Museum Computer Network (MCN)

Taiwan Chapter
2010 Update Report & SIG Review

Museum Computer Network Der-Tsai LEE

Taiwan Chapter Distinguished Research Fellow
2011 Annual Meeting Institute of Information Science
In conjunction with Academia Sinica
2011 TELDAP International Conference
Academia Sinica March 16, 2011
 Introduction
• Organization Chart
• Member Status
• Review - 2010 Annual Meeting
• SIG Review
• Yearly Activities
• Ongoing Event - 2011 Annual Meeting
• Upcoming Events
 Organization Chart
7 MCN Taiwan SIGs has been formed since March 2008
They are: Small Museum SIG, Media and Technology SIG, Value-Added Application SIG,
Standards SIG, Digital Imaging Technology SIG, Collection Management System SIG and
Educational Application & Promotion SIG.
 Member Status
Number: 490 (March 2011)
Fee: Free
Right: Have priority to participate in activities held by the MCN Taiwan
Professional background: art, biology, anthropology, collection management,
history, information science, library science, law, museum studies,
photography, digital archives, art administration, art education, science
education, curriculum design, visual design, exhibition design, product
design, marketing
 Member Status
Membership Growth from 2008 to 2011
Member Status

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Review - MCN Taiwan 2010 Annual Meeting

Date: March 3, 2010

Location: Academia Sinica
Topics & Speakers – Morning Sessions
1. ARTstor: A Global Network for Promoting
Local Collections (Christine KUAN)
2. Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Cultural
Memory (Zong-Kun LI)
3. Workflow in Digital Archive for Historical
Materials (Kimiyoshi MIYATA)
4. Digital Strategy (Douglas HEGLEY)
Review - MCN Taiwan 2010 Annual Meeting

Date: March 3, 2010

Location: Academia Sinica
Topics & Speakers – Afternoon Sessions
1. Online Teaching in Museums – Current
Practices and Reflections (Herminia DIN)
2. Innovation in Museum Education Online and
Onsite: Collaborations and Rewards (Helena
CARMENA)
3. MCN Taiwan & SIG Roundtable
Small Museum SIG
Media and Technology SIG
Value-Added Application SIG
Standards SIG MCN Taiwan SIG Review
Digital Imaging Technology SIG
Collection Management System SIG
Educational Application & Promotion SIG
 Small Museum SIG SM
• Summary of Activities – 4 events:
 Assisting Renovated NTU Anthropology Museum to Construct New
Anthropological Collection Information System (ACIS)
 Museum Tour and Co-hosting AAM Muse Award Workshop with Media and
Technology SIG
 Assisting NTU Small Museums to call for 2010 Summer Camp
 Proposing “The Cultural Creativity Industry Whitepaper” for Museum & Digital
Assets, and Briefing to 12 Small Museums

Chair: Chiung-Min TSAI

Members: 247
Assisting Renovated NTU Anthropology Museum to SM
Construct New Anthropological Collection Information System (ACIS)

Technical Assistance
Outreaching Programs
Management Plans

Providing Small Museums

Technological Consultancies
on Database Creation, Digital
Exhibition, & etc.

Ex. Assisting Renovated NTU

Anthropology Museum to
construct new
Anthropological Collection
Information System (ACIS) for
Museum Reopening on
November 12-14, 2010
Museum Tour
Co-hosting AAM Muse Award Workshop with M&T SIG
Assisting NTU Small Museums to call for 2010 Summer Camp
SM
Technical Assistance
Outreaching Programs
Management Plans

Helping small museums to organize

workshops for public
outreaching and capacity
building.

Ex. Museum Tour and Co-hosting

AAM Muse Award Workshop
with Media and Technology SIG
on October 7, 2010.

Ex. Assisting NTU Small Museums to

call for 2010 Summer Camp on
July 8 &15, 2010.
Proposing “The Cultural Creativity Industry Whitepaper”
for Museum & Digital Assets, and Briefing to 12 Small Museums
SM
Technical Assistances
Outreaching Programs
Management Plans

Helping small museums to set up

business plan for long-term
development.

