Museum Digital Projects: Standards to Follow
Covers quality, file format, and metadata (cataloging) standards as the most common standards for museum digital project work.
Applying DEI to Museum Collection Development — Part 2
Challenges museum staff face when engaging in the reparative and post-custodial models of DEI collections development; strategies for success.
Museum Digital Projects: Elements to Include
Museum digital project planning should include who, what, why, when and how questions; advice for project managers
Museum Digital Projects: Order of Operations
Digital museum projects are expensive; it’s important to allow time to consider project setup, elements, and needs. Typical questions; best practices
Museum Digital Projects: Pre-Project Evaluation
Museum digital pre-project evaluation is an excellent approach to intentional work—setting you and the collections up for a more successful result.
Ready to Read: Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin?
Book from museum expert guides professionals through strategic and logistical aspects of museum digital projects, including best practices
Applying DEI to Museum Collection Development — Part 1
As museums integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives into programs it’s important to apply a DEI lens to collecting practices.
Museum Digital File Preservation: File Access
Basics of maintaining digital file integrity and access, tips for how museum staff can protect and preserve museum digital files.
Museum Digital File Preservation: File Integrity
Museum expert primer on digital file integrity and how the museum can help to ensure museum digital files are as healthy and whole as possible.
3 Things to Consider When Purchasing Museum Digitization Equipment
There are three things to consider before making a digitization equipment purchase: fit, time, and budget; tips from a museum expert.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Training
Training is critical to a successful digital project and is where using a consultant can yield a high Return on Investment (ROI).
Museum Digital Project Consultant: CMS Selection and Implementation
With CMS selection led by a consultant, decision-makers can feel confident in the chosen tool and more easily agree to the financial investment.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Project Management
A museum consultant digital project manager is a great investment, because they can help streamline project work and keep it on track.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Create the Project Framework
A museum digital project framework blueprints how to get a successful project outcome, saving time and money while identifying and planning resources.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Assess and Recommend
Highlights several digital project types where a museum consultant can be beneficial. Outlines how a consultant can help support museum staff.
Museum Digital Project Sustainability Hacks
Prioritizing a sustainable approach to your projects will help you get the important work done while also helping protect non-work time and wellbeing
3 Strategies for Museum Digital Project Sustainability
Sustainability is a practice; improves work life balance, alleviates chronic stress, ensures work you perform receives the best of your attention.
Project Management for Museum Digital Projects
Implementing project management principles and tools saves museum staff time, keeps projects on budget and on time, and helps avoid costly mistakes
Strategies to Effectively Work with Museum Staff, Interns, and Volunteers
Effective teams involving a hybrid of museum staff, interns, and volunteers require established communication patterns, unified training, and respect.
How to Ethically Build Museum Intern and Volunteer Opportunities
Museums are steadily transitioning from exploitative labor practices to more ethical labor practices; this should apply to interns and volunteers
How to Ethically Adapt Museum Staff Capacity for Digital Projects
It’s easy for museums to create term or contract positions to increase capacity but with minimal compensation; but it’s ethical to avoid exploitation
Museum Digital Project Roles for Staff, Volunteers, and Interns
Museum digital projects are inherently complex and require an understanding of the technology involved. Staff, volunteers, and interns all play a role.
Museum TrendsWatch: Right-Sizing the World
Museums have largely based their success on capitalist models, using for-profit values of power, productivity, and economic metrics of success.
Museum TrendsWatch: Emergency Response in the Face of Disaster
Many disasters are driven by climate change; museums can use their nonpartisan credibility and communications skills to build climate policy consensus.
Museum TrendsWatch: Mental Health for All
Mental health for both museum staff and the external museum community is important; museums can be good for our mental and physical health.
