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Meet VC – About the Victorian Collections CMS
The Victorian Collections team delivers an annual online free information session, ‘Meet VC’, which has been specifically developed for organisations who are considering using Victorian Collections (VC). The session runs for 40 minutes and includes ...
Why isn't the CMS is displaying as I would expect it to?
An issue that users may experience following updates to the VC CMS is that aspects of the CMS do not display properly. This is predominantly linked to when users are accessing the CMS via older versions of their respective web browsers. If this has ...
Why can’t I update a record?
When viewing an Item record, you can click the Update button on the right of the screen to to edit the record. If the Update button is not visible, this could be because the record is currently locked, or because you do not have the relevant user ...
Managing Party records
This article explores advanced functionality relating to Party records. If you have never worked with Parties before, we recommend you refer to our article ‘Creating and linking Party records’ to learn more about Parties. When working within the ...
Two-factor authentication for your VC account
As an extra layer of data protection, Victorian Collections offers you the option to use two-factor authentication (also known as two-step verification) for your account. What is two-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication helps to keep your ...
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Selecting an appropriate record category
Victorian Collections users care for diverse collections, sometimes even cross-disciplinary collections. You may be a social history museum with public record archives, an art gallery that also holds a local heritage object collestion, or an RSL with ...
VC Cataloguing Manual
The Victorian Collection Cataloguing Manual can be accessed by clicking on and downloading the relevant files below. The segments of the manual are: Cataloguing Object Collections Cataloguing Artwork Collections Cataloguing Publication Collections ...
Collection Digitisation - Capturing Images
In the context of collection digitisation, photography and scanning’s primary aim is to capture an accurate and complete representation of collection items. Your digitised images should provide a clear representation of the item and should be free of ...
How can I sort the list of records in my catalogue?
You can adjust the presentation of your item records or search results in various ways, according to the needs of your activity. After clicking Catalogue > Items you will land on the item list page. Click on the Sort icon and select the field on ...
Modifying member permissions
Each member of your organisation might choose to use your Victorian Collections page for different reasons: cataloguing, research, answering enquiries, interpretive content, and so on. You may therefore need to provide your users with different ...