What's New What's New at NINCH at NINCH Recent Community Announcements NINCH-Announce 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: Digital Publishing: The Rights Issues: College Art Association, New York. February 22. Report Now Available Copyright for Artists and their Public: Artists' Rights and Art's Rights: Cleveland Art Museum, April 12 Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World: American Association of Museums Portland, May 22 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. Recent Community Announcements The following lists the titles of recent NINCH-Announce postings with direct connection to the resource mentioned. For full text of the announcements, see and search the ARCHIVES of NINCH-Announce at www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce. NINCH DIGITIZATION SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization NINCH Guide to Good Practice Available in PDF Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems. Cornell, Aug 4-8 Preserving Audio Collections Symposium: Austin, July 24-26 "Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq" OpenURL Workshop: NYC, May 13, 2003 Nominations for Most Accessible Museum Website of the Year: Deadline April 30 CPANDA Launched: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive NINCH-Announce NINCH-Announce is an e-mail based announcement list that tracks technical, social and legal developments across the community. To learn more about this service and to subscribe, click here.