Documenting Your Collections
Info-Muse Network Documentation Guide

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Documentation tools developed by the Info-Muse Network

Guides

The Info-Muse Network has prepared four guides that are highly useful to registrars and collections managers wishing to plan the computerization of textual data and the digitization of the images of objects in their collections.

• Two project planning guides
  
  Comment informatiser vos collections ? Le guide de planification du Réseau Info-Muse and Comment numériser vos collections ? Le guide de planification du Réseau Info-Muse are useful tools for planning and conducting the computerization and digitization processes. These guides help in identifying needs, planning and preparing an action plan and conducting the project itself. Practical, reproducible tables and forms that can be adapted as necessary are useful at every stage of a project.
  
  
• Two practical guides
  
  This guide and Comment gérer vos collections ? Le guide de gestion du Réseau Info-Muse are practical tools for setting up a documentation system and overseeing the collection management process. This documentation guide makes it easy to organize the basic data on each object in a collection, while the management guide helps with identifying and organizing data related to activities involving the use of objects in a museum. The two guides complement one another.

Documentation tips and bibliographies

In addition to these guides, in order to better meet the needs of the museum community, the Info-Muse Network also offers documentation tips and selected bibliographies. These tools are intended to offer a framework and guidelines for computerized collection management.

• Documentation tips
  
  Initially intended for members of the Network, the documentation tips cover specific problems related to documenting collections and suggest appropriate solutions and approaches. They are based on analyses of sample records conducted by the Info-Muse Network team and field consultations with different institutions. These tips are an opportunity to share research results and the most useful resources as widely as possible.
  
  
• Selected bibliographies
  
  The bibliographies suggested by the Info-Muse Network team are appreciated by users seeking reference works. The selection of titles and Websites is based on the relevance and accessibility of the documents in question. These bibliographies are regularly updated.