WORDPRESS IS FOR BLOGSCMS Diversity in Museums

THE MUSEUMprotecting all the things

DEFINING OUR WORLD➤ Museums are spaces where objects of

historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are collected, catalogued, stored, and sometimes exhibited.

➤ GLAM refers to publicly funded, publicly accountable institutions - Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums – that collect cultural heritage materials.

UNDERSTANDING SCOPE➤ 15% hold 5,001-10,000

➤ 25% hold 10,001-50,000

➤ 15% hold 50,001-500,000 and a few hold significantly more.

UNDERSTANDING SCOPE➤ The Smithsonian Institution is the

world’s largest museum and research complex

➤ 19 Facilities

➤ 156 million artifacts, works of art and specimens

ONLY 2% OF A COLLECTION IS DISPLAY AT ANY GIVEN TIME

UNDERSTANDING VISITORS

➤ 6.28 million people visited the Met

➤ 29 million users visited the website

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CMS NOT CMS➤ Museum CMS

➤ Collection Management Systems (CMS) are software programs designed to aid in the archiving and cataloging of objects in a collection.

➤ CMS

➤ A Content Management System (CMS) is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content.

WHAT ARE WE USING?

Museum CMS

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DRUPAL IS FOR RICH CONTENT

"More than 400 large museum's websites use Drupal for their CMS. Why is that? ... Drupal is far more stable than other similar systems. You want a reliable website on which your visitor can rely on for their information."

- Museum website design house (2016)

WORDPRESS IS FOR BLOGS

The most popular CMSs are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. While WordPress is more suited for blogs, it does have the ability to host entire websites, particularly for smaller organizations.

Joomla is a good option for small and mid-sized websites; however, for larger websites with extensive amounts of content, Drupal is more powerful and capable.

- Canadian Heritage Information Network (July 2015)

UNDERSTANDING NEEDS

money, taxonomies, examples

VIEWING THE COLLECTIONS

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VIEWING THE COLLECTIONS

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HOW BIG IS SMALL➤ In a survey of 802 museums by the

American Association of Museums …

➤ 62% have budgets under $2.9M

➤ 64% have less than 30 full time staff

TAXONOMIESintact

broken

stable

unstable

crack

chip

loss

stable

unstable

split

wear

hole

cockling

cupping

mounted

skinning

red rot

water damage

stiff

brittle

crease

fold

frayed

weak or open seam

detached part

shrinkage

insect damage

delamination

tear

abrasion

deformation

repair traditional or ethnographic

accretion

mold

biological

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

merging needs

THE CHANGING VOICE OF AUTHORITY

"The model of the museum curator who stands in front of an object and interprets the meaning for a passive audience is no longer relevant.

“As a result, the role of museum professionals is changing to reflect the need to guide visitors in finding, interpreting, and making their own connections with collections and ideas.”

- NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Museum Edition

NO ONE EVER FAILED A MUSEUM

CALL TO ACTION➤ Free the Knowledge

➤ Democratize Art

➤ Share Cultural Heritage

➤ Make World Better

MEETING GLAM ONE-ON-ONE➤ Meet Museums where they are

comfortable

➤ Join hackathons + editathons

➤ Speak at museum professional events

➤ Answer questions on listservs

➤ Volunteer

MUSEUM VS. TECH CONFERENCES➤ DrupalCon and WCUS

➤ 1 site builder framework

➤ 2 translation services

➤ 9 hosting companies

➤ 8 plugin and module services

➤ 20 development agencies

➤ MCN and MWLA

➤ 1 augmented reality

➤ 1 audio tour

➤ 1 hardware company

➤ 1 ticketing system

➤ 2 exhibition construction

➤ 2 media capture

➤ 4 Collections Management Systems

➤ 4 digital asset management systems

➤ 4 development agencies

➤ 4 mobile dev/app builder

SHOW AND TELL ➤ proof of concept

➤ relevant examples

➤ build tools

A NEW VOICE OF AUTHORITY

"Museums are deconstructing, piece by piece, the authoritarian model that presumes control of what people see, what they learn and how they learn it.”

- AAM Trendswatch 2015

COURTNEY OCALLAGHAN @COURTNEYDAWN

Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution