Dear Adrian,
Thanks for raising this. In the UK, we tend not to have captured information
about specific proportions of collections catalogued, and to what extent.
Instead, we have developed a set of Performance Indicators for Collections
Management which focus on outputs such as access to and use of collections and
availability of expert knowledge in support of them.
The Performance Indicators are freely available at
http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/collections-skills/collections-management-performance-indicators
in case they are useful.
It will be really interesting to see how other larger collections respond - in
my experience, it tends to be a moving target. At the Collections Trust, we
strongly emphasise putting in place appropriate procedures for accession (to
stop the problem from getting worse) and then a managed and prioritised plan
for retrospective documentation, at least to inventory level.
We also find that projects, particularly aggregation projects like Europeana,
have a positive effect in driving improvements in the quality of the recorded
information, and the application of standards for things like terminology and
rights clearance.
I look forward to hearing how people respond!
All best,
Nick
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On 21 Jan 2015, at 07:19, Adrian Kingston adri...@tepapa.govt.nz wrote:
Hi all.
I know there are lots of hooks around what qualifies as cataloguing, what a
record is versus an object and even how to measure the size of a
collection, but can anyone point be to some recent
benchmarks/surveys/comparisons of percentage of collections databased (jeebus
I hate that word). Asking for a friend. Well, actually, asking for our
Assurance and Risk Committee.
Museums Aotearoa include it in their annual survey
http://www.museumsaotearoa.org.nz/research#SectorSurvey, but I'm looking for
other institutions that are similar to Te Papa in terms of collections size
(eg circa 2-3 million items) and/or similar collections scope (we have the
full gamut: the national art collections, as well as, natural science, human
history, archives, photography etc)
Any help would be great!
Cheers
Adrian Kingston
Digital Collections Senior Analyst
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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