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Beta 1 release
Posted on March 16th, 2009 4 commentsWe’re proud to announce that we are today releasing our first public beta of Collectish – now everyone else can join the fun!
Collectish Beta 1 includes a batch of bug fixes and minor improvements – plus a few major ones including:
- a feedback system for our users to submit ideas and bug notifications
- the ability to mark individual items as “private”, meaning that only the owner may view certain items
The feedback feature is really important. For now, we’re trying out uservoice as our feedback platform. Users can now sign in and submit ideas using the feedback link which is visible at the top of each page. Obviously we also have lots of ideas of our own and this this system will enable us to test popularity for these as well.
We feel that the “private item” feature is pretty important too. Obviously we would like everyone to share all of their item records but there are good reasons why some users may hide some details from view. That said, hiding entire records is a bit of a sledgehammer approach and ideally, users would be able to hide certain fields within their item records – we’ll be introducing this feature (along with many other things) in the very near future.
4 responses to “Beta 1 release”
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Forbes have you considered just how good this will be for regional and small museums? They don’t have the time nor money to indulge in complete online collections. Perhaps you could have an ‘institutional collector’ option and they could use collectish to publish to the world!!!
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We have talked about it. For the time being, we reckon our focus should be very much on personal collectors/collections. We’ll certainly be looking at introducing institutional memberships down the track.
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My daughter at sent me the link today and initally I didn’t quite get how it worked but had a go at signing in. Now that I’ve started looking around the site I can see that it has huge potential for research, similar to quilt registers whereby the quilts are listed but not in a physical or institutional collection.
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Thanks sharonp – we’re working on a few developments that will make this sort of thing very possible. We’d building a mechanism which would enable groups of users (a stamp collecting club say) to create a shared collection database which they could integrate into their own website. Is the sort of thing that would work really well for the National Quilt Register in Australia for example – except that they already have a great website & database. If there are any similar groups needing for this sort of thing, we want to help them out.
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