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Here’s what Michael Black, research and IT director of the Hearst Museum, said about it:

Hi everyone,

This is just a quick announcement, as fuller information should be upcoming in a campus press release.

Delphi 1.2 (the updated version of the Museum’s collections exploration and discovery tool) is now live and online.

In addition to the features released in version 1.1 two weeks ago — the ability to share sets with other people (whether or not they’re Delphi users), greatly improved ontologies (’concept trees’) for automatic object classification, vastly enlarged object data (thanks to the efforts of dedicated volunteers doing data entry on more than 140,000 objects), and the ability to view scans of catalog cards for the objects you find — Delphi 1.2 presents a couple of new user-oriented features.

Delphi 1.2 now fully supports user tagging of objects, including being able to search on either your own tags or across all tags submitted by the entire user community.  Starting with this release, the blue “tongue” will change the content it displays according to the experience level of the user.  For new users, a basic introductory text is displayed, while for more experienced users (here defined as those who have at least played around with the sets and/or tagging features), the displayed text is more of a “what’s new in Delphi” news item.

I invite you to try it out, to share it with family, friends, colleagues, etc.

http://pahma.berkeley.edu/delphi
Michael

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Our first demonstration release, CollectionSpace 0.1, aka 'Hello World,' is now available online. Release 0.1 allows users to create a new object record, view and edit existing records, and save any changes.

While modest in functionality and outward appearance, 'Hello World' and its imminent successor, er, 'Hello Moon', constitute a major milestone for CollectionSpace as we put our systems architecture in place by binding together the user interface, application, and 'services' layers, heretofore developed on parallel tracks.

The CollectionSpace July 2009 status report has been posted on the project wiki.