Jim’s Development Blog

Make a web site from your Musarch data with just a few mouse clicks. Change the look and feel of the pages by substituting images and changing the style sheet. A quick and easy way to get your collection of Objects online - the new version of the Museum Archive software project’s Import/Export utility (a [...]

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I am releasing another version of the premium edition of the Museum Archive software project. Version 1.8 contains a number of fixes/additions:

The name of the Object is now a part of the form window’s caption;
The accession number field is now easily visible in the browse list box;
The Location Reference field is now included on the [...]

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I’m releasing a new version of the Museum Archive software import /export utility. Before using the utility, please back-up your data! The utility now has the ability to import CSV files (comma separated value, also known as comma delimited) – the type of file you can create using spreadsheet software. There is a PDF document [...]

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The Museum Archive software project is still going strong. 4,584 downloads so far..
I am currently working on two additions to the software: a way to import Objects from a spreadsheet (actually, from a comma delimited file), and a true client/server version that you can run remotely. Pretty exciting stuff; I’ll have more details available soon.

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The premium edition of the Museum Archive software project has an effective way for you to find anything in your collection - by using the Print Preview for the Detailed Object report. Just print everything (no query required), and when the print preview opens up, you can tell it to tag pages containing the search [...]

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The Museum Archive software application has matured into a solid piece of software. With almost 4,000 downloads since it was first released, we’ve come a long way towards meeting the goal of the Museum Archive software project: helping small organizations to electronically organize their collections without spending a small fortune on software.
Requests for changes and/or [...]

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I released a new version of the premium edition today. This version fixes a small bug pointed out by Paul Ewell (thanks, Paul) that reared its ugly head when you stored images in the database. If an object did not have an image associated with it, and the preceding object had an internally stored image, [...]

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As of today, the basic edition has been downloaded 3,409 times. People seem to be hearing good things about the software and giving it a try. The web site had more than 67,000 page views during 2010, and the search engines tend to place musarch.com in the top ten results when you search for ‘museum [...]

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One overlooked opportunity for a small organization to distribute information about its collection is to produce a PDF report which can be posted to the web site. In the Reports menu of the Museum Archive software, you can specify that a report be “sent” to a PDF file format. Uploading the resulting file to your [...]

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I’ve had a series of other issues to deal with, so I haven’t been working on the Museum Archive software project at all in the last month. That should change soon. The first order of business is to create a new version of the Musarch web server. Thanks for your patience.

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