Dear colleagues,
I am part way through a project to update our online collections
resource and I am at the stage where I could do with a "mentor" or at
least some advice/sanity check/help. This is not so much technical
advice, although that of course is part of it, as making content
decisions but I am starting with MCG in case data managers, curators and
content developers can help here.
The initial part of the work was to identify, eliminate or reduce real
howlers and resolve basic problems.
But now we are moving on to making decisions about what the data might
need to improve our search functions in particular. Issues I am having
difficulty tackling (mentally) include improving classifications and
thesaurus terminologies and solving problems with subject fields and
geographic fields. Over the years predecessors have, let's just say,
allowed an element of "randomness" to stray into their cataloguing terms
and we are trying to work out the best way to deal with that and make
sensible choices that won't come back to haunt us later. The final part
of the work will be to migrate over to a new version of our current
online system.
I would welcome a chat with anyone who has gone through a process of
creating new content or trying to improve existing content for the
collections section of their web presence or online catalogue and who is
able to advise or pass on lessons learned.
Thanks.
Judy Aitken
London Borough of Southwark (Cuming Museum)
See our collection at www.southwarkcollections.org.uk
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