Goin’camping

I’m preparing to spend 1.5 days as a participant at THATCamp Columbus,and I’m really excited about the possibilities. Some of you may recall that I was also a participant in THATCamp Austin back in August,and I came away from that experience with some solid ideas and some [...]

Of shoes and ships and sealing wax:links of interest

Tree outside of Heinz Chapel,Pittsburgh

On this gorgeous and unusually warm Friday,I’m looking out at the beautiful leaves on campus from the top floor of the library and thinking about some writing that I’d like to finish this weekend. I’ve been finding a lot of good projects and links lately,and thought [...]

Crowdsourcing the Smithsonian:There are prizes!

Fifteen museums and cultural institutions (including the Smithsonian American Art Museum) are participating in Wikipedia Loves Art ,a scavenger hunt/content-building contest that looks like a whole lot of fun. Check out the Flickr group and rules here.

Some of the prizes that looked most toothsome to me:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

The photographer with [...]

Thinking about the traditional vs. the possible

One of the things that I find myself thinking and talking about a lot is the future of archives,of the research process,and of the different levels of access that continue to evolve with the internet. I recently stumbled across the blog of Dan Cohen,and this post from April really grabbed me. Dan [...]

Looking at Archivists’Toolkit and other Collections Management stuff

I’ve been poking around in the public beta sandbox of Archivists’Toolkit in the past month or two,and I’ve found a lot to like there. While I don’t have a local instance installed with our data just yet,I think I/we may take the leap towards further testing on a dedicated server soon. So [...]