Storytelling with museum collections online allows for a great degree of flexibility, offers additional detail, and lends a dynamism that is difficult to produce within a physical exhibition.
Standard museum cataloging leverages the usual set of fields that are considered best practice. We tend to refer to this information as “the tombstone information,” meaning it is clear and concise in communicating the “need to know” information.
Museums are well established as “empathy generators”, meaning the museum space in combination with artifacts and storytelling can help humans emotionally connect to (or at least better understand) other human groups that are different from their own.
What excites me the most about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) application to museum work is its potential to improve discoverability of museum collections online.
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Detailed expert guidance on the four main options for data enhancement within a CMS, and tips for when it makes sense to use each one.
Detailed guidance on the elements of a data enhancement plan that will improve the discoverability of objects in the museum Collections Management System (CMS).
Data enhancement has the power to improve the discoverability of objects in the museum Collections Management System (CMS).
Data enhancement has the power to improve the discoverability of objects in the museum Collections Management System (CMS)
Book by museum expert Rachael Woody on readying data and assets for migration to a new CMS via data evaluation, remediation, and preparation.
Data enhancement is the improvement of object information captured within the museum CMS; it includes both updating existing data and adding new data.
