On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Noon wrote:
> Does anybody know if a recent listing of collections management systems in
> use within the UK exists?
A 1998 list did exist until very recently - maintained by David DAwson
(where are you David?), but I've just looked for it with Alta Vista, and
the URLs returned don't work any more. The MDA have been responsible for
maintaining such lists, as best they can, for many years. I used to do
the same in Scotland, but it proved impossible to keep up to date,
especially when I took up my SCRAN responsibilities.
CHIN have an excellent survey of museum software on their site at
http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Collect_Mgnt/e_hp_cmser.html
Though the full resource is only available on subscription, you can get
some information from the "Product Upgrades" section (this includes STAR,
BTW).
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Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer &
SCRAN Data Co-ordinator, National Museums of Scotland.
http://www2.scran.ac.uk/staff/ianm/index.htm
-The past sure is tense- Don Van Vliet
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