Thanks Gerhard and Paul
I knew about OJS, and then I just learned of this one today:
http://annotum.org/ built on wordpress for scholarly publishing. looks
promising.
Michael
On 9 February 2012 15:22, Vetch, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> All,
>
> On the collections management front there is also the Andrew W. Mellon
> Foundation funded CollectionSpace - http://www.collectionspace.org/
>
> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mr
> Gerhard Bissels
> Sent: 09 February 2012 14:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: What really are the primary roles of ICT in Museums
>
> Dear Wendy, dear Michael, dear Nick,
>
> thanks for your replies!
>
> Nick, I'd first like to defend my preference of Open Source Software. At
> least in the library sector, over recent years, some of the major vendors
> of proprietary software have been bought up by competitors, or by private
> equity capital - often leading to the sudden withdrawal of support and
> development for popular packages. The lack of investment in development has
> frustrated both institutions and vendors' staff - so much so that the core
> European reps of one library system vendor all resigned a few years ago,
> and set up a new business - supporting Open Source alternatives now... When
> I had the Koha OSS LMS installed in my then NHS library, I was impressed
> how slick the package was - and how affordable it was to have additional
> modules coded to meet that library's needs.
>
> Wendy, I agree with you that standards are of much greater importance than
> the actual systems. Open Source applications tend to be totally
> standards-compliant - while many proprietary packages are not, or only by
> means of 'conversion' modules.
>
> Michael, you asked for a list of relevant OSS packages. In a museum
> context I'd look at these:
> Omeka (www.omeka.net) is a system for managing a collection of digital
> images, based on the Dublin Core standard. It was developed by George Mason
> University, released a year ago, and is currently in use at 1,500
> organisations.
> Collective Access (www.collectiveaccess.org) looks like a viable
> alternative to me.
> For archival collections, Archon (www.archon.org) is popular; written by
> the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
> For the Library Management System, Koha (www.koha-community.org) is well
> established worldwide - and has been around since 1999!
> For handling e-journal subscriptions and as a link resolver, the
> combination of CUFTS and GODOT (researcher.sfu.ca) from the Public
> Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University would be adequate.
> For an e-repository, there is, to my knowledge, only Open Source Software
> around - DSpace (www.dspace.org) has numerous installations in the UK,
> too.
> For a search tool on top of all these, VuFind (vufind.org) from Villanova
> University is popular (e.g. LSE, Royal Holloway), but OpenBib (
> www.openbib.org) from Cologne University is considered the technically
> most advanced.
> For publishing an e-journal, the Open Journals System (OJS) from the
> Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University (pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs)
> has all the features you might ever need, yet is very straightforward to
> use.
> For a Virtual Learning Environment, Moodle (moodle.org) is the popular
> OSS alternative - with over 70,000 installations and 60 million users!
> For authentication, Shibboleth (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/shibboleth,
> http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/), an OSS tool, is the successor to
> Athens and standard across HE in the UK.
>
> On the libraries' side, SCONUL has some useful resources on its HELIBTECH
> Wiki (helibtech.com/Open+Source). I'm not aware of an equivalent in the
> world of museums and archives, though.
>
> Finally, I ought to point out my commercial interest in OSS - I'm a member
> of Library Co-op, a group of library, archive and museum professionals who
> specialise in Open Source Software.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Gerhard
>
> On 9 Feb 2012, at 10:14, Michael Guthrie wrote:
>
> > Hi Gerhard,
> >
> > An interesting post.
> > What are the various open source software solutions for the object and
> > library catalogues. Indeed for all that you mention, a list of
> > available software would be great.
> > Best,
> > Michael
> >
> > On 9 February 2012 09:15, Mr Gerhard Bissels
> > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> when I gave a paper on Open Source Software to MLAG last September,
> >> the librarians and archivists told me there were three core systems
> >> which museums needed: object catalogue, library catalogue, archive
> >> catalogue. A Discovery Tool could be put on top to allow easy
> >> cross-searching of resources. Horizontally, an Electronic Resource
> >> Management System for access to e-journals and databases could be
> >> added; and also channels for publishing information - an
> >> e-repository, e-journal publishing software for a museum's newsletter
> >> and/or scholarly journal(s), even a Virtual Learning Environment to
> >> support any educational activities. Access to the lot would be
> >> managed through an authentication tool. As far as I can see this set-up
> would take care of all collection-related work, curatorial and educational.
> >> Or have I forgotten anything?
> >>
> >> There are decent Open-Source applications available to put all this
> >> together, and tie it in with any other systems that may be required:
> >> no license fees, low cost. And, ideally, the whole set-up could be
> >> shared between institutions in a consortia set-up - which would not
> >> only reduce cost, but would also facilitate other shared activities,
> >> from joint subscriptions to interlending. MLAG has shown a keen
> >> interest. Does this look reasonable so far? The next step would then
> >> be the creation of a body that would run this bundle of services on
> >> behalf of participating institutions...
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >>
> >> Gerhard
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9 Feb 2012, at 08:31, John Williams (NMC) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for an interesting reply Kate !
> >>>
> >>> Your comment about the shape and form of data is definitely important.
> >>>
> >>> We, like many others I guess, have seen an explosion in the amount
> >>> of
> >> data that we need to store. Much of that is multimedia and most of
> >> that is currently images. Now we're seeing a demand for 3D images and
> >> high definition video. Add that to the existing information and it's
> >> no great surprise that we concluded we need to plan some form of
> >> information management system.
> >>>
> >>> Our data is spread across many different platforms. Collection data
> >>> in
> >> the Collections Management System, Email in the Exchange information
> >> store and Office documents across a variety of personal, shared and
> >> project drives few of which are properly indexed,
> >>>
> >>> Managing that information is definitely becoming one of the major
> >> strategic strands for the next few years.
> >>>
> >>> I'm also interested to explore how ICT can best collaborate in the
> >> development of innovative interpretation. Many's the MCG meeting
> >> where I've sat listening to other delegates bemoan the lack of
> >> support that they get from their ICT departments. Much of that is
> >> probably ICT's preoccupation with security but there still seems to
> >> be a disconnection between what the users want and what ICT can - or is
> allowed - to provide.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> >>> Of
> >> Kate Byrne
> >>> Sent: 08 February 2012 12:07
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: What' are really the primary roles of ICT in Museums
> >>>
> >>> Interesting question John.
> >>>
> >>> Actually I don't think the core roles have changed since the first
> >>> bits
> >> became bytes:
> >>>
> >>> 1. ICT collaborates with others (colleagues from other disciplines,
> >> volunteers, whoever) to produce systems to help carry out the
> >> organisation's mission. Emphasis on collaboration and mission rather
> >> than on what the technologies of the day happen to be.
> >>>
> >>> 2. ICT keeps an eye on new technology/research that could be
> >>> exploited
> >> for the organisation's gain in the future. Definitely not exclusive
> >> to the ICT team, but they may have a usefully different perspective.
> >> (For me, more natural language processing and semantic web stuff are
> >> the future.)
> >>>
> >>> 3. The only one that is primarily ICT's responsibility: they keep in
> >> mind through all developments the shape and form of the data, in
> >> whatever medium, to ensure it is easy to access, manipulate,
> >> recombine etc, and safely preserved. Curiously, this is the one ICT
> >> sometimes seems to lose sight of.
> >>>
> >>> I'm out of touch as I'm no longer an ICT manager in cultural
> >>> heritage
> >> but I doubt these things have changed. I hope not anyway.
> >>>
> >>> All best,
> >>>
> >>> Kate
> >>>
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