Hi Kanani,
Have you heard about/explored Internet Archive (archive.org)? It
wouldn't be able to offer you all the customized relationships of a
database, and everything you upload would be publicly available, but if
you are just looking for a way to organize and find research documents
online, it could be a free, stable, and easy solution. We use it to
upload scanned institutional publications from our archives, and the
metadata we attach allows us to easily group documents and find specific
articles within (full text searching of a PDF is terrific feature to
include). Once you upload 50 items the folks at IA will create you an
institutional profile, and your docent corps would be able to maintain
their own profiles as well. Anyway, just FYI in case it might work for
your needs.
Best,
Erica
Erica Krimmel | Assistant Collections Manager
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | Main 773-755-5100 | Fax
773-549-0344 | www.naturemuseum.org
Museum Collections and Archives, Collections Facility and Office
4001 N Ravenswood Avenue, Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613 | Direct
773-755-5118
The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Research compendium
Good afternoon colleagues,
At the Mission Inn Museum we have a docent corps active in on-going
research and writing on the collections and local history. We are
interested in creating/having a research compendium of sorts - an online
platform where the written research in electronic form (be it a research
paper, report, object write-up, transcribed presentation or lecture,
etc.) can be readily and easily accessed by our docents. In addition, we
would like the electronic documents to be searchable by author, title,
topic, date, object, location, etc., not unlike a collections database,
but for written research. We have received a quote to have the research
compendium created from the ground up on our website, but I'm of the
thought that there is likely a program already out there that will fit
our needs.
Does anyone know of or have any recommendations for a program such as
this?
Many thanks,
Kanani
Kanani Hoopai
Curator of Education
Mission Inn Foundation
3696 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501
Ph: 951.781.8241
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www.MissionInnMuseum.org <http://www.missioninnmuseum.org/>
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