Last year, we started a monthly user meet-up. As things go, we managed to continue the series at a stable time slot for some months – and then we did not anymore. People’s calendars are of course an issue, but another major one was simply that there were no consistently pre-determined meeting URLs. Over the …
Last week museum-digital took a major milestone – that we totally missed at the time. There are now over a thousand museums (at this moment: 1003) that have published at least one object using museum-digital. All their published collections can be browsed together at global.museum-digital.org.
Usually the development of musdb (and the other parts of museum-digital software) follows a rolling release paradigm. A new feature is developed, tested, and then distributed. Updates are – usually – not held back. Over the last month, we made an exception, as there will be a lot of new features and a slight redesign …
After trying a monthly change log once some month ago, we have unfortunately been rather lenient with notifying everyone of new features and updates in the last months. To approach betterment, here there is a list of the updates of November 2022 the form of screenshots. As a very large update is upcoming in the …
Starting next Tuesday (August 9th), we are planning to do monthly user meet-ups for museum-digital’s users and administrators to learn about the most recent updates and new features; to have a (public) forum for everybody to ask their questions to members of the core development team and each other and hopefully to extend the discussion …
Over the years, many presentations have been held about museum-digital. Articles have been written, and so have tutorials and other documents. To not let them fade into obscurity on the hard drives of their authors, we have now set up a document archive for such files: files.museum-digital.org. For the start we have compiled primarily presentations …
OpenSearch is an open web standard for describing search functions of web services. If a website supports it, the browser will take note and offer the user to install the website as a search machine. One especially nice aspect of it is, that OpenSearch can be implemented in just a few lines of code. It …
The frontend of museum-digital is now available in Turkish. As a very nice side effect, this also unlocks the Turkish translations for keywords, and place and actor names we have been gathering for the last half a year. Image credits: Eva Gonzalès: „Girl Awakening“, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen (CC BY-NC-SA)
