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July 26, 2009 By Vernon Systems

August 2009 Update

The upcoming August update includes a major upgrade of eHive functionality, both behind the scenes and for eHive users.

Exporting enhancements

Currently, exporting records is in XML format only. We are finalising work on further exporting formats, including exporting public, core or full record details in comma separated values format (CSV) for use in other applications.

This means you could easily import your records into Open Office for example. We’re also adding export options for the same subsets of fields in Microsoft Excel format.

Acquisition Records

The development of separate Acquisition Records allows you to track common acquisition information for one or more objects in a single acquisition record and to track acquisitions before they are approved.

The acquisition record includes the source of the acquisition, the method by which it came into the collection, notes, date, a description of the whole acquisition, price and valuation. Acquisition records can be created before the cataloguing of the individual objects if necessary, and be linked to one or more object records that share the same acquisition information at any time.

Standard Reports

Our first new standard reports are being released this August. The first two add to the functionality of administrating communities:

Community Administration Reports

• Summary report – easily review the total of pending, approved and declined members for your community. You can also view the total number of published object records contributed to date.

• Download a list of approved members for your community.

Additional standard object based reports are planned to cover basic collections management functions. In the next release after August we will be adding entry receipts (based on the Acquisition Record information) and exhibition labels.

Search Friendly URLs

The web address structure within eHive is getting a serious reworking.

As an example, the current object page addresses look like:
http://ehive.com/index.php?option=com_ehive&task=showDetail&recordIdSet=2406

In the August release we’ll be changing to a more human readable format. For example, the above URL will probably change to:
http://ehive.com/object/2406
(we’re just finalising how accounts and objects will fit within the URL)

The changes to the address style has a few benefits:
• More readable for users
• Better indexing by search engines
• Easier editing of the addresses to get to other content (e.g. open the page for a specific record by typing in the URL).

The changes are also laying the groundwork for our future public application programming interfaces (APIs). We’ll be adding code to redirect links to the old style addresses to the new addresses.

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Testimonials

eHive has allowed the Tweed Regional Museum to easily publish our collection online, making it more accessible than ever before, revolutionising how we work and how far our collection can go. The back end of the system is incredibly easy to use, making it simple for staff with non technical backgrounds to publish the collection online. The team at Vernon have an excellent customer service ethos and help is never far away. We can’t recommend eHive to other small or medium museums enough!
Erika TaylorCurator Collections and ProgramsTweed Regional Museum

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