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What's New at NINCH

Updated: April 17, 2003

NINCH SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization
New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions

Tuesday April 8, 2003: 9:00am-5:00pm
The Bartos Forum, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City

Over 250 enthusiastic participants joined an eminent roster of expert practitioners in the New York Public Library's Celeste Bartos Forum April 8 to discuss issues of developing cost and pricing models for the digitization of cultural materials. A report, commissioned by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), and written by Lorna Hughes will be shortly available on the CHIN and NINCH websites. Meanwhile the program website remains available at <http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html>. Thanks to co-organizer Innodata and to our co-sponsors, the New York Public Library, and New York University..


NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE NOW AVAILABLE AS PDF

The NINCH Guide to Good Practice, available in xhtml format since November 2002 on a website provided by New York University, is now also available as a 242-page PDF file: http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf. This does not include the background bibliography nor the extensive site interviews.


2003 Copyright Town Meetings
Three Copyright Town Meetings are scheduled for Winter/Spring 2003:


NINCH & Museums: Better Serving the Community

Report Available, together with "What Do We Want from the Cybermuseum?"
Keynote Address by Stanley N. Katz to the 2002 Museum Computer Network Conference

As part of a review of the role it plays within its different constituencies, NINCH is organizing a series of small "think-tank" meetings within these sectors. The first, designed for museums, was hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, on July 23.

In his keynote address to this year's Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference (Toronto, September 5), "What Do We Want from the Cybermuseum?" NINCH past-president, Stanley Katz, frequently referred to the rich conversation recorded in the report of the NINCH meeting as a key articulation of current concerns in museums on the development of digital technology. Because the paper generated broader interest in the meeting report than we had anticipated, we have decided to make it more widely available. All participants have agreed to its release on the understanding that they speak only for themselves and not for their employers.

Some of the key themes of the conversation (and of Stan's paper) included rethinking institutional infrastructure, especially for coordinating and integrating digital production; new staffing models; the potential of broadband for furthering museum education and outreach; the role of technology in connecting museums with the communities of the future; the relationship between digital presence and the number of visitors to the physical museum; as well as the developing role of NINCH vis-a-vis its museum members.


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