Adding Records
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 ...
Creating and linking Party records
Items within your collection will have linked “Parties”. A “Party” refers to a person or organisation that has been involved in the life of an Item. For example, a book’s linked Parties may be the author, editor, publisher, and illustrator. When ...
Video: parent/child relationships
Parent/Child relationship is a way of describing the relationship of item parts within a larger set. A Parent Record is a universal record of a set of items. It describes a set as a whole and documents its shared provenance and acquisition ...
Video: measuring objects
Do you have a tricky item that you're not quite sure how to measure? We're here to help! The following video is a tutorial on how to measure your objects and record the information in the Dimensions fields using the Victorian Collections CMS:
Video: improving item discoverability
Adding keywords to the Subjects field in your records will aid in the discoverability of your item. These keywords should relate to the ideas, themes or names/places relating to the item. While there is no set thesauri for this field, you are ...
Video: updating location details
The following video is a tutorial on how to update item locations within your catalogue using the Victorian Collections CMS:
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 ...