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Project Description
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 July and August. The next update will be released Friday,
September 4th.
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 http://www.collectionspace.org the first Friday of every
month.
Releases 0.1 & 0.2
Thanks to everyone who created records, asked questions, and critiqued
the CollectionSpace 0.1 release - available at demo.collectionspace.org
http://demo.collectionspace.org/ . Your feedback is greatly
appreciated. The team is now working toward the 0.2 release, due at the
end of the month, which will incorporate several new features, including
the ability to log in to the system, and create and edit intake records.
Visit the project roadmap
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Project+Roadmap
+-+Incremental+Releases> for a detailed list of new features and
functionality planned for the 0.2 release.
Community
CollectionSpace Principal Investigator Carl Goodman and Project Manager
Megan Forbes met with staff from the Getty Research Institute, Museum,
and Foundation on July 27th-28th, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art on July 29th. Staff members from both institutions learned about the
software, discussed ways to contribute to the community design effort,
and participated in user testing.
CollectionSpace Senior Advisor and Domain Expert Angela Spinazze spent
several days with our newest collaborators at the Walker Art Center
http://www.walker.org , bringing them up to speed on the project's
activities, and kicking off their deployment planning process.
Project team members at the University of California continue their
excellent work expanding and refining the project's functional
specifications. Through a series of weekly meetings with staff from the
Hearst Museum of Anthropology http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/ , the
team has added notes, use cases, and domain-specific requirements about
loans, workflow management, storage location, accessioning, and more.
Notes from these meetings are available on the project wiki
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Services+Team+D
esign+Meeting+Notes> .
Design
The project's user interface designers have been incredibly busy
refining wireframes for the 0.2 release. Faced with the challenge of
creating screens that incorporate a very large number of data entry
fields while still providing a pleasant user experience, the designers
are experimenting with a number of widgets that allow users to quickly
and easily enter and organize data. Go to the project wiki to view an
annotated wireframe
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/download/attachments/18448542/object_ca
taloging%20with%20bar.jpg> .
Development
Developers are working on a number of architectural and user-facing
projects. Four new user screens have been created for the 0.2 release:
login
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+Lo
gin> , create new landing page
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+Cr
eate+New+landing+page> , find and edit landing page
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+Fi
nd+Edit> , and intake
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+In
take+Data+Entry> . Work continues on the DataContext for CRUD (create,
read, update, delete) operations between the user interface and
application layers, the uiSpec (see the July 2009 Status Update
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/July+2009+Statu
s+Update> for a full description), and the Authentication
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Authentication+
Service+Home> , ID
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/ID+Service+Home
, CollectionObject
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/CollectionObjec
t+Service+Home> , Intake
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Intake+Service+
Home> , and Relationship
<http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Relationship+Se
rvice+Home> services.
MEGAN FORBES
COLLECTION INFORMATION AND ACCESS MANAGER
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
35 AVE AT 37 ST, ASTORIA, NY 11106
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