Re: [MCN-L] Collection sharing software

2016-04-26 Thread Kate Blanch
ors/mapsandtravel -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 22:16:44 -0400 From: Suzanne Quigley To: MCN-L Subject: [MCN-L] Collection sharing software Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a client who wants to share collection items with i

Re: [MCN-L] Collection sharing software

2016-04-26 Thread Mike Ellis
Hi Suzanne Take a look at http://cultureobject.co.uk/ - an open source WordPress plugin which we built to suck in museum collection data from a variety of sources. I don’t know what your database is, but CSV is supported, so that could work. Once stuff is in WordPress, you can then lock it down

Re: [MCN-L] Collection sharing software

2016-04-25 Thread Douglas Hegley
Suzanne - I suggest you contact ARTStor and see what they might offer. See: http://www.artstor.org/sharedshelf All the best, Douglas On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Suzanne Quigley wrote: > I have a client who wants to share collection items with interested > parties. Rich data and hi resolutio

[MCN-L] Collection sharing software

2016-04-25 Thread Suzanne Quigley
I have a client who wants to share collection items with interested parties. Rich data and hi resolution images are managed by a database. The client wishes to share only selected works and selected data with selected curators and scholars. Can anyone recommend a vehicle for doing this without

Re: [MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks

2015-01-20 Thread Nick Poole
Dear Adrian, Thanks for raising this. In the UK, we tend not to have captured information about specific proportions of collections catalogued, and to what extent. Instead, we have developed a set of Performance Indicators for Collections Management which focus on outputs such as access to and

[MCN-L] Collection % cataloguing benchmarks

2015-01-20 Thread Adrian Kingston
Hi all. I know there are lots of hooks around what qualifies as "cataloguing", what a "record" is versus an "object" and even how to measure the size of a collection, but can anyone point be to some recent benchmarks/surveys/comparisons of percentage of collections databased (jeebus I hate tha

[MCN-L] Collection Database Administrator position / Deadline for submissions is next Wednesday

2011-10-27 Thread Alston, Leesha
Phoenix Art Museum seeks a Collection Database Administrator to coordinate the conversion and migration of data from ARGUS to The Museum System (TMS). Post-conversion, the Collection Database Administrator will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the database including implementing and

[MCN-L] Collection APIs

2010-06-23 Thread Steward, Jeff
Hello MCN, I have a few questions on the topic of APIs. I'm interested in hearing from those of you who have taken the plunge and developed an API to your collection data or other museum specific information. Thus far I know the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of London, and the V&A have APIs and that

[MCN-L] collection

2010-01-14 Thread Annamaria Poma-Swank
To art history librarians, curators, art museums staff, I am working on four seventeen hundred manuscripts by Luigi Lanzi ( http://www.luigilanzi2010.it/) Since Lanzi mentions many collectors of 1700 Florence...I am also writing a proposal for a book on the "Collezionismo privato del 1700 a Firen

[MCN-L] Collection and Archive Management Software for a smallmuseum

2009-06-25 Thread Harper, Lucy
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:25 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Collection and Archive Management Software for a smallmuseum 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

[MCN-L] Collection and Archive Management Software for a small museum

2009-06-25 Thread Owen Sopotiuk
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.

[MCN-L] collection management system

2008-11-09 Thread Pomaswank
Dear All, I would like to announce that my report on Museums Collection Management Systems has been published online. http://documenti.rinascimento-digitale.info/Collection_Management_Systems The report was intended primary for Italian audience, however I think that it is also a modest but useful

[MCN-L] Collection Management System

2006-10-03 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
ome visit us at www.bostonkids.org Chuck Eisenhardt Boston Children's Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Rippy Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:02 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Collection Management System You c

[MCN-L] Collection Management System

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Rippy
You can find a variety of very good CMS for a good price. The larger issue is finding the right person to implement and manage it. It seems, too many, that because its digital its going to be easy and do everything for you. And that one professionals skillset in technology will easily crossov