Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

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

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

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

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

Re: [MCN-L] Online Catalog

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

[MCN-L] Online Catalog

Hello! I’m working on a project where we want to allow users to search our database of butterflies that populate our butterfly house…search by color(s), wing shape, maybe some other criteria. We use Wordpress so it seems Woo Commerce is a safe bet with maybe another plugin to turn off certain

Re: [MCN-L] map software

Thanks for this, Douglas. We open for the season on Memorial Day wkd. This is great news; sounds like a highly fundable project. Wayne, thanks for these leads--I'll do some tire kicking. Best, Matt On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Douglas Hegley wrote: > At Mia, we are

Re: [MCN-L] map software

Hi Matt, I worked on a piece of software a few years ago called Neatline that does this (http://neatline.org), though you may not like the additional overhead of Omeka for this. I’ve also done something like this with Google Earth (which sometimes works well with touch screens) and set the

Re: [MCN-L] map software

At Mia, we are creating this interface as open source software under an IMLS grant. Not sure if the timelines will align. What are the exact dates of your installation? Thx Douglas On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Matt Wheeler wrote: > Good morning-- > > For our 2017

[MCN-L] map software

Good morning-- For our 2017 exhibit, we want to feature an LCD touch screen which will show a zoomable map of North America. the map will have locations marked, and the location tags will be linked to images from our photo collections which are related to the location. Has anyone used or heard