I have just returned from the GM of a Society of which I am a Member, we have both a museum and a Library collection. The Library might be lodged with another national library, however due to various constraints the Museum and its Collection have to stay in place and together. The Curator has been to a Museums Conference/Symposium/Exhibition and has seen the Vernon Collection Management Software for Museums which he feels might suit the Society's needs and wants for the future. See: http://www.vernonsystems.com/
I volunteered to find out if there was some form of "Free" software which would fulfill the same functions. As it was described to me it seems to be a database which can be asked the where-abouts of any item from the collection, out on loan, in specialist conservation, in reserve, on display etc., etc., together with photographs of the item, accession number and details description, (up to 340 fields apparently). Would either MySQL or PostgreSQL do this? Can anyone suggest an alternative which will perform the same functions? Especially as the initial cost was over �2000 + license renewals etc., etc. there are also Linux advocacy opportunities here, as there could well be an opportunity to migrate the Curator's business operating system to Linux in order to accommodate any alternative to the Vernon software which as his office is voluntary runs on his business computer/laptop. The collection whilst of considerable interest to the members, would I think number in the hundreds rather than the thousands of items. -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
