Webcast: Learn how the Courtauld Institute for Art uses DAM and CMS to preserve Digital ObjectsJuly 2013

Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media at the Courtauld Institute for Art shares how the Institute uses Digital Asset Management (DAM) combined with their Collections Management System (CMS) to create an efficient and comprehensive collection information solution.

Norbert Kanter of zetcom and Richard Bamford of Extensis will then discuss how CMS and DAM can benefit your heritage organisation.

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Two leading Greek museums are now part of the MuseumPlus familyJune 2013

• The Museum of Archaeology and History of the Art
• The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation (Andros Contemporary Art Museum)

Both museums have chosen to introduce the flagship MuseumPlus solution as the core system to their documentation departments. The adoption of MuseumPlus is of great importance to these museums and opens the way to potentially having their collections uploaded in a format compatible with Europeana, the European Digital Library. MuseumPlus is Europeana compliant.

MuseumPlus is the most-used collection management system in Greece and is exclusively represented in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and the Balkans by PostScriptum, a well-established Greek company in the area of Digital Heritage and zetcom’s partner in Greece.
 

The Museum of Archaeology and History of the Art
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation 

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The City Museum of Athens now works with MuseumPlusJune 2013

The Museum of the City of Athens has just acquired MuseumPlus. It was a crucial decision for the Museum since they have to successfully migrate 25.000 items of their diverse collections and databases of paintings, engravings, sculptures, pieces of furniture and important relics of modern Greek history, which represent a panorama of the evolution of Athens since the Frankish domination in the Middle Ages. By means of zetcom’s complementary eMuseumPlus solution, the Museum will be able to showcase various thematic virtual exhibitions on its web site in the near future.

City Museum of Athens

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An important adaptation to MuseumPlus to be presented at the Barcelona Maritime Museum May 30thMay 2013

The MuseumPlus version in use in Catalan and Spanish will henceforth be able to specifically manage photographic materials. Photographs can now be documented in a specific category and the vocabulary has been adapted to adequately describe photographs. This important adaptation to the off-the-shelf version of MuseumPlus is the result of a collaboration by an interdisciplinary working group comprising professionals from museums, libraries and archives in the region. The results will be presented on May 30th at the Barcelona Maritime Museum under the auspices of the Catalonian regional government’s Department of Culture.

Museu Marítim de Barcelona

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The Cabildo of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) selects MuseumPlusMay 2013

We are pleased to announce that the government of Las Palmas on the Canary Islands, has chosen zetcom’s MuseumPlus solution for the collection management and documentation of its 6 museums: Museo Casa de Colón, Museum and Archaeological Park Cueva Pintada, Casa Museo León y Castillo, Casa Museo Antonio Padron, Casa Museo Tomás Morales and Casa Museo Pérez Galdós. The Barcelona team has just started working on migrating existing data and implementing the MuseumPlus software.

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AAM Museum Expo 2013May 2013

The North American team will be exhibiting at the upcoming AAM meeting in Baltimore where over 5,000 museum professionals are expected. We’re excited to be launching MuseumPlusRIA during the exhibition. Please stop in at our booth 1135 and say hello, if you are in the neighborhood!

AAM Museum Expo

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MuseumPlus at DNA.italia April 18th and 19thMay 2013

DNA.italia is Italy’s major project to exploit the potential for economic growth offered by Italy’s often untapped cultural heritage. La Rassegna is the project’s yearly gathering in the city of Turin, former capital of the Kingdom of Savoy. The focus this year was on bringing together the actors in the culture industry to forge a single community from disparate professionals in a variety of fields. Marcello Fontana and Gian Luca Farina Perseu, principal movers at 21-style, zetcom’s Italian partner for MuseumPlus, was at La Rassegna and spoke to visitors and participants about MuseumPlus, including representatives from museums, foundations and regional heritage organizations.