Ex. Inviting NTU & U Penn GCP Team

to propose “The Cultural
Creativity Industry Whitepaper”
for Museum & Digital Assets, and
Briefing to 12 Small Museums on
June 21, 2010
 Media & Technology SIG MT
• Summary of Activities – 5 events:
 Workshop for Application of Digital Media Technologies on Museum Education
 Workshop for AAM 2010 MUSE Awards Multimedia Installation (I)
 Workshop for AAM 2010 MUSE Awards Multimedia Installation (II)
 Workshop for AAM 2010 MUSE Awards Multimedia Installation (III)
 Let’s click “Like”-Workshop on the use of Social Networking sites at the
museum marketing

Chair: James Quo-Ping LIN

Co-Chair: Jewel Pai-Chu LIN
Members: 310
Workshop for Application of Digital Media
Technologies on Museum Education
collaborate with “Educational Application and Promotion SIG”
MT
Educational Promotion in museums
through digital media technology and systems

Date: June 30th, 2010

Attendee: 93 persons

Speakers
1. Chun-Ko HSIEH (Department of
Education, Exhibition & Information
Service, National Palace Museum)
2. Kan-Jen LIAO (National Museum of
History)
3. Wei-Hsuan HSIAO (Research Center for
Digital Humanities, National Taiwan
University)
Workshop for AAM 2010 MUSE Awards
Multimedia Installation (I) (II) (III)
Date: September 13th, 2010
Attendee: 42 persons
Location (I): Fu Jen University
Date: September 30th, 2010
Attendee: 67 persons
Location (II):
National Cheng Kung University
Date: October 7th, 2010
Attendee: 37 persons
Location (III): National Taiwan University
MT
Topics & Speakers
1. James Quo Ping LIN, Chair of Media and
Technology SIG, Jury chair of multimedia
installation, MUSE Awards 2010, AAM
2. Jewel Pai Chu LIN, Co-chair of Media and
Technology SIG, Juror of Honeysett & Din
Student Award , MUSE Awards 2010, AAM
Introduce the history of AAM & Muse Awards
Share the Judging experience on Multimedia
Installation and Honeysett & Din Student
Award
Appreciate the entries
Discuss how to apply the new media and
technology on display, education, promotion
and marketing in the museum nowadays
Encourage the students to join MUSE Awards
competition
Workshop for AAM 2010 MUSE Awards
Multimedia Installation (I) (II) (III)
Date: September 13th, 2010
MT
Location: Fu Jen University

Date: September 30th, 2010

Location: National Cheng Kung University
Let’s click “Like”-Workshop on the use of
Social Networking sites at the museum marketing MT
Date: December 16th, 2010
Attendee: 113 persons

Speakers (A) Keynote Speech

　 1. Shih-Hao LIU (Department of Information Management, Chung Yuan Christian University)
　 2. John LIAO (Director & CEO of Innovation & Incubation Center, Chinese Culture University)
Speakers (B) Case discussion
　 1. Kan-Jen LIAO (Information Service, Collection & Preservation Division, National Museum of
History)
　 2. Tzu-Min KAO (Communication & Education Department, Museum of Contemporary Arts)
　 3. Julie CHIEN (Division of Education Promotion, National Taiwan Museum)
　 4. De-Xiang LIU (Science Education Department, National Museum of Natural Science)
 MT
Experts in Internet marketing on social media techniques and trends,
and museums or galleries which have operated their own “facebook”,
sharing and exchanging their experiences.
Value Added Application SIG VAA
• Summary of Activities – 1 event:
 Workshop on value-added application of digital content

Chair: Yung-Cheng HSIEH and

Hui-Wen (Griet) CHENG
Members: 222
 Standards SIG Stds
• Summary of Activities – 5 events:
 Lecture on digital Images, color management, and metadata (I)
 Illuminating Chaos, Using Semantics to Harness the Web
 Storage & Package of Cultural Objects
 Lecture on digital Images, color management, and metadata (II)
 Local vs. Global: Standards for Information Exchange

Chair: Ms. Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen

Co-Chair: Mr. Yen-Hung Lin and
Ms. Ching-ju Cheng
Members: 154
Digital Archive Standards Workshop (I)
Date: April 12, 2010
Attendee: 73 persons
Stds
Topics & Speakers: Lecture on digital Images, color management, and metadata (I)
(Standards SIG)

Workshop
Date: June 7, 2010
Attendee: 40 persons
Topics & Speakers: Illuminating Chaos, Using Semantics to Harness the Web
(Dagobert SOERGEL, SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Workshop
Date: June 24, 2010
Attendee: 55 persons
Stds
Topics & Speakers: Storage & Package of Cultural Objects
(Min-Min KU, National Taiwan University of Arts)

Digital Archive Standards Workshop (II)

Date: September 23-24, 28-29, 2010
Attendee: 85 persons
Topics & Speakers: Lecture on digital Images, color management, and metadata (II)
(Standards SIG)
Digital Archive Standards Workshop (III)
Date: November 16, 2010
Stds
Attendee: 50
Topics & Speakers: Local vs. Global: Standards and Practices of European
and American Museums for Information Exchange
(Regine STEIN, WG chair “Data Harvesting and Interchange“ ICOM-CIDOC)
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 Collection Management
System SIG CMS
• Summary of Activities – 3 events:
• Museum Collection Cataloging and Management Workshop Series (I)-
Archeology and Ethnology
• Museum Collection Cataloging and Management Workshop Series (II)
-Art Museums
• Museum Collection Cataloging and Management Workshop Series (III)-
Functional Needs Assessment and Integration of Collection Management
System

