We are a small university art gallery with a collection of approximately 3500 objects and a few small archives. We show approximately 6 exhibitions a year, half of which we produce, and half are usually collaborations or traveling exhibitions. We travel 1 or 2 of our own exhibitions a year. I am just wondering what other institutions are using and how they are finding them. In particular we want something that can handle both our collection and archives and at ideally have some rudimentary search capabilities between them.
We have a small IT department (me, and not my full time duties) and a network of approximately 10 computers and a Windows 2003 Server which we mostly use for file sharing. Ideally the software would have component/module that would allow us to upload a version to the web as one of the major criteria for this project is to get our collection and archives online. I have a fairly good budget for this, but I am finding that some of the software that I have been looking at is a little over kill for the size and scope of what we do. Any thoughts, advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
