MCN 2019 sessions recordings

Anne, Director of Legal Affairs & Intellectual Property at Newfields and editor of the book "Rights and Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions", Aleksandra Strzelichowska, Collections Engagement Team, Senior Online Marketing Specialist from Europeana, and Mikka Associate General Counsel at the J. Paul Getty Trust.

SPEAKERS:

Ariadna Matas, Copyright Policy Advisor, Europeana Foundation

Sarah Pearson, Legal Counsel, Creative Commons

Andrea Wallace, Lecturer in Law, Exeter University

Organized by the Special Interest Group on Intellectual Property, Museum Computer Network and friends from the Open GLAM community!

The current global health emergency forced libraries and museums to organize digital engagement strategies, from #MuseumFromHome to making digital broadcasts. However, this doesn’t mean that copyright laws have been suspended from working. How do we deal with copyright in this public health emergency? What are the important things we need to be looking at when we make our digital engagement strategies? Where can we go to find openly available content from museums and libraries? How do we make sure that we can legally preserve some of the current records being created by these digital engagement strategies?

Friday, November 8, 2019

This session will provide helpful insights and tips to the MCN community about IMLS’s funding focus on digitization, digital platforms, applications and professional development. Information shared will help the sector focus on gaps, potential partnerships, opportunities and challenges. Case studies of awarded grant projects around the themes of learning, community and collections will further enlighten attendees about lessons learned. The session will be chaired and moderated by Paula Gangopadhyay, Deputy Director of the Office of Museum Service who brings years of visionary leadership and experience around leveraging assets and providing greater access to digital museum resources.

Session Type60-Minute Session (Professional Forum or Hands-on Demonstration)

TrackStrategy

Key Outcomes

After attending the session participants will be able to learn about:
o New funding opportunities offered by IMLS for digital projects
o Case studies of few successful projects and lessons learned
o Idea generation for future projects that can address some of the sector gaps and forge new collaborations

Speakers

Session Leader : Paula Gangopadhyay, Deputy Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Co-Presenter : Wendy Derjue-Holzer, Education Director, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

Co-Presenter : Jessica York, Deputy Director and Chief Advancement Officer, Mingei International Museum

Friday, November 8, 2019

Our collections may be digitised, and our exhibits interactive. Our channels may be multiple and our infrastructure technical. And yet, whatever the level of connectivity we might have in our museums, whatever prevalence of technology there may be, everything, always comes down to the skills of the staff at the heart of the organisation.

That is why for the last two years the ‘One by One’ national research project in the UK (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) has been attempting to understand the conditions that need to be in place in any museum to allow digital skills to thrive in the workforce.

Bringing together leading professional agencies within the UK (including the Museums Association, Association of Independent Museums, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, Culture24 and the Collections Trust) this 30-month project is now nearing completion and is ready to explore its insights with the MCN community.

This session will share the findings of the six action research projects (led by a network of ‘Digital Fellows’ embedded in museums across the country), each exploring the critical importance to digital skills development of: clarifying values; distributing leadership; centring people; ensuring agency; and cultivating creativity.

Session Type30-Minute Session (Presentation or Case Study)

TrackStrategy
Chatham House RuleNo

Key Outcomes

After attending this session participants will be able to:
- Identify the conditions that need to be in place in any museum to allow digital skills to thrive in the workforce.
- Use workable and modern definitions for museums of ‘Digital' (something we use, something we manage, something we create, something we understand), and ‘Skills’ (differentiating between competency, capability and literacy).
- Apply a range of practical interventions and activations in their own institutions to kick start the move to digital confidence.
- Question how the MCN community (specifically) and the US (generally) could build its own sector-wide collaboration to support the development of museum digital skills.

Speaker: Ross Parry, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Digital) / Professor of Museum Studies, University of Leicester

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Over the last 20 years, staff in museums have built up scores of documents, images, and videos, that were used for a myriad of planning and creating activities. Among these files there are many legacy files from staff members who have come and gone throughout this time period. Now our on-premises systems are at capacity and we are moving to the cloud! Applications and backups are hosted outside the museum facility, and staff members are independently moving their files to sharing applications to facilitate collaborations among themselves and with outside partners. How do we begin to look at what we have, cull unneeded files, permanently keep parts of our institutional history? What are the driving forces behind the need to clean up? And how should we put into place guidelines for sharing and saving files moving forward? In this Deep Dive session, we will review file management throughout the lifecycle of institutional records and the problems that museums face in assessing the overall data environment, and we will open the discussion about figuring out how best to sort through these materials given that many of us are working with little time or resources.

Session TypeDeep Dive

TrackSystems
Chatham House RuleNo

Speakers

Session Leader : Rebecca Menendez, Director, Information Services and Technology, Autry Museum of the American West

Speaker : Bryon Thornburgh, Director of Technology, Denver Art Museum

Speaker : Abigail Cramer, Digital Asset Manager/Digital Archivist, Harvard Art Museums