Hi Martin,
I can't offer any advice on which system to get, and as someone who's just purchased a SPECTRUM based Collection Management System, my view would be biased towards anyway.
But one thing that might not seem apparent to the curatorial staff is the long term implications of tying things into something like Wordpress. I'm thinking in terms of digital preservation, i.e. what guarantee is there that you'll always have access to the catalogue data/metadata and how 'migratable' will the data be should the museum procure a new system ?
Ben.
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Subject: Low cost collections management solutions
Hi all, I think a similar question was asked a while ago, but things move on, so...
I am helping a volunteer run museum (with an archive) create a website (which is now done, using Wordpress.org) and now they would like to start adding collections online.
Does anyone have any recommendations for solutions that:
- are easy for non-technical people to use
- are cheap
- will work with Wordpress, or not look too awful linked into and out of an existing wordpress.org site
- work well!
So far I am aware of these as potentially suitable and affordable, but don't know how well they all work, so if anyone has any comments I'd really appreciate it:
eHive
Adlib Museum Lite
Omeka
Madrona (not ready yet for 'community' use but looks promising) ContentCurator CollectiveAccess
Any other obvious ones I've missed?
Martin
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