28 April 2009

Paul Rowe (Vernon Systems) and Pamela Lovis (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) spoke about NZMuseums and eHive at the annual Museums and the Web conference. This year the conference was in Indianapolis.

The conference attracts hundreds of museum technology experts from around the world, showcasing new internet related development in the museum community and with discussions on a range of issues facing museums on the web.

The conference presentation is now available on Slideshare

Today’s update to the site included some major additions:

Sign up for an account

After running a closed beta on the site over the first part of the year, we’re now ready to open it up for all interested users. You can now sign up through the link on the top right.

New Administrator Options for Communities

Any communities can now have an additional approval step before an account can join the community. The community administrator can view lists of pending, approved and declined members and change the membership status of selected users in bulk. Pending members will receive an email to let them know their application to join a community is waiting for approval.

Sundry Minor Fixes and Enhancements

You can now jump back to your home page by clicking on your username in the top header whenever you’re logged in.

The eHive logo is also now a shortcut to the home page.

My Latest Objects now includes objects that do not yet have an image. A placeholder image appears for these.

NZMuseums – Integration with NZLive.com

NZMuseums.co.nz has had a major addition with the integration of national event information from NZLive.com. From the Search – What’s On page you can now search on events happening at museums all over New Zealand. We’re also adding links to the events at a particular museum from the museum profile pages.

The Waitangi Treaty Grounds are the historical site of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi); New Zealand’s founding document. The 506 hectare site was gifted to New Zealand in trust by Lord and Lady Bledisloe in 1932 and is now home to numerous artefacts of key historical significance, as well as being a vibrant and active historical site. Their collections comprise Māori and Pākehā historical artefacts, archives and art.

Go to Waitangi National Trust »

A minor update to eHive was performed on 31 March 2009.

It included:

• New short aliases for common fields to save typing when searching. You can read about search aliases in the Help Topic –http://en.wiki.ehive.com/wiki/Searching#Internal_field_names
• Payment screen now live for account purchases and renewals