G8racingfool
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Okay so short story time first (you can skip this paragraph if you want). My little town has a history museum that recently has been kind of flailing haplessly and is it some dire need of help (the current "curator" was literally making paper snowflakes and other "art" out of 100 year old books, it'd gotten that bad). So, certain members of the community are coming forward to try and rectify this and putting forth an effort to try and turn this little museum into something that's actually worth traveling to and visiting. I've been tasked with helping get the technology side up-to-speed. I've now got them set up with a nice photo scanning/reproduction setup to deal with many of the photographs, newspaper articles, and film slides and get them digitized. We're working on getting Internet to the site (still a bit up-in-the-air as it's in the "who's gonna pay for it" stage) and now, I've been tasked with coming up with a solution for to get a bit more interactive with some of the content at the museum.
So one of the things I've been tasked with is coming up with an interactive display/kiosk that we can use to allow viewing of some of the scanned photos, videos, and presentations by patrons. Budget-wise, we've got about ~$3000 per system installed so it's not a lot of money, but I've got most of the hardware specc'd out for a nice little system, I just need to find some software that will allow for the creation/modification of the interface and menus and all of that. I've been searching around and have found a few but I thought I'd ask here as well and see if anyone here has dealt with something like this before and know of a software/solution that works well. I'm on a bit of a deadline as I need to get a quote ready to submit by Monday as this will be funded by a grant (I literally just got this task yesterday.... short notice ftw).
So, anybody have any suggestions? Budget for the software would be up to ~$1000, and we definitely don't want a SaaS solution.
So one of the things I've been tasked with is coming up with an interactive display/kiosk that we can use to allow viewing of some of the scanned photos, videos, and presentations by patrons. Budget-wise, we've got about ~$3000 per system installed so it's not a lot of money, but I've got most of the hardware specc'd out for a nice little system, I just need to find some software that will allow for the creation/modification of the interface and menus and all of that. I've been searching around and have found a few but I thought I'd ask here as well and see if anyone here has dealt with something like this before and know of a software/solution that works well. I'm on a bit of a deadline as I need to get a quote ready to submit by Monday as this will be funded by a grant (I literally just got this task yesterday.... short notice ftw).
So, anybody have any suggestions? Budget for the software would be up to ~$1000, and we definitely don't want a SaaS solution.