egyptian museum in cairo database project implementing emu janice kamrin american research center in...
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Egyptian Museum in Egyptian Museum in
Cairo Cairo
Database Project Database Project
Implementing EMuImplementing EMuJanice KamrinJanice Kamrin
American Research Center in EgyptAmerican Research Center in Egypt
KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008
A Brief History ofA Brief History of
the EM Database Projectthe EM Database Project20042004
The EM Database is bornThe EM Database is born
SCA SupportSCA Support
AUC SupportAUC Support
A Brief HistoryA Brief History
20052005
ARCE SupportARCE Support
First digitizing projectFirst digitizing project
A Brief HistoryA Brief History
The Volunteers ArriveThe Volunteers Arrive
August 2006 to presentAugust 2006 to present
ARCE-EAC ARCE-EAC
The Egyptian MuseumThe Egyptian Museum
Registrar Training ProjectRegistrar Training Project
A Brief HistoryA Brief History
1.1.Design and develop a modern Design and develop a modern
collections management system for collections management system for
the Egyptian Museum, Cairothe Egyptian Museum, Cairo
2.2.Train a group of registrars to Train a group of registrars to
implement this systemimplement this system
Project GoalsProject Goals
A Brief HistoryA Brief History
20062006
First Mellon Grant AwardedFirst Mellon Grant Awarded
20072007
KE EMu ChosenKE EMu Chosen
A Brief HistoryA Brief History
20082008
Mellon ImplementationMellon Implementation
Grant AwardedGrant Awarded
The move to KE EMuThe move to KE EMu
The Current SituationThe Current Situation
RCMD in place and functioningRCMD in place and functioning
Training continuesTraining continues
The Current SituationThe Current Situation
Original database functioning Original database functioning
as full CMSas full CMS
The Current SituationThe Current Situation
Database continues to grow:
*Mass transcription
*Full records completed and cross-checked
*Gallery work
Current number of records: 134,392
Next StepsNext Steps
Preparation for Migration
*New thesauri
*Cleaning up database?
*Cleaning up records
*Cleaning up forms and reports
*Field matching
Looking forwardLooking forward
Data migration!
EM Database on-line
*Intranet for curators
*Internet for scholars and public
Continue building database
Looking forwardLooking forward
*Leave RCMD self-sufficient
*Inventory Museum
*Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM
*A sector-wide system
