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The Museum Data Service (MDS) is an initiative to provide an online repository of data about objects in the collections of accredited museums in the United Kingdom and associated territories. It is a collaboration between Art UK, the Collections Trust and the University of Leicester and was launched in September 2024. [1] [2] [3]
In museums, the collection of cultural property or material is normally catalogued in a collection catalog (or collections catalog). Traditionally this was done using a card index, but nowadays it is normally implemented using a computerized database (known as a collection database) and may even be made available online.
Vernon Systems has two major products, [3] widely used by the museum community: [4] Vernon CMS [5] is a modular desktop package designed to manage all types of collections; eHive [6] is a simple to use web-based cataloguing and public access system which includes integration with the WordPress content management system. eHive is free for low ...
In 1997, art historian and museum information studies consultant Robert A. Baron outlined the requirements for Collections Management Systems, not as a list of the kinds of collections object information that should be recorded, but rather as a list of collections activities such as administration, loan, exhibition, preservation, and retrieval, [13] tasks that museums had been responsible for ...
PastPerfect Museum Software is an application for collections archiving. It is designed for museums, but may be used by various institutions including libraries, archives, and natural history collections. PastPerfect allows for the database storage of artifacts, documents, photographs, and library books. [3]
Interior view of Musée d'Orsay (Orsay museum) in Paris. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, [1] [2] and refers to cultural institutions with a mission to provide access to knowledge. GLAMs collect and maintain cultural heritage materials in the public interest.
The Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium is a consortium of museums in Western Massachusetts and includes art museums which are part of the Five Colleges as well as Historic Deerfield. The Five College Museums maintains a searchable database [1] of the collections of the museums that is among the larger art galleries on the ...
In the 1990s, CHIN began maintaining a website where the museum community of Canada could find resources to improve the online visibility of their collections. [8] In the 2010s, Rowman & Littlefield agreed to allow CHIN to create an online version to supplement the published version of Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging 4.0. The site was ...