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>The majority of small museums have, I think, got with a system such as
>MODES, and stuck with it through upgrades rather than migrating to new
>systems. So the answer might be for them to only purchase a system with a
>large number of users and a long track record of supporting small museums.
It might be worth pointing out that MODES provides its users with a
range of export facilities, including XML. This means that they have a
[computer] industry standard format into which their data can be
exported, as and when they wish to migrate to another system.
Richard Light.
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Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
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