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1997 Museum Computer Network Annual Conference
"Communication within the Museum, with the Museum and its Community,
within the Community of Museums"
Hyatt Regency Union Station
St. Louis, Missouri
October 15-18, 1997
http://www.mcn.edu (for full program and registration details)

Meet us in St. Louis - it's just a month away!
If you miss MCN'97, here's what you'll be missing:

-- Expert-Taught Pre-Conference Workshops (NOTE: WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
IS LIMITED) --
*SGML in the Real World
*Making Your Site Interactive: Video-Conferencing and other
Visitor/Artist Interaction over the Web
*Making Museum Information Accessible to Low-Tech Audiences and
Audiences with Disabilities
*Making the Transition, Part 1: New Technology Implementation Planning
*Strategic Technology Planning for Museums
*Strategies and Tools for Documenting Images
*Implementing the EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
*Implementing the CIMI DTD
*Making the Transition, Part II: A Case Study
*Using Intranet Tools in Museums
*Multimedia Tools
*Copyright Issues in Digitizing (and Using) Museum Collections

-- Opening Plenary -- With distinguished speakers Lyn Elliot Sherwood,
Director General, Canadian Heritage Information Network and David Green,
Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural
Heritage

-- Special Events --
*Evening Reception and Lecture by special guest by Chris Dede, Program
Director, National Science Foundation
*Data Standards Initiatives and Projects Open Forum
*Intellectual Property Rights Open Forum and Breakfast
*Silent Auction
*Conference Luncheon
-- Exhibit Hall --
-- Special Interest Group Meetings --
-- Post-Conference Tour of St. Louis --

-- Panel Sessions on the Hot Technology Issues Facing Museums Today --
*Integrating Information Systems: The Information Issues
*Finding New Ways to Work Together: Web Development Team Models
*Professional Standards for Museum Information Managers
*Fund Accounting Made Fun: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
*Intranets & Extranets: Using Web Tools to Develop Integrated Access to
Museum Information
*Tools for Integration, Collaboration, and Access: Museums and Encoded
Archival Description (EAD)
*Access to Intellectual Property - Three Key Points of View (Enduser,
Rightsholder, and Rights Agency)
*Outsourcing Your Technical Support and Maintenance
*Media Madness and Virtual Choices
*Searching Collections Information Internationally: The CIMI Z39.50
Interoperability Testbed Project
*First There was the Registrar.... The Impact of Technology on Museum
Information and Collections Managers
*Digital Libraries in Museums and Galleries
*Redesigning Access
*Using Interactive Video Technologies in Delivering Educational
Resources
*Managing those Donors! Museum Membership and Development Management
*Technologists Dreaming in Real Time
*Retrieval of Images on the Web: Innovative Approaches
*Collecting Digital: How and Why
*You Are Not Your Users!: User-Centered Design and Usability
*Accessing Collections Information Online - A Survey of Strategies
*Making New Connections on the Web: A Project Fair
*Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: Coping with Electronic Imaging and
Usage Requests in Advance of Standards and Policies
*Spelunking the Archive: Implementing an Experimental Data Mining Tool
*The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO): A Collective Initiative for
Digital Rights Management, Electronic Commerce, Education and Data
Interchange
*The Next Hot Internet Services: Push Technology
*The View from the Top: Long-Range Views and Perspectives of Four Chief
Information Systems Officers
--
Kerridwen Harvey
Harvey Heritage Services
(819) 827-0762 (tel)         (819) 827-5613 (fax)
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