Hi Perry,
Personally, there's a lot that I like about WordPress. I mostly use WordPress.com for my personal blogs. I use others but WP has a reasonably straightforward interface whilst providing the flexibility - and even a little bit of metadata structure.
I was at a presentation earlier this year of forthcoming WordPress.org features and was rather impressed - to the extent that I did think that it promised to be a better prospect for small cultural institutions that Joomla or Drupal. I'd be very interested to see someone try it - especially if they could develop a few tools/plugins that other cultural/heritage institutions could use.
Janet
Janet E Davis
PS I wouldn't encourage unless I thought that there was a good chance such an experiment would succeed.
--- On Wed, 17/8/11, Bonewell, Perry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Bonewell, Perry <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: What would an open source museum CMS look like?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, 17 August, 2011, 9:14
> There's some great suggestions here.
> I might also add that sometimes you
> might have an IT dept. that do not allow you to have direct
> access to
> your own data and a dynamic connection via the web is
> impossible due to
> stringent firewall policies!
>
> At which point I'd like to ask people what they think about
> the
> following:
>
> To a certain extent Tim describes a few features below that
> remind me of
> WordPress (and one or two people have mentioned the
> attractions of
> WordPress too).
...
> but for many
> reasons WordPress is a very attractive option to me right
> now (I
> appreciate that there are many here that will try and
> dissuade me).
>
> I might be able to get some funding to develop a WordPress
> plugin and a
> collections search seems to be the function that is lacking
> in WP. I
> would want any plugin to be open and free for anyone else
> to develop and
> reuse.
>
> Even so the idea of developing tools and plugins that can
> be reused and
> developed by the museum community (and utilise existing
> systems that
> have a broad user base and well established developer
> community) is
> attractive to me.
>
> Does anyone think there would be any mileage in this
> approach?
>
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