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- Museum Lives Oral History and the Natural History Museum Nadja Noel
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- Curators, Collections and Collections Databases The longer youre here, the thing you realise is that these are not just objects, theyre peoples lives.
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- Knowledge is leaving the NHM 5 Years 24 Specialist Staff 774 Years of Knowledge
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- Human interest not just science exhibition displays Working at the NHM Key scientific discoveries Ollie Crimmen and his Speedos River Thames whale stranding London Blitz
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- The Project Plan Archive-research for humanities academics. Enriching collections data in EMu Online resource Public offer Year 1 Planning Training Copyright Year 2 Interviews Editing Web design Year 3 Interviews Short films Web dev
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- Oral History and Film
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- Project Delivery- What workedand what didnt
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- Digital Asset Management Theres a lot of it
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- Digital Asset Management and some more
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- Still more
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- Documentation and workflows Rights Interview scheduling Editing Content authorisation Asset management Web publication Review
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- The Content-Why its worth it PeopleThe object The location The story
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- Why was EMu used? Repository for interpretation No dept-centric boundaries Familiarity with interface Close association with specimen/collections information Integrated digital asset support
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- Sustainable documentation Align project with current procedures Training Dont add a burden for future users Communicate with technical partners What happens when things break? Abstraction between data & presentation
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- Challenges Difficulties of extracting tacit knowledge Production standards Managing digital assets-costs!
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- New Possibilities The collections database Public Offer Legacy
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- Plan B
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- Questions?
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