21-style

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zetcom gathering in SwitzerlandMarch 2013

In mid-March the zetcom team from all the offices across Europe and the US met in the snowy winter landscape of the cosy mountain village "Mürren" in the Bernese Oberland.

The unique scenery of the Swiss Alps offered the perfect setting for an intense exchange of ideas and information in meetings and workshops over two days. The main topics were the development of the new web-based product line and the further strategic orientation of the company.

"I am thrilled by the team's clear focus on the customer and the commitment to quality and innovation. All in all it was a fantastic meeting, full of atmosphere, work and fun", said Marcel Zemp, CEO of zetcom group.

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German Foundation Day Expo in DusseldorfMarch 2013

Visit us at booth 12 at the German Foundation Day Expo 15 -17 May 2013 and see the advantages of our outstanding foundation software for yourself. Its wide range of functions, its effectiveness and unbeatable usability make it an exceptional tool for foundations, charitable trusts and not-for-profit organizations.

Foundation Plus uses the latest technology, is platform-independent, web-based and provides the perfect starting point for optimal project management, the transparent allocation of funds, accurate financial planning and comprehensive reporting.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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zetcom’s FoundationPlus goes live in BernDecember 2012

Bern’s Cultural Promotion Department Bern (Stadt Bern Kulturabteilung) went live with FoundationPlus today and the city of Bern will be managing the funding of its cultural projects with this powerful tool from now on. On Friday, December 14th the entire six-member department met Peter Spettig of zetcom for a final training session. Things went so well, Peter said, “that they conducted the training session themselves. They felt really comfortable with the program.”

FoundationPlus

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Learn more about ArtPlus at zetcom’s stand at the SITEM 2013 show in ParisDecember 2012

SITEM is an annual meeting to promote museums, museum technologies, culture and tourism. The trade show runs from January 29th to 31st 2013 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. The main themes in 2013 cover the potential that marketing, fundraising and business development have for cultural tourism.

At SITEM zetcom is proud to present its new software solution "ArtPlus" in France for the first time. Our web-based cataloging system is an ideal solution for artists and collectors, as well as for galleries and collections.

SITEM

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zetcom contributes to museum studiesNovember 2012

"I am proud that we have managed to double the number of scholarships," says HTW-President Prof. Dr. Michael Heine.

zetcom has joined the numerous private sponsors that promote outstanding academic achievement in the Museology program at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (HTW). The scholarship program is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and is designed to support talented and high-achieving students. Successful candidates receive a €300 per month stipendium, of which half is from private sponsors.

HTW University of Applied Sciences - Berlin

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SMB-digital will be presented at the EVA BerlinOctober 2012

The 19th Berlin EVA conference offers a discussion forum of the new media applications. It brings together the memory institutions with researchers of the information and communication technologies, IT-specialists and the public administration sector.

SMB-digital - The online-database of the State Museums of Berlin will be presented over the course of the event. The lecture on November 08, 2012 at 3.00 pm will be held by Sabine Göttsche (State Museums of Berlin) and Jörg Kruschinski (zetcom GmbH).

Program details
Eva Berlin 2012

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Visit us at the MUTEC in LeipzigOctober 2012

Besides the full scale and proven MuseumPlus system, we will introduce for the first time the new generation of our web based products. ArtPlus is the software solution for

• collectors and collections
• artists and galleries.

Real-time, secure access to all your data at any time, from any location is guarranted. In addition we will present - together with Extensis - the smooth and easy interface between MuseumPlus as a Museum Management System and Portfolio as a professional Digital Asset Management System.

Extensis
MUTEC 2012

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New software comparison service from the Collections TrustOctober 2012

The Collections Trust has launched an innovative free online service which allows museum and arts professionals to compare the features of leading Collections Management Systems.

Discover the advantages of our powerful "MuseumPlus" software suite and how it can help you manage your collection, loans, documentation, conservation, exhibition and event planning.

The new platform helps museums and galleries find the right software for their needs across more than 40 different criteria.

