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Publishing exhibitions using KE EMu
4 October 2005
Julian Tomlin
Head of Administration
Contents
• Introduction to Manchester and the Whitworth • Purchasing KE EMu• Publishing collections• Supporting exhibitions management• Publishing exhibitions
• Collaborative working• Techniques in publishing in KE EMu• Enhancements to KE EMu
Manchester
• The first industrial city
• Sport
• Music
• Manchester’s Renaissance
• Manchester Museums Consortium
The first industrial city
Two football teams
Music
Manchester’s Renaissance
A new skyline
Manchester MuseumsConsortium
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
• Manchester Museum
• Manchester City Galleries
• People’s History Museum
• The Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery
Purchasing KE Emu
• Designated Museum Collections– Funding from Government
• Research into different models • Joint Procurement 1999/2000• Decision to have separate databases
– Shared server for MM and WAG– Later used to publish web portal
• Commitment to publish jointly
‘Manchester Museums Unwrapped’
• Web portal to publish collections jointly• Same funding stream, collaboration aided
other funding• Launched in 2003
– Technical challenge– Research into portal
• Facility broadly welcomed• Too few images, no narrative information• Conventional information wanted - what’s on, map
The Whitworth Art Gallery
• www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
• Publishing– Objects and related multimedia– Exhibitions– Narratives
Home Page inc Searches
Object results
Advanced search
Contact sheet
Object detail
Exhibition Management
• Learning curve in using KE EMu– Frequent users v. infrequent users– Reluctance to master extended features– Need for specific features
• Collaborative project– The Whitworth with Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London; Manchester City Galleries– Enhance KE EMu– Exchange of exhibitions information using XML
Exhibition Developments
• Managing exhibitions– Loans module
• Adding object status, requested, approved
– Events module• Adding curator, designer, registrar• Adding object status, event object number
– Movements module• Adding courier tab
– Catalogue module• Insurance status, multiple currencies, crates and frames
Loans module - Objects
Events module - Objects tab
Movement module - Courier
Catalogue module - Valuation
Other Developments
• Accessions Lots, Bibliography, Catalogue– Auction sales
• Enhancing sale information, adding Hammer price
– Crediting and publishing funders of acquisitions
• Catalogue Module - Provenance– Spoliation, improving accuracy,
identifying individuals• Adding ownership and transfers
• Catalogue Module - Associations– Adding related parties, events, places
Exhibitions Information Exchange
• Touring exhibitions– ‘The Triumph of Watercolour’
‘Walter Sickert: Drawing is the Thing’
• Using XML– Schema
• Possible partners– UK Nationals, Art handling companies,
European Union
Publishing exhibitions
• Demand for more narrative content• Collection exhibitions
– Unpublished research– Over 100 exhibitions over 12 years– Transfer to KE EMu
• Funded post• Identifying definitive versions• Obsolete software
• Using KE EMU - integrated, easy to update
New web pages
• Exhibition search (and browse)• Results• Exhibition display
– Description, text panels– Link to objects in the catalogue
• Objects results• Object detail
– Label text
Exhibitions search
Exhibition results
Exhibition display
Exhibition display 2
Exhibition object results
Exhibition object display
Adding Value
• Permanent record
• Museology students
• Internet/Intranet
• Better information on What’s On Show
• Use for publishing loan exhibitions
Future developmentsopportunities for partnerships
• Map based searching– Using Getty TGN?
• Cataloguing archive material– The Walter Crane Archive– New Archive tab?
• Wireless networking • Web statistics• Loading and displaying high-res images