Hi Maggie, You might get some inspiration from the Research / Collections online nominees from this year's Best of the Web Awards: http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/best/nominees/research_online_collection
There are also a lot of papers in the bibliography about collections online: http://conference.archimuse.com/biblio/search/collections%20online Best, /jennifer On 28-Feb-11, at 2:10 PM, Maggie Hanson wrote: > (Has anyone else had trouble getting messages through to MCN-L? > Please > forgive if this has come to you already, but I've been having > problems and > I'm trying to post from a different email account.) > > > > Hello, all ? > > We (The Portland Art Museum, OR) have recently begun publishing > works online > (www.pamcollections.org). We?re in the very early stages of this > process > and hope to begin some web development on the collections site in > the near > future. In the meanwhile, I?m trying to address some issues that we > *can *control. > One of these is the publishing of didactics (mostly wall labels, at > this > point) in individual records. I know that the process varies from > institution to institution and I would love to learn more about how > other > museums process this info to get it online so that I can share > examples with > our Education and Curatorial departments (I know how the Getty > operates, but > don?t have any other specific examples yet). If anyone can shed > light on > this topic (share guidelines or even just point me in the right > direction), > I?d be very grateful! > > Thanks so much, > > Maggie Hanson > _______________________________________________ > 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://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ - - - - - - - - - - - J. Trant Partner & Principal Consultant, Archives & Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada jtrant at archimuse.com | phone: +1 416 691 2516 | fax: +1 416 352 6025 | http://www.archimuse.com | twitter: @museweb - - - - - - - - - - -
