CollectionSpace for Technology Service Providers and Developers October 22, 2009

CollectionSpace for Technology Service Providers and Developers

October 22, 2009

www.collectionspace.org

CollectionSpace is an open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information – from artifacts and archival materials to exhibitions and storage.

Project Partners•Museum of the Moving Image in New York

•Information Services and Technology division of the University of California, Berkeley

•Fluid Project, led by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto

•Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge.

Funder Initial development: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding opportunities for implementation and customization

Project TeamThe CollectionSpace project team is composed of domain experts, designers, architects, and developers from each partner organization.

Development teams work in cycles to issue regular software releases.

Drivers Growing interest in hosted applications and SAS New open architectures, technologies, standards, and licensing

models Cyclical reevaluation of existing collections management systems

Requirement for wide access to collections information

Need to leverage collections information across a wide range of uses.

Today’s and tomorrow’s funding climate

Benefits Beyond the one-off

Beyond one-size-fits-all

Leveraging of existing human/financial resources

Leveraging development work across many projects and institutions

Choice of service providers

Why Now? Why Me?

Vendor/service provider involvement critical to success and survival of project

Initial Releases

0.2: released October, 2009. Allows user login, creation of intake record, and auto-fill intake and object identification numbers.

0.3: November, 2009. Includes ID service with choice of sequential identification; vocabulary service, to provid access to controlled lists; and support for acquisition.

Etc., etc., etc. (regular monthly releases through 2010)

CollectionSpace Architectureand Deployment Model

Patrick Schmitz

U.C. Berkeley IST/Data Services

Co-Technical Lead, CollectionSpace

UCB and CollectionSpace Dozens of world-class museums and research collections.

Range from small to very large Cover a very broad set of domains

IST/DS supports many of them Many existing systems aging, brittle Solutions must integrate with the enterprise Solutions must support research, teaching, and public

service. Team combines enterprise architecture expertise with

museums domain experience.

Planned deployment models Must support individual museums that

want to run their own systems.Single package runs on server/VM slice

Must support hosted, SaaS modelSupport many museums on single instanceProvides more cost-effective solution at scale

Customization, extension a top priority!

Services, SOA, and the project How does our piece fit into the whole? Why SOA

Enterprise standard for integration, reuse Scales well to support many instances, SaaS Exposes information as Web Services for re-use,

enabling mashups and new applications What SOA is and isn’t

Note: SOA != SOAP. We like ROA/REST. Services model common entities, and relations, but are

extensible to provide a flexible “data model”, for each collection.

Schema Extension Model

Schema model for a customized service deployment

Services technology stack All open-source software

No vendor lock-in, source code available Core layers have broad community Commercial consulting available

Base layers built to support ECM Document+Image management and processing tools Currently using Nuxeo (with abstraction layer);

could move to Alfresco, or other CMIS-compliant base. Our layers provide CollectionSpace-specific services:

CMS entities+relations (CollectionObject, Loans, Location, etc.) Authentication/authorization, workflow, multi-tenancy, etc.

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CollectionSpace Application

Dan Sheppard

University of Cambridge, CARET

Co-Technical Lead, CollectionSpace

Application Layer

Why is it needed? What is it / isn’t it? How does it work? Where does it fit?

CollectionSpace User Interface

Colin Clark

University of Toronto, Fluid Project

Co-Technical Lead, CollectionSpace

The UI Layer is…

Designed

The UI Layer is…

Configurable

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Web-Oriented

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Flexible and Accessible

Q+A

Get InvolvedEmail:talk@lists.collectionspace.org

Call:Carl Goodman, Principal InvestigatorMuseum of the Moving Image718-784-4520

Project Websitewww.collectionspace.org

Project Wikiwiki.collectionspace.org