Software survey
Press release

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Open up your collection for new audiencesOctober 2012

eMuseumPlus is the ideal solution to make your collection visible on the web and the perfect complement to MuseumPlus.

We are happy to announce the launch of three great new eMuseumPlus sites:

Museu d'Art Jaume Morera, LLeida
Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
Konstmuseum, Göteborg

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Open Culture in LondonJuly 2012

In 2012, zetcom was once again represented at the greatest collection management show on earth.

The 2-day international conference offered delegates the opportunity to debate the latest developments in practice and get the inside track on the key issues. In workshops and lectures on subjects like digitisation, storage, standards and environmental management, top speakers imparted their knowledge to the attendees.

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User Group Conference 2012June 2012

The two User Group Conferences in Geneva and Berne allowed lively conversations and an intensive exchange between the MuseumPlus Users and zetcom. We are very happy about the positive feedback regarding the direction of our company and about our new products. Thank you very much for your participation!

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International experts gather to launch Europeana InsideApril 2012

More than 40 experts from more than 26 organisations and 12 countries gathered at the Science Museum in London on 17-18 April for the kickoff meeting of Europeana Inside, a new € 3.8million research and development programme which is being coordinated by the Collections Trust. zetcom is one of the 26 participating companies.

Europeana Inside aims to reduce or remove the barriers to participating in Europeana for museums, libraries, archives and other knowledge organisations across Europe. It will develop open-source tools designed to be integrated into Collections Management software, allowing users to decide how their knowledge is shared, with whom and under what conditions. It is unique in bringing together for the first time all of the major Collections Management System companies into a single project, building on the Collections Trust's SPECTRUM Partners Scheme.

Further information about the project, including an introductory presentation, is available from europeana. (Source: Collections Trust Newsletter April 2012)

Europeana
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MuseumPlus at LouvreMarch 2012

The first two major departments of the Louvre, the Egyptian collection and the collection of paintings, work productively with MuseumPlus since early 2012. With this milestone zetcom has made an extremely challenging phase of the project a success. Thus bringing the Louvre a bit closer to it's ambitious aim of integrating all relevant scientific data collection in a single database. Over the next three years the remaining departments of the Louvre should be integrated in MuseumPlus.

Louvre

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MuseumPlus - LIDO - EuropeanaMarch 2012

The new export tool allows our customers to export their data in a standardized format and deliver directly or through national agencies (aggregators) to the European digital library "Europeana". Once set up, current data sets can be transferred to Europeana and other web portals (such as the German BAM portal).

The visibility, the online presence and the coverage of your collection will be increased enormously. Museum Plus users as the State Museums of Berlin and the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels are already using this tool.

LIDO
Europeana

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MuseumPlus Integration with Digital Asset Management System (DAM)February 2012

The combination of DAM and MuseumPlus enables efficient and automated handling of digital data. The valuable synergy effects of the two systems generates real added value to your complex museum management.

Tagged images from e.g. Cumulus are enriched in MuseumPlus with object-related information and displayed as thumbnails by default. When researching in MuseumPlus all the images of an object can be accessed in full resolution at the click on a button, because the complete functionality of the digital asset management system is available in MuseumPlus.

Grassi Museum

Cumulus

Cumulus and MuseumPlus

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Español onlineJanuary 2012

We are happy to announce the Spanish version of our Website. All product materials and demonstrations are now available in four different languages. The localisation of the website aims to familiarize our customers in Spain and South America with all information about zetcom and our products in the easiest way.

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Christmas party on skatesDecember 2011

This year's Christmas party for the Berlin zetcom team was held at Müggelsee. We enjoyed a sporting afternoon on the small covered ice rink skating to music from the 80s. Despite covering many "miles" only the mulled wine at the Christmas market in the Kulturbrauerei warmed us up again.  We let the evening pleasantly end at a nice Italian restaurant around the corner and delicious home-made pasta...

