Hello Pam
I would certainly suggest you take a look at eHive as it's been idea for me
to put a small collection of material from a family business online for
free. https://ehive.com/account/4300 <https://ehive.com/account/4300>
Mike
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Paul Rowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Pam
>
> Here is another option for you to look at eHive <https://ehive.com/>.
>
> This is an online collection management system created by Vernon Systems
> <http://www.vernonsystems.com/>, known for their enterprise software
> Vernon
> Collection Management System.
>
> eHive has a free option that offers all the functions of a paid accound
> with restricted storage space. Here you can catalogue up to 200 objects as
> an Archive, Archaeology, Art History, Library, Natural Science or
> Photography and Multi-Media
>
> WordPress plugins can be found here
> <http://developers.ehive.com/wordpress-plugins/> and here
> <http://www.goldmuseum.com.au/explore-collection/> is an example of a
> WordPress website in action.
>
> All the best
>
>
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> On 12 January 2015 at 11:05, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi Pam
> >
> > WordPress is a really good front-end choice, and you've have lots and
> lots
> > of flexibility, but you'll almost definitely need to get your hand dirty
> > with theme development, coding, etc. There are some previous threads on
> > here about this stuff, so worth going back and digging through the MCG
> > JiscMail archive.
> >
> > If not WP then there are some tools like CollectionsSpace which is
> gaining
> > a lot of ground - open source, free, but again I'm pretty sure you'll
> need
> > to know your geekery - it's built in Java (oh god) but a great solution
> > apart from that - http://www.collectionspace.org/
> >
> > Loads and loads of other possible options - I suspect it'll come down to
> > budget and what you mean by "small collection". I would suggest pretty
> > strongly though that you avoid the "click and go" options from the
> > collections management vendors. I think without exception they're pretty
> > awful. Easy, yes, but awful - terribly ugly, bad for Google, inflexible,
> > lazy.
> >
> > Misc other thoughts:
> >
> > - if no budget / really small collection then forget about the CM system
> > and use WP to do it for you (look at "custom fields", in particular the
> > "ACF" plugin)
> > - we have a plugin which pulls in CG / AdLib (soon KE Emu too) data to
> > WordPress, but it's still in beta - http://cultureobject.co.uk/
> > - use CultureGrid whatever you do!
> >
> > I think there's a big chunk of "it depends" here. Happy to talk offline
> if
> > you need, just ping me an email.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pam walker wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just joined the group and hope that I can get some advice for a
> >> project I am working on.
> >> I am working for a client cataloguing a private family collection,
> mainly
> >> of visual material. There are also archives which have been catalogued
> >> separately.
> >>
> >> The owner would like all this information to be available online and I
> >> wondered if anyone could advise me as to which would be the best
> >> collections management system to use to link to a website and in
> particular
> >> a wordpress site.
> >>
> >> As it is a small collection I thought Modes Complete would probably be
> >> best but I've heard that this doesn't work well with images online. I
> would
> >> hope to be able to do the work myself so am looking for the most
> >> straighforward option.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >> Pam
> >>
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