I'm looking at eHive and Omeka at the moment as part of making assessments
and undertaking a pilot for the Trevithick Society which owns an extensive
collection of artefacts, books and archives (and indeed digital only
assets).
eHive seems a very strong candidate for an elegant solution for presenting
images with object records and the interoperability with Wordpress is very
appealing.
But has anyone used it to display/deliver documentary objects e.g. PDFs
with linked transcripts, and audio files and video?
I have looked at their sample records and found several object records
about videos in collections, for example, but no presentation of actual
video or other media files. Am I missing something?
The ability to handle a wide spectrum of digital object types and use
various plugins (including deeply cool Neatline) and the exhibit builder in
quite inventive ways is what is appealing to me in Omeka at the moment,
even though it requires more legwork to set up.
http://omeka.org/add-ons/plugins/
Anyway, things have come a very long way from when online collections were
delivered through JSPs that most hosts hadn't even heard of 'back in the
day'.
Tehmina
On 19 December 2012 10:57, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Peigi
>
> It'll come down to a "it depends" - but broadly, you'll find eHive is good
> at doing the collections bit of the equation, and Wordpress is good at
> doing website content management bit of the equation. So if you've got a
> site with lots of content which also has a strong collections-y part to it,
> then combining the two makes sense.
>
> eHive is also being nicely proactive in producing things like API's and
> plugins - and Wordpress is very strong in that area too - so the
> integration between the two becomes easier.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> cheers
>
> Mike
>
> _____________________________
>
>
> Mike Ellis
>
> We do nice web stuff: http://thirty8.co.uk
>
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>
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2012, at 10:41, PEIGI MACKILLOP 08002239 <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hiya
> >
> > Bit of a noob here. Can someone explain the advantage of using Wordpress
> with eHive? I had a look at eHive and it seems to be enough for our needs
> (a small museum). I am investigating importing our Adlib records to eHive
> in the future, to allow us to have social tagging (we are using stand-alone
> Adlib Lite at the moment).
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Peigi
> >
> > **********************
> > Peigi MacKillop
> > Berneray Historical Society
> > Berneray Museum
> > Nurse's Cottage
> > Berneray, Isle of North Uist
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Sian
> Woodward [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 18 December 2012 22:40
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Low cost collections management solutions
> >
> > I think this website uses the ehive Wordpress toolkit:
> > http://rugbymoments.net/about/
> >
> > North Herts are currently moving our collections to eHive and will be
> looking at using the Wordpress toolkit I think.
> > -------------------------
> > Sian Woodward
> >
> >
> > On 18 Dec 2012, at 22:22, Martin Bazley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there Mike
> >> Yes, I've been looking into it a bit and came across the plugins, which
> made me think it might be a good overall solution. But the version 2.0s
> are in beta and I don't know of any other museums who have gone down this
> route. AdLib into WP sounds promising.
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Mike Ellis
> >> Sent: 18 December 2012 22:14
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: Low cost collections management solutions
> >>
> >> Hi Martin
> >>
> >> No, but given they've already produced a suite of plugins, it'd be
> trivial to spin up a Wordpress instance and try it...
> >>
> >> http://developers.ehive.com/wordpress-plugins/
> >>
> >> Btw, going back to my earlier question - we're now building a prototype
> for importing AdLib records into WP via their XML export, and storing
> images on Amazon S3 for redundancy / backup etc.
> >>
> >> Will report back as/when we get somewhere, but I don't see it being
> problematic.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> ________________
> >>
> >> Sent from a mobile
> >>
> >> On 18 Dec 2012, at 10:06 PM, Martin Bazley <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> [picking up a thread - from much warmer days earlier this year]
> >>
> >> (For another project) I am looking at using Wordpress and eHive (with
> new WP plugins) to display around 1000 records (not yet digitised) to allow
> decent search and browse of records, as well as simple online learning
> resources.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of any successful examples of integrating WP and eHive?
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask] <
> [log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Nick Poole
> >> Sent: 30 August 2012 13:29
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: Low cost collections management solutions
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Responding to Richard here, I would tend to agree about the need to
> think holistically about how museums will handle information flow in
> future. I know that several larger UK museums are starting to think of
> their 'information landscape' and how they get value to flow across
> collections, documentation, digitisation, education, web and paper
> publishing, retail and licensing, conservation and other functions in as
> seamless and integrated a way as possible.
