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CollectionSpace is a collaboration that brings together a variety of
cultural and academic institutions with the common goal of developing
and deploying an open-source, web-based software application for the
description, management, and dissemination of museum collections
information. This report includes an update on the project team's
activities for November and December. The next update will be released
Friday, January 8th.
Updates are emailed to the Announcements
http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Mailing+Lists
list and posted to the project wiki
http://wiki.collectionspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65575
and website the first Friday of every month.
Releases 0.3 and 0.4
The CollectionSpace project team is pleased to announce the release of
CollectionSpace 0.3, which allows users to create a new acquisition
record, choose an identification number pattern for object, intake, and
acquisition records, and choose items from a controlled list in intake,
object, and acquisition records. Unless otherwise noted, the 0.3 release
interface only allows for text entry; calendar dates, dimensions, and
expanded support for vocabularies will be functional beginning with
release 0.4. To access the demo, use login: guest and password: guest.
Try the CollectionSpace 0.3 Demo
http://demo.collectionspace.org:8180/cspace-ui/html/
The CollectionSpace project team welcomes any and all questions,
comments, and critiques of the 0.3 Release. A feedback page
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Release+0.3+Fee
dback> has been created on the project wiki; users can also email
talk@lists.collectionspace.org.
The team is currently working on Release 0.4, which will include search,
relationships between records, dimensions, calendar dates, and expanded
support for vocabularies.
Community
The Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) has signed on
as the project's newest contributor. SMK will use CollectionSpace for
their enterprise-wide collections information, management, and access
resource. It will serve back-of-the house needs, and integrate
seamlessly with SMK digital, their new digital communications and
education initiative.
The project team hosted a successful series of webinars in late October
and early November. Over 150 attendees got an advanced look at
CollectionSpace, met the design and development teams, learned about the
software's advanced architecture, functionality, and user experience,
heard about our production schedule and deployment plans, and learned
how to get involved with the project. Video, audio, and slides for each
webinar are available on the project's website
http://www.collectionspace.org/content/webinars .
In early November, project team members Carl Goodman, Megan Forbes,
Angela Spinazze, Jess Mitchell, and Colin Clark attended the MCN 2009
conference in Portland. Carl and Jess participated in the session "Doing
More with Less: A Community-Software-Based Technology Strategy
Roundtable." Visit the project wiki
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/December+2009+S
tatus+Update> to view or download the handout distributed at the
conference.
MEGAN FORBES
COLLECTIONSPACE PROJECT MANAGER
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
35 AVE AT 37 ST, ASTORIA, NY 11106
TEL 718.784.4520 DIRECT 718.777.6834 FAX 718.784.4681
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