Right, bear with me on this. This is one of those posts about museum systems which I know may only appeal to a tiny cross-section of humanity. You might want to go and make a cup of tea or watch 'Strictly' or something.
A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post about a methodology called 'COPE' (Create Once, Publish Everywhere), which prompted a discussion on the museum computer group e-list about content, data and publishing in museums.
A guide to conducting an Environmental Visual Assessment (EVA) of museum premises. An EVA is an observational walk around the museum inside and outside, to identify security issues. .
| Author: | Collections Trust |
| Publisher: | Arts Council England/Collections Trust |
| Publication date: | 19-04-2013 |
In Autumn 2012, Edinburgh Museums and Galleries began a project to review their requirements for a Collections Management System to replace their existing outmoded system.
As part of this project, Nico Tyack, Documentation Officer at City of Edinburgh Council conducted an online survey to find out how other museum and gallery services have approached the specification, implementation and updating of their systems.Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole reports from the 11th meeting of the European Member States Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, which takes place twice a year in the European Parliament building in Gasperich, Luxembourg.
In recent years, my twice-yearly pilgrimage to Gasperich has been, if not a chore then, perhaps, a little predictable. The group brings together national experts from all 27 EU Member States to review and make recommendations on the European Commission's recommendations on digitisation, which the UK signed up to under Culture Secretary David Lammy in 2006 and which were updated and reinforced on the 27th October 2011. Discussions usually focus on Europeana, funding and the progress of national strategies for Digitisation (updating the UK position is easy - we don't have one).
Today, however, feels a little different. Europe is straining under the immense economic pressure of resolving the fiscal deficit in the Eurozone, and many of the countries around the table find themselves confronted with some of the most complex socio-economic issues of recent decades. And so today's meeting is less about bureaucracy (although of course being the European Commission, there is a fair share of that) and much more about solidarity, support and, yes, hope.
Four case studies which explore the use of Benchmarks with museum and library collections, illustrating how Benchmarks can contribute to the sustainability of collections.
After more than a decade of innovative research and development, the international museum community has learnt a great deal about how to harness the power of the Web to the delivery of rich, meaningful cultural experiences. In this article, Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole explores the new vision of museums as publishers and broadcasters and looks at how the delivery of digital culture is being woven into the daily lives of consumers.
When, in 1977, an expert cataloguer looked at an object and made a few marks about it on a postcard-sized Catalogue Card, they would little have expected that one day the information they were creating would form the basis of a rich, complex and interwoven cultural experience on the World Wide Web. But fast-forward 35 years, and that is exactly what has happened.
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