Hi all, The barcoding study Will recalls may have been the one noted below in an MCN-L post from 2002 (and hey, the URL it cites still points to a live page!). In another, more recent thread from 2006, Perian Sully and David Parsell also exchanged thoughts on the topic; please let me know offlist if it would be useful to have that thread forwarded, also offlist.
cheers, Rob ______________________________________________ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network -------- 2002 Message -------- > Subject: Check out Barcoding for Museums > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:50:33 EDT > From: MarbleCity at aol.com > To: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > ... Barcoding for Museums ... > > Friends, > > ... > > <http://members.aol.com/oldtruth/bcindex.html> > > The page is intended to be updated regularly. If you see something is > missing or something can be better, please let me know so I can > address it. If you would like to add your survey responses, by all > means, click on the Complete Survey hyperlink and send me your > responses. If you have a great image to replace the down and dirty > one I created, please send it along. > > I want to thank each of the contributors, yet again, for their great > responses. Sam Quigley, Bob Futernick, Johanna Humphrey,Susan > Fishman-Armstrong, Kate Turner Morgan, and Heather Polubinski, your > responses will influence my activities and I suspect they will be > helpful for others. I can't thank you guys enough. > > I want to invite others, yet again, to share your experience and > wisdom with us. > > Ruth Bryant Power Real, Will wrote: > Annamaria, > > We use a barcoding system here at Carnegie Museum of Art. The barcoding > software is a third-party application developed for use with our > collections management system (KE Emu). It functions over our wireless > network and is used primarily for updating object locations, though it > can also be configured for on-site data-entry and/or object accessioning > projects. At present not all of the collection has been barcoded so the > system is not used consistently. We have found that the biggest > challenges, besides finding the time to complete the barcoding of the > entire collection, are deciding how to approach barcoding for multi-part > objects (whether at the item or part level) and how to keep track of the > physical bar code tags of three-dimensional objects as they come on and > off view. While we agree with others who have said that the barcoding > system increases accuracy, there is always going to be an element of > human or procedure error that no technology that I am aware of can quite > overcome! > > Another source to investigate: a several years ago someone, I think an > MCN member on this list, did a survey and posted specific information on > museum barcoding on a website. I don't have the link and don't know if > the site is even live anymore. Does this ring a bell to anyone else? > > Will Real > Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 7:35 AM > To: mcn-l at mcn.edu > Subject: [MCN-L] Bar coding museums objects > > Dear all, > I would like to know : > 1. how many museums are using the > barcoding objects inventory system > 2. if the CMS they use support the system 3. A feedback on the use of > this tool Annamaria Poma Swank Rinascimento Digitale project consultant...--
