This is a conglomeration of a number of museums. Each museum is separate and has its own collection management system.
Key functions include:
Each museum is responsible for loading in their own digital objects. Each has exclusive access to their digital objects and the metadata on them. Each has their own distinctive metadata.
Once loaded in, digital objects are marked to be pushed to the shared common environment. This is done using lightboxes. The lightbox architecture enables category structures to be maintained.
A job pulls all the digital objects into the shared commons. Metadata is automatically translated into a universal standard. Digital images are recreated for public viewing.
A PHP frontend using web services then enables the general public GUI access to the shared common multimedia database.
