Hi Allison,
This looks like an interesting project, and I could potentially share it round the New Zealand museum/gallery community. First I have a couple of questions.
1. The information and conclusions from this work could be very useful for commercial CMS providers as well as museum professionals. What are your plans for making it public, and/or sharing with others?
2. What are your timeframes for cutting of the survey and completing the report?
Thank you,
Phillipa
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Phillipa Tocker
Executive Director
Museum Aotearoa
Wellington
Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2016 03:46 PM
From: Allison Keilman
Subject: CMS Survey for Graduate Research
Hello all,
I am a graduate student in my final semester of the arts management MA program at George Mason University. For my capstone project (the culmination of the program), I am researching museum collections management software trends, failures, opportunities, and impacts.
Goals for this research include identifying the most egregious problems with current CMS products and determining what features the museum community would like to see in a new software product. This is where you all come in! I would be most appreciative if you could take the survey below - consider it your chance to vent without judgement!
On a more serious note, feedback from this survey will be used to form the foundation of my paper and build a vision of a future CMS product. Please also feel free to forward it to others you may know who work in museum collections management. Many thanks in advance for your time and attention to this.
With warm regards,
Allison Keilman
MA, Arts Management
George Mason University