OPEN COLLECTIONS: EXPLORING ONLINE CULTURAL
RESOURCES
Monday, June 18, 9:45 a.m.
– 3:45 p.m.
Presented with support from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services and the New York State Council on the
Arts.
Registration fee: $12 (includes
lunch)
In fewer than fifteen years, the
Internet has become an everyday, indispensable aspect of life, work, and
learning, radically changing the way we access information. Presenting museum
collections online, once a novelty, has become a necessity. Cultural
organizations face an array of choices about how to represent their collections
and how to help users interpret them.
How can institutions build accessible
online collections while simultaneously meeting internal digitization needs? How
can standards of quality be maintained as technologies and users change? What
steps can these organizations take now to ensure that their intended audiences
can find and use their collections in the future? For scholars, what are the
long-term implications of this proliferation of online resources?
On June 18, Moving Image will sponsor a
daylong symposium devoted to these questions. In a series of three panels,
experts in the field will explore how online cultural resources, especially
those composed of primary-source materials, are planned, developed, and used.
The symposium will bring museum and library professionals together with
information-technology experts and scholars to confront issues that involve them
all. Panelists and moderators include professionals from leading cultural and
academic institutions, including Theresa M.
Russo, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library;
Alexander Pasik, Guggenheim
Museum; Karen Weiss, Smithsonian Archives of
American Art; Elizabeth O'Keefe, Morgan
Library and Museum; Charles
Musser, Yale University; and Stephen Brier, David Gerstner, and Paul J.
Massood, City University of New York.
Panel topics:
Humanities Research in the
Digital Age
How are scholars, teachers, researchers,
and students using online humanities resources? A panel of professors who have
proven themselves adept researchers will discuss how they use these resources,
how that use has affected their work as scholars and educators, and how they’d
like these resources to evolve in order to better serve their needs.
Sharing What We Know:
Creating Useful and Sustainable Digital Content
How are museums, libraries, and other
cultural heritage institutions creating and disseminating information online?
How do we choose what to make available? What software and standards can we, and
should we, use? How do we raise money for these projects? How useful are our
online collections and exhibitions for users?
Open-Source
Culture
Emerging tools and technologies promise
to allow museums, libraries, and archives to efficiently and inexpensively
enhance public access to their collections. An expert panel will present an
illustrated tour of available and emerging tools and their benefits, costs, and
impact.
Museum of the Moving Image
(movingimage.us) is dedicated to advancing the public understanding and
appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television,
and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to
the nation’s largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts; screening
significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of
artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and
interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. A major
expansion and renovation, scheduled for completion in 2009, will add new film
theaters, galleries, and an education center.
MUSEUM INFORMATION
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00
a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film
Screenings: See schedule above for schedule.
Museum Admission:
$10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for
children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free.
Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission
includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events).
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V
trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36
Avenue.
Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website:
www.movingimage.us
MEGAN FORBES
INFORMATION
AND ACCESS MANAGER
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING
IMAGE
35 AVE AT 36 ST,
ASTORIA, NY 11106
WWW.MOVINGIMAGE.US
TEL 718.784.4520
FAX 718.784.3417
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