On 17 Aug 2011, at 11:37, Mia wrote:
>
> Speaking of confusing, would people mind spelling out whether they're
> talking about Content Management Systems (my default assumption when I
> see 'CMS') or Collection Management Systems? I'm loving this
> discussion, but I can't always figure out which one people are talking
> about (or whether they're all a bit mixed in together).
I think the difficulty comes when you want to use a Content management system (like Drupal and WordPress) to exhibit collections.
Then the webCMS has to have many of the attributes of a musCMS.
I think the answer, as has been suggested, is a three part system.
* Collections management
* Exhibition Data management
* Presentation system (web or otherwise)
I think I now understand the original question to relate to the specification of a presentation system for web use that would integrate exhibition data with the other important elements of museum website.
However, it seems to me that the missing part that needs to be built, is something that can import data from a wide variety of collections management systems and export it for use in a wide variety of off the shelf open source Content Management Systems?
e.g. Import objects, output articles (with rich metadata)
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