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Information manipulation possibilities with EMu or What can we do with all this data?

Information manipulation possibilities with EMu or What can we do with all this data?. Dr Elycia Wallis Museum Victoria, Australia. Museum Victoria. PART 1 Publishing data on www.museum.vic.gov.au. Introduction. Search the collections. gold. Introduction.

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Information manipulation possibilities with EMu or What can we do with all this data?

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  1. Information manipulation possibilities with EMuorWhat can we do with all this data? Dr Elycia Wallis Museum Victoria, Australia

  2. Museum Victoria

  3. PART 1Publishing data on www.museum.vic.gov.au

  4. Introduction Search the collections gold

  5. Introduction

  6. Victorian Railways http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/railways/

  7. Website architecture for Railways Theme (6 in all) Signature image Subthemes Image Image Image galleries Image Image

  8. Website architecture for Railways Master narrative Image record Sub/master narrative Associated narratives Narratives Multimedia Repository Image Image Subnarrative Image Image Associated narratives

  9. Themes. “Staff” is the master narrative “Signature image” linked to Narratives record from Multimedia Repository Alternative Subthemes under the master narrative “Staff” One of several captions for this image Image Gallery. These are subnarratives of the subtheme Subtheme narrative

  10. Issues • Placeholder narratives were required – no narrative text, just links. • Multiple captions required for images. • Item level data had to be drawn from fields in Catalogue and Multimedia repository. • No ability to format text in EMu.

  11. Data from Multimedia Repository Data from Catalogue

  12. Issues • Placeholder narratives were required – no narrative text, just links. • Multiple captions required for images. • Item level data had to be drawn from fields in Catalogue and Multimedia repository. • No ability to format text in EMu.

  13. http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/fiji/

  14. Caught and Coloured

  15. PART 2Publishing data on websites hosted by external agencies

  16. Websites for cultural collections • Collections Australia Network • Gateway to Australia’s museums • Approximately 66,800 records • The Le@rning Federation • Provides pre-packaged curriculum content to schools in Australia and New Zealand. • DC augmented by authored “Educational Value Statements”

  17. http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

  18. Conclusions about publishing cultural collections data externally • Different data • Different publishing methodologies

  19. Websites for natural sciences collections • OZCAM, Australia’s Fauna http://www.ozcam.gov.au • Distributed network, accessible via a single portal. • 13 collections accessible. • Zoology only at this stage • MV publishes over 375,000 records to the system

  20. OZCAM and beyond

  21. Conclusion

  22. Banner photographs • Long-horned Murex, Chicoreus damicornis, F14364 • Mug, Copeland & Garrett, Staffordshire, pre-1847, found in the Little Londsale dig • Gold nugget replicas • Standardwing, Semioptera wallacei, NMV 5851 • Bag • Fossil sea star, Eoactis stachi, Late Silurian, about 420 million years old, P61764

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