Vernon Activities

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  • Client

    Royal Air Force Museum
    Hendon, London, England

    Description

    Hawker Hart Mk. II, produced by Hawker Aircraft Limited in 1931

Vernon Cataloguing is already a fairly comprehensive system for managing your collection. It has object-specific facilities for accessioning, cataloguing, location recording, inventory, handling and deaccession/disposal. It also has basic facilities to passively record collection management activities such as loans, exhibition, condition and treatment, etc. For many institutions this is adequate. However, for those with high volumes of exhibitions, loans, conservation, transport and similar activities this won't be quite enough.

Vernon Activities adds extensive project management facilities to the already extensive capabilities of the basic system, handling information about both the objects and their associated activities in a coherent and integrated application. Sites who don't have Vernon Activities do have Procedural Control for object accessioning and deaccessioning.

When you include Vernon Activities, you can do the following things:

  • Management of Acquisitions, Loans In & Out, Exhibitions & Venues, Conservation Condition Reports & Treatments, Entry & Exit, Transport & Movement & Crates and Insurance as distinct Activities.
  • Any Activity can cover any number of objects (or parts).
  • Step by step procedural control ensures compliance with rules at each stage.
  • Automatic generation of forms and other actions (e.g. location updating) at appropriate steps.
  • Management Activities can be linked into 'clusters' to show their interrelationships (e.g. loan for exhibition).
  • An Object's perspective of its Activities shows two views. The Activity view shows the object's activities by type, in chronological order. The Schedule view shows all activity types in chronological order (future, present and past), highlighting any date conflicts or available periods.
  • Easy navigation from an activity to its related activities and objects, or from any object to its activities.