eHive’s WordPress plugins let you build your own branded websites that display account and object information from eHive. We’ve been steadily updating our WordPress plugins since we launched the beta version in November 2012.
A new start with new parts
We hope you had a great break, and are feeling refreshed and ready for 2013. We used the Christmas and New Year break to implement an overhaul of our systems, so we are re-vamped and revving for a busy year ahead.
Here’s what we did:
– Upgraded key underlying software on the eHive servers, including the operating system.
– Added another 3 servers (eHive now runs across 10 servers)
– Split some of the application to separate servers to help us perform upgrades without having the site down for any period.
– Continued polishing our new set of developer’s tools.
The biggest part of this work has been migrating the existing database to new servers. This required several short periods of downtime for the site over the last couple of weeks but the work is now all completed.
It has been a busy time, as we also launched our WordPress plugins late last year. Many of you have been downloading and utilising them already, which is great to see. Our developer’s help website (www.developers.ehive.com) is the place to go for all the information you will need to get underway. We are constantly refining and adding to what we have in place so far, so please keep an eye out for updates to the help site.
You can always check the new Developers thread on our help forum to stay up to date and ask questions.
eHive’s new baby – beta version 2.0 of the API and WordPress plugins
In 2010 we developed version 1.0 of our WordPress plugins and application programming interface (API). We’re now ready to make this public. [Read more…]
Abingdon County Hall Museum
After extensive restoration of the magnificent 17th century building, the Abingdon County Hall Museum has reopened with three floors of new exhibitions. Originally built to house law courts, since 1919 the County Hall has held a variety of local collections of geology, archaeology and history. The main gallery now tells the story of Abingdon-on-Thames, the longest continually inhabited settlement in England, and features the last MGB roadster car made in the town. Upstairs in the attic there are town treasures and objects linked to local people and places.
Browse their eHive account to see the top 100 objects from the Museum’s collection.
Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame
The remote central Queensland location of the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre has proved no barrier to visitors. Since its opening in 1988 it has drawn a huge number of national and international visitors to experience the centre and see its architecturally iconic buildings. The collections tell the story of the explorers, indigenous people, pastoralists and stock workers of the extraordinary landscape of interior Australia.
The collections include a large archival collection and fantastic photographic collection. Browse their collections and see the eclectic mix of objects being catalogued and published to the web.
Data harvesting and programming interfaces
We’ve been working hard on our programming interfaces to eHive. The first part of this has now been released with the addition of support for data harvesting in the latest upgrade. [Read more…]
UK eHive Workshop in New Lanark
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in New Lanark?
Date: May 23 2012
Place: New Lanark, Scotland
Time: 10am – 3.30pm
Cost: free
Please bring a WIFI enabled laptop to participate in the ‘hands on’ section of the afternoon.
Contact anne@vernonsystems.com for bookings. Seats are limited!
(article image: Pedro Plassen Lopes)
eHive feature survey results
We have completed our inaugural eHive features survey. For those that participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to fill this out. Your feedback is valuable for shaping our development plans. We will be running surveys again in the future, as they are a simple and quick way you can help us prioritise our planned features. Advanced searching and more options for sorting and reporting featured highly in our survey results.
We used a scale of 1– 5 (1 = least important, 5 = most important) to rank twelve key features in eHive’s future development.
