A museum expert highlights how interns can be included in museum CMS projects with three project ideas.
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Building a Strategy to Catalog an Entire Museum Collection
Museum cataloging strategy will outline the collection information you have available, known resources, and available tools.
Things to Consider When Nothing in Your Museum’s Collection is Cataloged
Guidance on initial steps in cataloging your museum’s collection; what information exists, what resources are available, what practices to implement.
Ask Me Anything (AMA): The Impact of AI on CMS Data Creation and Enhancement
The potential for AI to influence museum work in data creation and cleanup is great. However, as with all new tools, it will take time to learn.
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
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