After the blog has been very quiet this year with regard to the technical development of museum-digital, we are now trying to publish the summaries of new developments – enriched with screenshots – that are prepared for the monthly “regional administrators” rounds in Germany anyway. These are in the form of listings, and this is …
In its most recently published survey of museums in Germany the Institute for Museum Research (Berlin) asked how many museums use controlled vocabularies and norm data. 416 of the 3059 museums who answered the additional question sheet with this particular question answered that they do indeed use norm data. The survey concerns German museums as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
… 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 …
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 …
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 …
A general benefit of using computer systems is – or should be – that data once recorded can be retrieved and reused in different contexts than originally intended and retrieval and reuse are incredibly easy to do when compared to the physical realm. And thus comes the want for ever more pervasive and broad evaluation …
In musdb, there’s PuQi, indicating aspects of an object that may be better or more extensively recorded for publication. There’s “Plausi“, indicating implausibilities in an object’s recorded events (e.g. if the object was supposedly created by somebody who was clearly not alive anymore at the time of creation entered in the object record). There are …
musdb now provides import and export tools for the EODEM standard, allowing for the simple exchange of loan object information.
In one transaction, a museum buys 50 objects at an auction price for 3600 Euro. What is the price of a single one of the objects in the transaction? Realistically there is none. But musdb required one to enter a price for the acquisition of each single object thus far. Hence, users were left with …
Usually the development of musdb (and the other parts of museum-digital software) follows a rolling release paradigm. A new feature is developed, tested, and then distributed. Updates are – usually – not held back. Over the last month, we made an exception, as there will be a lot of new features and a slight redesign …
After trying a monthly change log once some month ago, we have unfortunately been rather lenient with notifying everyone of new features and updates in the last months. To approach betterment, here there is a list of the updates of November 2022 the form of screenshots. As a very large update is upcoming in the …
In the last month we have been able to finally release the long-anticipated French and Russian translations of the frontend of museum-digital as well as musdb. A Ukrainian translation is currently being worked on as well. Thanks a lot to the colleagues from Speyer and Berlin-Karlshorst for organizing and translating!
On September 6th 2022, we continued our monthly user meetups. As should best become the norm, we discussed recent new features of the preceeding month and plan a next meetup on the first Tuesday of October (October 4th, 2022, 5 p.m. at https://meet.jit.si/museum-digital-meetup-202210). A summary of the new features and updates can be found in …
In my collection management system, I want to be able to see which objects have newly been acquired by the museum on a given day. Or on any day of a given month. Obviously. In musdb, the former was possible if imperfect thus far. The latter was not possible at all. This is because data …
On Tuesday last week we had our first international user meetup. As proposed, we mainly discussed recent updates and new features before opening up the general discussion. In the process, we also wrote a list of the new features introduced with short notes on each. You can find it below. The next monthly meetup is …
Development on museum-digital will be concentrated on more internal functionalities in the next months, but some small improvements continue to be made in the public frontend. Like today: We have now implemented the option to directly link to a position on a map view for object search results both in the frontend and in musdb. …
