On 18 Aug 2011, at 11:07, Mia wrote:
> On 17 August 2011 11:48, Paul Groves <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Mia - yes this confuses me all the time! I tend to assume when people are
>> talking about a "cms" in the context of a museum (especially if in the
>> context of documentation / cataloguing) that they (usually) mean a
>> collections management system, but this is not always the case! Conversely,
>> when there is discussion regarding "cms" outside the museum context, I
>> assume that they mean content management systems.
>
> I have a feeling it's best to stick to CMS for 'content management
> system' as it's what the rest of the world/ICT sector uses, and
> spell-out 'collections management system' in full (or find another
> acronym, I've used CollMS in the past but it's a bit clunky). I guess
> ultimately it depends on audience - e.g. whether internal documents
> would ever be used by non-museum specialists.
>
That makes a lot of sense, but I somehow doubt it will happen :) Different industries, different TLAs
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