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MCN's 33rd Annual Conference 

Museum Computer Network Boston, 2005 

Call for Proposals
DIGITS FUGIT!
Preserving Knowledge into the Future


Location: Boston, Massachusetts 

Meeting Dates: November 3 - 5, 2005 

Proposal Deadline: February 11, 2005 

 

As an organization, MCN has always championed back-office, mission-critical, "heavy lifting" aspects of museum technologies. We provided advocacy and professional development programs to help our membership accomplish basic networking and database efforts that transformed the record keeping part of museum work. For years now, we have turned our attention to refining cataloguing standards, image digitizing technologies, developing smarter systems for inter-operability, sustainability, and electronic publication. 

 

We've all spent a great deal of time and effort organizing vast quantities of information in a variety of digital formats. The time has come to focus on preserving the valuable results of that tremendous effort. In response, the theme for MCN's 2005 conference will be Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future.  

 

What makes MCN conferences great is the participation of people in the field tackling these issues on a daily basis.  Propose to chair a panel, deliver a paper, teach a workshop or conduct a roundtable.  The Program Committee is seeking presentations based on current and planned activities or research that focus on one of the following broad areas of interest: 

      Collaboration & Data Aggregation 
     Multimedia & Streaming Technologies 
     
      Collection Information Management 
     Point of Sale & eCommerce 
     
      Digital Rights Management 
     Preservation Metadata Standards 
     
      Electronic Publication 
     Preservation Planning 
     
      Imaging Technologies 
     Preservation Policy Development 
     
      Intellectual Property Rights 
     Research & Evaluation 
     
      Management Issues 
     Standards & Interoperability 
     
      Membership & Fund Raising 
     Storage Technologies 
     

 

Each session must have a chairperson responsible for finding other speakers and coordinating logistics. All chairs must be affiliated with an institutional member or be an MCN individual member. Topics for the sessions should fall into at least one of the categories listed.  All proposals for sessions and/or workshops must be submitted on Call for Proposals form. To obtain additional copies or get more specific information, visit the MCN web site, www.mcn.edu or contact Susan Rawlyk at the MCN office by email [log in to unmask] or phone (403) 288-9394. 

Come to Boston, be a part of MCN's 33rd Annual Conference, at the world famous Omni Parker House, in the heart of the old town. 

 

Talk with your colleagues about your organizations, your communities, your ideas, your hopes and your digital preservation fears - then send your ideas and proposals for the 2005 Conference to the Program Committee by February 11, 2005. 

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