I'd like to hear from cultural institutions that are using commercial document management systems. These include products like EMC's Documentum, Xerox's Docushare, Microsoft 's Sharepoint (and whatever embroidery may have been applied to that), or any of the other many systems that claim to manage document and email production. I am not at this time trying to learn about standards based (e.g. OAIS) trusted digital repository implementations. Nor am I interested in Web Content management systems *per se*. Moreover, the content I'm interested in is not what cultural institutions collect, but what they produce internally in terms of scholarly research, correspondence, etc -- in other words, the usual scope of unstructured documentation that is generated in the course of our business processes. Is anyone out there doing this? If so, I would love to hear from you: what do you use? What do you use it to manage? Is anyone using it to manage curatorial research and/or exhibition development? Is email part of it?
Feel free to contact me off-list, but on-list is fine -- I would be thrilled if other people were interested in this topic as well! Chuck Patch National Gallery of Art c-patch at nga.gov
