Thank you everyone for your thoughtful and helpful replies to my inquiry about tools. My research is underway!

Best regards

Leslie Butterfield
Chair, City of Sarasota Public Art Committee
Leslie.butterfield@comcast.net
Leslie.butterfield@sarasatofl.gov
713-471-1016

> On Jun 26, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Coffey-Webb, Louise (via public_art_network list) <public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Last year Culver City did a downtown cultural walking tour mobile app, and after getting various bids - as there are a number of companies that do this, many international - we settled on Otocast:
> Eric.feinstein@otocast.com
> You can download the Otocast app for free and check out our tour amongst many others. Also, they were very affordable and can do updates easily. Not sure about barcode capability, but we have used QR codes on our artwork to take people directly to our website which has more information, more images, etc. QR codes are free too.
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> Louise Coffey-Webb
> Collections Manager, Art in Public Places Program
> Cultural Affairs, City Of Culver City
> City Hall, 2nd Floor
> 9770 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
> Direct Line (310) 253-6001
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com [mailto:public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Leslie Butterfield
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:14 AM
> To: public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com
> Subject: Need Info on Tools to Showcase Public Art Collections
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> Greetings. The City of Sarasota has a nice Public Art Collection and is looking for a platform we can use to create a digital history and a way for people to tour the art. I bet there are good tools available that we can build this on rather than building one ourselves.
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> Some of the features we’d like to have: mobile phone app, website, handles images and video, possibly barcode capable, flexible editing, reliable technology, from a company that has good standing, affordable.
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> I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience with tools like this. Which cities are already using this sort of technology? Which features am I forgetting?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leslie Butterfield
> 713-471-1016
> Leslie.butterfield@comcast.net
> Sarasota Public Art Committee Chair
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