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eMuseum Projects
A sampling of eMuseum
client projects are described below. These projects
are in various stages of development, from initial
design to data validation. Gallery Systems works
closely with some clients in their eMuseum implementation,
and others undertake the project on their own.
Be sure to visit the clients’ websites
for more details about the organizations.
The Web is an exciting arena for education,
marketing and publication efforts, so check
back periodically to see what new projects our
clients are undertaking.
The
Australian Register for Historic Vessels
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)
launched the Australian Register for Historic
Vessels on February 1, 2007. The richly-illustrated
online research database shares in-depth information
on vessels of Australian maritime significance
with the public, and encourages public participation
through its Nominate Your Vessel feature
- owners of historically significant vessels
may nominate their watercraft for inclusion
in the Register.
“TMS allows us to collect
and display all the information internally in
a series of layers; it also connects to other
related information within the ANMM collection.
eMuseum then allows us to withhold confidential
data and just publish the vessel’s story
and description, along with selected images.
It is easy to enter information and to update.”
- David Payne, ARHV Administrator, Australian
National Maritime Museum
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Enriching
Australia's heritage - Nominate your vessel
The
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
In addition to its own permanent collection
of approximately 12,000 works, The National
Portrait Gallery(NPG) catalogues nearly 70,000
American portraits from collections around the
world through the Collection of American Portraits
(CAP). NPG uses eMuseum in three distinct ways:
Internet public access to CAP records, Internet
public access to NPG permanent collections,
and kiosk access to additional NPG collection
resources. Four kiosk stations in the museum's
"Portrait Connection" area allow visitors
to view larger images and additional details
for nearly 4,000 works.
“The entire system
is built on NPG’s existing collections
management database, TMS, so that curators can
easily manage the website content without needing
to master new technology. New material from
both the NPG collections and the CAP survey
is added regularly. As this information is catalogued
and validated, it is automatically published
to the website. A browse selections page on
the website gives curators a place to publish
highlighted groups of objects.”
- Linda Thrift, Administrator, Center for
Electronic Research and Outreach Services
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Searching
the Collection of American Portraits
Museum
für Gestaltung Zürich, Hochschule
für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
The School of Art and Design, Zurich's
Museum of Design boasts impressive Design, Graphic,
Poster and Applied Arts collections, each one
containing a wealth of unique objects and documents
to serve the needs of students and researchers.
The museum's implementation of eMuseum 3.6 allows
research into these departmental collections
with information on 11,500 objects, 26,000 media
records, 35,500 people and over 1,000 exhibitions.
The German website will soon be available in
English.
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Highlights
by classification
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