ooops try this instead for Fedora... very interesting... Suzanne Quigley
www.fedora.info Suzanne Quigley On Jul 3, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Morgan, Matt wrote: > On 6/30/06 10:01 AM, "" <> wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> I'm curious about where the drive is coming from to have a "one stop >> solution" mean there's one system under it all. I often feel sorry >> for the folks at Past Perfect when I see comments elsewhere about why >> doesn't it also do accounting, POS, and your taxes on top of already >> managing museum collections, archives, libraries, and membership. I >> think it juliennes potatoes too. > > I didn't mean to argue that CIS's /should/ offer DAMS-type > services. I just > think it's a common hope. > > I was surprised to realize this when it came to DAMS, but museums > are the > DAMS vendors' most demanding customers. For example, the number of > them that > can satisfy Deborah's hierarchy demands even partially (or with > difficult > workarounds) is pretty few. You would think that big real estate > companies > (region, city, neighborhood, street, house, room--just guessing but > you get > the idea), for example, might have similar needs. But I guess > they're not > using DAMS yet, or they're not being very demanding. > > So given the unlikelihood that a top-notch CIS vendor, really > specialized in > that field, could also become a first-rate DAMS vendor, I think the > one-stop > solution is not going to happen. > >> >> Colleges and universities are working to build institutional >> repositories (IR) to capture "grey literature' on campuses, and some >> of these solutions may be adaptable to building digital repositories >> of non-collection materials in a museum, as you suggest - CAD >> drawings, exhibit scripts, PR copy, etc. > > I have seen some custom software vendors looking at Fedora > (http://fedora.us) as a back-end for a combined (physical and > digital) asset > management solution. It certainly meets all the storage & organization > requirements, and with an easier-to-use UI layer it could work. > >> >> The challenge of course, is that sometimes these materials are >> related to objects in a CIS, or images in DAM. As I suggested to >> Dianne, the question may be, how do we build more open systems that >> allow interaction between different functions. > > That is definitely the right approach! > > Thanks, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
