This page provides information about the development of museum documentation systems, products and services. It is one of a number of pages about museum information standards and related documentation issues prepared by the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums ( ICOM-CIDOC). There is also an introduction to the overall set of pages about recent initiatives.
Collections management software review / Canadian Heritage Information Network. - [Accessed 2000-10-13]
Contains detailed evaluations of collections management software packages based upon intensive examinations conducted by teams of museum professionals. The Review will assist institutions in the complex task of selecting and integrating collections management systems. Twenty-one commercially available collections management software packages have been reviewed so far. The full results are available only for a fee, or to CHIN members, but the site gives lists of packages, features, and details of how to carry out a comparative evaluation.
mda software survey. - [Accessed 2002-12-20]
Summary and detailed listings of features of 21 software packages, based on information provided by suppliers.
Databases for collections management / Timothy L. Campbell. - [Accessed 2000-10-13]
Includes a list of generic database software that can be used to build museum systems, a list of proprietary collections managment software packages, and references to other documents and standards.
Automating your museum : a five-part series / Stephen R. Toney. - Parts 1-4 originally published in MuseumNetwork.com, February 2000. - [Accessed 2000-10-14].
This series of articles is intended for the museum professional who is involved in planning major new systems. Usually the largest systems that museums acquire are collections management systems (CMSs), but these articles will address systems of all kinds. And although the web pervades our jobs and lives, there is nothing different about planning web projects. Good planning applies to all technologies. - [introduction]
The next phase of the AFRICOM project will include networks as a priority area. As many African museums as possible are to be given e-mail access and the use of the Internet will be developed among the six museums involved in the inventory project. These issues were discussed at the CIDOC Conference in Nairobi, September 1996. Source: ICOM News, 49(2), p14-15.
The Australian Museums Information System (AMIS) includes a collection search facility. Source: Spectra, 23(3), p41, spring 1996.
The History Computerisation Project includes details of historical resources and information about a collection application discussed at previous meetings of the Museum Computer Network.
The The Institute for Cultural Memory (Institutul de Memorie Culturala) (CIMEC), Romania, has established a Web service.
A number of UK museums have adopted the Multi MIMSY collection application, including the LASSI consortium (Science Museum, Leicestershire Museums, etc.) and the Museum of London. See Museums Journal , August 1996, 26-27 and Spectra, Summer 1996, 23(4), p24-27. The LASSI project is described in LASSI: the Larger Scale Systems Initiative / Suzanne Keene. - Information Services & Use 16 (1996), p.223-236.
The Soros Foundation Hungary has established a Web service and an Internet Lab which offers dial-up e-mail and Internet access for local non-profit organisations. [July 1996]
Systems Planning provides systems and technology services to museums, offering integrated Web sites that draw data from museum, archive, library and photographic databases.
http://cidoc.icom.museum/stand3sy.htm
Revised / Dernière mise à jour: 2002-12-20
Original author / Auteur original: Andrew
Roberts
Now maintained by / Maintenant entretenu par:
Leonard Will
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