Hi Perry
Having been engaged with the making and/or implementing of museum content management systems for nearly 10 years I'd have to agree with Danny - you can't really have a perfect, one-size-fits-all solution. Better to tailor around what you're trying to achieve.
I wonder what responses you'd get if you asked a list of architects and museum professionals - "what would the perfect museum building look like?"
best regards
Peter Pavement
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On 16 Aug 2011, at 10:33, Birchall, Danny wrote:
> Hi Perry
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> I would be very happy to help list desirable features for the 'perfect museum CMS' but I would never ever ever want to use such a thing myself: it would be an over-specified mess. I'd much rather have a good general CMS that was open and extensible, with a balanced integration between robust core functions and custom-built museum-specific extensions.
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> Danny
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> Subject: [MCG] What would an open source museum CMS look like?
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> I would be interested to hear what ideas people on the list have about the following:
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> If you could build the perfect museum web CMS what would it look like? What features would it need to have straight out of the box to make it a viable option for your next web site?
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> All the Best
> Perry Bonewell
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