Museums in Rome - The Leaves and the Trunk

A bit of editing, but basically the two tweets I sent this morning about a discouraging meeting in Rome…

Participating to meeting on City of Rome museum IT system, today. Over 220k records uploaded. Alas, it’s a closed, proprietary software, and it is still limited to Intranet (though the SIMART programme was started almost a decade ago…)

Detailed description of SIMART - Rome’s municipal museum network system - and its new features at IT meeting, today. It’s like nicely describing in all its details a leave, not taking notice of the rotten stem… Weren’t FOSS tools at hand, from start?

— Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) January 22, 2013