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Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:47 +0000

Schroeder, E. (2010). Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Explore more with an iPhone app

kathikoontz — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:25:11 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

science museum

Keywords:

park

Keywords:

drupal

Keywords:

iPhone app

Keywords:

explore

Abstract:

The California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco, CA in Golden Gate Park, launched its first iPhone app, the Golden Gate Park Field Guide, to extend the reach of our museum as well as inspire people to explore their surroundings. The app highlights the park’s common wildlife, popular attractions, and hidden gems. It also invites users to actively engage with the park and to record and share their experiences. Key features include an ever-growing field guide to five taxa, a map of attractions, adventures to undertake and species sightings. In house partners, out of of house partners, designers, developers and content providers aligned together to achieve this easily expandable (via Drupal) and user configurable app!

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstration V

Site:

http://www.calacademy.org/apps/ggp

Authors:

Kathi Koontz

Tour and briefing at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Dennis Murphy — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:52:01 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

imaging

Keywords:

drupal

Keywords:

content management systems

Keywords:

Academy of Natural Sciences

Abstract:

Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences holds extensive and noteworthy biological, archival, and library collections. Participants will tour some of our collections imaging facilities. They will also learn about an innovative online planning tool for watershed associations that is slated to debut in 2011 and about our ongoing efforts to improve our web services for researchers and the public, including our upcoming migration to the Drupal content management system/application framework.

Type:

Other Interaction - describe in notes

Tour 1: Science Museum New Media

Site:

http://www.ansp.org

Authors:

Dennis Murphy

DrupalCamp

dbear — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:51:51 +0000

Type:

Workshop

Programs:

DrupalCamp for Museums

Tech Level:

Somewhat technical; server access required

Date & Time:

April 6, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Anthony

wednesday

drupal

full day

morning

afternoon

morning workshop

afternoon workshop

Required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*).

A confirmation of your registration will be sent to your email address. Please print it out and bring it to the conference.

You will not receive registration confirmation by regular mail.

If you do not receive your confirmation today, please contact us.

Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

The Drupal Content Management System (CMS) is free and open source software used for building highly flexible, interactive, and feature-rich websites. This workshop will be conducted using a familiar “DrupalCamp” style, containing 6 mini-sessions covering a number of topics. Intended for a technical audience, including webmasters, programmers, system admins, front-end (UI) developers, and CTOs, attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of the principles used to build scalable Drupal-powered websites. ...

DrupalCamp for Museums

dbear — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:06:30 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

drupal

Keywords:

Drupal themes

Keywords:

Ubercart

Keywords:

Drupal architecture

Keywords:

Drupal 6

Keywords:

Drupal 7

Abstract:

The Drupal Content Management System (CMS) is free and open source software used for building highly flexible, interactive, and feature-rich websites. Regarded as one of the best website frameworks and development platforms available, it is rapidly gaining adoption by institutions as a solution to manage users and online content. Its combination of zero-licensing fees, thousands of available modules, customizable templating system, user access control, and ability to integrate with 3rd party systems makes it an ideal solution for museums to present their collections online.

This workshop will be conducted using a familiar “DrupalCamp” style, containing 6 mini-sessions covering a number of topics. Intended for a technical audience, including webmasters, programmers, system admins, front-end (UI) developers, and CTOs, attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of the principles used to build scalable Drupal-powered websites. Mini-sessions include:

Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7: Comparison and Benefits of Each
Information Architecture and Drupal Architecture: Best practices, tips, and techniques
Review of the Top 50 Contributed Modules on Drupal.org (and other, lesser-known modules we really like)
Mariners’ Museum Case Study: Selling Merchandise, Events, Image Licenses, and Pay-walled Content with Ubercart
Using Drush, Git, cPanel, and Other Modules to manage dev -> test -> prod Staging Environments
Creating a Theme with the Zen Starter Theme

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

DrupalCamp

Authors:

R.J. Townsend

Sara Johnston

Richard Pelletier

Installing the Collaborative Calendar

Rich Cherry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:32:55 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Installing the Collaborative Calendar

Keywords:

Calendar

Keywords:

BPOC

Keywords:

drupal

Keywords:

CMS

Keywords:

open source

Abstract:

Like most cultural institution Web sites, the sites from BPOC member institutions have a significant emphasis on events – exhibitions, lectures, classes, tours, performances, etc. Commercial calendar products are often not flexible enough to meet the specific needs of the cultural heritage field, forcing many museums to make do with inadequate calendaring systems at great expense. For example: the complexities of scheduling events on-line for museums and cultural institutions (e.g. a tour that takes place every other Monday, except for holidays, when it happens on Tuesday) often leads to either inefficient or, on the other end of the spectrum, overly complex calendaring software that non-technical staff are loathe to embrace and technical staff are loathe to support.

Balboa Park Online Collaborative has developed a calendar package for the Drupal platform that handles the complex date functions highlighted above and an additional layer for aggregating event content from multiple sites into a central portal.

This mini-workshop is aimed at anyone with a Drupal based website with need as outlined above and for developers that are interested seeing an installation with an eye towards recreating this feature set on other open source CMS platforms.

Participants in the workshop should expect to learn:

How standard Drupal handles events and calendaring
How to install the BPOC calendar backend on a standalone website
How to construct basic calendar views once the backend calendar is installed
The concepts related to sharing content between Drupal websites
How to install the BPOC calendar in a multi-institutional environment

The workshop will aim to be highly interactive with conceptual information balanced with practical application via hands installs in a live server environment.

Participants will require a laptop, ftp software and a general knowledge of Drupal or a similar CMS.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Installing the Collaborative Calendar

Authors:

Bill Bostick

Larry Garfield

Open Source and Mobile Apps: the case of Open Images

JohanOomen — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:07:02 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Picture War Monuments: Creating an Open Source Location Based Mobile Platform

Keywords:

mobile

Keywords:

open source

Keywords:

iphone

Keywords:

layar

Keywords:

drupal

Abstract:

In the context of the national digitisation programme Images for the Future, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has designed and developed a complete technical architecture to support (mobile) location-based services for cultural heritage. This October, Sound and Vision will launch the first implementation based on this architecture in the form of an iPhone application that offers mobile access to relevant audiovisual heritage related to war monuments.

The architecture developed by Sound and Vision is based on a Drupal installation that connects to relevant open content repositories (for now: Open Images, Flickr: The Commons and Wikipedia) using their respective API’s, and enables the creation of (mobile) location-based services for cultural heritage. Locations in the real world are linked to digital heritage available online. By building a location-aware application that utilizes the location information and related audiovisual heritage stored in the Drupal installation, users can access relevant information – based on their GPS location to enrich their on-site experience. The architecture also supports applications to enable users to contribute comments and images to the locations themselves. Also, it offers access through the Layar Augmented Reality browser.

To promote reuse and further development of the architecture and to ensure that other institutions can easily participate, the complete architecture is based on open source components. Because all information and relations to the online content are centrally stored, it is relatively easy to develop applications on top of the Drupal based architecture. Because the content is separated from the application, this also makes the applications very lightweight. Applications can be an iOS based application (like our first iPhone application), but with a similar effort this can also be an Android of Symbian based application.

In this presentation, we will highlight the design choices and explain the business case for platforms based on open source components.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations I

Site:

http://www.openimages.eu/

Authors:

Johan Oomen

Maarten Brinkerink

David van Toor