Hi everyone!

Throughout the next week I’m going to be adding workshop presentations to our Google Collection and embedding the presentations here on the blog.

Here’s the presentation for Leveraging TourML & TAP for managing and deploying Tours by Kyle Jaebker (@kjaebker), Indianapolis Museum of Art.

If you attended the workshop, please share your reflections as comments here (if you have many thoughts, consider making your own blog post and linking back to this one). If you did not attend the workshop, then feel free to look over the presentation and please share your own reflections and ask questions!

In this session, let’s explore web content management systems in meeting the needs of different types of museum libraries. For example, if a museum is using a content management system to archive their photographic collections, what are some criteria we might consider in selecting a web content management system? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of free versus a proprietary CMS? In the case of a proprietary CMS, what happens to the content if the company who creates the CMS fails or if the company is bought out? Should museum libraries harness that control? Would it makes sense for museum libraries to work together to build their own CMS, shared across institutions?