A sensible 🧵 and comments. A lot of this boils down to the need for better #MuseumDocumentation (the Cinderella of the sector).
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A sensible 🧵 and comments. A lot of this boils down to the need for better #MuseumDocumentation (the Cinderella of the sector).
#MuseumDocumentation hazards procedure: helping you not to kill your staff and visitors!
Always nice to see acquisition policies and procedures explained! #MuseumDocumentation
Cataloguing 8 pages of a talk someone gave their colleagues on the keeping of budgies. Work social events were wild in the 1950s. #MuseumDocumentation
#MuseumDocumentation : please tell @jdk653.bsky.social how you manage not to kill your colleagues and visitors
Check out the new Blog post on Museum Study, A conversation with Angela Kipp about her book Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections.
www.museumstudy.com/a-conversati...
#unmanagedcollections #wheredoIstart #neglectedcollections #registrartrek #museum @followers #Collections #MuseumDocumentation
This enables you to do things like see all the acquisitions made under Eastlake's directorship (1855-1865), arranged by date of execution: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... #MuseumDocumentation
#MuseumDocumentation 📢!
The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation
Exactly. "We are not sure why the older bison mount was never returned to DMNS, but it is likely due to the lack of formal documentation created for the arrangement and a loss of communication over time." #MuseumDocumentation
Now this is interesting: lawcom.gov.uk/project/muse... #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife
And then on Tuesday (7 October) I'll be introducing the UK Registrars Group's AGM to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife - if you haven't come across it yet, all you might want to know about #EODEM is at cidoc.mini.icom.museum/working-grou...
We'll be using rupertshepherd.info/documentatio..., presented at the same conference 10 years ago, as a jumping-off point for our discussion #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife
Excuse me while I blow my own 🎺. On Thursday morning, I'm discussing "What next for collections management?" with Aruna Bhuageerutty, @davidgelsthorpe.bsky.social & @horusofnekhen.bsky.social on for the annual Collections Trust conference #MuseumDocumentation collectionstrust.org.uk/events/confe...
Managing Previously Unmanged Databases - what to do when you inherited a mess of a #database from your predecessor or want a new one. The article was originally written for the Registrars Committee Western Region and is now available on Registrar Trek in English […]
Black mug with rainbow colored circle and inscription "Woke AF And Proud"
*Reads statement that museums are the last segment of woke*
*raises mug to U.S. museums*
Mug design by the great @HeliaXyana
#museum #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife #resistance #museums
Question for all you #MuseumDocumentation people out there ⬇️
Here's a great #MuseumJobs for anyone interested in promoting and working with #MuseumDocumentation data, #DigitalHumanities etc.: Research Manager at Collections Trust collectionstrust.org.uk/news/were-lo...
Cracking #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumJobs coming up at Manx National Heritage: Collection Information Manager www.jobtrain.co.uk/iomgovjobs/J...
These sound very like the Database Pixies who live in digital systems and make all your legacy / kludged / "oh god let's just get it all in now and tidy it later" data fit for purpose. Existence often implied by senior management yet They Must Never Be Named - or funded. #MuseumDocumentation
That's a lot of open #MuseumDocumentation
And so much #MuseumDocumentation is digital ...
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Teraz po polsku! Proszę powiedzieć ankietę DSWG dotyczącą wprowadzania danych związanych z pożyczkami CIDOC, ile czasu spędzasz na kopiowaniu danych między systemami podczas wypożyczania lub wypożyczania obiektów muzealnych. #MuseumDocumentation forms.gle/mBKYerASKCFx...
A #backup is only good if you can restore it. D'oh!
Part three of our series on #datasecurity shows you how to restore your #TMS database.
Should be a routine but also necessary knowledge if you have to bring your database to a safe space where nobody can force you to delete some information […]
This is a follow-up of the more generalized post
Let's Talk About Data Security - Backups
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#museum #museums #databases #data #MuseumDocumentation #DataSecurityIsCollectionsManagement #CollectionsManagement #Documentation […]
Taking a backup of your #museum #database can be crucial in the current political climate. You don't know when you will be forced to delete what you once knew about the objects in your museum and the people who made them. They might be too queer or don't have the right skin color. Better rescue […]
Data security isn't sexy, I'll give you that. But in this climate, knowing how to do a backup of your database and storing it somewhere safe might be crucial to make sure what you know about your collection is preserved for future generations.
Start of a new series on #RegistrarTrek: Let's talk […]
"use of collections" #MuseumDocumentation
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Coming to this a little late in the day, but: paras 5&7 😉
#MuseumDocumentation