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Our museum is looking for software to improve the way guests can access our large quantity of artifacts related to service men and women from our county. Our records are all digitized and are saved into our network file share like:

Military Personnel
      Smith, John
           draft-card.pdf
           photograph.png
      Smith, Jane
          obituary.pdf
          photograph.jpg

And so on, for thousands of people within our Military Personnel folder. What we'd like is a UI (user interface) that will allow museum guests to search a name, locate the folder, and view all files in the associated folder, without being able to edit, delete, etc. 

We have spent some time looking for interactive/kiosk software that will do this, but we haven't found anything that will work out of the box with the way we have our files saved. Does anyone have any suggestions on software that may do what we're looking for?

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Sarah McDonald
Executive Director
Shelby County Historical Museum
Harlan, IA
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Have you looked into something a library might use?

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Bill Browne
Westlake LA
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-27-2018 09:38 AM
From: Sarah McDonald
Subject: Museum User Interface Software

Our museum is looking for software to improve the way guests can access our large quantity of artifacts related to service men and women from our county. Our records are all digitized and are saved into our network file share like:

Military Personnel
      Smith, John
           draft-card.pdf
           photograph.png
      Smith, Jane
          obituary.pdf
          photograph.jpg

And so on, for thousands of people within our Military Personnel folder. What we'd like is a UI (user interface) that will allow museum guests to search a name, locate the folder, and view all files in the associated folder, without being able to edit, delete, etc.

We have spent some time looking for interactive/kiosk software that will do this, but we haven't found anything that will work out of the box with the way we have our files saved. Does anyone have any suggestions on software that may do what we're looking for?

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Sarah McDonald
Executive Director
Shelby County Historical Museum
Harlan, IA
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Sarah,

There may be something out there that does exactly what you need, but unfortunately, experience shows that this is rare. If you could build your data set from scratch then you may have better luck. But, either way, getting a nice user interface that shows the documents in an easy to navigate way, allows zooming, search, has an attract loop, provides instructions to the visitor, etc. would probably have to be build custom. I think it's worth talking to an interactive media firm and getting an idea of cost.

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Bruce Spero
Principal/Creative Director
Trivium Interactive
bruce@triviuminteractive.com
617-686-1281
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-27-2018 09:38 AM
From: Sarah McDonald
Subject: Museum User Interface Software

Our museum is looking for software to improve the way guests can access our large quantity of artifacts related to service men and women from our county. Our records are all digitized and are saved into our network file share like:

Military Personnel
      Smith, John
           draft-card.pdf
           photograph.png
      Smith, Jane
          obituary.pdf
          photograph.jpg

And so on, for thousands of people within our Military Personnel folder. What we'd like is a UI (user interface) that will allow museum guests to search a name, locate the folder, and view all files in the associated folder, without being able to edit, delete, etc.

We have spent some time looking for interactive/kiosk software that will do this, but we haven't found anything that will work out of the box with the way we have our files saved. Does anyone have any suggestions on software that may do what we're looking for?

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Sarah McDonald
Executive Director
Shelby County Historical Museum
Harlan, IA
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We have a very generic software (mobile app platform) that may be able to do what you are looking for. As such, the software is designed for museums and is in use by a lot of museums, historic houses and city tours. I would like to understand more about your neede and create a demo with some sample data from you. If you like the demo, we can discuss more. The software has features to list all the personnel (by categories), select one, search someone, see their photos, read about them, hear their voices (audio), show a map tied to their work etc.. 

We have been in museum software for 4-5 years and have over one million visitors using our software at various locations. Our software is used as a downloadable app as well as in the tablets that museums hand out at the entrance. Please review our website and let me know if you would like us to put together a demo. (There will be no cost for the demo). 

 Mobile Tour Guide App Platform: Action Tour Guide

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Snehal Shah
Action Data Systems, LLC
Barrington RI
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-27-2018 09:38 AM
From: Sarah McDonald
Subject: Museum User Interface Software

Our museum is looking for software to improve the way guests can access our large quantity of artifacts related to service men and women from our county. Our records are all digitized and are saved into our network file share like:

Military Personnel
      Smith, John
           draft-card.pdf
           photograph.png
      Smith, Jane
          obituary.pdf
          photograph.jpg

And so on, for thousands of people within our Military Personnel folder. What we'd like is a UI (user interface) that will allow museum guests to search a name, locate the folder, and view all files in the associated folder, without being able to edit, delete, etc.

We have spent some time looking for interactive/kiosk software that will do this, but we haven't found anything that will work out of the box with the way we have our files saved. Does anyone have any suggestions on software that may do what we're looking for?

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Sarah McDonald
Executive Director
Shelby County Historical Museum
Harlan, IA
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