Comments on: Museums Online (small museums that is)

By: How do we share our knowledge of historic places? | THATcamp Columbus

How do we share our knowledge of historic places? | THATcamp Columbus — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:40:38 +0000

[...] questions further, but I’m especially curious how my questions relate to those presented by Elizabeth Schultz, Candace Nast, Marjorie McLellan, Andrea Odiorne, Justin Hons, Stephen Titchenal, Doug Lambert, [...]

By: Liz Murphy Thomas

Liz Murphy Thomas — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:16:10 +0000

As the director of a modestly-budgeted university gallery, I can definitely contribute on question #2 and hopefully learn more myself! Looking forward to this!

By: Elizabeth Schultz

Elizabeth Schultz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:31:34 +0000

Thanks already for the great suggestions! I have been watching tutorials on Omeka and exploring the latest mapping capabilities of Google and Bing. How difficult would it be to work with Omeka if our webserver is no longer on site? Our website is now hosted by a web design/host company that has bettter servers and security. We upload info through a content management module and have the option of doing FTP as well.

Next I will explore how these program may tie into PastPerfect, our collections software. I’ve also started dreaming up ideas for an upcoming spring break camp and possibly teaching the kids how to upload content and create mini-web exhibits.

By: Stephen Titchenal

Stephen Titchenal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:41:36 +0000

I have enjoyed visiting your actual and virtual sites. I look forward to talking with you at the conference.

I have used filemaker as an internal database for many purposes. I usually export the data for use on the web though. You might look into the Ohio’s Heritage Northeast portal (http://www.ohiosheritagenortheast.org/) on CSU’s contentDM site. They provide free access to Historical Societies in the area. I have a filemaker database already set up to create exports for ContentDM that even include georeferenced links to Google Maps and Bing (as long as you have an address or coordinates for the picture). You would have to add some additional metadata to fit contentDM standards, but the work you already have done could be exported easily.

By: Erin Bell

Erin Bell — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:13:55 +0000

This should be a very exciting conversation. I know I love talking about projects that are free/open source, community-based, and (relatively) easy to build/manage/maintain by non-experts. To that end I really like Omeka for image repositories, and WordPress for blogs. They are easy enough to use that students, with a little instruction, can actually create/contribute content. I think several people at THATCamp have worked with students on such projects, and have experience with social web outreach, so I’m sure you’ll find a variety of approaches and opinions.