Email discussion lists useful for members of CIDOC

CIDOC-members

General matters relating to CIDOC and its members are discussed on the CIDOC-members list. To subscribe to CIDOC-members, send a blank email message to cidoc-members-subscribe@smartgroups.com. If you have received an invitation from the group owner, you can join by replying to that.

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading messages and files that have been made available there, at the CIDOC-members page on the SmartGroups Web site.

ICOM-L

General matters relating to ICOM and its National and International Committees are discussed on ICOM-L. To subscribe to ICOM-L, send an email message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com containing the single line:

subscribe Museum-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the ICOM-L Web site.

MUSEUM-L

This list is not related to ICOM or CIDOC, but it includes general public discussion of matters relating to museum documentation. It is a general purpose, cross-disciplinary electronic discussion list for museum professionals, students, and all others interested in museum related issues. All museum related topics are acceptable for posting and discussion. Membership in Museum-L is open to anyone with email service.

To subscribe to Museum-L, send an email message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com containing the single line:

subscribe MUSEUM-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the MUSEUM-L Web site. The file of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the Museum-L list is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/. MUSEUM-L discussions are copied to and from the Usenet newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l so if you find this more convenient you can participate there without subscribing personally.

MUSWEB-L

The Museum Web Development List, MUSWEB-L, is a forum for the discussion of all issues related to the development of World Wide Web services at museums. This includes administrative concerns in the maintenance of Web sites as well as technical matters relating to the authorship and transfer of hypertext documents. Additional network services commonly accessed from the Web environment using mailto, ftp, and gopher URLs also lie within the scope of the list. MUSWEB-L is being provided to serve those who are professionally involved with the maintenance of Internet services at museums. To subscribe to MUSWEB-L, send an email message to listserv@nrm.se containing the single line:

subscribe MUSWEB-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name". You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the MUSWEB-L Web site.

MCN-L

The discussion list of the [US-based] Museum Computer Network, but open to non-members.

MCN Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have their own web pages, but the email discussion lists that they ran previously have been discontinued in favour of using the general list, MCN-L. The SIG pages give links to professional resources in the SIG topic and SIG mission statements, and are listed on the SIG web page. Three of particular interest to CIDOC members are Standards and Controlled Vocabulary, Digital Imaging and Information Technology.

MGC

The list of the [UK] Museum Computer Group -- a forum for anyone interested in the use of computers and information technology in a museum or gallery context. Join and search the archives online at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/MCG.html or send an email message to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk containing the single line:
join MCG Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

Conservation DistList

This is a discussion list for people professionally involved with the conservation of museum, archive, or library materials. An interdisciplinary forum, the DistList is open to conservators, conservation scientists, curators, librarians, archivist, administrators, and others whose work life touches on the preservation of cultural property. Students of these subjects are also welcome to participate. Archives of the list are available at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/.

Participants are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire, in order to be included in the directory. To receive the questionnaire and sign on to the DistList, send an email message to consdist-request@lindy.stanford.edu containing the single line:

subscribe consdist Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name"

CHArt

The Computers and the History of Art Group (CHArt) discussion list, is a forum for the discussion of issues related to the use of computers for art historical research and scholarship.

SCRAN

An open list to discuss the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, a project funded by the Millennium Fund to build a networked multimedia resource base for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in Scotland.

VOCAB-L

VOCAB-L is devoted to discussion of the Getty Research Institute's vocabularies : Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) , Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) , and the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) .

CIDOC-L

The discussion list previously used for CIDOC business, CIDOC-L, has been dormant since January 1997, though its archives are still available. There is a new private email discussion list for CIDOC members, details of which are supplied to members only.

Other museum-related lists

Other ICOM lists are described on the ICOM Web site. There are many other e-mail lists relating to museum topics;. many of them use the proprietary "Listserv" software, and you can obtain Discussion lists and newsgroups for museum professionals

Email discussion lists useful for members of CIDOC

CIDOC-members

General matters relating to CIDOC and its members are discussed on the CIDOC-members list. To subscribe to CIDOC-members, send a blank email message to cidoc-members-subscribe@smartgroups.com. If you have received an invitation from the group owner, you can join by replying to that.

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading messages and files that have been made available there, at the CIDOC-members page on the SmartGroups Web site.

ICOM-L

General matters relating to ICOM and its National and International Committees are discussed on ICOM-L. To subscribe to ICOM-L, send an email message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com containing the single line:

subscribe Museum-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the ICOM-L Web site.

