Gather Information to Inform the Museum Budget
Tips from museum expert on how and what information to gather for creating, reviewing, critiquing or asking questions of the museum budget
How to DEAI the Museum Budget
Now we understand DEAI as a permanent program, museums are including it in budgets, which requires reprioritization
How to Evaluate the Museum Operating Budget
Staff and Programs are two areas within the museum budget that are ripe for evaluation when attempting to determine a museum’s values and priorities
What a Museum Budget Says About Museum Values
Museums communicate what they value through a mission statement, strategic plan, annual budget, slush fund allocation, and fundraising activities
Make a Plan for Non-Standard Museum Data
Moving to a new museum Collections Management System (CMS) involves planning for the migration of your non-standard data; proven practices, strategies
Craft Museum Workflows That Include the CMS
Museum workflows are administrative documents that walk one or multiple people through a functional process: overview of steps in crafting a workflow
Document Museum CMS Fields and Function
Museum CMS data recording is governed by professional standards; understand what fields your data is in now and fields it must migrate to in a new CMS
Gather Data and Evaluate Museum CMS Use
Moving to a new museum Collections Management System (CMS) is a good time to evaluate how museum staff use current CMS in their daily workflow.
Post-Migration Data Cleanup and Refinement
Not all museum data cleanup can occur prior to migration to a new CMS. Best practices for data refinement post-migration from a museum expert
Items Required for Successful Data Migration
When a museum moves to a new CMS certain data requirements must be addressed prior to migration in order for it to complete successfully.
How to Prepare for Museum Data Migration
Migrating museum data to a new Collections Management System (CMS) requires completion of a series of activities before beginning migration.
What Does Museum Data Migration Entail?
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers guidance on each of the four main data migration activities when moving to a new CMS
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: The Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Climate Change
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of The Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Climate Change from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Ready to Read: Prepare for Takeoff: Get Your Museum Digital Project off the Ground
Book from museum expert guides professionals through prioritizing digital projects, finding grant funding, ending misperceptions, incorporating staff
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: The Partisan Divide
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of The Partisan Divide from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: A Digital (R)evolution
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of A Digital (R)evolution, from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: The Future Workplace
Museum expert Rachael Woody offers her analysis of The Future Workplace, A Digital (R)evolution, from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Strategies Toward a Museum Digital Storage Solution
Museum expert’s strategies for choosing a museum digital storage solution with emphasis on a using a CMS (collections management system)
Considering a Museum Digital Storage Approach
Museum expert Rachael Woody offers guidance on how to determine which museum digital storage approach is the best fit for your museum
Requirements for Museum Digital Storage
Unplanned museum digital storage growth is susceptible to file-mismanagement, file corruption, and data loss
The Purpose of Museum Digital Storage
Many museum professionals struggle to find a cohesive, intuitive, and budget-friendly digital storage system they can reliably put in place.
Create a Plan for Museum Data Cleanup
By following standards, leveraging CMS tools, and creating strong processes you can help ensure future data cleanup is unnecessary.
Strategies for Effective Museum Data Cleanup – Part 2
Museum data cleanup Find and Replace In-System Strategy and CMS Vendor Support Strategy with required elements, directions, recommendations, pitfalls.
Strategies for Effective Museum Data Cleanup – Part 1
Museum data remediation can be overwhelming but when approached in bite-sized chunks we can perform the cleanup in a more accurate and sustainable way.
