MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNOUNCES ON-LINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW
AVAILABLE!
Plan now to attend MCN's Annual Conference, Nov 2 - 5, 2005, in Boston.
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Join hundreds of your professional colleagues at Boston's elegant Omni
Parker House for DIGITS FUGIT! Preserving Knowledge into the Future.
Early Bird registration is now open for MCN @ Boston, November 2nd - 5th.
Registration forms, secure online registration and travel information are
available at http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005registration.htm
In addition to great sessions addressing digital longevity, standards, and
other technological issues in museums, the conference will feature:
Alexander Rose, Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, delivering
this year's Blackaby Keynote address. Mr. Rose's talk, entitled "Designing
for Longevity," will weave elements of his work in long-term preservation
with current issues in electronic media.
Howard Besser, Director of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
at NYU, and one of the most thoughtful mentors of our community, will
deliver a plenary address during the Thursday evening reception, offering a
look backwards and into the future of our collective endeavor.
Thursday night reception at the Fogg Art Museum Conference attendees will
spend a wonderful evening with friends and colleagues viewing the Special
Exhibition:
Degas at Harvard
(http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/degas/pages/frameset.html)
Pre and post conference workshops:
The Nuts and Bolts of Building a Digital Collection for the Whole Museum.
Cataloging Cultural Objects Bootcamp
Managing a Digitization Project
Content Management Strategies and Systems
Immediately preceding MCN in the same venue, NEDCC will present the newest
in their series of acclaimed two-day conferences, The Persistence of Memory:
Stewardship of Digital Assets.
http://www.nedcc.org/pom/pomcover.htm
Register for both today!
Full conference program is available online at
http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005sessions.htm
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