The document discusses integrating a collection from the EMu database system into a WordPress website. Key points: - The Museum of the History of Science installed WordPress and customized a theme to access their EMu collection through the EMu PHP API. - This allows searching the collection and displaying search results on WordPress pages through shortcodes. It provides a consistent interface and closer integration between collections and other site content. - While the integration was successful, it required significant coding and has some limitations. The museum plans to further develop functionality and also investigate alternatives like the IMu database system.

1. Connected! How we Integrated our Collections in WordPress using the EMu API Paul Trafford [email_address] October 2011 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15

2. The promise 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15

3. The problem 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 www.mhs.ox.ac.uk emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk

5. Connected! 1/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15

6. Connected! 2/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 WordPress integration of related resources

7. Connected! 3/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 Same interface as before. This actually searches across many fields (which we could allow user to define). Same search options as before

8. Connected! 4/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 Hyperlinks to record details Image thumbnail links to full size images Combined List and Thumbnail views

9. Connected! 5/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 Hyperlinks allowing onward navigation

10. Connected! 6/6 05/10/2011 http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Slide /15 Searched creation place field for Nuremberg