IN PRACTICE
One institution. Front to back, and a laboratory.
An artist-endowed foundation in Los Angeles with a small staff, a large archive, and systems that had grown one purchase at a time. The practice modernized how the institution runs. The Labs are using its archive to build a catalogue raisonné methodology.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION · DELIVERED
The systems the staff and public touch, rebuilt to work together.
- 01 Web hosting renewed and moved to current infrastructure.
- 02 CMS rebuilt on a maintained platform the staff edits directly.
- 03 Donor management software introduced and connected to communications.
- 04 Volunteer management moved out of spreadsheets.
- 05 Newsletter platform replaced with a simpler, less expensive one.
- 06 Social media tooling consolidated with shared ownership.
INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE · DELIVERED
The systems nobody saw, until they nearly failed.
- 01 Aging local server recovered and its applications restored.
- 02 Migration to the cloud, validated file by file.
- 03 Backup architecture with offsite copies and tested restores.
- 04 Accounts, permissions, and access security rebuilt.
LABS · IN PILOT
The archive as founding laboratory.
Collections management established as the groundwork for catalogue research. A catalogue raisonné methodology in exploratory pilot: machines search, transcribe, match, and reconstruct; the Foundation’s scholars authenticate, attribute, interpret, and decide.
Status: exploratory research pilot. Results, including failure cases, will be published here. No productivity percentage is presented until measured.
GOVERNANCE
Partners contribute resources, not ownership.
Partners contribute resources to the Foundation’s project, not ownership over its scholarly corpus. The architecture is vendor-neutral. Institution-specific data and scholarship remain with the Foundation.
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