open source at the royal ontario museum

Mark Farmer

OPEN SOURCE ROM

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A little about us

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Organize content: but how?

BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE CMS!

The awesome kind

Even more awesome

Which one, though?

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Srsly large project

• Adobe

• AGO

• Australian Museum

• Balboa Park Online Collective

• British Museum

• Canadian Museum of Civilization

• Civic Actions

• EpiServer

• Indianapolis Museum of Art

• Imperial War Museum

• MOMA

• Museum Victoria

• National Gallery, Washington

• Ontario Science Centre

• Oracle

• Percussion Software

• Playground Digital

• San Francisco MOMA

• Smithsonian

• Smithsonian NMNH

• Squiz Software

• The Working Group

• V&A

• V51 Consulting

• Whitney Museum

Research

The winner

The C Suite

Current users

Lessons learned• Never, ever run a web project in waterfall.

• Reduce complexity

• Focus on the business outcomes and objectives, not the software.

• Deliver results in iterations. Re-integrate lessons learned back into the process.

• It’s all about the people.

• Try to bring the expertise in-house, but recognize that people leave.

Thank you

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