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Collections Online CRM, Thesauri, Parties and more Adrian Kingston Collections Information Manager, Digital Assets & Development Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Australasian EMu User Group Meeting, 2009, Sydney. http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/. Quick Collections Online history.
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Collections OnlineCRM, Thesauri, Parties and more Adrian Kingston Collections Information Manager, Digital Assets & DevelopmentMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaAustralasian EMu User Group Meeting, 2009, Sydney http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
Quick Collections Online history • Sept 2005 first release. Driven from EMu catalogue and MM, but only 3000 objects. Editorial levels unreasonable • 2007 agreed strategy of mass release, some enhancements • Exhibition minisites delivered via Narratives and the catalogue • July 2009 V3 released • Thesaurus, places and people added • 150000 objects, 40000 images, 300 topics • Up to 1 millions visits a year
Parallel projects • DigitalNZ contributions, OAI-PMH, Remix • Rights Strategy • how to make things more available, more open and more re-usable, without negatively impacting our commercial endeavours • Loading existing, but external content • Tai Awatea, publications, old exhibition text
OK, so what is it? • CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (ISO 21127:2006) • All data and relationships come from EMu. • Catalogue • Multimedia • Narratives • Parties • Thesaurus • Semantic relationships between objects, terms, people, places and topics • Smarter searching • Term browsing
EMu Developments • Thesaurus Module development • Converted to be IRN based, act like other modules. Allows for true linking between object and terms, terms and terms etc • Still developing our own Pacific and Taonga Maori object classifications
EMu Developments, and data • New fields and tabs • Associations tabs in Catalogue, Narratives • Association types, define how the concepts are related
Semantic relationships • Virgin and Child (Object) • http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=43009 • Captain cook (Person) • http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/party.aspx?irn=10800
Smarter searching • Banks: Person, Place, or where you put your money? http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ • Alternate terms http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?term=van%20diemen http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?term=infidelity
Term & Place Browsing • Sydney: Person, Place? • http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?term=sydney • Rifles • http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=63464
That’s pretty cool • Someone had linked to a category within one day. Hadn’t actually officially released it. • Getty Vocabulary Programme impressed, want to use us as internal example of goodness • People are linking to artist pages, rather than search results, exactly how it should be used • A few complimentary comments on our blog, and on others
What’s up with that!? • Outstanding issues • Numbers are off • Broader/narrower object browsing • Have to catch up with releasing multiple images • Some terms in AAT and TGM e.g. shadows • Few other tweaks here and there
Other bits and pieces • Design based on new Te Papa website • Multiple Images • Random objects (actually it’s only random over a group of 800 objects) • DigitalNZ searching via API
OK, so what next • Lots to do, resourcing is an issue • More data, images etc • Taxonomy browser. Need to do same as what we did with the thesaurus (underway) • Mapping (inc street view?) NE and Humanities collections. • Linking to other websites, e.g. ULAN, DNZB, Cuba St project, NZVH, NZETC • Automated or manual data entry. Users? • More collaborative stuff • Soon, hopefully • Visual browser, with some user generated functionality
Thanks & FYI • http://www.twitter.com/tepapacolonline • http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz