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New CEO for Axiell – accelerating industry leadership through improved access to world’s collective knowledge!
You can now watch recordings from the 2022 Axiell European User Conference, recorded live at the University of Manchester. The theme for #AxiellEU22 was Building Connections for a Sustainable Future.
With the seismic shift to digital that has accompanied the pandemic, our panelists discussed how the role of collections managers and collections data is evolving.
Presenters:
Dave Thomas, Chief Technical Officer, Axiell
Amy Adams, Collections Information & Access Manager, National Museum of the Royal Navy
Adrian Hine, Digitisation Manager, Science Museum Group
Malcolm Chapman, Head of Collections Management, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Presenters:
Daniel Moran, VP – Operations, Axiell
Gareth Noon, Head of Customer Service – EMEA, Axiell
Ben Appleyard, Head of Project Delivery – EMEA, Axiell
2020 saw the centenary year of legendary filmmaker Ray Harryhausen. To mark Ray’s 100th birthday, the Ray and Diana Harryhausen partnered with The National Galleries of Scotland to present ‘Titan of Cinema’- the largest exhibition of the stop-motion artist’s work to date. Having worked hard upon the exhibition’s design over the course of three years, this long-awaited blockbuster event was abruptly halted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, just a few short weeks before the originally planned opening date.
Hear how the Foundation and NGS teamed up to overcome obstacles and ensure that Ray Harryhausen’s work could be enjoyed by a worldwide audience through this centenary exhibition and the release of an official biography by daughter Vanessa Harryhausen. Collections Manager Connor Heaney will share how Axiell systems were used to prepare the exhibition, and how the events of 2020 encouraged the Foundation to upgrade from Adlib to Axiell Collections.
Presenters:
Connor Heaney, Collections Manager, The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation
Rosie Forrest, Head of Collection Information & Digital Asset Management, National Galleries of Scotland
In this session we reflect on a few feature highlights you may have missed in recent releases. Even more interesting is to learn about what is coming in Collections. We’ll be looking at what to expect in the near future but we’ll also talk about our views for the longer term.
Presenters:
Rene van den Heuvel Product Manager Axiell Collections, Axiell
Part of the upgrade process to Axiell Collections is finding and fixing errors in your data – often ones you didn’t know you had! In this presentation, I’ll talk through how to find these, what they mean, and how to fix them.
Presenters:
Jennifer Macmillan, Collections System Specialist, British Film Institute
Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL) is currently in the journey of transforming its collection data as registered in Axiell Collections to Linked Open Data. During this session Loïs Hutubessy (Collection System Manager) will delve into the steps necessary to make this transformation possible, as well as some lessons they are learning along the way
Presenters:
Loïs Hutubessy, Collection System Manager, Het Nieuwe Instituut
To support our conservator, some volunteers learned to work with Adlib at the Streekmuseum Stevensweert / Ohé en Laak. Then, following the publishing of new rules for museums in The Netherlands, some questions were raised about usability and digital safety. This led to our decision to upgrade to Axiell Collections in the first months of 2022. Besides new insights on our complex museum collection, it gave us inspiration for the professionalization of registration, presentation and research possibilities.
Presenters:
Harry Meuwissen, Museum Education / Exhibitions, Streekmuseum Stevensweert / Ohe en Laak
Find out more about Streekmuseum Stevensweert / Ohe en Laak: www.museumstevensweert.nl/en
Since moving to our new collections store and study centre in 2016, The Hunterian has been recording and managing all use of collections on the EMu events module. Find out more about the process for recording this information and the benefits of managing the use of collections in this way. The presentation will also look at our plans to capture and share the information which comes from collections usage in the narratives module, particularly as we begin to decolonise our data and increase community perspectives on our collections.
Presenters:
Lizzie O’Neill, Digital Collections Manager, The Hunterian
This session is not available online at this time. Mimsy users will be notified when this recording is available
This session is not available online at this time. Mimsy users will be notified when this recording is available
The Science Museum is currently working on the first phase of a project to transform its collections data. The aim is not only to increase the number of records and associated media online, but also to improve the user experience, particularly with difficult-to-present multi-part objects and photography collections. A presentation will be given followed by a roundtable discussion to explore how other organisations have approached this challenge to come to a better understanding how to model and present complex multi-part collections online.
Presenters:
Adrian Hine, Digitisation Manager, Science Museum Group
‘Building Connections for a Sustainable Future’ [theme for #AxiellEU22], could be the strap-line for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage at Manx National Heritage. The project, begun in early 2020 and delivered this year, has involved multiple connections (including across the Irish Sea) to sustain a nation’s sound archive into the future. It just needed me to add the word ‘Listening’. Come listen in.
Presenters:
Jude Dicken, Collections Information Manager, Manx National Heritage
Unfortunately, there were some technical issues playing the audio during the session, but you can listen to the audio recordings here:
Slide 16: SA0178.5.mp3 – Listen
Slide 21: SA0108 – Listen
Slide 22: SA2019-0257-4 – Listen
Slide 23: SA2014-0035 – Listen
This session is not available online at this time. Calm users will be notified when this recording is available
Presenters:
Malcolm Howitt, VP, Sales, Axiell
Recordings of Library sessions will be shared with library users via our newsletter. Contact rebecka.hojeberg@axiell.co.uk if you aren’t subscribed to the newsletter.
Changing your software, even in the smallest ways, can be a painful process. Find out what change management theory has to say about why people, organisations, and processes can take the strangest turns and get some tips to help your project run smoothly.
Presenters:
Louise McAward-White, Product Consultant, Axiell
Culture sector grantwriting expert, Robert Flood, presents an overview of grants and funding, with tips on what to include and how to write a strong application. This session will be most useful for smaller to medium-sized organisations.
Presenters:
Robert Flood
Using scenarios from current issues in the GLAM sector, Ben Doty and Louise McAward-White from Axiell will give practical advice on how Axiell Collections, Calm and Emu can support meaningful record-keeping and improved collections data.
Presenters:
Louise McAward-White, Product Consultant, Axiell
Ben Doty, Product Training Lead, Axiell
Interested in being involved in user discussions on this topic? Contact louise.mcaward@axiell.com
Currently when we think of documentation we think of getting a laptop or notepad and going into a store to document objects. Could we all be sitting on piles of data which will enable us to understand our collection with less effort and resource?
Presenters:
Tom Smith, Group Documentation, Manager, Science Museum Group
Presenters:
Samantha Diamond, VP Digital Engagement, Axiell
Ian Young, Arena Product Manager, Axiell
14 – 16 Sep 2022, Chicago and Online
#AxiellNA22 takes place at The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago on Wed 14 – Fri 16 September 2022, with most sessions also streamed for online attendees. The Axiell North American User Conference is free for all Axiell users, including CultureConnect.
