I wrote the php content management system that drives this site as we were preparing to open the new addition to the museum. It brings together basic content management with a few other database projects I previously wrote to support a calendaring system and a collection viewer.
I wrote the bulk of this site that combines the assets of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center into a single education gateway. It’s been a few years since we wrote it and traffic has skyrocketed leading to some poor response times on aging hardware. Be patient, we’re rewriting it for Web 2.0 on modern hardware.
Steve.museum is the product of a number of museums that came together to explore the use of tagging in museum collections. The Steve tagger is an open source web application that we created to allow museums to quickly add works of art to their sites and collect tags. I work with the development team in user experience and testing. I also created and maintain the project’s informational web site.
http://www.musetechcentral.org/
MuseTech Central is a project of the Museum Computer Network. A small group of MCN members came together to specify and build a registry to share the projects museums have been working on. The hope is that by providing a directory of projects, museum professionals can find colleagues that have some experience and insight into projects that they may be going into. I was asked to provide the information architecture and provide insight into the user experience.
http://www.artsmia.org/prints-drawings/
This collection viewer is an application that drives a number of programs on the museum web site as well as in the museum. The application draws from a complex database transformation and export from the collections management system. By using different assets and css, we are able to present several different interfaces to the collection
http://www.cityoflakesloppet.com/
The City of Lakes Loppet is the biggest urban ski race in America. Some of my former colleagues are skiers and had been trying to convince me to join them, so I learned to ski and became a volunteer for the race a few years ago. When the opportunity arose to rework their Web site, we volunteered to do it on our own time.
The Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program (MAEP) exhibits the work of living Minnesota artists in the museum. Run by a panel of artists elected by anyone who shows up professing to be an artist, it seemed fitting to create the program’s online archive using a wiki.
http://www.artsmia.org/foot-in-the-door/
Foot in the Door was a open exhibition where any artist in Minnesota could bring in a work less than one cubic foot in size and have it shown in the museum. We brought in over 1,700 works of art and built a quick data capture rig with a consumer digital camera and site to quickly capture each work of art for the site.