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work. museum-digital: blog A blog on museum-digital and the broader digitization of museum work. About Datenschutzerklärung Impressum museum-digital Search for: Sammlungscoaching im Heimatmuseum Radeburg Projektteam Digitales Sammlungsmanagement SLfM | 3. April 2024 Kurzbericht zum Sammlungscoaching der Sächsischen Landesstelle für Museumswesen am Heimatmuseum Radeburg Das Heimatmuseum Radeburg ist ein kulturgeschichtliches Museum, das in der Stadt Radeburg und der Region verankert ist und zudem als Gedenkort des in Radeburg geborenen Malers und Grafikers Heinrich Zille ein über die unmittelbare Region hinauswirkendes Alleinstellungsmerkmal innehat. Die kulturhistorische Sammlung des Museums umfasst … Digitization Regional (Germany) Sammlungscoaching Saxony Collection management Sammlung Server Outage / Switch Fault (March 6th, 2024) Joshua Ramon Enslin | 6. March 2024 Between March 6th, 2024, 9:54 a.m. and 10:34 a.m. museum-digital’s main server was unavailable due to a switch fault at the data center at our hosting provider, Hetzner. Details can be seen here on Hetzner‘s website. By 10:34 the error was fixed by the technicians in the data center and all systems at museum-digital are … General Server outage System administration A Re-Designed Frontend – Version 2024 Joshua Ramon Enslin | 8. January 2024 Over the holidays we worked on a re-design of the frontend of museum-digital. The reasons were manyfold. While the old design of the frontend still looked well, discussing it with different people – especially those who were not regular users – revealed some shortcomings. Others had naturally developed after five years of use or been … Development Frontend General Design museum-digital:qa as a Conversion Tool Joshua Ramon Enslin | 7. January 2024 Some months back I presented museum-digital:qa here and elsewhere as a tool building on a subset of the functionality of museum-digital’s import tool to evaluate data uploaded by anyone and make the quality checks musdb offers available to the uploader as well, regardless of their collection management system. Its real potential however can only be … Importer museum-digital:qa EODEM LIDO Automatically enforcing consistent naming of places Joshua Ramon Enslin | 27. November 2023 Last week I wrote about how new actors find their way into museum-digital’s controlled vocabulary for actors during imports. One of the first steps detailed in the post is the automatic cleanup of the actor’s name and the application of some rules to ensure a consistent naming of actors. For time names a much more … Development Importer musdb Autocorrection Controlled Vocabularies New Features Importing actors Joshua Ramon Enslin | 22. November 2023 A critical part of museum-digital is the usage of shared controlled vocabularies for actors, places, times, and tags. All museums using museum-digital use these same vocabularies for recording the creation of objects, their use, destruction, etc. Similarly, they are used for a rougher tagging of the objects. Only contacts who are recorded purely for internal … Importer nodac Autocorrection Controlled Vocabularies Imports Write-ups One Million Objects Published Using museum-digital Joshua Ramon Enslin | 19. November 2023 There are now more than one million objects published using museum-digital. Congratulations and thanks to all who made that possible! All these objects can be viewed together on museum-digital:global. General Milestones Quality Assessments Like in musdb: Now For Everybody Joshua Ramon Enslin | 12. October 2023 At yesterday’s Autumn Conference of the Working Group Documentation of the German Museum Association (Herbsttagung der Fachgruppe Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbunds) a new web service in the broader realm of museum-digital was released: museum-digital:qa. museum-digital:qa reuses the importer‘s relevant functionalities to accept museum object data in a variety of input formats – both open standards … Development musdb museum-digital:qa AG Minimaldatensatz Data quality New Features Plaubibility checks Publication quality index (PuQI) EODEM Version 1.0 released Joshua Ramon Enslin | 4. September 2023 Since September 1, 2023, the first stable version of EODEM has been released. EODEM is implemented as a LIDO profile and aims to enable museums to share their object data – especially in the contexts of loans and exhibitions – with other museums at the click of a button. Congratulations! museum-digital:musdb has supported EODEM since … Development General musdb EODEM LIDO Loan management API documentation for frontend and md:term Joshua Ramon Enslin | 16. August 2023 md:term was designed to provide an API first and foremost. The frontend supported a full API providing to all access that the HTML version does since about 2016. We never got around to fully and systematically document the APIs however. Starting today, an OpenAPI documentation is available for both md:term and the frontend of museum-digital. … Development Frontend md:term API New Features Improved Workflow for Working with Loan Objects using EODEM Joshua Ramon Enslin | 4. June 2023 For some months, musdb has supported the upcoming EODEM standard for exchanging object information in the context of loans. The developments were covered extensively in a previous blog post. To summarize, the EODEM standard holds significant potential for saving registrars or colleagues taking over similar tasks in a museum a lot of time by providing … Importer musdb EODEM Export Tools Loan management New Features Categorizing an object’s tags Joshua Ramon Enslin | 11. May 2023 … or musdb finally supports materials, techniques, etc. from controlled vocabularies”. At museum-digital, there are four main centrally controlled vocabularies – actors, places, times, and tags. In more traditional collection management software however, the main field to control is usually the object type (is the object a helmet or a painting?). Simple tagging of the … Importer musdb Controlled Vocabularies New Features Object editing (musdb) Object selection (musdb) Summary of the monthly user meetup (April 2023) / New features and improvements Joshua Ramon Enslin | 7. May 2023 We continued the series of monthly user meetups and again discussed the new features and improvements. A summary can be found below. New Developments The last month has been an exceptionally slow month in terms of technical development around museum-digital. There are however some newsworthy tidbits. musdb Recording external IDs for museums Museums, like all … Community Development Frontend musdb "List results" Imports Location tracking Performance User interface Summary of the monthly user meetup (March 2023) Joshua Ramon Enslin | 5. April 2023 Yesterday, we held our regular user meetup as scheduled. As promised, below you can find an overview of the new features and updates below some more general points. General YouTube channel There now is a museum-digital YouTube channel. For now, one can find some German-language screencasts on different features in musdb and nodac there. New … Community Development Frontend Importer musdb Project page www.museum-digital.org Themator New Features Object images Object search (musdb) Performance User interface A Calendar is a Commitment Joshua Ramon Enslin | 14. March 2023 Last year, we started a monthly user meet-up. As things go, we managed to continue the series at a stable time slot for some months – and then we did not anymore. People’s calendars are of course an issue, but another major one was simply that there were no consistently pre-determined meeting URLs. Over the … Community General Infrastructure Project page www.museum-digital.de Community Monthly meetup New Features Use Pixels, not em in media queries Joshua Ramon Enslin | 8. March 2023 In CSS, one can use different units to determine sizes. The most relevant are: Being relative to the font size and nest-able, em values are a great fit for setting sizes of page...