Hi Mike, thanks, good suggesiton. I did wonder about this, but the development time could make it expensive, and I am not how user friendly the result would be?
Martin
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
Sent: 29 August 2012 18:53
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Subject: Re: Low cost collections management solutions
Hi Martin
Almost entirely depends on the size of collection but personally I'd look at native Wordpress and using custom fields with something like Advanced Custom Fields on the backend. This will give you way better design, content and technical integration than anything else, IMO.
I think it'd probably be good up to a fairly large collection.
Certainly 10's of thousands of items anyway.
Ping me off list if you need more info
Cheers
Mike
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On 29 Aug 2012, at 18:42, Martin Bazley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all, I think a similar question was asked a while ago, but things move on, so...
>
> I am helping a volunteer run museum (with an archive) create a website (which is now done, using Wordpress.org) and now they would like to start adding collections online.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for solutions that:
> - are easy for non-technical people to use
> - are cheap
> - will work with Wordpress, or not look too awful linked into and out
> of an existing wordpress.org site
> - work well!
>
> So far I am aware of these as potentially suitable and affordable, but don't know how well they all work, so if anyone has any comments I'd really appreciate it:
>
> eHive
> Adlib Museum Lite
> Omeka
> Madrona (not ready yet for 'community' use but looks promising)
> ContentCurator CollectiveAccess
>
>
> Any other obvious ones I've missed?
>
> Martin
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