State of Dev, December 2024 & January 2025
Once again a simple change log of the recent updates to museum-digital’s different tools.
Imports
Development Frontend Importer musdb nodac
Batch editing Change log Controlled Vocabularies Imports New Features TEI Version control
A Concordance Checker for Preparing Imports to museum-digital
When one runs an import to museum-digital – specifically one focused on internal collection management data – there is a chance to encounter errors of unmatched entries. The import tool identified that one tried to import a yet unknown value to what is a controlled field in musdb. Common issues appear especially with actor roles …
Importing actors
A critical part of museum-digital is the usage of shared controlled vocabularies for actors, places, times, and tags. All museums using museum-digital use these same vocabularies for recording the creation of objects, their use, destruction, etc. Similarly, they are used for a rougher tagging of the objects. Only contacts who are recorded purely for internal …
Summary of the monthly user meetup (April 2023) / New features and improvements
We continued the series of monthly user meetups and again discussed the new features and improvements. A summary can be found below. New Developments The last month has been an exceptionally slow month in terms of technical development around museum-digital. There are however some newsworthy tidbits. musdb Recording external IDs for museums Museums, like all …
EODEM – Efficiently Exchange Object Information During Loans
musdb now provides import and export tools for the EODEM standard, allowing for the simple exchange of loan object information.
New Features at museum-digital (November 2022)
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 …
Imports can now be triggered by users
Until May 2022, the import of new data to museum-digital was always limited by the need to involve a member of the development team. Not least, because users had no option to upload potential import data in bulk. After many years, we have now finally opened up a way for users with access to musdb …