Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Ellis
Apologies, sent too soon before I'd included some examples...! http://swcollectionsexplorer.org.uk (about 17,000 records) http://salfordandcheethaminfocus.co.uk/object/ (~4,000 records) http://americanmuseum.org/object/ (~100 objects but with aim to grow rapidly soon) Cheers Mike

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Ellis
Hi Stan We develop an open source plugin for WordPress built for exactly this. Once installed you can import data from a number of museum sources: AdLib, KeEmu, etc - but also CSV. See more here: http://cultureobject.co.uk It basically takes the approach Sina suggests (CPT's) but deals with imp

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

2016-09-27 Thread Matt Morgan
Here's something built in almost exactly the way Sina describes: http://bealearninghero.org/learning-tools/ Though I have to say, using an eCommerce platform for this is pretty clever, and it might have "you may also like" features that work out of the box, etc. On the other hand it may have l

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

2016-09-27 Thread Sina Bahram
If you don't need to, or aren't trying to, sell anything, then I suggest simply making a custom post type (CPT) of Butterfly with the requisite fields you wish to track. Then use "Search and Filter" as well as "Relevanssi". There are several ways of making the CPTs in a GUI-like way, not the lea