& Museum Collections Management Resources
& Museum Collections Management Resources
Success Stories
BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
Museum
Confidence Factor; Leveling Up with Argus
The Woodstock Museum National Historic Site
Museum
Visualize, Customize, Optimize, with Argus
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Art Gallery
Timeless Collections Management —Argus For Now, Argus For The Future
The Exploration Place + Science Centre
Museum
Cultivating a Cultural Community with Argus
History Colorado
Museum
Argus helps History Colorado Engage Visitors with People, Places and Stories
CU Art Museum
Museum and Gallery
The CU Art Museum Expands Curation with Argus Collections Management
Kalamazoo Valley Museum
Museum
Stay Local While Going Global: How Kalamazoo Valley Museum Does It with Argus
University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology
Museum and Gallery
Carpe Diem; Argus Turns a Challenge into a Success
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Museum
Support System: Argus is Behind the Scenes at Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Primers
The Museums and Collections Management Primer
Museum Collections Management System Primer
eBooks
Demystifying Data Preparation for a New CMS
Learn how to prepare museum data for a new CMS.
We have so much data in our daily lives that we are desensitized to it, and rarely stop to ponder who first created the data nor how it was delivered to us. Yet data is critically important to our daily functions—including those related to museum collections care, management, and access.
This book outlines how to prepare museum content (data and assets) for migration to a new museum collections management system through a process of data evaluation, data remediation (cleanup), and data preparation—demystifying what can be an intimidating process and leading to the other side, where your data awaits you in a shiny new CMS.
Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground
Learn the secrets of successful museum digital projects
Museum digital projects require personnel who are subject-matter experts, technologists, and project managers. Once you have knowledge, skills, and abilities accounted for, it is time to learn the strategies necessary to create and execute your project. This book will guide you through all aspects of the initiative and help set you up for success. Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground offers advice from Rachael Cristine Woody, a seasoned museum expert and consultant with significant experience in museum, history and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor.
Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin?
Learn the secrets of successful museum digital projects.
Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin? offers advice from Rachael Cristine Woody, a seasoned museum expert and consultant with significant experience in museum, history and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor. Digital projects are critically important to a museum’s mission of caring for and providing access to its collections. With that in mind, Ms. Woody covers the components of a successful museum digital project, how to create and manage a successful digital project, how to choose the right tools for museum digital projects, evaluating the museum DAMS vs CMS, how much museum digital projects cost, and creating a museum digital project workflow that works.
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS
By Rachael Cristine Woody
Guaranteed Museum CMS Selection Success: The Essential Guide
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS explains how to search for, select, buy, implement, and maximize the value of a museum collections management system. In order to deliver the best return on investment in a collections management system, staff need to know:
How to begin the search for the right CMS; how to navigate the procurement process; how to prepare for what migration will entail; what workflows, standards, and tools they should be aware of, and how to use a CMS to its maximum potential.
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing
Learn the secrets of successful museum grant writing.
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing offers advice from Rachael Cristine Woody, a seasoned museum expert and consultant specializing in grant acquisition, with significant experience in museum, history and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor. It takes a pragmatic approach to such topics as seeing each grant application as an opportunity, learning and moving on from inevitable failures, using grant acquisition to provide valuable financial sustenance to the museum without negatively impacting staff, and applying a systematic, common sense methods that builds the necessary skills to survive the grant writing process and thrive within it.
Technical Support
The Training Portal
The Training Portal enables Argus users to conveniently view online tutorials wherever and whenever they are needed. Designed to be self-paced and viewed as a whole or in convenient topical chapters, these tutorials will help you learn and discover how to make the most effective use of your Argus Collections Management Software.
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