On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Bert Degenhart Drenth
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> Hi James,
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> Can you make clear what the CMS TLA means to you?
>
> a) Content Management System
> b) Collection Management System
> c) Customer Management System (this is probably not the one you mean,
> since the abbreviation CRM is more common)
>
> All three are different and all three are relevant for museums
Also, if you want to deliver your digitised collections online to the
public, then your "backend" Collection Management System may well be
used as your primary data source for this, but they aren't necessarily
designed to actually *do* the online delivery, and even if they do
have an online version, the "off-the-shelf" ones I've seen so far seem
fairly limited and not easy or even impossible to customise further.
Also, a typical general purpose web Content Management System (e.g.
Joomla, Drupal etc.), does not seem to be very appropriate for this
job either, where you may want to have lots of flexibility in the way
users search for and browse your collections. The alternative of
getting developers (whether in-house or out-sourced) to develop a
bespoke system for delivering your online collections would in theory
give you the most flexibility in terms of being able to deliver
exactly what you want, especially if you want a site with lots of
innovative features - but at what cost, both in terms of development
time/money/risk and in maintaining the system over the long term?
These are all issues we're struggling with at the moment and there
doesn't seem to be a simple answer... Was actually thinking of running
a poll to see what approaches different museums have used to deliver
their collections online to the public (which is not necessarily the
same as maintaining a more general museum website) and the pros/cons
of each...
NB: I would happily stand corrected if anyone can suggest a flexible,
well-supported (either by its user/developer community or a
corporation) system that can easily be expanded and that is well
suited to deliver the complex, inter-related data involved in deliver
museum collections online to the public....
Paul
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> Bert Degenhart Drenth
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> James Morley
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> Subject: CMS specifications
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> Without wishing to start a whole debate, and most certainly not
> soliciting phone calls from vendors (!), does anyone have any
> recommendations as to an up to date source of fairly high level, generic
> CMS specifications / requirements analysis?
>
> Thanks, James
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