Author Archives: Scott Williams

EMu migration

By Scott Williams | Published: June 4, 2010
The Penn Museum has a long history of using technology to help manage our collection. We started our journey toward computerization in 1978, when the museum used a DEC-10 system which could only store the most basic object information (only six fields!).  Now, our current content management system, Argus, has hundreds of fields and nearly [...]
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Automation in action

By Scott Williams | Published: February 17, 2010
Maureen: Digitization is iterative. There was a time that every institution with a desktop scanner and a work-study student was scanning every item they could lay their hands on like kids in candy stores, and throwing them up onto the web without thinking much about the user experience. Now that we’re at a point of [...]
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