Chair: Pang-Yen CHENG

Co-Chairs: Shang-Ching YEH and
Chun-Ko HSIEH
Members: 253
Museum Collection Cataloging and
Management Workshop Series (I) (II) (III) CMS
• (I)-Archeology and Ethnology
– Date: March 27-28, 2010
– Location: National Museum of Natural
Science
• (II)-Art Museums
– Date: March 30-31, 2010
– Location: Chang Foundation, National
Palace Museum
• (III)-Functional Needs Assessment and
Integration of Collection Management
System
– Date: October 12 and 14, 2010
– Location: National Palace Museum,
National Science & Technology Museum
 CMS
CMS SIG Article “Collection Management System”
published in 2010 Museum Journal （ No.54 ）

讓博物館心臟更強：「藏品管理系統」專題引言 鄭邦彥

博物館藏品管理系統與蒐藏作業的整合：以大都會博物館文物蒐購程序為例 葉惠玲

藏品管理數位化工作經驗之分享 王順成
美術館典藏管理系統之探討：以高雄市立美術館為例 應廣勤
鶯歌陶瓷博物館建置藏品管理系統之經驗分享 邱碧虹
國立台灣文學館文物典藏管理系統建置概況 洪彩圓
國史館史料文物作業管理系統研發歷程與現況 余國瑛
《 Object ID 入門》導讀 林彥宏
The new museum registration methods 導讀 胡斐穎
SPECTRUM- the UK Documentation Standard 導讀 潘美璟
由 CHIN’s Criteria Checklist 探討典藏系統的開發與研究 吳紹群
博物館典藏管理系統的現況與挑戰：由 MCN Taiwan 藏品管理系統小組的工作
顏上晴
坊分享資料談起
國內博物館藏品管理專業社群之心聲：由加拿大文化遺產資訊網之 40 年服務經
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CMS SIG Upcoming Events 2011
CMS
• Title of Workshop: Workshop on international procedural standards of
museum
• Date: October 2011
• Procedural standards
– Collection Management and Utilization, registration/accession, cataloging,
preservation, distribution, definition, standard & methodology
• Invited Organizations
– Collections Trust, UK
– National Park Service, USA
– CIDOC
– National Palace Museum, National Science & Technology Museum
Digital Imaging Technology SIG DIT
• Summary of Activities – 4 events:
 Image Quality Workshop for Digital Archiving of Museum Collection
 Workshop on Panoramic and 3D Model for Buildings
 Training Workshops for Digitization Process (I)

Training Workshops for Digitization Process (II)

Chair: M. James SHYU and

Hung-Ming WU
Members: 259
Image Quality Workshop for Digital Archiving of
Museum Collections
DIT
Date: June 11, 2010,
Location: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Workshop on Panoramic & 3D Modeling for Buildings
DIT
Date: August 19, 2010 Location: Chinese Culture University, Taipei
Training Workshops for Digitization Process
DIT
Date: September 23-24, 2010, Location: Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica
Date: September 28-29, 2010, Location: National Chen Kung University,
Tainan (Co-operation with other SIG)
 Educational Application
& Promotion SIG EAP
• Summary of Activities – 5 events:
 Integration of Museum Educational Resource Conference and Educational
Sharing Platform and Service Portal Seminar for Junior high and Elementary
Schools
 Digital media technologies integrated with educational promotion for museum
applications
 Educational application and promotion developing trend and experience
sharing from domestic and overseas museums
 The IET International Conference on Frontier Computing – Theory, Technologies
and Applications
 Work out the educational resource website for elementary school teachers
Chair: Tien-Yu HSU
Members: 198
 EAP SIG 2010 Review

• Workshop
EAP
– Integration of Museum Educational Resource Conference and
Educational Sharing Platform and Service Portal Seminar for
Junior high and Elementary Schools, Date: January 22, 2010
– Digital media technologies integrated with educational
promotion for museum applications, Date: June 30, 2010
– Educational application and promotion developing trend and
experience sharing from domestic and overseas museums,
Date: December 17, 2010
• International conference
– The IET International Conference on Frontier Computing –
Theory, Technologies and Applications, Date: August 4-5, 2010
• Work out the educational resource website for
elementary school teachers
EAP SIG Upcoming Events 2011

