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Collections Management 2008 EMu Users Meeting KE EMu Web (Statistics and Interesting Facts) & Web Case Study – Hull Museums Nick Margiolakis KE Software (Melbourne) Tuesday 9 th September 2008

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2008 EMu Users Meeting

KE EMu Web (Statistics and Interesting Facts)

&

Web Case Study – Hull Museums

Nick Margiolakis

KE Software (Melbourne)

Tuesday 9th September 2008

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KE EMu Web

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KE EMu WebThe IMPORTANCE of the internet

Increasingly more important in recent years

The rate of usage has increased across all age groups

Broadband connection speeds uptake has also increased from 16% in 04 to 43% in 07

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KE EMu WebWorld Internet Users

Internet Growth Statistics

December, 20061,093

millions16.7 %

March, 20071,129

millions17.2 %

June, 20071,173

millions17.8 %

Sept, 20071,245

millions18.9 %

Dec, 20071,319

millions20.0 %

March, 20081,407

millions21.1 %

May, 20081,412

millions21.2 %

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KE EMu Web

What are EMu users using for their web sites?

HTML XML

PHP Texql

EMu Web Objects

Standard Custom

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KE EMu WebExamples - Standard EMu Web Objects

Site Notes Ranking

Royal Academy of Music, United Kingdom

The database, which holds about 18,000 records and 9500 images, is still under development, so not all of the Academy's collections of images and historic objects are available at present.

679,244

Ian Potter Museum of Art, Australia

The Ian Potter Museum of Art displays, conserves and interprets an extensive collection ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary art.

5,324

Manchester City Council, United Kingdom

Manchester Art Gallery is part of Manchester City Galleries. Contains over 80,000 images of Manchester and its suburbs.

93,141

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KE EMu WebExamples – Custom EMu Web Objects

Sites Notes Ranking

Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s preeminent museum and research complex.

6,412

United States Polar Rock Repository

The repository houses rock samples from Antarctica, the Arctic, southern South America and South Africa.

3,434

Spinning the Web, Manchester, United Kingdom

Spinning the Web brings together for the first time a unique collection of some 20,000 items from the libraries, museums and archives of North West England which tell the story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry

4,140,771

Trades Union Congress, London, United Kingdom

The TUC Library Collections, which transferred to the University of North London (now the London Metropolitan University) in September 1996

4,027,856

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Ranking

New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization.

158,881

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, United Kingdom

Today the Museum occupies the former Liverpool Road Station, one of Manchester's most important historic sites

490,397

Field Museum of Natural History, Dept of Zoology

The Division of Fishes maintains and provides access to an internationally recognized collection.

99,227

Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand

Te Papa's key tasks are to preserve and present the taonga (treasures) of New Zealand's peoples and to interpret the country's heritage for national and international audience

338,349

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2 September 2005Cultural History Collections

Manchester Art Gallery Canadian Museum of Civilization

Gallery of Costume Virtual Exhibitions Canadian War Museum

Spinning The Web Dulwich Picture Gallery

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Trades Union Congress Manchester City Council

TUC Library, Worker's War sub-site Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester,

Whitworth Art Gallery National Gallery of Australia

Royal Academy of Music Newcastle Regional Museum,

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

People's History Museum

Art Gallery of South Australia

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KE EMu Web

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2 September 2005Natural History Collections

AMNH (Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Herpetology)

Manchester Museum

Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Ichthyology

Museum Victoria

Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Mammalogy

New York Botanical Garden

Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Ornithology

United States Polar Rock Repository

Field Museum of Natural History, USADepartment of Botany

Field Museum of Natural History, USADepartment of Zoology, Arthropod Collection

Field Museum of Natural History, USADepartment of Zoology, Fishes Collection

Manchester Museums Unwrapped

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2 September 2005Natural History Collections

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, USA

Department of AnthropologyDepartment of BotanyDepartment of Invertebrate ZoologyDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of FishesDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians and ReptilesDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of BirdsDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Mammals

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KE EMu WebSites in Art Museums – Most Popular

NAME World Traffic Ranking

Yale Center for British Art 5010

Smithsonian Institution 6,412

Metropolitan Museum of Art

18,499

MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art

24,364

Tate Online,Tate Modern 27,917

Source: www.alexa.com

NAME World Traffic Ranking

National Gallery of Art 46,938

Musee du Louvre 48,014

The British Museum 69,700

Powerhouse Museum 89,981

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KE EMu WebWhere are they ranked?

NAME World Traffic Ranking

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa

National Gallery of Australia

Museum Victoria

Old Parliament House

National Portrait Gallery

Performing Arts Museum

NAME World Traffic Ranking

Army History Unit

Australian Museum

Royal Botanic Gardens

Powerhouse Museum

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KE EMu WebWhere are they ranked?

NAME World Traffic

Ranking

1 Powerhouse Museum 89,991

2 Australian Museum 134,838

3 Museum Victoria 147,244

4 National Gallery of Australia 180,834

5 Royal Botanic Gardens 334,692

Source: www.alexa.com

NAME World Traffic

Ranking

6 Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa

338,349

8 National Portrait Gallery 509,633

7 Old Parliament House 682,228

9 Army History Unit 705,598

10 Performing Arts Museum 757,866

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KE EMu WebSites in Oceania – Most Popular

NAME DESCRIPTION World Traffic Ranking

National Gallery of Victoria Rich treasury of visual arts, with over 500 works from the permanent collection online featuring art by Australian and international artists.

3,962

Powerhouse Museum Australian public museum featuring exhibitions, programs

89,991

National Gallery of Australia

Over 90,000 works of art across four main areas: Australian art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, International art and Asian art. Located in Canberra.

180,834

Museum Of Contemporary Art

A collection of Australian art covering the period from earliest European contact in the late 18th century to cutting-edge contemporary art.

7,691,551

Artspace Mackay Regional public art gallery and museum operated by the Mackay City Council.

9,175,170

Source: www.alexa.com

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KE EMu WebNarratives Module

• Draws information from a number of different satellite modules

• Records stories about the collections and structures those for different types of publications

Summary:

• Designed to hold any interpretive information about a collection as well as references to all of the resources (EMu and non-Emu)

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http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollectionshttp://www.hullcc.gov.uk

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A range of routes to get into the collection are provided

Stories are told about single objects, a group of objects, a collectors etc etc

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Multiple choice quiz added:

• Adds fun to the site• Answers are on website• More can be added very easily

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Quiz - new tab in Narratives

Three parts to each question

1) question & associated image2) four ‘possible’ answers3) answer text which appears at the

end of the quiz

Images are created especially foreach quiz, quizname image2 so they are easy to find in the multimedia module