Building Content through Collaboration
Digitization: collaboration between museums, associations, and government
Jim Fox
Canadian Heritage Information Network
Hull, Quebec
Canada
Sister Madeleine Juneau
Maison Saint-Gabriel
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Françoise Simard
Société des musées québécois
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Session: Building Content through Collaboration - Digitization: collaboration between museums, associations, and government
Tuesday, August 22, 15:00 - 16:00
The speakers will explain how the organizations they represent address the challenge of producing digitized content (text and images). The main focus will be the digitization of the images from collections. Sister Juneau will discuss planning and financing issues in a small institution with several, diversified priorities. Mrs Simard will deal with the actions taken by the provincial association to facilitate the work of museum members, while taking into account the priorities of the different stakeholders.
About Jim Fox:
Jim Fox started his career in the Informatics area with the Department of Industry Trade and Commerce where he increasingly was responsible for planning, designing, developing and implementing business application systems. He joined CHIN in 1983 as a Project Leader in Systems Development, principally providing advice to CHIN clients on the requirements and use of new technology, including information system planning, development, methodologies and practices.
Currently, as Manager, Technology Assessment area, he is responsible for identifying and implementing opportunities for CHIN where CHIN can provide technological assistance, guidance, and training to the Canadian museum community.
About Madeleine Juneau, C.N.D. (Congregation of Notre-Dame):
Director General of Maison Saint-Gabriel a historic museum in Montreal. Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts, certificate in art history, B.A. (History), M.A. (History). Twenty years of experience in teaching and administration; experience in art history working in museums in the cantons of the Valais in Switzerland; experience in technology: building a Web site; modelling projects. Member of various genealogical and historical associations; member of the Quebec landmarks board; member of the executive of the Montreal museum directors corporation; member of the Société du patrimoine d'expression populaire du Québec, which works to preserve popular culture.
About Françoise Simard:
Françoise Simard has an M.A. in museology from the Université de Montréal. She has worked in the museums field, more specifically in collections, since 1982. Before joining the Info-Muse network of the Société des musées québécois, Françoise Simard worked at the Musée Marsil de Saint-Lambert and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She wrote the first edition of her well-known guide to collections documentation entitled Comment documenter vos collections ? Le guide de documentation du Réseau Info-Muse, and has been the director of the Info-Muse network since 1994. In this capacity she supervised a major project to computerize collections and connect museums to the Internet. She is also responsible for Quebec's involvement in the new technology and museum institutions components of the "Rencontres francophones" project.
