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Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu

Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu. Janice Kamrin American Research Center in Egypt KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008. A Brief History of the EM Database Project. 2004 The EM Database is born SCA Support AUC Support. A Brief History. 2005 ARCE Support

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Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu

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  1. Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu Janice Kamrin American Research Center in Egypt KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008

  2. A Brief History ofthe EM Database Project 2004 The EM Database is born SCA Support AUC Support

  3. A Brief History 2005 ARCE Support First digitizing project

  4. A Brief History The Volunteers Arrive

  5. A Brief History August 2006 to present ARCE-EAC The Egyptian MuseumRegistrar Training Project

  6. Project Goals Design and develop a modern collections management system for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo Train a group of registrars to implement this system

  7. A Brief History 2006 First Mellon Grant Awarded 2007 KE EMu Chosen

  8. A Brief History 2008Mellon ImplementationGrant Awarded The move to KE EMu

  9. The Current Situation RCMD in place and functioning Training continues

  10. The Current Situation Original database functioning as full CMS

  11. The Current Situation Database continues to grow: *Mass transcription *Full records completed and cross-checked *Gallery work Current number of records: 134,392

  12. Next Steps Preparation for Migration *New thesauri *Cleaning up database? *Cleaning up records *Cleaning up forms and reports *Field matching

  13. Looking forward Data migration! EM Database on-line *Intranet for curators *Internet for scholars and public Continue building database

  14. Looking forward *Leave RCMD self-sufficient *Inventory Museum *Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM *A sector-wide system

  15. Looking forward jkamrin@gmail.com

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