Egyptian Museum in Egyptian Museum in

Cairo Cairo

Database Project Database Project

Implementing EMuImplementing EMuJanice KamrinJanice Kamrin

American Research Center in EgyptAmerican Research Center in Egypt

KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008KE EMu European Users Meeting 2008

A Brief History ofA Brief History of

the EM Database Projectthe EM Database Project20042004

The EM Database is bornThe EM Database is born

SCA SupportSCA Support

AUC SupportAUC Support

A Brief HistoryA Brief History

20052005

ARCE SupportARCE Support

First digitizing projectFirst digitizing project

A Brief HistoryA Brief History

The Volunteers ArriveThe Volunteers Arrive

August 2006 to presentAugust 2006 to present

ARCE-EAC ARCE-EAC

The Egyptian MuseumThe Egyptian Museum

Registrar Training ProjectRegistrar Training Project

A Brief HistoryA Brief History

1.1.Design and develop a modern Design and develop a modern

collections management system for collections management system for

the Egyptian Museum, Cairothe Egyptian Museum, Cairo

2.2.Train a group of registrars to Train a group of registrars to

implement this systemimplement this system

Project GoalsProject Goals

A Brief HistoryA Brief History

20062006

First Mellon Grant AwardedFirst Mellon Grant Awarded

20072007

KE EMu ChosenKE EMu Chosen

A Brief HistoryA Brief History

20082008

Mellon ImplementationMellon Implementation

Grant AwardedGrant Awarded

The move to KE EMuThe move to KE EMu

The Current SituationThe Current Situation

RCMD in place and functioningRCMD in place and functioning

Training continuesTraining continues

The Current SituationThe Current Situation

Original database functioning Original database functioning

as full CMSas full CMS

The Current SituationThe Current Situation

Database continues to grow:

*Mass transcription

*Full records completed and cross-checked

*Gallery work

Current number of records: 134,392

Next StepsNext Steps

Preparation for Migration

*New thesauri

*Cleaning up database?

*Cleaning up records

*Cleaning up forms and reports

*Field matching

Looking forwardLooking forward

Data migration!

EM Database on-line

*Intranet for curators

*Internet for scholars and public

Continue building database

Looking forwardLooking forward

*Leave RCMD self-sufficient

*Inventory Museum

*Collaboration w/ NMEC and GEM

*A sector-wide system

Looking forwardLooking forward

jkamrin@gmail.comjkamrin@gmail.com