The Computerisation of the

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• The Computerisation of the
• Croatian Museum Network

Višnja Zgaga, museum advisor Mirna Šimat, IT
specialist
Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb
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What is MDC ?
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Basic information about Croatian Museums in 2006
based on data from the Register of Museums,
Galleries and Collections

• 203 museums and galleries
• 939 expert staff employed
• 1,402 museum collections
• 582 documentation fonds
• 5,653,800 museum objects

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Throughout the years, MDC helped museums in their
process of computerisation by
http//www.mdc.hr/main.aspx?id322
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Organisation of computerisation
Ministry of culture funds MDC
MDC supervises cataloguing and coordinates
feedback
MDC acquires software
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Link 2 produces software
Museums get software
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2004 - 25 museums

• Instalation
• Basic education
• Documentation consulting
• Basic adjustment
• Granting the permanent
• licence

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2005 - 30 14 museums

• Instalation of the new
• version of the software
• Secundary documentation

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2006 - 12 museums

• Instalation and education
• Documentation consulting

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Continuously and permanently

• User support
• Adjustment of the system to
• meet the user needs
• Workshops and seminars

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Workshops and seminars
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September 2004- November 2006

• 54 cities
• 83 museums
• 345 workstations

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Cataloguing and collections
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Usage of IT technology in Croatian museums
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IT specialists and documentarists
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Museum objects and cataloguing
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M characteristics
PDF and XML export
used in 84 museums
secundary documentation
multimedia support
ICOM
since 1998
sophisticated search capabilities
primary documentation
CDWA, VRA and other standards
tertiary documentation
multiple layers of data protection
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Main screen
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Main screen with enlarged image
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Information groups can be repeated
A painting is associated with four depicted
subjects year 1848. / academic legion
(organisation) / Dragojlo Kušan (person) / war of
1848. (event)
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Search engine
These search results show all objects that belong
to the Numismatic collection, that are not made
of copper, and whose inventory number is larger
than GMV PO NZ 15.
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Thesaurus table view
This thesaurus table shows terms used in the
Technique field.
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Thesaurus tree view
This tree view detail shows that lithography is a
type of print (grafika) and that there are
several types of lithography.
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Object record
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Secondary documentation
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Examples of M on-line

• Donations to the City of Zagreb
• http//www.donacijegz.mdc.hr/
• Collection of museum posters
• http//www.mdc.hr/plakatoteka_en.aspx
• Egyptian collection
• http//www.croato-aegyptica.hr/

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Our final goals are

• the continuous development of documentation
  systems that would support museological research,
  preservation and communication
• to establish continuous preservation of
  documentation in the digital environment
• to encourage online access to information and
  knowledge about museum objects