{"id":3193,"date":"2017-08-28T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:17","slug":"umma-online-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/28\/umma-online-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"UMMA launches online collection and learning resource tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is launching an online collections and learning resource tool, the UMMA Exchange. The UMMA Exchange will let students and faculty create and collaborate using Museum objects, along with text, video, and images online.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In addition to being a collection database, The Exchange is an ever-growing public repository of all kinds of learning activity that go on around UMMA’s collection,” says Dave Choberka, Andrew W. Mellon manager of academic outreach and teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Created in partnership with Whirl-i-gig, creators of CollectiveAccess<\/a>, The Exchange was developed after consulting with stakeholders about their use cases and needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“This tool enables visitors to go beyond merely viewing object information, allowing for contextualization and personalization to create new meaning,” says John Turner, senior manager of museum technology. “Simultaneously, we want to encourage other resource-constrained, small- to mid-size museums to do the same by releasing The Exchange as an open source application in the near future.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The UMMA Exchange is live at exchange.umma.umich.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is launching an online collections and learning resource tool, the UMMA Exchange. The UMMA Exchange will let students and faculty create and collaborate using Museum objects, along with text, video, and images online. “In addition to being a collection database, The Exchange is an ever-growing public repository of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":4760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1503878400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Contact John Turner. The Exchange is an open-source museum collections management system (CMS) that can be used in part to search collections objects and to create learning objects that can then be shared with different audiences. This is believed to be the first open-source CMS of this scale. John is going to present and offer The Exchange at national museum technology conferences. At U-M, UMMA will be working on implementing more learning and collaborating features to enhance the in-gallery experience.","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"165","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[223,344],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-cms","tag-umma"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma-100x100.jpg",100,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/umma.jpg",225,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"David Lawrence, UMMA Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/dlawr\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is launching an online collections and learning resource tool, the UMMA Exchange. The UMMA Exchange will let students and faculty create and collaborate using Museum objects, along with text, video, and images online. “In addition to being a collection database, The Exchange is an ever-growing…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}