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Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Hatching the EMu Update on Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Management Project. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Liz Rees Head of Archives & Collections Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Background. 13 sites
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Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Hatching the EMuUpdate on Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Management Project
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Liz ReesHead of Archives & CollectionsTyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Background • 13 sites • 5 collection areas – Archaeology, Art, Ethnography, History, Natural Sciences • 145 separate files • 510,000 catalogue records
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Work Plan • Start Up and Project Initiation (Complete by end of August 2008) • Research & Costing (Estimated: end Dec 2008. Actual: Sept 09) • Procurement Preparation and Procurement (Estimated: end April 2010. Actual Sept 10) • Installation, Phased Data Migration & Policy/Procedure review (Estimated: end April 2011) • Implementation (Estimated: end July 2011. Actual Dec 11) • Project Closure (Estimated: end August 2011. Actual end March 2013)
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums What we’ve achieved Single collections management system Templates for all collections areas Access for all TWAM staff - multi-user functionality
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Online
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Still to do…….. • Enriching TWAM data on Emu • Training and building user confidence • ….Getting enough server space • More interactive online experience