Dear Kanani,
There are likely many solutions that you could try. Off the top of my head:
http://heuristnetwork.org/ <http://heuristnetwork.org/> Heurist
https://omeka.org/ <https://omeka.org/> Omeka
And of course you could just create a custom instance of some CMS
http://www.joomla.org/ <http://www.joomla.org/> Joomla
https://www.drupal.org/ <https://www.drupal.org/> Drupal
It is always nice to have some sort of professional database management assistance in construction, however, to avoid mistakes in your initial setup.
All the best,
George
> On May 2, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Erica Krimmel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Kanani,
>
> Have you heard about/explored Internet Archive (archive.org <http://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
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> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Kanani Hoopai
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> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Research compendium
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> Good afternoon colleagues,
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> 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
>
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> Kanani Hoopai
> Curator of Education
> Mission Inn Foundation
> 3696 Main Street
> Riverside, CA 92501
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