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Please forward to any interested
colleagues
MCN’s
33rd Annual
Conference
Museum Computer Network Boston, 2005
Call for
Proposals
DIGITS FUGIT!
Preserving Knowledge into the
Future
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting Dates: November 3 – 5, 2005
Proposal Deadline: February 11, 2005
As an organization,
MCN has always championed back-office, mission-critical, “heavy lifting” aspects
of museum technologies. We provided advocacy and professional development
programs to help our membership accomplish basic networking and database efforts
that transformed the record keeping part of museum work. For years now, we have
turned our attention to refining cataloguing standards, image digitizing
technologies, developing smarter systems for inter-operability, sustainability,
and electronic publication.
We’ve all spent
a great deal of time and effort organizing vast quantities of information in a
variety of digital formats. The time has come to focus on preserving the
valuable results of that tremendous effort. In response, the theme for MCN’s
2005 conference will be Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the
Future.
What
makes MCN conferences great is the participation of people in the field tackling
these issues on a daily basis.
Propose to chair
a panel, deliver a paper, teach a workshop or conduct a roundtable. The Program
Committee is seeking presentations based on current and planned activities or
research that focus on one of the following broad areas of interest:
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Collaboration & Data
Aggregation |
Multimedia & Streaming
Technologies |
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Collection Information
Management |
Point of Sale & eCommerce
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Digital Rights Management
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Preservation Metadata
Standards |
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Electronic Publication
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Preservation Planning
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Imaging Technologies
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Preservation Policy
Development |
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Intellectual Property Rights
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Research & Evaluation
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Management Issues
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Standards &
Interoperability |
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Membership & Fund Raising
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Storage Technologies
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Each session must have
a chairperson responsible for finding other speakers and coordinating logistics.
All chairs must be affiliated with an institutional member or be an MCN
individual member. Topics for the sessions should fall into at least one of the
categories listed. All proposals
for sessions and/or workshops must be submitted on Call for Proposals
form. To obtain additional copies or get more specific information, visit the
MCN web site, www.mcn.edu or contact Susan
Rawlyk at the MCN office by email [log in to unmask] or phone (403)
288-9394.
Come to
Boston, be a part of MCN’s 33rd Annual Conference, at the world
famous Omni Parker House, in the heart of the old town.
Talk
with your colleagues about your organizations, your communities, your ideas,
your hopes and your digital preservation fears – then send your ideas and
proposals for the 2005 Conference to the Program Committee by February 11, 2005.