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Museo Egizio works with MuseumPlusNovember 2011

The Museo Egizio of Turin (the management of which has been privatised as Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie) has chosen zetcom’s MuseumPlus as a means of administrating its vast collections. The Museum is delighted with the results and has chosen to render the records accessible to the public by going online, to great acclaim.

Museo Egizio of Turin

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zetcom was represented at the MPMA conferenceNovember 2011

Robert Hickerson, Business Development Manager for zetcom North America, presented a paper demonstrating a model for integrating collection records, traditional archival materials, administrative documents and all associated multimedia using MuseumPlus as the centralized information management system. This strategy creates the most effective management strategy for archiving born digital documents, and eliminating the need for additional systems. And, when including the Archive Materials module in the eMuseumPlus online collection, this model will provide the most efficient access to the collections, programming, and institutional history that 21st century museum audiences are expecting.

Additionally, Hickerson also presented at a session on how to use QR barcodes to deliver content to museum audiences.

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eMuseumPlus generates real added value for your clientsNovember 2011

Communication and information technologies offer considerable possibilities for museums, cultural heritage institutions and galleries. The presentation of a collection especially on the web becomes more and more important.

With eMuseumPlus you can make your inventory visible and searchable online. Visitors can browse the catalogue for information about the artists, exhibits, bibliographic references or digital assets. We are happy to announce some new eMuseumPlus sites:

Stiftung Kunstfond, Bonn
Museo Egizio, Torino
Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee

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Exhibition of the Swiss artist Béatrice GysinNovember 2011

The artworks of the Swiss artist  Béatrice Gysin can be viewed in the Bern office of zetcom until the end of the year.
 
In semi-annually changing exhibitions the zetcom AG offers outstanding local artists a platform to establish a relationship between technology and the art world.
 
The present exhibition is the third of its kind: After the Renée Magañas painting and the photographs of Rolf Siegenthaler  the current exhibition solely devoted to drawing. Besides various smaller works Béatrice Gysin presents a fourteen-part series of "wallpapers" as well as a large-sized directly on the wall painted watercolour.

The exhibition can be visited during office hours for free.

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Franz Liszt Museum onlineOctober 2011

For the Franz Liszt 200th Anniversary his valuable exhibits are available on the Internet now. The multilingual access to the online collection is made possible through the webclient eMuseumPlus. "With this platform, we provide an additional service for researchers and interested parties and present the Liszt Museum in a modern and innovative way," says Dr. Hohl.

The collection comprise mostly portraits and documents about Liszt’s life and work as well as manuscripts and piece's of his personal property. The Franz-Liszt-Museum has been located since 1993 in the last residence of the pianist, conductor and composer in Bayreuth.

Online Collection
Franz Liszt Museum

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Museum of the Year 2011October 2011

Congratulations to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Siegen for the prestigious award, "Museum of the Year 2011". The award is presented annually by the German Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Director Dr. Eva Schmidt sees the award as "Recognition for ten years of good museum work in Siegen, which is characterized by the successful collaboration between public authorities and private investments from Barbara Lambrecht-Schadeberg - represented primarily by Peter Paul Rubens Foundation - at the same time for our program of temporary exhibitions, as well as close cooperation with the University of Siegen." The Museum of Contemporary Art has been working since early 2011 with MuseumPlus.

The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
International Association of Art Critics

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Lunds Universitets Historiska MuseumOctober 2011

founded in 1805, is the second largest archaeological museum in Sweden and houses 10 million objects in its magazine. To date 150 000 artefacts have been digitized in an older system and have now been migrated into MuseumPlus. Central to this implementation was the high quality of preparatory work, which was necessary because of the complexity of relations between archaeological research, reports and objects.

The Historical museum decided on the Swedish version of MuseumPlus and the exhibition module for venue and loan management. The museum will from now on use MuseumPlus not only for their own artefacts, but also to administer almost all future archaeological findings from the province of Scania. Due to the large number of MuseumPlus users with different requirements and expertise, Karin Glasemann held an extended training session in Lund.