> >>
> >> There do seem to be three approaches to this emerging from the current
> generation of development projects:
> >>
> >> 1. Buy/create middleware which interrogates the different existing or
> legacy systems, extracts data from them and repurposes/republishes it in
> structured ways. The Knowledge Integration Collections Information
> Middleware (CIM) product is a great example which is enabling Museum of
> London, IWM and others to think creatively about opening out their
> Collections data.
> >>
> >> 2. Implement core systems that are modular and extensible to handle
> different inputs and outputs - hence a number of the Collections Management
> Systems are really now modular
> collections/knowledge/information/rights/user access/digital asset
> management systems which can be configured to the particular needs of the
> institution.
> >>
> >> 3. Maintain separate systems, but make use of their in-built
> interoperability (usually in the form of a structured API) to coax them
> into talking to each other.
> >>
> >> (I'm not going to mention option 4 - don't do anything and sit tight
> until the next lottery project...)
> >>
> >> I think a lot comes down to budget. Option 3 is probably the least
> technically elegant but most affordable solution. Option 2 depends on there
> being a sufficient budget to procure an organisation-wide deployment of a
> modular system (with the associated support and change management
> overhead). It does, however, represent quite an efficient development path
> if you are already using one of the systems that is built this way. Option
> >> 1 is a fairly low-cost way of achieving a significant improvement, but
> still recognising that your newly-open data is sitting on top of a nest of
> legacy systems, ontologies etc.
> >>
> >> To put it simply, over the next 10 years, museums are going to have to
> accept a lot more new data into their systems, and are going to be asked to
> make it available, robustly and reliably through a lot more output
> channels. It seems likely that most people will follow a path from partial
> integration to middleware to full systems integration and/or refactoring. I
> would really love to hear from people who have either found an alternative
> route, or are embarked on one of the approaches I've described above.
> >>
> >> All best,
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask] <
> [log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Richard Light
> >> Sent: 30 August 2012 11:51
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: Low cost collections management solutions
> >>
> >> On 30/08/2012 09:54, James Grimster wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> From my experience, I'll second Nick's point about a Content
> >>
> >> Management System vs Collections Management System.
> >>
> >> I've had to pick apart such hybrid systems, it is not pretty.
> >>
> >>
> >> The most successful projects have been using Collections Management
> >>
> >> Systems with an open API, onto which a WordPress / Drupal / Joomla et
> al plugin / module can be created. If an output response can include
> simple generic RSS or Atom (e.g. OpenSearch style), it's also easily
> embeddable, testable, reusable and transformable to other formats.
> >>
> >> eHive has an API like this.
> >>
> >> I agree that plugins would provide a neat way of piping cultural
> heritage data from a collections management system into a web development
> framework.
> >> The problem is that if you have X of the former and Y of the latter,
> you potentially need to write XY plugins. (I had never heard of the SEEEMS
> framework which Paul mentioned, so there's another X to write straight
> away. :-) )
> >>
> >> While the web frameworks out there will probably always have radically
> different ideas of what a "plugin" consists of (as I have found recently,
> looking at Drupal and Wordpress), there might be some mileage in trying to
> harmonise the source data. For example, we could deliver it using Linked
> Data techniques rather than through custom APIs. Or we could develop an
> abstract interface spec that has community support.
> >>
> >> We probably need to give more thought to engineering the pipework
> through which our information flows. It probably won't be too long before a
> typical cultural heritage institution is storing its core information in
> three or more places (collections management system, image management
> system, blog/UGC/social media repository), and needing to meld and deliver
> that information to a variety of platforms and audiences. Writing each
> interface by hand simply won't scale.
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >> all best
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29 Aug 2012, at 21:46, Nick Poole wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Interesting question. It's certainly a technical possibility to
> >>
> >> construct something like a Collections Management System using native
> >>
> >>
> >> Wordpress functionality, but I'd really question whether this is a
> >>
> >> good option for your museum
> >>
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