Program
Collective Imagination is a unique chance for TMS professionals to explore the issues that impact them daily. It's where you can share and discover best practices with like-minded individuals, meet the team behind the software, and catch an exclusive glimpse of what's to come from Gallery Systems.
Collective Imagination 2011 sessions will take place from 9:15 am to 5:30 pm on March 30th and 31st, 2011.
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Here are a few highlights from the CI 2011 Agenda:
Keep in Step: Cataloguing and Content Management
Gillian Essam, Collection Information Manager, The National Gallery,London
How does the National Gallery manage and use digital cataloguing information assets and what are the challenges ahead?
Once Only and As Soon As Possible : Capturing information to support collection and exhibition management
Tim Henbrey, Head of Collections Management, The National Gallery, London
Tim Henbrey shares The National Gallery's process of using of TMS and their intranet to support loans and exhibitions workflow.
Lost for Words? A Route-map for Finding the Right Words for Your Collections
Alice Grant, Director, Alice Grant Consulting Ltd.
This session will provide practical steps, inspire creative thinking, and explain why collaboration is the key to finding the right terminology to describe your collections. Discover how you can balance innovation, pragmatism and cost-consciousness to ensure that your collections are never at a loss for words.
Cataloguing Portfolios, Illustrated Books, and Periodicals: MoMA’s German Expressionist Collections
Jeri Moxley,Collection & Exhibition Technologies, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art’s exceptionally rich collection of Expressionist art includes just over 2,200 prints, 275 drawings, 32 posters, and nearly 700 prints in books and periodicals in the Museum’s library. The meticulous cataloguing of all these objects reflects the Museum’s dedication to cataloguing standards and use of TMS as the most important record for many objects in the Collection. Group records in TMS are essential to recording portfolios, books, and periodicals — with challenges including holdings across museum departments, portfolios of prints acquired at different times, pages removed from books, and illustrated pages of specific periodical volumes. The entire collection is available on the museum’s website, www.moma.org.
SPECTRUM 4.0 and How Standards Can Benefit Us All
Nick Poole, Chief Executive Collections Trust
Can standards help the museum community cope with its current challenges? This session uncovers the hidden value of standards and the specifics of Spectrum 4.0.
Robots of the Albertina
Alexander Pointner, TMS-Administrator, Albertina
The Albertina Museum maintains a unique object retrieval system, enlisting the help of robots to collect acquisitions from a large underground storage facility. What are the advantages of this innovative system and what challenges has it presented? Find out through this exclusive glimpse into the world of the Albertina Robots --- and perhaps into the future of museums.
An eMuseum Case Study: Design and Collaboration
Getting your collection online is a group effort, requiring a delicate balance between design, data management and programming. Lauren Skogstad showcases the multi-faceted -- sometimes unpredictable -- process of eMuseum implementation and how to make it work for you.
Challenges Facing City Museums: A Roundtable Discussion
Jen Kaines, Registrar and Collections Manager, Leeds Museums and Galleries
Gisela Schulte-Dornberg, Project Manager, Culture Department of the City of Düsseldorf
What challenges do City museums contend with today? Panelists head a lively solution-based discussion, open to all who are invested in or curious about the inner workings of municipal Museums.
Ready, Steady, Go! Insights Into the World’s Biggest Sports Collection...
Dr. Barbara Hölschen, History Management, Adidas AG
Experience the life cycle of a TMS Corporate Collection through its journey from research collection to user-oriented database.
Data-driven publishing with InDesign
Discover what happens when TMS and InDesign join forces to create dynamically published catalogues, labels, and other print media.
TMS Top 10
Are you getting the most out of TMS 2010? Managing Director Danielle Uchitelle reveals her list of the ten most useful and exciting features and how they’ll help you make the most out of managing your collection.
Other topics include:
* The Tate Planning System: A Custom Workflow Application
* Panel: How Collection Management Systems Support Business Procedures
* An eMuseum Case study: Design and Collaboration
* Moving 440,000 objects to 13,000 new locations without breaking a sweat
* And more...
Pre-Conference Training
The following low cost training courses are open exclusively to CI attendees.
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Introduction to Crystal Reports for TMS (Full day)
Delivered by Werner Mahlknecht
Learn the nuts and bolts of Crystal Reports in this intensive 1 day course. No experience necessary.
$500
Introduction to SQL (Morning half day)
Delivered by Sascha Curzon
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the query workhorse behind every TMS search, and can be used to manage data at the database level. Learning the fundamentals of SQL will help you design better Listviews, help you understand why Crystal Reports behaves the way it does, and give you tools to make global modifications to data where appropriate. This half-day course is appropriate for technically advanced users.
$250
TMS 2010 New Features (Afternoon half day)
Delivered by Jon Thristan
Learn how to use the new functionality of TMS 2010 in this half-day course. Experience with previous versions of TMS is strongly recommended.
$250
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Preparing for publishing (Morning half day)
Delivered by Jon Thristan
Learn tips and techniques for preparing your TMS data for publication. Using eMuseum publishing as a case study, the session will also consider other outputs such as annual reports, catalogues and wall labels.
$250
Introduction to SQL (Morning half day)
Delivered by Sascha Curzon
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the query workhorse behind every TMS search, and can be used to manage data at the database level. Learning the fundamentals of SQL will help you design better Listviews, help you understand why Crystal Reports behaves the way it does, and give you tools to make global modifications to data where appropriate. This half-day course is appropriate for technically advanced users.
$250
Configuration (Afternoon half day)
Delivered by Jost Hansen
Learn how to configure TMS to meet the specific needs of your organization. From setting up Advanced Query Group to populating Field-Specific Help, and from setting your thumbnailing preferences to configuring your attribute types and terms, find out here.
$250
Listviews and Dataviews (Afternoon half day)
Delivered by Sascha Curzon
TMS uses Listviews and Dataviews throughout the application to display and export data. This half-day course teaches the fundamentals of designing Listviews and Dataviews.
$250