Enhancing Museum Collections Data: The Game-Changing Approach
WHY, HOW, AND WHEN TO ENHANCE COLLECTIONS DATA
Rachael Cristine Woody shares the secrets to making your collection fully discoverable by leveraging your CMS and the right strategies, tools, and methods.
Engaging Museum Visitors: The Definitive Guide
WHY, HOW, AND WHEN TO ENHANCE COLLECTIONS DATA
Rachael Cristine Woody shares the secrets to making your collection fully discoverable by leveraging your CMS and the right strategies, tools, and methods.
Learn how to enhance museum collections data
The Discovery Game Changer: Museum Collections Data Enhancement 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.
This book will walk you through creative leveraging of resources such as GenAI and internships, and explore thoughtful approaches and strategies you can employ to ensure accuracy and efficiency in your enhancement efforts—regardless of which CMS you currently work with. Yes, data enhancement is optional. However, when approached thoughtfully using the right tools and methods it can be a game changer for your collections.
Inside the book
Chapters:
The Right Time and Place for Data Enhancement
Building a Foundation for Data Enhancement Work
Identifying the Right Data Enhancement Opportunities
Finding Information to Aid in Data Enhancement
Using the CMS for Data Enhancement
Where Accessibility Can Offer Data Enhancement
Incorporating Interns in Data Enhancement Work
How AI Can Offer Data Enhancement Support
Approaching Grants for Data Enhancement Project
About the Author
Rachael is the founder of Relicura, and provides services to museums, libraries, and archives. She specializes in museum collections management systems, digitization technology, digital project management, and digital usership. Previously she was at the Freer|Sackler Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield College, where she successfully launched multiple digital projects that included advanced digitization technology, collaborative portals, and the migration of collection information into collections management systems.
Rachael is a contributing member at the American Alliance of Museums, Oregon Museum Association, National Council on Public History, Society of American Archivists, and Northwest Archivists. She is also a popular guest author for Lucidea’s Think Clearly Blog, and her first four books for Lucidea Press, Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing; How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS; Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin? and Prepare for Takeoff: Get Your Museum Digital Project Off the Ground were extremely well received.
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