Hi All
It's curious that while collections have been mentioned quite a bit, we don't seem to be talking about events modules.
Most museum websites seem to be under the direction of the marketing department, so I'd think that the museum cms would need a really robust calendar / events module which automatically archives events when they have passed.
You also need to consider how one off events, like a weekend kids focused event show up versus the long term blockbuster. The blockbuster can't show up at the top of every search or it starts to look repetitive.
This tends to be the number one priority of museums coming to us for a new CMS, while collection stuff unfortunately comes way down the list of priorities because it is seen as complex, expensive and less urgent then getting bums on seats.
So a good events module would be key to such a platform.
Jim
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On 17 Aug 2011, at 01:35, Eric Baird wrote:
> Hi Tony!
> Picasa has useful support for a number of different types of jpg "retro-tags", but you're right, some sorts of tag are flakier than others, and some image-editing or image-processing applications (and their software plugins) are also flakier than others.
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> I once bought a commercial bulk image-processing and bulk image-tagging program, which, if you ran an image-optimisation script, destroyed earlier bulk-tagging info created by the same program! The program correctly read existing standard tags from the front of RIFF files, incorrectly resaved them to the ends of the files, and then when it bulk edited the image data it carefully preserved the file headers but overwrote the image block and everything after it, destroying its own saved metadata blocks at the same time. Sigh.
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> I think that sometimes, people who write image processing routines get understandably enraptured with all the cool pretty visual stuff, and forget about the more "boring" data-archival issues. But for museums, data integrity (for things like where images came from, what they show, when they were taken, and who owns the copyright) is kinda important.
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> But maybe that's something for a different discussion.
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> Eric
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> On 16/08/2011 22:24, Tony Crockford wrote:
>> On 16 Aug 2011, at 22:05, Eric Baird wrote:
>>> Some thoughts:
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>> <snipped interesting stuff>
>>> (15) Auto-embedding of tag and field data associated with images, directly into the image files themselves. I'm still mildly shocked at the number of picture vendors that don't bother embedding subject tags, titles or their copyright info into their images using the tag system.
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>>> (16) Support for new and emergent tagging formats such as geolocator tags.
>>>
>>> ... and probably some other stuff.
>>>
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>> Most of the first part of your spec was how we built our bespoke exhibition software, and it's working fine, powering several exhibitions for several years. (and the site it was originally piloted on (torbytes.com) is still plodding along.)
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>> Your point 15 is interesting and I have some insight into that to share - it seems that some image manipulation tools strip out all the embedded image data without warning, notably the file upload and resizing scripts in WordPress for example.
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>> I imagine the fragility of the embedded data, and the different standards (EXIF, IPTC, XMP etc) are the main obstacle here.
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