This session presented a case study of how the Magnes is using new, innovative technology to make their archive, library, and museum information compatible in one centralized collection management system. This project is designed to facilitate research, sharing, and collection management by making all material types searchable and linkable to one another, while using shared metadata sets (eg. some of the Magnes’ museum fields are able to be exported to EAD and MARC; some MARC-enabled fields are also exportable into EAD. Many fields are also ISAD-compliant and the Magnes also used CDWA for some data-entry standards and Getty’s ULAN for the creators and artists).
Bridging The ALM Divide - An Integrated Archive-Library-Museum Approach for Hybrid Institutions
1. Bridging the ALM Divide An Integrated Archive-Library-Museum Approach for Hybrid Institutions Dr. Francesco Spagnolo, Director of Research and Collections Perian Sully, Collection Information Manager & Web Programs Strategist The Magnes, Berkeley, CA Presented at the American Association of Museums Annual Conference, Philadelphia, May 3, 2009
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3. Challenges of Hybrid Institutions Access Catering to a Diversified User Community Research Across Standards Culture Multicultural Aspects Bridging Textual, Documental and Material Cultures Language Multilingualism and the Levels of Access Script, Transliteration, Translation Whose Vision? One Vision! Cultural Models & Database Structure
Discuss historical “fiefdoms” and how materials were donated to the institution regardless of collecting type. Also discuss how technologically backwards our institution was.
Library: static Archive: semi-static Museum: dynamic Museum wins!
*Intellectual and thematic organization of Materials reflect typologies, geographic origins, historical events, etc. (e.g., the Textile, India, or Inquisition “Collections”
Create a graphic?
Moves to Perian
Compliancy with Dublin-Core, Z39.50, ISAD, EAD, MARC – Rewrite this page to discuss how it works with other systems
The advantage of a databank is that it allows for searching within discrete sets of information, while also allowing searching across any and all sets. (add arrows between ALM databanks)
Illustrate how each field may have multiple standards applied to it and work in different templates or databanks.
Users may create new fields, new databanks, new templates, and layouts. Like any self-customizable system, there are dangers inherent in allowing free-rein of customization. So it’s important to look at the overall architecture and decide how it will work with for the institution and the rest of the field. Internet portal reflects structure of the system.