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Drupal or Bust: The hazards of mixing technologies
Sharon Grant
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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About the Field Museum
• 16th September 1893: The museum is incorporated in the State of Illinois as the Columbian Museum of Chicago.
Purpose: "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history."
- 4 departments (Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Zoology).- 3 in EMu 4th started this summer
- 24 million specimens(ish)- 0.01% available on the web
• 1905, the Museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor the Museum's first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to better reflect its focus on the natural sciences.
• 1921 the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site near downtown where it is part of a lakefront Museum Campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium.
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The Grand Plan
“Replace the Museums 12+ year old website and integrate the 9 year old emuweb pages with the new site.”
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Drink the Koolaid!
“the world's premier collections management system for natural history museums, cultural history museums, art museums, herbaria, botanic gardens, archives and special collections.”
“Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.”
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This time last year
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What the users said they wanted.
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What the interns built for free.
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What the software company thought.
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Fund hunt.
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What the budget would allow.
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What the project manager negotiated.
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What the users secretly hoped for.
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How the technical lead designed it.
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What the programmer coded.
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What was delivered to the testers.
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AndySowards.com Project Management Cartoon
But maybe we can do this?The future?
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wb-pavlov.fieldmuseum.org/sarnia4/
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