Everyone,

I have recently learned about this project which came out of the iSchool at UC Berkeley. It's open source software written to be a user friendly interface/faceted broswe tool for TMS. It makes use of text mining and natural language tools; it does not require any changes to TMS.  I have not read through all of the documentation yet but it looks interesting. The Berkeley School of Information Science is pretty fantastic, very into federated search, clustering, natural language. Here are some links to the Delphi Museum Porject:

                http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/programs/masters/projects/2007/delphi <https://mail.mfah.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/programs/masters/projects/2007/delphi> 
                http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/DelphiFinalReportLinked.pdf <https://mail.mfah.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/DelphiFinalReportLinked.pdf> 

                http://code.google.com/p/delphi-museum-project/wiki/DelphiWikiHome <http://code.google.com/p/delphi-museum-project/wiki/DelphiWikiHome>  

Seems ideal for small, specialized collections but I'm not sure how scalable it is.

Emily

Data Standards Manager
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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