Design Materials Domain Profile: Home Page

Introduction

The adopters of CollectionSpace represent a wide range of different museum domains and communities of practice. To make it easier for museums and collections from different domains to benefit from CollectionSpace's core platform, while still maintaining information that is unique to their collections, we have developed a set of domain profiles. These profiles include extensions to the common CollectionSpace platform that support domain-specific practices - things like determination history for an herbarium or emulation data for a new media collection.

Design Materials Domain Profile

The CollectionSpace Design Materials profile was initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Rhode Island School of Design, later Material Order. 

The Design Materials profile is used to manage collections of Design Materials, defined by the Harvard GSD as:  "collections of material samples ranging from innovative new materials to those found everyday in the built environment...the Materials Collection places emphasis on material composition and functional traits of the material samples, encouraging users to rethink conventional applications and promote material experimentation in design practice."

Design Materials Demo Site

Design Materials Documentation, created and maintained by the Material Order consortium

Design Materials Data Dictionaries

• The below list is limited to those procedures and authorities that are unique to the domain profile or that deviate from the Common platform.
• Data dictionaries for all procedures and authorities can be found here.