Case Study: University of Alberta Museums unifies 29 collections with Box Clever’s custom search site

University of Alberta Museums unifies 29 collections and 10M+ specimens with Box Clever

The University of Alberta Museums, which manages 29 distinct collections and over 10 million objects, faced the challenge of unifying access to its data. Its collections were previously siloed across multiple standalone websites with varying search experiences. The vendor, Box Clever, was engaged to create a single, integrated web search database.

Box Clever developed a custom website solution that integrated data from the University's MIMSY collection management system. They constructed a robust, multi-database architecture to ensure high performance and eliminate downtime. The solution provided a seamless browsing and search experience, successfully amalgamating over 750,000 objects and specimens into a single, scalable site that the client has full control over.

University of Alberta Museums