CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Digital Curation ConferenceCurating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge12-13 December 2007 – Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, USA. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/ ********************************************************************read more …
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MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE HOSTS SYMPOSIUM: OPEN COLLECTIONS: EXPLORINGONLINE CULTURAL RESOURCESMonday, June 18, 9:45 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Presented with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Servicesand the New York State Council on the Arts.Registration fee: $12 (includes lunch)Register online at www.movingimage.us/open or call 718-784-4520. In fewer than…
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To good to be true? Maybe not. India’s largest car company is planning to start production on a car that runs on compressed air. An on-board tank would store over 3,000 cubic feet of compressed air. Released in small, controlled bursts, the air would push pistons to make the car…
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As Apple user, usually I hate Microsoft, but the new product Microsoft present yesterday appear that will be very useful to use in museum environment.
There is an article presenting it, here and here, but all the web is full with information about Microsoft Surface.
Microsoft Surface is a 30-inch table-like display where…
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The coelacanth (SEE-la-kanth) is a deep-sea fish that has survived unchanged for over 65 million years. It’s limb-like fins suggest it is closely related to the first land animals. …
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The question of what makes a 'meaningful' number of queries of an on-line resource has been lingering in the back of my mind ever since i did the analysis of the Guggenheim Museum search logs last fall. At issue, really, is how to profile and analyse the long tail of user…
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Tonight we made the trip over the hill to have dinnerat Scott Base. I think that because our population isso small this year, the two bases are closer than in pastyears. Ironically, Scott Base has their largest winterpopulation in almost 50 years at 20 people. We know quitea…
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During training today, we looked at this exhibit but didn’t really get to finish discussing the phenomenon. This exhibit demonstrates something called change blindness, where the brain usually doesn’t notice changes in a picture when a small pause interrupts the visual field. The scene on the ExplOratium exhibit cycles through photographs of a street, with one change occuring after a blink in the…
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