MCN 2023 is headed to Philadelphia!
About the conference Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 8–10, 2023 We’re thrilled to announce our first in-person conference since 2019! This year, we’re testing some new models while recalling our past. We hope you join us at Penn Museum in Philadelphia for conference sessions, networking, and open spaces for conversation and collaboration. The conference features…
Meet the 2022 Board Member Cohort!
We’re delighted to announce that MCN’s Board of Directors has appointed Max Evjen, Martin Franzini, and Jen Holmes to serve on the Board each for a three-year term, effective November 2022. Please join us in congratulating each of them on their appointment! As new faces join the board, others are leaving when their terms end…
2022 Call for Board Members
We’re pleased to announce the 2022 call for candidates to be considered for MCN’s Board of Directors. During this critical time in our 55+ year history, MCN is looking to recruit at least four (4) board members to replace those whose 3-year term will be ending in November. This is an opportunity to serve during a…
MCN Town Hall 2022 Recap
Thank you to all who attended our June 22, 2022, town hall, especially our members, Allied Partners, and Community Partners! We appreciate your generative conversations and insightful questions. We’re happy to share here some highlights from the virtual session. For additional updates about MCN, please see the community update. Conference & Events Much of the…
MCN Community Update
Hello MCN Community! It’s been a while since our last update. We know we are not alone in being challenged by the past two years, and as an organization that has sustained itself through an annual in-person conference, the challenges have been acute. In light of all this, we want to share our ambitions for…
Announcement from the Executive Director
Dear MCN community members, friends, and colleagues: I’m announcing that at the end of January 2022, I will be leaving my role as Executive Director of MCN. For 10 years, I’ve had the privilege to work with amazing board members, sponsors, and volunteers. In the past decade together, we’ve doubled the attendance at the annual…
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.
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…
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…
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.
The MCN Member Email Incident
Developing a website is always an adventure, especially when building improvements onto a live site like mcn.edu. This blog post is to share some of the behind the scenes of an incident that occurred this morning, including why it happened because we want to be transparent about all of the development activities around the website…
Seeing Your Data Differently Through The Lens Of Linked Data
by Erin Canning, Ontology Systems Analyst at LINCS (Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship); @eecanning on Twitter Linked data is a way of structuring data so that it can be connected to data from other sources and queried all together. For museums, this discussion often comes up in regards to collections data: how can different…