Vernon Cataloguing

  • Featuring some of our clients and few of the artifacts from their collections
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  • Client

    The Museum of Glass & Ceramics
    South Portland, Maine, USA

    Description

    Bowl, American, Acoma Pueblo Indian, About 1940

Feature List

The facilities in Vernon Cataloguing alone are adequate for many institutions. These include the following:

  • A rich relational database structure with thousands of fields available. The Object file alone has 340 fields.
  • These fields are structured in standard and customised windows for easy access. Customised screens can be built to user specifications.
  • User defined fields and the ability for the user to rename any field with the change automatically applied throughout the system.
  • Copying data from records or templates with a keystroke, and powerful batch update facilities.
  • Sophisticated handling of imprecise dates.
  • Automatic conversion of any measurement (dimensions, weights, temperatures, etc).
  • The ability to catalogue multi-part objects in a single record and catalogue, move, inventory and transact management activities at part level.
  • Hierarchical authorities with full thesaurus facilities.
  • Optional integration of Art & Architecture Thesaurus and Revised Nomenclature.
  • Powerful and easy-to-use retrieval tool and report writer.
  • Sophisticated options for browsing sets of records after retrieval.
  • Import and Export of data to/from other applications such as word processors, spreadsheets and DTP.
  • Direct linkages to other applications so you can see a related Word document with a double-click, for example.
  • Inventory and location control, including bulk batch updating.
  • A unique tool to Procedurally Control any process.
  • A Diary to assign tasks to people. 'To-Do' lists can be brought up automatically at logon, or on demand.
  • Powerful data security down to field level as well as security over processes, user groups and usage logging.
  • Tracking of costs (actual and budget, currency and hours) can be ascribed to any task or step. Standard costs can be automatically applied. Costs are totalled for each task and for all tasks.
  • Audit trailing providing: recovery via audit from last backup; rollback of unwanted changes; reporting and logging of all updates showing date and user responsible.
  • Imaging support for all common file formats.
  • Multimedia facilities to play digital sound and motion video.
  • Multi-valued (repeatable) fields and true variable length data saves space and avoiding the frustration of fixed length fields.
  • Allowing bar-code input.