Great questions! We're wondering about storing and archiving older interactives that have older dependencies. Many of our interactives were built in old versions of Adobe Director exclusively compatible with Windows XP and older QuickTime binaries, and some run inside old Apache/Tomcat installations using ancient versions of MySQL and PHP. I would lean toward virtualizing these exhibits so we can migrate the host PCs to Windows 7 and maintain full interactive capability into the future. In most cases, that's more cost effective than recreating the interactives in modern software. What that would mean for archiving is, we'd need to store virtual machines.
*Adam Carrier* Web Manager (757) 952-0431 acarrier at marinersmuseum.org *The Mariners' Museum and Park* 100 Museum Drive Newport News, VA 23606 <http://marinersmuseum.org/visitor-information/boating-lake-maury> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Perian <perian at emphatic.org> wrote: > Something I've been trying to wrap my head around lately is what happens > with all of the mobile tours, old exhibition websites, PSD and InDesign > projects, Final Cut Project files, gallery kiosk displays, touchtable, etc. > once we're done with them. It seems to me that we're the one industry, with > the exception, perhaps, of theme parks and space programs, that has such a > wide variety of outputs and use so many different technologies. > > So how do you all manage this stuff? Images, audio, video, and documents > are easy, but everything else seems a lot harder. Is there software out > there that allows you to keep track of all of it? Does it just get linked > into a project management software, with the hope we'll be able to open it > in 5 years? I know we can link them into our DAMS, and maybe that's the > best solution, but I'm wondering if there are other dedicated types of > software that can help us manage these many different filetypes, and maybe > allow us to link in emulators. > > Any ideas or experiences of your own workflows would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > ~Perian > ______________________________**_________________ > 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://mcn.edu/mailman/**listinfo/mcn-l<http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l> > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/**pipermail/mcn-l/<http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/> >
