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Collections Information Systems at the Smithsonian Ducky Nguyen Special Assistant for Planning & Project Management Office of the Chief Information Officer The EMu Experiences at the Natural History and American Indian Museums

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Page 1: Collections Information Systems at the Smithsonian Ducky Nguyen Special Assistant for Planning & Project Management Office of the Chief Information Officer

Collections Information Systems at the Smithsonian

Ducky NguyenSpecial Assistant for Planning & Project Management

Office of the Chief Information Officer

The EMu Experiences at the Natural History and American Indian Museums

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Smithsonian on the National Mall

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Smithsonian Castle, built in 1846

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19 museums, galleries,

and research institutes

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166 years of questions and answers

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137 M specimens & artifacts

127 M

are in Natural History

2 M

libraries volumes

136 ft3 of archival material

7.9 M online

records

Smithsonianby thenumbers

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1980’s-1990’s2000’s1960’s-1970’s

45 years of collections databasing

HEWComputer use in

collections management

SELGEMFirst collections

information system

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1980’s-1990’s2000’s1960’s-1970’s

45 years of collections databasing

SI-NETSI

Network

www.si.edu

SELGEM

MISTICMove

System

NMAH CIS

(MIMSY)

ARTCIS(TMS)SIRIS

Library Catalog

INQUIRE(Second

CIS)

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1980’s-1990’s2000’s1960’s-1970’s

45 years of collections databasing

SELGEM

NMNH RCIS

(EMu)

INQUIRE

NMAI CIS

(EMu)CONSRITS

Curatorial DB

PHOTO Archives

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Present Future45 years of collections databasing

ARTCIS

NMAH CIS

SIRIS

NMAI CIS

NMNH RCIS

Collections Websites

Digitization Plan

Digital Asset Management

Plan

Smithsonian Collections

Search Center

Digital Asset Mgnt

System

Office of Research

Information Systems

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National Museum of Natural History

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National Museum of the American

Indian

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Success and Failures

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It takes time!

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It takes lots of people working hard together.

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Top down support with people, money, time

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Documentation is the key

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Do things now and plan for the future

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Keep it simple

Too much!

Good for now

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Success Stories

Productivity

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Credits and Other InfoContact:Ducky Nguyen, Special Assistant for Planning & Project Management, OCIOE-mail: [email protected]

Content Credit:• David Bridge (retired), NMAI and NMNH• Michelle Brown, NMNH• Beth Gamble, NMNH• Ann McMullen, NMAI• Thorny Staples, OCIO

Images Credit:• Google Images• Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Collections Online:NMAI Collections Website: http://nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx NMNH Collections Website: http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/ Smithsonian Collections Search Center: http://www.collections.si.edu/search/