University of Alberta Museums (http://www.museums.ualberta.ca)
CMS: Majority of collections use Mimsy XG (since 1995)
DAM: Central museum department (Museums and Collections Services) uses Extensis
Portfolio (since 2006?), but strongly considering Piction
Jim Whittome
Information Management
Hi Ariel,
The University of Alberta Museums consortium has twenty-two different
collections using Mimsy XG. Of those, we have developed nine online search
sites in-house. Our newest site was developed for the Clothing Textiles
Collection and will be the model for the other sites as they are
The nature of your collection may also influence your CMS choice, as some deal
with certain collection types better than others. Having said that, every time
I have a chance to review other products, I'm impressed by how comprehensive
they are becoming. Our various collections have been using
Hi Erin,
We have been using MIMSY since 1995 and the latest version, MXG, for the
last couple of years. All our migrations from the old version to the new
went very well. And given that you are moving from one Willoughby
product to another, I'm confident that Willoughby will provide you with
Dear MCNers,
The prospect of generating revenue from digitized museum collections remains
alluring, especially to administrators looking for new sources of funding.
But I am unaware of any initiatives that have been successful in this
regard. What kinds of discussion are museum professionals
Dear MCNers,
(Weird - two messages to the list from Alberta in one day!)
The University of Alberta's Art Collection is currently developing a web
interface to its database. The majority of database records have digital
images attached to them, which has raised the issue of image security.
We