Lund Universitets Historiska Museum

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Image-Archive "Antike Bronzen in Berlin"September 2011

The activation of the image-archive „Antike Bronzen in Berlin“ will take place on the 16th of September 2011 at 2 pm, at the Antikensammlung, Bodestr. 1 – 3, 10178 Berlin, in the presence of the authors. The image database, which runs on eMuseumPlus, makes it possible to gain a widespread visual insight of one of the most important sections of the Berlin collection of antiquities.

The project, which contains over 8200 searchable antique bronze, lead and iron objects, was conducted with support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Antike Bronzen in Berlin

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This year’s CIDOC conference in Sibiu, RumaniaSeptember 2011

has been a huge success with a high quality program and about 140 participants from all over the world. Three topics could be identified, which had an impact on many projects and papers presented: LIDO and the further development of this very successful harvesting standard; the broad use of the CIDOC-CRM in many international projects and the upcoming trend of Linked Data in cultural heritage. More information can be found here:

Brukenthalmuseum

Abstracts

CIDOC 2012

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Frost Museum in Florida goes live with MuseumPlusSeptember 2011

The Registration staff at the Frost Museum is pleased to begin using MuseumPlus. The migration from Filemaker Pro was completed under budget and on time by Scott Thomas, Senior Support Specialist, at zetcom North America. New data standards and processes implemented during training will significantly improve record keeping at the Frost Museum. A new era has begun for information management at the Frost Museum.

Frost Museum

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Promotion culture canton GraubündenAugust 2011

zetcom has further developed its standard version of MuseumPlus in close cooperation with the Raetian Museum in Chur (Switzerland). This MuseumPlus MGR version covers the specific needs of the local- and regional museums in the canton Graubünden relating to performance and price in an ideal way.

Since May 2011 the MuseumPlus MGR is the officially supported version of the "Kulturförderung des Kantons Graubünden". Information can be found on the website  Amt für Kultur Graubünden

We are very pleased about the many interesting questions and additional projects of the canton Graubünden.

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Public tender La Chaux-de-FondsAugust 2011

In spring 2011 zetcom took part in the public tender procedures of the project La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuenburg in Switzerland. The aim of the competition was to implement a professional collection management system in several museums of the city. zetcom AG has won this tender and three museums will soon start to work with MuseumPlus.

Kunstmuseum (Musée des Beaux-arts)

Historische Museum (Musée d’histoire)

International Watch and Clock Museum (Musée international d’horlogerie)

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Corporate CustomersAugust 2011

The customer portfolio is growing steadily in the corporate customer segment. Some examples of new customers in this area are:

Victorinox AG

Anliker AG

Karl Steiner AG

Zürcher Kantonalbank

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zetcom Berlin summer excursion8 July 2011

Our Berlin team enjoyed a wonderfull day hiking through the Elbsandstein-Gebirge near Dresden: Holger, Anke, Vladimir, Dirk, Barbara, Karin, Jörg, Dagmar, Alex and Norbert (behind the camera). The unique rock formations were as impressive as the Festung Königstein, where we spent the afternoon and enjoyed spectacular views over the Elbe river.

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Exponatec Cologne 16-18 November, 2011

The International Trade Fair for Museums, Conservation and Heritage has become an important European meeting place for professionals from the sectors involved. This event is held every two years and brings together industry, service providers, museums, galleries and private collectors and offers a top-class supporting programme.

zetcom company exhibits this year again on the Exponatec. Visit our booth and get the latest information on developments and possibilities of our products.

Exponatec Cologne

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CIDOC Conference in Sibiu, RomaniaSept. 2011

The annual CIDOC conference is the ideal place to keep in touch, bringing together experienced professionals and newcomers for six days of lively workshops, informative presentations, fascinating study visits and productive working group meetings. 

“Knowledge management and museums”, this year’s conference theme, focuses on the fundamental role of museum documentation. The programme promises to be varied and stimulating, packed with high-quality papers, presentations, tutorials and social events.

CIDOC conference

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