Brenda,
The reason we no longer include the exhibition history is because when
we had the TMS/eMuseum upgrade last year, the exhibition history went
down. Our technical support had a complete turnover around this same
time, and it has taken several months for them to be trained on the
system in general. They are working on re-introducing that portion of
eMuseum. It was a very useful part of eMuseum for both the staff and
public. We have recently added provenance in our object information. Our
main difficulties have been for our tech support team, although the
'future exhibition' feature never seemed to work for us (which perhaps
could have been given more attention and fixed, I'm not sure). We
haven't had any problem with adding information to TMS and having it
linked to eMuseum.
Several of our staff members use the public site, and they refer many
people to it each day. This is particularly useful for our mac users,
since their computers are not compatible with TMS. We are also currently
looking into integrating a Rights and Reproductions form in eMuseum and
are exploring options.
Let me know if you have any other questions. I'll be curious to see how
adding your exhibition history goes.
Thanks,
Emily
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Subject: Re: eMuseum: are you using it? what additions/customizations
have you added?
Hello Emily,
Thank you very much for your reply (and for your and your colleagues'
bravery in permitting a live demonstration of your eMuseum site at the
TMS-WUG conference last month!). It looks great.
I'm curious about why you no longer include the exhibition history - we
are planning to start out with primarily core object/maker information,
but looking at adding bibliography, exhibition history, and provenance
in "Phase II" of our efforts. Were there difficulties with including
this information?
Also, I wonder if any of your staff also use the public site? We've
been intrigued to learn that many of our staff routinely search our
on-line collections (http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/) to do quick
look-ups because they may use the Collection Search ("Google box") to
find what they're looking for (a coveted feature of eMuseum). I've also
heard from Boston MFA that their staff use both eMuseum and TMS, using
the former for searching and the latter for updating.
Best,
Brenda
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Brenda Podemski
Business Applications Administrator
Collections Information
The J. Paul Getty Museum
v. 310-440-7087 | f. 310-440-7752 | w. www.getty.edu
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Brenda,
The Brigham Young University Museum of Art has used eMuseum since 2001.
It has been implemented for public use, not as an intranet. We have only
used the out-of-the-box features of eMuseum. In the past, we have had
the exhibition module on eMuseum (past, present, and future
exhibitions), but right now we only have the object fields online, with
a basic and advanced search. We haven't included any additional search
fields, but plan to do so soon. If you have any further questions, let
me know. If you'd like to view our site, go to
http://bennion.byu.edu/code/emuseum.asp. Good luck with your
implementation of eMuseum. We have been quite happy with the product.
Emily Poulsen
Registrar
BYU Museum of Art
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