Hi Lucia,
These are tools rather than completed systems, but they are both open
source and have proved very useful over the years within a number of
museum/heritage projects.
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk <http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/> Very
flexible image processing software
http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/ Image dissemination system for sharing
high resolution images over the web.
Joe
On 02/08/13 08:44, Lucia Masundire wrote:
> Thank you,
>
> Lucia Masundire - AD:uk (SF)
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> FYI http://openexhibits.org/hci-ise/
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> Best,
> marco
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> Hi there,
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> I'm looking for examples of projects using Open Source to develop digital museum/heritage products. I've recently started on a project looking at developing digital content based on museum collections and sites (whatever that may be) and want to gather some examples of how it would work.
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> I'm particularly interested any examples from a Local Authority point of view and if you had any in issues through your corporate ICT or Comms team in going down this route. Also if there are any policies out there on using Open Source that would be great. I've already carried out a bit of research but would be interested to find out 'how not to do it'.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lucia Masundire - AD:uk (SF)<http://artsdevelopmentuk.org/>
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