Museo

Cultural heritage management software

Maintaining and providing access to
inventories of cultural objects regardless of their typology

Museo

Cultural heritage management software

Museo is an information management software specifically designed for cataloguing, managing and communicating cultural heritage, regardless of it being material, intangible, documental or multimedia.

This software has the ability to be configured to respond to the specific needs of each institution. Both the data model and the graphical interfaces can be adjusted to meet the requirements of any particular museum institution.

This software constitutes a powerful communication tool that can be exploited by institutions to promote the richness of their cultural assets, promoting scientific research, education, tourism, region, heritage and to stimulate the curiosity of public to visit the physical museum.

Management, inventorying and promotion of various types of heritage

Museo also allows institutions to easily perform one of their main missions – communicate with its public.

It does so by simplifying the process of making public its inventory, organizing virtual exhibitions, promoting georeferenced itineraries, amongst other activities.

The navigation is simple and allows users to search and visualise photos and videos of cultural assets, as well as other related multimedia elements.

Advantages

01. Integrated management of various museum centres

An institution that oversees a set of museums or museum centres only needs to acquire one license of the product, being able to carry out a centralized management of the entire collection without ever losing the ability to segregate information from each of the museums that integrate the consortium.

02. A museum open to the public

We believe that heritage should be accessible to everyone. Therefore, in addition to enabling the internal management of inventoried heritage. Museo privileges communication with the institution’s target audience through various forms, e.g. presentation of cured collections, virtual exhibitions or georeferenced itineraries, always appealing and compatible with mobile devices.

03. Customized design of the public portal

Museo allows you to redefine your own design for the online portal to access the contents managed in backoffce and marked as public, according to the client’s corporate identity.
There may be a single design or, if preferred, a specific design for each of the museum nuclei managed by the solution.

04. Communicate better, communicate more

Museo implements a set of communication protocols and APIs that make it compatible with systems developed by third parties, such as Europeana. Public information managened by Museo can be internationally disseminated via OAI-PMH, greatly increasing the visibility of the institution, its heritage, and thus increasing the number of visitors.

05. Compatible with any platform

Museo is a 100% Web-based solution. To use the system, you only need a web browser. The software is centralized on a server and there is no need to install applications on the end-users’ workstations. Access to the system can be done from anywhere and from any device, desktop, tablet or mobile.

06. No hidden costs

Museo has a simple licensing scheme that does not require the acquisition of additional licenses of any of its third-party dependencies (e.g. database system or operating system).

This results in a much cheaper option for the customer as the overall cost of acquisition is lower than other options available on the market.

Characteristics

Manager

Preservation, management and dissemination of cultural heritage

The manager is the module that is typically used by the museum staff members, providing features such as cataloguing, information discovery, reporting, collection management, management of exhibitions, charts, guides, conservation and restoration, etc.

The system provides a set of predefined filters that allows the users to quickly select the desired information. It also allows enables filtering by typology, controlled vocabulary terms, free text, etc.

Users are assited during creation and editing of information records. Alerts are shown when mandatory fields are not filled, or when compliance with the defined formats is not respected. Contextual help aids users in filling in the information required providing a greater overall conformity to the entire catalogue.

Community

Institution's public portal

The Community module works as the institution’s public portal, allowing the visitor to search and navigate through the museum’s inventory. This module can be configured with a custom theme to reflect the branding and identity of the institution.

This module was designed to facilitate the navigation and the discovery of information. It provides a basic search on all the attributes of a record and an advanced search for more refined queries.

During its development, there was a concern to serve well the users that come to the portal for the first time. Users can immediately identify the existing content and navigate directly to the relevant information. As you navigate through the records, hyperlinks to other related records are displayed.

Administration

System configuration and customization

The Administration module allows users to configure and customize the system as needed.

Through this module, it is possible to change the visual appearance of the community portal, customize the data model, design data entry forms, update controlled vocabularies, manage users, groups and their access policies, as well as many other advanced system properties.

It is an important module for managing and maintaining data related to cultural assets, helping to preserve and protect the cultural heritage of the institution.

REST API

Integration with other systems

In addition to the modules already described, Museo offers a REST API. This is a programmatic interface that broadens horizons in terms of integrations with other systems, allowing full control of the software and its information through applications developed by third parties.

Based on standards and best practices, Museo’s REST API has been documented using the OpenAPI standard that makes its documentation available online, in an easy to read and test environment.

Museo’s REST API is fully secure as only authenticated users they can use it.

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