• Workshop
EAP
– Educational content and applications for elementary school, in June.
– Game-based learning and collaborative learning research and
applications for museums, in September.
– Innovative educational applications in domestic and overseas museums,
in November.
• EAP SIG member social activity:
– Visits to Museums in northern, central and southern Taiwan
– Establishing the educational resources website for
elementary school teachers
– Members’ requirement questionnaire for 2012 activities
Yearly Activities in 2010
Total Number: 23

EAP SIG
MT SIG
CMS SIG
Standards SIG
DIT SIG
EAP SIG
VAA SIG
SM SIG
MCN Taiwan Ongoing Event
 MCN Taiwan 2011 Annual Meeting

Date: March 16, 2011

Location: Academia Sinica
Topics & Speakers – Morning Sessions
1. Collection Commons Project for Balboa Park
(Christina DEPAOLO)
2. Using Standards and Efficient Content Creation
to Provide Access to Te Papa’s Collections and
Knowledge (Adrian KINGSTON)
 MCN Taiwan 2011 Annual Meeting

Date: March 16, 2011

Location: Academia Sinica
Topics & Speakers – Afternoon Sessions
1. Digital Asset Management at the National
Gallery of Art: Creation, Quality Control and
Distribution (Alan NEWMAN)
2. Turning Back the Ravages of Time: Color
Reconstructions of Seurat and van Gogh
Paintings and Drawings Using Color and Imaging
Sciences (Roy S. BERNS)
3. The Diffusion of Innovation Effect through Social
Media in Creative Culture Industry (John LIAO)
4. Share It! MOCA Taipei VS. Social Media (Beatrice
KAO)
MCN Taiwan Upcoming Events
2011 Conference on Technologies for Museums & Cultural Institutions

Organizer: MCN Taiwan

Date: April 13, 2011
Location: Academia Sinica

Purpose: To help Taiwan’s museums and cultural institutions enhance

collection, research, exhibition and education functions via information
technology,

Target: inviting museums, libraries and archives from Taiwan and Chinese-
Speaking regions, as well as concerned academic institutions and digital
Collection programs, to share updated applications, developments and
reflections.

Presentation: Museum-related entities will be present with exhibitions to

give participants inspiration in theory and practice.
2011 Conference on Technologies for Museums & Cultural Institutions

Submitted papers: 14

1. 重返考古現場：南科遺址發掘互動網頁及線上遊戲案例解析
2. " 展示、網路與關懷－史前館特展中與網路社群互動的實例
3. 開放原始碼軟體 (Open Source Software) 應於博物館之可能性：以博物館業
務需求為中心之探討
4. 走入時光隧道 探索生命原鄉
5. 國立海洋生物博物館生物資料庫整合及運用
6. 社群媒體在博物館的運用探討─以國立歷史博物館為例
7. 臺灣大百科全書網站」 2010 年分析報告 -- 什麼都讀，什麼都查，什麼都不奇
8. 從學術資料庫到創意網站：譚延闓 22 本日記案例分析
9. 《蒙娜麗莎》畫作 3D 動畫表現創作
10. Community-based participation model for digital archive construction: Museum
exhibition at Nara University
11. 從數位典藏到社會行動－以交大單車客守護白海豚網路社群活動為例
12. 訊息的漂浮流動與互動再現
13. 實體、再現與想像：以臺大博物館群特展為例
14. 線上社群作為博物館教育應用之策略研究
2011 Conference on Technologies for Museums & Cultural Institutions

Submitted posters: 13

1. 博物館數位學習教材之建立－以「嘉義市交趾陶館兒童數位學習教材」為例
2. 回到未來的時光機 - 古代海洋虛擬實境展示
3. 數位檔案博物館互動展示系統之建置
4. 電腦遊戲的歷史文化再現：以華人歷史文化題材為例
5. 運用環景影像及地理資訊系統整合技術進行文化資產數位保存與再現
6. 台灣百年歷史地圖
7. 遺址博物館的歷史訊息表達和科技化再現方式ㄧ以大明宮麟德殿遺址區展
示設計為例
8. 博物館文化歷史的視覺化知識延伸 - 以博物館文化元素轉換為創新文化商
品為案例
9. 論文化想像的博物館商品設計 - 以台灣鹽博物館為例
10. 歷史博物館之文物與文化互動系統：以故宮博物館與德川美術館之典藏為對
象
11. 台灣文化藝術公共服務的發展與挑戰 : 從博物館新媒體科技採用
(adoption) 與演進 (adaption) 談起
12. 超展示設計 ~ 透過網路社群集體參與互動式線上藝術創作模組，建立公民
美學之提升機制
13. 網路時光機的基礎構成：圖書館、博物館與檔案館脈絡描述探析
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