Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project Implementing EMu

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Egyptian Museum in Cairo Database Project
Implementing EMu
Janice Kamrin American Research Center in
Egypt KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008
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A Brief History ofthe EM Database Project
2004 The EM Database is born SCA Support AUC
Support
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A Brief History
2005 ARCE Support First digitizing project
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A Brief History
The Volunteers Arrive
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August 2006 to present ARCE-EAC
A Brief History
The Egyptian MuseumRegistrar Training Project
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Project Goals

• Design and develop a modern collections
  management system for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
• Train a group of registrars to implement this
  system

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A Brief History
2006 First Mellon Grant Awarded 2007 KE EMu
Chosen
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A Brief History
2008Mellon ImplementationGrant Awarded
The move to KE EMu
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The Current Situation
RCMD in place and functioning Training continues
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The Current Situation
Original database functioning as full CMS
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The Current Situation
Database continues to grow Mass
transcription Full records completed and
cross-checked Gallery work Current number of
records 134,392
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Next Steps
Preparation for Migration New
thesauri Cleaning up database? Cleaning up
records Cleaning up forms and reports Field
matching
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Looking forward
Data migration! EM Database on-line Intranet for
curators Internet for scholars and
public Continue building database
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Looking forward
Leave RCMD self-sufficient Inventory
Museum Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM A
sector-wide system
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Looking forward
jkamrin_at_gmail.com