Spreadsheets / siloed systems → CollectiveAccess
Glenstone Museum
Glenstone, a private contemporary-art museum in Maryland, needed one system to unify distinct departments — its library, growing archives and contemporary-art objects. After evaluating proprietary options including The Museum System (TMS) and Adlib, the museum chose the open-source CollectiveAccess and worked with its developers, Whirl-i-Gig, to build the platform. Art objects are catalogued with MARC and Getty vocabularies and archives with Dublin Core/DACS, letting a small staff avoid running three separate software ecosystems. The art module launched in 2014, followed by the library and archives. A US example of CollectiveAccess bridging library, archive and museum practice.
Original source
Access for Everyone: Implementing CollectiveAccess in a Museum Setting (Glenstone)
Glenstone / Whirl-i-Gig (conference presentation)
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