Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu Janice Kamrin American Research Center in Egypt KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008
A Brief History of the EM Database Project 2004 The EM Database is born SCA Support AUC Support
A Brief History 2005 ARCE Support First digitizing project
A Brief History The Volunteers Arrive
August 2006 to present ARCE-EAC The Egyptian Museum Registrar Training Project A Brief History
1.Design and develop a modern collections management system for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo 2.Train a group of registrars to implement this system Project Goals
A Brief History 2006 First Mellon Grant Awarded 2007 KE EMu Chosen
A Brief History 2008 Mellon Implementation Grant Awarded The move to KE EMu
The Current Situation RCMD in place and functioning Training continues
The Current Situation Original database functioning as full CMS
The Current Situation Database continues to grow: *Mass transcription *Full records completed and cross-checked *Gallery work Current number of records: 134,392
Next Steps Preparation for Migration *New thesauri *Cleaning up database? *Cleaning up records *Cleaning up forms and reports *Field matching
Looking forward Data migration! EM Database on-line *Intranet for curators *Internet for scholars and public Continue building database
Looking forward *Leave RCMD self-sufficient *Inventory Museum *Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM *A sector-wide system
Looking forward