MUSEUM-L

This list is not related to ICOM or CIDOC, but it includes general public discussion of matters relating to museum documentation. It is a general purpose, cross-disciplinary electronic discussion list for museum professionals, students, and all others interested in museum related issues. All museum related topics are acceptable for posting and discussion. Membership in Museum-L is open to anyone with email service.

To subscribe to Museum-L, send an email message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com containing the single line:

subscribe MUSEUM-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the MUSEUM-L Web site. The file of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the Museum-L list is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/. MUSEUM-L discussions are copied to and from the Usenet newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l so if you find this more convenient you can participate there without subscribing personally.

MUSWEB-L

The Museum Web Development List, MUSWEB-L, is a forum for the discussion of all issues related to the development of World Wide Web services at museums. This includes administrative concerns in the maintenance of Web sites as well as technical matters relating to the authorship and transfer of hypertext documents. Additional network services commonly accessed from the Web environment using mailto, ftp, and gopher URLs also lie within the scope of the list. MUSWEB-L is being provided to serve those who are professionally involved with the maintenance of Internet services at museums. To subscribe to MUSWEB-L, send an email message to listserv@nrm.se containing the single line:

subscribe MUSWEB-L Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name". You can also join and leave the list, as well as reading previous messages, at the MUSWEB-L Web site.

MCN-L

The discussion list of the [US-based] Museum Computer Network, but open to non-members.

MCN Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have their own web pages, but the email discussion lists that they ran previously have been discontinued in favour of using the general list, MCN-L. The SIG pages give links to professional resources in the SIG topic and SIG mission statements, and are listed on the SIG web page. Three of particular interest to CIDOC members are Standards and Controlled Vocabulary, Digital Imaging and Information Technology.

MGC

The list of the [UK] Museum Computer Group -- a forum for anyone interested in the use of computers and information technology in a museum or gallery context. Join and search the archives online at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/MCG.html or send an email message to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk containing the single line:
join MCG Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name".

Conservation DistList

This is a discussion list for people professionally involved with the conservation of museum, archive, or library materials. An interdisciplinary forum, the DistList is open to conservators, conservation scientists, curators, librarians, archivist, administrators, and others whose work life touches on the preservation of cultural property. Students of these subjects are also welcome to participate. Archives of the list are available at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/.

Participants are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire, in order to be included in the directory. To receive the questionnaire and sign on to the DistList, send an email message to consdist-request@lindy.stanford.edu containing the single line:

subscribe consdist Full Name
with your real name substituted for the words "Full Name"

CHArt

The Computers and the History of Art Group (CHArt) discussion list, is a forum for the discussion of issues related to the use of computers for art historical research and scholarship.

SCRAN

An open list to discuss the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, a project funded by the Millennium Fund to build a networked multimedia resource base for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in Scotland.

VOCAB-L

VOCAB-L is devoted to discussion of the Getty Research Institute's vocabularies : Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) , Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) , and the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) .

CIDOC-L

The discussion list previously used for CIDOC business, CIDOC-L, has been dormant since January 1997, though its archives are still available. There is a new private email discussion list for CIDOC members, details of which are supplied to members only.

Other museum-related lists

Other ICOM lists are described on the ICOM Web site. There are many other e-mail lists relating to museum topics;. many of them use the proprietary "Listserv" software, and you can obtain a list of these from the site of the suppliers, L-Soft International Inc. A general directory of lists on all topics is at http://www.liszt.com/.

Newsgroups

In addition to mailing lists to which you have to subscribe personally, there are some newsgroups available on the Internet where museum topics are discussed. These include

uk.culture.museums

Discussion for those with an interest in UK Museums. The group's charter is as follows:

The group will discuss all matters relating to the management, support, and appreciation of museums in the UK, including events, exhibitions, voluntary and paid employment in museums, the exhange of ideas, mutual support, and cooperation between museums of any description.

de.sci.museum

A German list, with most messages in German and some in English.

pdaxs.arts.museums

Appears to deal with museums, but recent messages contain a lot of irrelevant material

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http://cidoc.icom.museum/disclist.htm
Revised / dernière mise à jour: 2005-03-26 22:03
Maintained by / Entretenu par: Leonard Will
Link to / passerelle vers CIDOC home page / la page d'accueil du CIDOC or ICOM home page / la page d'accueil de l'ICOM
© The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums/Comité international pour la documentation du Conseil international des musées (ICOM-CIDOC), 1997-2005