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The World's Leading Collections Management Software
Multi MIMSY 2000 addresses profound changes
in the use of information technology by cultural
institutions. For over 20 years, museums have
used databases to record basic data and account
for items in their collections. This item-centric
collections management was administered by registrars
and collections managers, and the primary output
was lists: lists of objects, lists of locations,
lists of loans, and more lists.
Today, museums are recognizing that the content
they create about their collections - descriptive
wall panels, K-12 curriculum materials, brochures,
books, label copy, images, video, audio, catalogues,
and more - is second only in importance to the
collections themselves. In fact, content creation
and dissemination accounts for the majority
of work done by cultural institutions.
To achieve this vision, museum automation systems
need to do more than make lists. Systems need
to be available to the people who create content
and must manage the knowledge they produce.
Without content, the collection information
means very little to anyone but the museum professional.
Collections management is no longer the sole
task of museum information systems; what museums
need is a Knowledge Navigation System: Multi
MIMSY 2000.
Knowledge Oriented Architecture
Multi MIMSY 2000 holds item information in
the Master Catalogue and Activity Archives. The Master Catalogue operates
as an easy-to-use expanded catalogue card, while
the Activity Archives hold the detailed activity
histories of the items.
Expanded content is held in the Knowledge Authorities™,
which can be linked with items in the Master
Catalogue or inter-linked among themselves to
build a fabric of Knowledge that surrounds the
collection.
Multi MIMSY offers the most comprehensive data
structure of any museum system and features:
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