Over the last 12 months the Powerhouse, along with the National Museum of Australia and Museum Victoria, has been involved in supplying collection data to joint pilot project between the Le@rning Federation (TLF) and the Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) from March 2008 to May 2009
Museums have always had difficulty preparing material to service [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collection databases'
Will schools use collection content? The Learning Federation Pilot Report
July 15th, 2009 1 Comment
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Another OPAC discovery – the Gambey dip circle (or the value of minimal tombstone data)
April 27th, 2009 3 Comments
New discoveries as a result of putting our incomplete collection database online are pretty common place – almost every week we are advised of corrections – but here’s another lovely story of an object whose provenance has been significantly enhanced by a member of the public. … If your organisation is still having doubts about the value of making available un-edited, un-verified, ageing tombstone data then it is worth showing examples like these.
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Australian Dress Register
December 14th, 2008 Comments Off
One of the side projects the team launched recently was the Australian Dress Register.
The Australian Dress Register will document significant and well provenanced men’s, women’s and children’s dress in New South Wales dating up to 1945. It aims to assist museums and private collectors to recognise and research their dress collections and support better care [...]
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Light reading – two totally different audiences: researchers and young people
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
Two interesting pieces of reading for those of you who have to spend time on public transport.
First from the Research Information Network in the UK comes a report that looks at the need of academic researchers in discovering the content of museum collections using online databases. Not surprisingly “their most important wish is that online [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Examining Delta Goodrem’s dress again / more on search
June 14th, 2008 2 Comments
The most popular object in our online collection database is still a dress worn by Delta Goodrem.
I’ve previously written about how the popularity of this dress was driven in part by coverage on a number of Delta Goodrem fan forums. But this neglects the criticality of search. Google has always driven traffic to this object [...]
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Powerhouse wins Gold at AAM 2008 Muse Awards
April 29th, 2008 6 Comments
We’re very excited that we’ve won the gold award in the 2008 AAM Muse Awards in the category of ‘Online Presence’ for our collection database.
It is particularly exciting because for the Powerhouse the collection represents our core reason for being. The collection is not only what differentiates us from other institutions, but also what differentiates [...]
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MW2008 – Data shanty towns, cross-search and combinatory approaches
April 19th, 2008 1 Comment
One of the popular sessions at MW2008 in Montreal was a double header featuring Frankie Roberto and myself talking about different approaches to data combining across multiple institutions.
Data combining was a bit of a theme this year with Mike Ellis, Brian Kelly and others talking mashups; Ross Parry, Eric Miller and Brian Sletten all [...]
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Opensearch – it isn’t all that hard
April 11th, 2008 11 Comments
Finally I’ve started to see more museums picking up the absurdly easy to implement Opensearch method of delivering a live search result from their website as RSS/XML.
The National Maritime Museum in the UK is one who has recently made their implementation of Opensearch available. Here’s a feed of a search of their collection for compasses.
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Powerhouse Museum joins the Commons on Flickr – the what, why and how
April 8th, 2008 7 Comments
Yes, you read that right. The Powerhouse Museum is the first museum to join the Commons on Flickr! And we’re excited because it went live today!
In the tradition of ’slow food’ we have decided to do a slow release of content with an initial 200 historic images of Sydney and surrounds available through the Commons [...]
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