Details of the five things to look for when assessing a fit between a funding opportunity and your CMS project.
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How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects: Data Cleanup and Refinement
A museum expert details how interns can be successfully included in museum CMS projects at the data cleanup and refinement stage.
How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects: Data Creation
A museum expert details how interns can be successfully included in museum CMS projects at the data creation stage.
How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects: Data Capture
A museum expert highlights how interns can be included in museum CMS projects at the data capture stage
Evaluating the Location of Museum Digital Assets
The more you know about your data, the easier it is to make decisions regarding cleanup or migration of data and linked assets to a new museum CMS
Evaluating the Location of Museum Data
Knowing the location of museum data is important for data security, data redundancy, data retrieval or linking, and data extraction.
Evaluating the Format of Museum Data
The format of museum data impacts the ability to successfully migrate data from one museum CMS to another; tips for data schema, fields, export
Evaluating the Quality of Museum Data
Tips to make sure your museum data is good quality; the cleaner it is, the easier to migrate seamlessly from one CMS or spreadsheet to another CMS.
How to Prepare for a New Museum CMS
Covers preparing museum data so migrating to a new CMS is smooth; tools and strategies exist; success depends on quality and shape of museum data.
Museum Digital Projects: Digital File Storage
Digital files storage is important to museum digital project work; reliable storage that supports further digital project work is critical.
How to Chart a Course Toward a Better Museum CMS
The procurement process for a new museum CMS may be daunting; outline for the procurement process plus tips and best practices, leading to success
The Pros and Cons of Sticking with an Ill-Fitting Museum CMS
This post breaks down the pros and cons of an ill-fitting museum CMS and delivers talking points needed to make the case for a better museum CMS.
Barriers that Prevent Museums from Moving to a Better CMS
It’s often hard for museum staff to choose a new and better CMS. This post identifies top 5 reasons, why they exist, and what to do about barriers.