Presentation about Collective Access & cloud hosting on DISH 2009: Digital Strategies for Heritage.

1. CollectiveAccess & Cloud hostingWednesday 9 december 2009 / DISH 2009 Rotterdam Bram Wiercx

2. Regionalheritage databases in Flanders

3. Example: Regionalheritage databases in Flanders

4. It’s raining complaints about the software companies

5. ComplaintsTagCloud

6. The solution…

7. OPEN software and communication

8. OPEN is more then the source

9. Example is Drupal

10. The OPEN solution 1) An open-source collection management system where a lot of organisations and companies can work and invest together to make a good product.  Collective Access 2) A scalable quality hosting solution who is concurrencial priced, easy in setup and has a transparant cost for when your collection grow.  Cloud hosting on the Amazon cloud

11. We start a pilotproject to test this solution 1) Testing CollectiveAccess an open-source collections management software for museums, archives and digital collections. 2) Building a hosted scalable „pay what you use“ Cloud hosting for CollectiveAccess + integrated backup solution. 3) Bringing people together in a Community of Practice to give advise, help and test. This pilotproject CollectiveAccess and Cloud Computing runs in 2009 and 2010 in Flanders.

12. 1) Collective Access full-featured collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats completelyweb-based : All cataloging, search and administrative functions are accessed using common web-browser software Multilingual Open-source (GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2) CollectiveAccess was created and is developed by Wirl-i-Gig Active community of partner institutions contribute funding, planning and software development resources.

13. Example: PhilaPlace

14. Example: Moments in Time 1989/1990

15. 2) Wat is cloud hosting?

16. 1) Cloud hosting is… Only pay for what u use No investment in infrastructure No setup cost for hardware Lower service fees (no support contracts for the hardware) Scalable solution, you can grow, shrinkor stop Instant computer power when you need it You pay directly to the infrastructure company. No reseller fees. No bad old contracts. You can go whenever you want, no longtime contracts.

17. Cloud computing is the number 1 strategic technology for 2010 (Gartner)

18. Collective Access in the cloud: how does it works

19. Collective Access in the cloud: the advantages flexible scalable transparent cost-effective (green)

20. CollectiveAccess + Cloud hosting = a powerful strategy for your collection. Without proparity software or vendor locks Without paying to much for hosting, support and software Without long time contracts With the freedom and flexibility to switch your company when you are not happy. With the flexibility to customize CollectiveAccess to your needs.

21. Are you next ?

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