Hello,
> On 3 May 2016, at 08:56, Chris Dennis via Hampshire <hampshire@???> wrote:
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> The plan is to put a considerable quantity (thousands, adding up to 10 -- 20 GB) of scanned documents, photos, maps, etc., along with explanatory text, onto the site.
Exciting stuff!
>  So I'm wondering what sort of framework to use.
> 
> I think WordPress would quickly become unmanageable with so much data.
It’s not much data, and I think you can just let Wordpress find the assets on disk, not keep them as blobs in MySQL.  I’ve used Drupal for this sort of thing in the past - it’s designed exactly for this use case.  It’s not too difficult to use, and has a wealth of useful plugins or add ons.
There will be other (non-PHP) CMS you could consider, but I’ve not used any of them in anger.
S.
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