Future Features Sorted by Ranking
| Build complex searches | Use advanced search screen to simplify searching on several fields in combination | Average rating 4.13 |
| More options for sorting | Additional options for sorting results. For example, sort objects by current location | Average rating 3.88 |
| More report formats | Expand the current report formats to include standard reports for a wider range of collection management processes | Average rating 3.75 |
| Search by date | Search any date field for a specific date or date range | Average rating 3.63 |
| Create Person records | Create detailed records about people such as artist or donors, plus organisations. This work will lead to other supporting files being created, such as Place and Document | Average rating 3.56 |
| Add multiple users | Add multiple login names for your account, with set security permissions for each login | Average rating 3.53 |
| Build lists | Make lists of records that can be saved and reused | Average rating 3.53 |
| Publish in batches | Bulk update the publishing status of a selected set of records | Average rating 3.50 |
| Import your own data | Import new records rather than sending records to Vernon Systems for import | Average rating 3.25 |
| On screen help | View basic help documentation on screen that is relevant to the part of eHive you are working on | Average rating 2.94 |
| Home page dashboard | Improve the display of the logged in homepage to give an overview of your content, including storage space used, recent comments and recent records | Average rating 2.75 |
| Easier linking to web | Provide options for linking records to pages on sites such as Wikipedia | Average rating 2.56 |
How we shape our development roadmap
We gather ideas for future development from conferences around the world, at our free eHive workshops, on the eHive forum, and from direct contact with our users. From this, and with a close eye on international standards, we put together our development roadmap for the year ahead.
We will be updating the development road map soon. You will see a notice on the site when it is available. From then on, you can access the updated roadmap the usual way, by the link that sits at the bottom of every page in eHive.The online features survey is the newest addition to gathering feedback, and the results will form part of our decision making process.
How to contribute ideas
You can visit the eHive forum at any time to place feedback and suggestions.
Sign up for the eHive forum – http://forum.ehive.com/ucp.php?mode=register
Already a member? Visit the feedback and suggestions section of the forum – http://forum.ehive.com/viewforum.php?f=6
We release updates to eHive that are instantly available to everyone. Some improvements are updates to the underlying functionality of the site, which you may not notice. Some updates include new features we have built. We welcome feedback on how you use eHive, and suggestions for functionality you would like to see.
Fairfield Halls
Fairfield Halls is an entertainment venue with a rich history. Based in Croydon, South London, Fairfield Halls comprises a gallery, theatre and concert hall buildings that were opened in 1962. Over the years, a large and colourful selection of Fairfield Halls’ archives has been gathered. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their opening, a selection of these archives is now online.
The ‘Fairfield at 50’ project uses an eHive account and our WordPress plugins to create a branded website. You can browse the Fairfield Halls eHive account within eHive, and also on the ‘Fairfield at 50’ website. Search for your favourite band!
9 February 2012 – Excel and XML reporting improvements, indexing changes
Our new reporting tools allows reports to be downloaded in the background. This upgrade migrates the existing Excel and XML report options into the new Create Report function. As the report generation now happens in the background, there is now no upper limit on the number of records that can be included.
We are also migrating the text indexing used in eHive from Apache Lucene to SOLR. The search options remain the same, but it allows us to more easily manage load on the server when many users are online and to support new features like faceted searching later this year.
You can read more about the new reporting on the eHive Help website: http://en.wiki.ehive.com/wiki/Reporting
UK eHive Workshop in Hertford
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in Hertford?
Date: March 26 2012
Place: Hertford
Time: 10am – 3.30pm
Cost: free – lunch and refreshments will be provided*
Please bring a WIFI enabled laptop to participate in the ‘hands on’ section of the afternoon.
Contact anne@vernonsystems.com for bookings. Seats are limited!
*with thanks to Hertfordshire Museums
(article image on homepage: Anders Sandberg)
17 Nov 2011 – Reporting Revamped
eHive’s latest upgrade, version 3.2, includes a revamp of the reporting tool.
The reports have been rebuilt in Jasper, a report design product, and a new downloads section has been added to eHive to allow reports to generate in the background while you continue with your work.
Changes in this eHive version 3.2:
- Previous PDF reports replaced with neater versions built in Jasper
- Reports download in the background
- Account holders can run reports on any number of records
- Public users can report on the current page of results
- Past reports can be retained in the Reports download section
- A new Inventory report has been added, with each object’s basic details, image and current location.
You can read more about the new reporting on the eHive Help website: http://en.wiki.ehive.com/wiki/Reporting
We’re now reworking the existing Excel download option to use the new background reporting options.
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