SIGs

December 2021 SIG Corner: Intellectual Property

MCN Intellectual Property SIG Chair Margaret McKee encourages #musetech professionals to take intellectual property rights into consideration early in the planning process and to share their copyright conundrums with the MCN community.

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Meet the 2022 SIG Chairs!

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Annual SIG Chairs Elections! Join me in congratulating all of the SIG Chairs reelected for the 2022 term and in welcoming three newly elected Chairs who’ll be joining this amazing group of community leaders and volunteers to co-lead the SIGs this year: Brian Hewitt, David Zlatic and Gregory…

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Elect your 2022 SIG chairs and co-chairs!

Each December, we ask the MCN community to elect chairs and co-chairs of our Special Interest Groups. SIGs, as we call them, are volunteer-led MCN members’ communities of practice that operate under the oversight of the MCN board. SIGs are organized around specific topics of interest or niche practice areas that reflect the diversity of…

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November 2021 SIG Corner: Educational and Interpretive Media

Educational and Interpretive Media SIG Chairs Kajva Armstrong and Chelsea Shannon wanted to create space for their members to come together and help each other navigate a year of constantly shifting priorities, plans, and concerns.

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September 2021 SIG Corner: Human-Centered Design

By MCN Human-Centered Design SIG Chairs Cathy Sigmond, Head of Strategy/Senior Researcher at RK&A, Inc. (@cjsigmond) and Madhav Tankha, UX/UI Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art If the pandemic has brought one idea to light since it began in 2020, it’s this: people matter most. This is just as true for museums as it…

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August 2021 SIG Corner: DAM SIG

By MCN DAM SIG Chairs Jessica Herczeg-Konecny, Lead Technical Analyst, Digital Asset Management, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Rachael Winter Durant, Digital Asset Management on the Solutions team at Gates Archive In this month’s MCN SIG Corner highlighting Digital Asset Management (DAM), we want to take a moment to reflect on how the…

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July 2021 SIG Corner: Digital Imaging SIG

By Christopher Ciccone, Collections Photographer & Digital Asset Manager at the North Carolina Museum of Art and chair of the Digital Imaging SIG. Twitter: @musepix I’m often asked about my work in Cultural Heritage (CH) imaging, and while sometimes I answer that I take pictures of pictures, I usually talk about the fact that the…

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June 2021 SIG Corner: Social Media SIG

By Emily Haight, Social Media Manager at New-York Historical Society (@em_dash_h8 on Twitter) & Jonathan Munar, Director of Digital Media and Strategy at Art21 (@jonnymoon on Twitter) For social media managers who are overtaxed more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we, your loyal Social Media SIG chairs, have pulled together a few resources…

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May 2021 SIG Corner: Data & Insights SIG.

By Chris Unitt, Founder of One Further and co-chair of the Data & Insights SIG. It’s been a busy time in the world of museum data and insights, with changes happening on lots of different fronts. Here’s an overview of what’s been going on. We all know that pandemic-related closures accelerated the trend towards digital…

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April 2021 SIG Corner: Strategy SIG.

By Tricia Robson, Senior Project Manager at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Susan Wigodner, Manager of Integrated Media at the Obama Foundation – Strategy SIG Co-chairs. Much has been said about the seismic shift brought on by the pandemic for museums—and ultimately our world. We quickly adapted to new ways of working, connecting with…

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March 2021 SIG Corner: IIIF SIG.

Meet Tristan Roddis, co-chair of the IIIF SIG. Hello! My name is Tristan, and I’m a huge fan of both MCN and IIIF, an acronym for International Image Interoperability Framework. I’ve both attended, and presented at, the MCN conference six times since my first one in 2011 and always love the interchange of ideas that…

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February 2021 SIG Corner: IT SIG.

Meet Janice Craddock, Chair of the Information Technology SIG. I started at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art the year Windows 1.0 was released. Yes, that is 1.0! What an adventure it has been to be a part of the technology as it has grown over the years! Hi, this is Janice Craddock, chair…

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