There too, a line is blurring, as handheld audio tours and online collections can draw data from the same database.Īdlib Information Systems - Free-$140k. The newest revolution is in mobile devices. Now, since many objects are photographed, the line between collection management and digital asset management is blurred. At the same time, with the explosion of digital images and video, a new software genre, for managing digital assets, was born. The challenge was that the server in the broom closet was not designed to host millions of hits from the internet, so vendors created separate “web” modules to make put the collection on the web. Since the late 1990’s and the growth of the Internet, collection management software had a new job: to also make collections available to museum users (“the museum without walls”). Many are stale, ugly, yet highly functional legacy systems that run on old Windows PCs, saving data on a server which the museum keeps in a broom closet. Collection management systems were designed around the needs of back-office staff who were continually editing data records about museum objects. The earliest museum automation traces to the late 1960’s, when the Met used mainframe IBMs to give museum staff access to collection information. Museums and archives manage information about their collections, facilitate interdepartmental communication, and make collections available to the public using collection management software. Here’s a rundown of the collection management systems being exhibited at Museums and the Web 2011…
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