We are looking into moving all or parts of our website to a CMS and I
was wondering if anyone has done a survey recently of the experiences of
museums/cultural institutions that have been down this road.
I'd be most interested in the following info:
Open source vs. low cost commercial ($1)
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These are all excellent questions!
I'd would also be very interested in this information as we will be looking
at this issue next year.
Thanks,
Anne
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Anne Botman
Senior Web Development Officer /
Agente principale au d?veloppment du site web
Canadian Museum of Nature
Anne and Jim,
I strongly suggest using an open-source CMS such as Joomla (http://
www.joomla.org/) and spend the money you save on a good and
attractive template design. Following cultural heritage sites have
been developed with Joomla (or its precursor Mambo):
http://www.circusaffiches.nl/
Hi all,
It's not too late to register for the earlybird fee at the MCN
conference! Of particular interest to this conversation is the
following session:
Exploring Open Source Content Management Solutions for Museum
Applications
Moderator: Scott Alan Sayre, Sandbox Studios Inc.
Register Now for MCN's 34th Annual Meeting
Pasadena, CA
November 8-11
Early Bird Deadline is September 30 - Tomorrow!!
Here is just a sample of what's in store at this year's conference:
Searching for Fair Use: How Google's Copyright Battles Will Affect
Access to Assets
Sponsored by the
joomla, for sure, especially since:
Nexhibition is a Joomla! CMS plugin that allows you to import and
display your digital collection items within a Joomla! web site.
Nexhibition also allows the Web site administrator (and, at your
discretion, any visitor to the Web site) to build their own
You can find a variety of very good CMS for a good price. The larger issue is
finding the right person to implement and manage it. It seems, too many, that
because its digital its going to be easy and do everything for you. And that
one professionals skillset in technology will easily
HI All.
I was not going to wade in here, but as David kindly mentioned
Nexhibition, I feel I have no choice...
Web based CMS is such an expanding field. A few years ago, you had to
spend big cash for a CMS of any description.
Now there are so many (open source ones), it's difficult to select
