CampaignForBasicDocumentation @MuseumBasics
‘Museums and the people that work in and with them need to expand on the idea of basic collections work.’ Museums Association *Let’s expand on that...* UK Joined June 2019-
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1. Ok museum Twitter, help please! Looking for examples of where museums have captured community engagement/response to collections in their CMS. Spoken to a few venues that I thought might, but nothing to the level I hoped for. #MuseumDocumentation
Clear 👏🏻and👏🏻consistent👏🏻terminology👏🏻which👏🏻reflects👏🏻how👏🏻people👏🏻actually👏🏻speak👏🏻and👏🏻search👏🏻
And we wonder why our #Backlogs #Catalogues #CMS are funky? when we use this fundamental #Museum word differently and also have different terms for the ‘other stuff’ (all non-accessioned objects). We must all use the amazing #Spectrum
Loads of great and inspiring discussions about digital engagement at #MATech2019 - but let’s not forget that, before we can do any of this, we need to manage, document and understand our collections! #CollectionsCare #Groundwork @CollectionTrust
Chair @vargasl: There is a need to focus on how & why we categorise & maintain collections. And there’s also a need to figure out how this is displayed to the public to be fit for purpose. Who is it for, how will they be using it? Are there multiple purposes for it? #MATech2019
Audience question: I’m a little concerned about a rising disregard for the canonical documentation of collections. Essential questions on ‘who, what, when.’ Aren’t we custodians of history? #MATech2019 #empoweringcollections
🗣BASIC DOCUMENTATION IS ABOUT ACCESS🗣
Come and work with me as one of our next Digital Collections trainees (or as one of the other great roles)! I'm promising adventures in: Collections Management, Databases, Digital Collections and, one of my true loves, #MuseumDocumentation ! #DocumentationAdventures #NLHF #TPtTM
Applications for Transforming People to Transform Museums traineeships are now open! Working with @LongShopMuseum @MuseumEALife and @palacehouse_nkt to host a number of traineeships. Supported by @HeritageFundUK. Find out more: cimuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/tra…
The @CollectionTrust conference on terminology might seem a bit niche, but its our kind of niche! The words we use to document our collections are SO important. It’s the difference between objects being found, accessed and used or lost in obscurity.
Applications for Transforming People to Transform Museums traineeships are now open! Working with @LongShopMuseum @MuseumEALife and @palacehouse_nkt to host a number of traineeships. Supported by @HeritageFundUK. Find out more: cimuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/tra…
If you have had success getting funding for #MuseumDocumentation work please share. How do we advocate for documentation work in a way that appeals to funders? Do we need to change the language we use?
@InbalHarding @MuseumBasics @kathleenlawther @PowellCotton I would love to know how people talk about Docs in these grants. A line thrown into a funding app about 'improving data' or whatever doesn't translate on the ground. We need the people writing the bids to understand how Docs works!
@SamJamJenkins @InbalHarding @kathleenlawther @PowellCotton But also, if we are going to tie documentation to project funding, ringfence that resource and protect it at all costs. Documentation is the first thing to go out the window when deadlines are tight, and then valuable info and insight from the project are lost for the future.
@SamJamJenkins @InbalHarding @kathleenlawther @PowellCotton I think the key is, as @InbalHarding says, to sell the importance of documentation to funders and stakeholders, including internal managers and decision makers. We need to shout about its value so everyone understands the link between documentation and engagement.
#EmpoweringCollections found ‘staff...put a premium on “the basics”, such as documentation and preservation, limiting their ability to ensure that collections are seen and understood by the public.’ 🤔 We believe “the basics” done properly are the key to greater access 🔑💻🗂🏷🔓
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Finding out how objects got here is key to #decolonisation. @Pitt_Rivers museum acknowledges absences in documentation and the difficult conversations & emotions that arose in working with Maasai elders to examine and understand its collection #MandHShow #empoweringcollections
@SusannahDarby @SamJamJenkins @charmorgan_ @sciencemuseum High-quality cataloguing, well thought-through metadata categories and working with collections colleagues to define what can and cannot be used on social media is the foundation of everything we do online!
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