Collection Management

Copyright and Legal Advice provides information on arts law, intellectual property laws and their application in Australia, including mulitmedia and the digital environment.

Policies and strategies - national guidelines and strategies for museums, galleries and keeping places.

Assessing significance - a guide to assessing the significance of cultural heritage objects and collections.

Conservation of collections provides information on the conservation of cultural objects and links to useful resources.

Digital imaging - resources include an online course to assist you to digitise your collection and information on software for managment of digital images.

Planning and implementating a CMS This article outlines the process of choosing a Collection Management System for your cultural institution.

Digital collections standards - detailed information and links to resources about digital standards and guidelines.

Software for CMS - basic information about various software packages for collection management in small museums.

Thesauri and vocabularies - links to information about thesauri for cataloguing Australian collections.

Tools for building websites provides links to guides and tutorials to assist you in building a website.

General website standards - read about standards relating to websites that have been developed and adopted internationally.

Accessibility for websites - links to information, standards and guidelines which will ensure the accessibility of your website.