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