Transcript Egyptian Museum Database

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
First digitizing project
A Brief History
The Volunteers Arrive
A Brief History
August 2006 to present
ARCE-EAC
The Egyptian Museum
Registrar Training Project
Project Goals
1.Design and develop a modern
collections management system for
the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
2.Train a group of registrars to
implement this system
A Brief History
2006
First Mellon Grant Awarded
2007
KE EMu Chosen
A Brief History
2008
Mellon Implementation
Grant Awarded
The move to KE EMu
The Current Situation
RCMD in place and functioning
Training continues
The Current Situation
Original database functioning
as full CMS
The Current Situation
Database continues to grow:
*Mass transcription
*Full records completed and cross-checked
*Gallery work
Current number of records: 134,392
Next Steps
Preparation for Migration
*New thesauri
*Cleaning up database?
*Cleaning up records
*Cleaning up forms and reports
*Field matching
Looking forward
Data migration!
EM Database on-line
*Intranet for curators
*Internet for scholars and public
Continue building database
Looking forward
*Leave RCMD self-sufficient
*Inventory Museum
*Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM
*A sector-wide system
Looking forward
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