Hatching the EMuUpdate on Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Collections Management Project
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Liz ReesHead of Archives & Collections
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Background
• 13 sites
• 5 collection areas – Archaeology, Art, Ethnography, History, Natural Sciences
• 145 separate files
• 510,000 catalogue records
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Work Plan
• Start Up and Project Initiation (Complete by end of August 2008)
• Research & Costing (Estimated: end Dec 2008. Actual: Sept 09)
• Procurement Preparation and Procurement (Estimated: end April 2010. Actual Sept 10)
• Installation, Phased Data Migration & Policy/Procedure review (Estimated: end April 2011)
• Implementation (Estimated: end July 2011. Actual Dec 11)
• Project Closure (Estimated: end August 2011. Actual end March 2013)
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
What we’ve achieved
Single collections management system
Templates for all collections areas
Access for all TWAM staff - multi-user functionality
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Collections Online
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Still to do……..
• Enriching TWAM data on Emu
• Training and building user confidence
• ….Getting enough server space
• More interactive online experience