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The Development of the Ceramics and Glass website: The Development of the Ceramics and Glass website Mia Ridge
Museum Systems Team
Museum of London
Topics: Topics Designing and developing the website
How to get the most out of the site
Questions
Designing and developing the website: Designing and developing the website
In-house development
Site Goals
Design Challenges
Site Infrastructure
Design and development
Museum Systems Team: Museum Systems Team In-house IT team
Design and develop bespoke application for recording, analysing and presenting archaeological or museum information
Design and develop database-driven websites
Site Goals: Site Goals Enable access to the collection
Provide for specialist and general audiences
Increase knowledge and understanding of the collection
Design Challenges: Design Challenges Different audiences, different goals
General public
Researchers and specialists
Dynamic content
Complex relationships between:
Categories
Object records
Other records
Site Infrastructure: Site Infrastructure Static content:
extended texts (stored externally)
Regional study
Site report, ‘about’ section
Dynamic content:
object records
subject authority records
images
publications
Technical Infrastructure: Technical Infrastructure MM server (database)
day-to-day Collections Management System, holds data in own format
Staging server (database/web server)
runs extraction scripts as queries against MM database, holds development version of data structures and scripts and static pages
Live server (database/web server)
the version you see on the internet
Extraction Process: Extraction Process MultiMimsy Server
(Oracle) Extraction scripts
(SQL queries) Staging Server
(SQL Server/web server) Staging server runs extraction scripts against MultiMimsy server:
Scripts are a set of SQL queries,
Results stored in database tables on staging server
Website processes: Website processes User requests a page
ASP scripts receive request, translate into queries into site database
ASP scripts filter, collate and present results of queries as web pages
Design and development: Design and development Consultation with target audiences
Consultation with cataloguing team and curators
Design site architecture and navigation
Iterative process, taking into account audience needs, structure of data
Design presentation of objects, categories, publications, images, and their relationships
How to get the most out of the site: How to get the most out of the site Browsing
Catalogue
Publications
Searching
Object search
Subject search
Publication search
Future Directions: Future Directions More links to similar collections
Regional study reports
Exchange links with similar collections
Information on makers
Individuals, manufacturers, designers
Glossary
Featured or type reference objects
Audience evaluation and feedback