Riverstone Museum Software for Museums

 Use Riverstone Museum Software (hereafter referred as RMS) to share collections and
build online exhibits with objects you cannot display in the museum. Invite your visitors to
tag and mark items as favorites, or to contribute content. Start a blog to publish museum
news and podcasts.
 Features you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, design themes, Exhibit Builder
plugin, Poster Builder plugin, Contribution plugin, data migration tools (OAI-PMH, CSV,
API), Social Bookmarking plugin.

RMS Key Feature List

RMS is designed with non-IT specialists in mind,
Easy to use allowing users to focus on content and interpretation
rather than programming.
RMS is a web application, making it accessible from any
Accessibility computer or mobile device with an internet connection.

 RMS can handle large archives of metadata

Extensible, Scalable and Flexible
and files (with over 100,000 items). The only
limitations are on your own server.
 Element sets for institution-specific metadata
may be added
 RMS accepts and stores all types of files,
including images, video, audio, multi-page
documents and PDFs, Power point
presentations, et al. Individual items may
contain multiple files

 Every item and file contains fields for

Standard-based Metadata and web design
Unqualified Dublin Core elements. Dublin Core
is an internationally-recognized and widely-
adopted schema.
 RMS comes packaged with design themes that
follow best practices in accessible web design
and are section 508 compliant.

Unqualified Dublin Core data, combined with RMS-

generated feeds and OAI-PMH harvestable data, give
Interoperable
RMS sites the ability to share data among different
systems and with other RMS sites.
 Share your RMS data through a variety feeds including
Data Output Formats Atom, DCMES-XML, JSON, and RSS2.

Populate an RMS site by adding items individually or

batch add using data migration tools, such as the OAI-
Data Migration PMH harvester, and CSV, EAD, and Zotero importer
plugins.

 Enter or import item metadata once, and use

items and metadata in multiple instances
Re-Purposing Content across website.
 Items may appear in multiple exhibits.

Create rich, interpretive exhibits that combine items in

Exhibit building your RMS site with narrative text. An item may be used
in multiple exhibits

Other Features
Create and organize items into collections
Tag items and exhibits with keywords
Publish Non-Roman characters
Use controlled vocabularies
Plot individual items on Google map with Geolocation plugin
Syndicate RMS website content RSS and Atom feeds
Reporting (Create customized reports with simple HTML export or PDF export that prints QR codes
Extend core functionality through plugins