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Hi Roy,

 

Another option is FileMaker Pro (www.filemaker.com.au). It isn't specifically for museum cataloguing but is a general database program. Its downside is you'd need to make the database for your collection, however the upside is it can be cheaper and you can then decide what fields you want, what you want to call them, how you want them laid out etc. It gives you total flexability so you can then make it as complicated or as simple as you want to, and can add fields down the track, re-name them and so on. You can also link to or imbed photos, audio/visual files, documents etc.

 

Best wishes,

 

Andrew S. Bowman

Carnamah Historical Society

Three Springs - Carnamah - Coorow

www.carnamah.com.au


 


> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:33:14 +1100
> From: Arnott Roy <arnottr1 at bigpond.com>
> Subject: [can-talk] Cataloguing software
>

> Greetings
> 
> I am looking for advice on choice of museum cataloguing software. We 
> are an Army regimental museum (aka unit history room). We have a few 
> thousand objects, documents, books , diaries, files, photos, CD's 
> etc. The usual range of museum stuff. It is a 4-volunteer operation, 
> but when we write data entry procedures we can get people to assist 
> with this.
> 
> In a previous structure we issued with EMUlite, an Army adaptation of 
> EMU software. We are no longer required to stay with this software, 
> and we had not got very far into entering data anyway.
> 
> We need to select some suitable software to catalogue the collection. 
> I would welcome any feed back from museum folk about their 
> experiences and recommendations
> From what I have able to gather, the systems of choice with museums 
> seem to be Mosaic, EMU, Maxus and Pastperfect.
> 
> Being a fairly small operation we would not need a Rolls Royce 
> program suitable for the British Museum
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Roy Arnott
> Curator
> 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment
> Unit History Room
> 
> 

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