Hi Mike and list.



This is not what you specifically asked for… but I thought you might have use for it anyways.



We used a evaluation method where we intentionally avoided a checklist type of evaluation. Our experience was that most CMS systems can and will try to check most checklists however most of the time they still can’t do important tasks well.



We evaluated 10 criteria that we thought were important for a museum CMS, added two that were specific for our museum and then weighted each criteria for our case. We then multiplied our value with the evaluation and got a total for each CMS.



If you are interested I could try translating the swedish parts of our evaluation. It was a bit tricky to google translate an excel document as a whole even after converting it to a google docs spreadsheet.



We thought these fields/criterias were important for a museum (this was five years ago):



Market Momentum



Developer Community



Content Publishing (Simplicity)



Customizable UI (Flexibility)



Built-in Applications (OTB)



WebServices Support



Mashup Support (AJAX Support)



E-commerce Modules



Hosting Services (Cloud etc.)



Language  (Java, PHP, .NET) support



and at the end added two additional criteria that was specific to our needs:



Example cost of CMS



Code configuration (flexibility)







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29 mar 2016 kl. 14:22 skrev Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:



Does anyone have a handy “features our (museum) content management system should support” type checklist they can point me at, other than just suggesting I Google it…?



Thanks in advance



Mike









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