Hey Danny
Off the top of my head: you'd probably be best off just hacking it out yourselves - it's a very simple requirement and anything else is going to be just as hard, if not harder.
If you did do something else, maybe consider a custom form provider (wufuu, google docs or formstack)? Only other thing would be to use a very slimmed down version of Wordpress - basically you'd just use the comment bit (this would do the moderation piece it sounds like you need) and hide the rest of the page.
As I say, thinking on the fly, so may have missed something.
Cheers
Mike
Ps. I'm assuming, maybe wrongly, that your terminal is on the web....?
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Birchall, Danny
Sent: 03 September 2010 11:34
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Subject: Lightweight in-gallery data entry
Hi
Our next show will involve an in-gallery terminal on which visitors will
be able to record a significant personal memory relating to the content
of the exhibition. We will then select appropriate ones for publication
online as part of the exhibition's web presence. (It's important that it
happens in the gallery, because we want something that's both personal,
and influenced/inspired by what the visitor has just seen in the
gallery, so the form won't be generally available online). It'll
basically be one form page with two boxes, one of which is a long memo
field, and a thankyou page.
We want to do this in as lightweight a way as possible. Is the best way
to do this still building a quick & dirty PHP/MYSQL-type mini-backend
for ourselves, or is there any kind of web service available that would
allow us to do this with even less overhead? YQL open data tables don't
seem quite the right thing, but is there something similar out there
that we could use to do this? (My own personal dream of a website that
does for short chunks of text what Flickr does for photographs still
seems nowhere near materialising).
Thanks for your help
Danny
Danny Birchall
Web Editor, Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Trust
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