Frauke Kreutler, (Wien Museum, Ausztria) előadása, Múltunk jövője 2010, MNM

1. 14 January 2010
Creating a Digital Collection
The experience of the Wien Museum
Frauke Kreutler
Curator of the Wien Museum
International Congress “Future of the Past“
14 - 15 January 2010

2. The Wien Museum
The Wien Museum is a general-
purpose metropolitan museum with
a wide range of collections and
exhibitions:
From the history of the city to art,
fashion and modern culture, from
the earliest settlements to the
present day.

3. Inventory of the collections
During the past years the Wien Museum has organized a complete
inventory of all objects of the different collections:
The Archaeological Collection, the Biographic Collection, the
Topographical Collection, the History and City Life Collection and
the Art Collection.

4. Taking the Museums Inventory
During the last four years the
“Inventory-Team” has sighted,
counted and classified more than
750.000 objects of the Wien
Museum.

5. Recording the old collection catalogues,
card index and inventory register
730.000 object entries were
transferred into the database
“Artefact”.

6. Inventory of the Archaeological Collection
Today the scientific
documentation of the
Archaeological Collection is
completed to 90% with about
195.000 data entries.

7. Database Migration
We ended up with records in five different databases:
The collection management system “Artefact” with 730,000 data
The database of the Fashion Collection with 56.000 data
The Photo Archive with 18.500 data sets
The database of the Archaeological Collection with 195.000 data
and finally the database of the inventory project with about
750.000 data.
The main task was how to bring together these five different
data bases.

8. MuseumPlus
MuseumPlus is a
complete collection
management
system designed for
multifaceted tasks
museums and its
collections.

9. Mapping and developing of the database
specifications
Which data field
has to be
arranged new
and with which
content?

10. Outlook:
1. Correction of wrong data
Eliminating of
redundant or
obsolete
information
Adding off
additional
information

11. Outlook:
2. Integration of the outcome
of the scientic analysis of the Urban
Archaeology Vienna into MuseumPlus
To organize the data transfer we will install a tool to import data
directly from excel files, which will be extracted from the data
base of the Urban Archaeology Vienna.

12. Outlook:
3. Photographic documentation of
objects of the Wien Museum
A never ending story ...

13. Thank you!
Contact: Frauke.Kreutler@Wienmuseum.at
www.WienMuseum.at