thanks Bridget,
not on holiday, at Welsh Archivists Forum
we're running Black Country History http://blackcountryhistory.org and not BCLM (Tony Crockford's site)
thus far:
a; split all museum core data off somewhere else outside CMS and access via middleware / API. the simpler the API (like RSS) the more others use it (re. Jeremy and Nick's comments)
b; a pluggable CMS with easy to understand hooks so that linking into (a) is easier, third party plugins work alongside without modifications; and that can be maintained by others when/if initial developer run over by a bus.
we choose WP as it runs well multi-instance for the micro sites, has a lot of good (and not so good) community supported plugins and will scale to millions of hits per day.
best
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James
On 17 Aug 2011, at 11:21, Bridget McKenzie wrote:
> James Grimster from Orangeleaf would be much better speaking for himself, unless his quietness is because he's away somewhere nice on holiday, but you may know he's developed Collectionsbase on Wordpress.
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