article, so out of professional courtesy we wanted to include the following information about Arts Hub
As Arts Hub is a subscription site, and you can sign up for a free 14 day trial
and access all the jobs, news, c…
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Posted by Museums on August 7, 2007 at 9:47am —
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Here is the place to chat and learn clinical and cross-sectional anatomy.
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Posted by Hector Lopez on August 3, 2007 at 6:56pm —
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The National Gallery Podcast
A monthly podcast from the National Gallery, London. Go behind the scenes, find
out about upcoming exhibitions, and hear exclusive interviews.
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Posted by Museums on August 3, 2007 at 12:24pm —
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Play synthesized voice definition of museums from Wikipedia.
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Posted by Museums on August 1, 2007 at 8:38pm —
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One of our current projects is to improve access to our museum and galleries for Deaf visitors.
As an organisation we believe in making our sites accessible to the widest audience by providing multi layered interpretation and using different ways to present information – including printed labels, leaflets, books, audio guides, hands on activities and computer based information and activities.
We are keen to improve access for Deaf visitors to the information and interpretation p…
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Posted by Linda Ellis on July 30, 2007 at 5:00pm —
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I'm working on an article for
Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals about the
first Pubic Knowledge Project (PKP) conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in mid-July 2007. Much of the conference was devoted to the PKP open source software
Open Journal Systems (OJS). I've been testing it on my home PC and on my own domain. It's a very sophisticated, complex,…
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Posted by David Mattison on July 30, 2007 at 1:18am —
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Title: The Getty's Close Radio Podcast
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Posted by Museums on July 29, 2007 at 1:52pm —
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The ticketing & marketing manual for the arts. FULL HOUSE develops a more strategic relationship with customers.
A PDF sample of two chapters is available online at http://www.artsoz.com.au/FH_Comments.htm
Rather than just treating the Box Office as an inconvenien…
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Posted by Tim Roberts on July 29, 2007 at 5:18am —
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The Ten Thousand Year Blog celebrated its fifth anniversary in July 2007. Originally created with the Radio UserLand application, an extremely powerful but desktop-limited blog authoring tool, the very first Ten Thousand Year Blog (July 2002-July 2003) still exists at
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/ I used Radio UserLand for a year and just before the license expired, switched to my own domain and a shared Web hosting environment. I eventually se…
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Posted by David Mattison on July 28, 2007 at 12:18am —
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I've lost count of the number of social networking sites, e-lists and groups I'm in, but this one looks very relevant to me. You can see who I am and what interests me in my blog
http://bridgetmckenzie.blogspot.com/ Yes, I know I don't post very regularly, but feel the quality! You can see what my company does on
www.flowassociates.com I look forward to seeing some interesting discussions on here and s…
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Posted by Bridget McKenzie on July 27, 2007 at 11:25am —
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Just curious where this will go.
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Posted by ZooPods on July 26, 2007 at 7:28pm —
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Survey of dance courses
Current Events; Upcoming Centennial Lecture Series
