Scaling API-first – The story of a global engineering organization
Museums Australia NSW chapter workshop March 2010
1. Developing Websites with Little $$
Museums Australia NSW
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2. Developing Websites with Little $$
Museums Australia NSW
Collections Australia Network
Ingrid Mason
ingrid.mason@collectionsaustralia.net
3. What’s in it for you?
Developing Websites with Little $$
4. Develop a Web Presence with little $$
Museums Australia NSW
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5. Nuts, Guts and Bolts
Computers and operating systems
Connecting to the Internet
Website tools: HTML editors, cascading style
sheets, free webspaces, and content
management tools
6. What’s the purpose of this web presence?
Assumption: do you need to do it yourself?
Question: What value will it offer?
Reality check: time, people, planning, $
7. What’s going on?
What are other museums doing?
Who has the skills and knowledge in your
sphere of influence?
8. Questions
How much do you need to know?
How much software do you need to acquire?
What are the pros/cons of free sites?
What is the difference between collection
management and content management
systems?
9. Scenarios + Issues
Work with resources or in webspace already
available to your museum.
Go your own way - virtual bricks and
mortar.
10. Nuts, Guts and Bolts
Computers and operating systems
Connecting to the Internet
Website tools: HTML editors, cascading style
sheets, free webspaces, and content
management tools
11. What’s in it for you?
Developing Websites with Little $$
Collections Australia Network
Ingrid Mason
ingrid.mason@collectionsaustralia.net
Thanks!
12. Getting Your Collections Online
Museums Australia NSW
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13. Getting Your Collections Online
Museums Australia NSW
Collections Australia Network
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net
15. What’s going on?
CAN services
Implementing museum collection systems
Using standards for museum cataloguing
16. What’s the priority?
What capacity is available?
What items are prioritised for description?
What items are prioritised to go online?
What is the main descriptive standard for
community museums?
What are the most useful vocabularies?
17. What’s going on?
CAN services
Implementing museum collection systems
Using standards for museum cataloguing
18. Do It!
Getting Your Collections Online
Collections Australia Network
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net
Thanks!
