Hatching the EMu Update on Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Management Project Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Liz Rees Head of Archives & Collections 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
Work Plan Start Up and Project Initiation (Complete by end of August 2008) Research & Costing (Estimated: end Dec Actual: Sept 09) Procurement Preparation and Procurement (Estimated: end April Actual Sept 10) Installation, Phased Data Migration & Policy/Procedure review (Estimated: end April 2011) Implementation (Estimated: end July Actual Dec 11) Project Closure (Estimated: end August 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
Still to do…….. Enriching TWAM data on Emu Training and building user confidence ….Getting enough server space More interactive online experience