Ok first things first, I am not an IT consultant, and I hope that admission won´t get thrown of this tribe. But I do have an IT conundrum and well I am looking for some help.
I am working on an extensive art collection and they need to build a database. So far the proposals they have been given seem fishy. Overpriced, not the right technology, and no sense of what a gallery or art rep needs. So I am thinking there has to be a software for galleries out there in this world, and so far no cigar. So if anybody knows how to point me in the right direction, it would save me the next six months of ¨this just doesn´t work!¨ headaches.
I am working on an extensive art collection and they need to build a database. So far the proposals they have been given seem fishy. Overpriced, not the right technology, and no sense of what a gallery or art rep needs. So I am thinking there has to be a software for galleries out there in this world, and so far no cigar. So if anybody knows how to point me in the right direction, it would save me the next six months of ¨this just doesn´t work!¨ headaches.
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Re: Art Database
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 9:10 AMI'm not aware of any off-the-shelf solutions, but depending on what you need a custom solution would probably make the most sense. You mention that what you have seen is "overpriced" but don't actually state what that means. Is $300 over priced, $3000, $30,000? For smaller solutions (10 or fewer simultaneous users) an Access based application could be built for a few thousand, depending on your requirements. Please understand that you can get some major sticker shock venturing into custom or small user-base applications. It's not that people are necessarily gouging (sometimes they are), but that for one off, or very limited distribution solutions the developers have to recoup their costs and even a simple solution will have a probable minimum of 20 hours worth of development time and you will be hard pressed to find a developer who will work for less than $50/hr.
And yes, that is something I do. See www.ergoface.com for more info.
Hope that helps,
Dave
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Re: Art Database
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 9:39 AM
When you say "software for galleries", do you mean that you need a database that will manage assets or the backend of something to display over the web or what? -
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Re: Art Database
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 10:20 AM>>"Overpriced, not the right technology, and no sense of what a gallery or art rep needs."<<
So, tell us what a gallery DOES need, and we can make recomendations from there.
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