Collections in the Cloud
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Speaker: Zoe Hill, Vernon Systems The Cloud represents an important opportunity for museums to collaborate, share their data and reach out to new audiences. Using the eHive platform as a Case Study, this seminar will look at practical options for making the most of next-generation online services without requiring technical skills.
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Collections in the Cloud
- 1. Collections in the Cloud Zo ë Hill, Vernon Systems Museums and Heritage Show Thursday 12 th May 2011 London
- 2. Developers of collection management systems since 1985 Staff in New Zealand, UK, and South Africa Focused on collections management software
- 5. World’s first Software as a Service CMS 600 museums worldwide Collections management and online access to collections
- 6. Each contributor has their own login to create and edit object records and upload images.
- 11. Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred, UK
- 14. eHive forum and help http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/2496308570/
- 23. Key points for the DCGP Website is essential for data collection and publication Using eHive helped improve functionality and appearance
- 24. Old website that needed to be replaced
- 25. No content management system (CMS), so background & project pages have remained static Built in 2001
- 26. Hard to navigate between the 3 different sections of the original website
- 27. Collection content needed to be preserved
- 29. new website
- 32. Finding ways to tell your collection’s stories
- 38. A community can bring together collection items relating to a certain theme. Communities
- 39. Wordpress site using eHive’s community function
- 40. Objects contributed by any institution to form a global community of rugby related items
- 45. OAUTH – allow access to content in eHive
- 46. One OAUTH key per app or site Wordpress site for your museum 3 rd party application Regional website which harvests your data http://www.flickr.com/photos/xtinalamb/61688141/
- 48. eHive pricing
Notes de l'éditeur
- Image: Nether Wallop Cache - waistcoat, stomacher, paper patterns
- These are typical objects: Boot - most commonly found object is footware - Northampton Museum have concealed shoe index Bottle - quite a few bottles Stomacher - Nether Wallop Cache
- Now that we’re almost finished here’s a quick summarise: We decided to put repeat the image of the guinneapigs as the key point is to share information - it’s a carrot in this case Thanks: All the funders of the Deliberately Concealed Garments Project - noteably the Scaggs Foundation, the AHRC and the Textile Conservation Centre Foundation, KGB Internet for hosting the website since 2001 Thanks to the finders = who may well be in the audience
- A very positive and effective site. Image: Reigate Doublet - found in Reigate - iconic object Launched in 2001 it was innovative Webstats have proved, about 4000 visits It had a virtual collection of finds The website provided a means of data collection as well as dissemination (report a find on line) It provided a mechanism for finders to report finds via on the online report a find form - which was cutting edge at the time But by 2007 we wanted to bring the website up todate because it now seemed rather clunky
- Talking websites here It was frustrating for Dinah in her academic role as she wasn’t able to add to the bibliography regularly - also to share the oral histories which is a hugely rich resource, accessibility ……
- Three sections Static pages 2 database pages 3 ‘How to’ pages
- All the content is there as a very rich resource - just needs to be added to and refresh the look
- Five main reasons to update to eHive Update - using a CMS so we can update the website from anywhere with internet connection The website was looking dated, and the navigation wasn’t clear, well to me anyway CAPTCHA is the wiggly words and numbers which can be easily read by human and prevents standard automated software from filling out forms. For example, Paul Rowe - a personal touch is that he met me in London whilst over from New Zealand to discuss the website which gave me confidence in developing the website And now Zoe is going to tell you about eHive another example, not the Deliberately Concealed Garments Project
- Now we’re back to the Deliberately Concealed Garments project - We wanted some continuity and modernisation, but keep a similar look and feel so repeat visitors feel confident and comfortable with site = we feel eHive understood our requirements immediately
- This is key to the website - being able EASILY to tell us about what they’ve found. Trust has been established - very clear about people’s privacy Now back to Zoe
- Using a lightbox mode - easy and quick to filter and pick what they want.
- The policy was to call each cache by location - no names or address, just geographical location.
- Each contributor has their own private account with login access. Each object record with images can be marked as belonging to one or more communities. NZMuseums was marked as a default community for published objects records for each of the NZMuseums members.