March 2025
Vernon User Group (VUG) Australia 2025
We’re looking forward to visiting Melbourne for our free annual half-day VUG Australia meeting on Wednesday 16 July. Come and learn the latest about Vernon CMS, hear from speakers, and network with your fellow Vernon users. You can also join our training day on Thursday 17 July to learn advanced areas of Vernon CMS.
Explainer: Activities module in Vernon CMS
The Activities module is an optional extra that you can purchase to complement your Cataloguing module. It consists of 16 datafiles to help you manage processes around your objects like acquisitions, exhibitions, loans, risk management, deaccessioning, and much more.
Let’s enter the world of Activities and look at all the ways that you can create relationships in Vernon CMS between your processes and objects.
Vernon Browser hosting agreement
Our hosting agreement provides an overview of the Vernon Browser hosted infrastructure and the services we cover as part of the hosting.
We have updated the agreement to provide more detail on our infrastructure and to cover the rate limiting of API requests.
Visiting museums around Aotearoa
Our UK staff member, Alex von der Becke, recently visited Aotearoa New Zealand. He says, “I was very privileged to once again visit Head Office and connect with the team.” After working for four days in Auckland, he then had a week off to conduct a driving tour around North Island and visited Rotoroa Island, Russell Museum, Cape Reinga, Te Ahu Museum, and Kauri Museum. A visit to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay rounded off the holiday.
Featured Vernon Browser websites
Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum has started publishing maps showing the collection locations for their natural history collection items. This feature uses Vernon Browser’s integration with Open Street Maps.
Deakin University
Recently launched online, the Deakin University Art Collection is a unique and treasured collection of contemporary artworks by some of Australia’s leading artists. The collection is comprised of examples of innovative creative practices including achievements in painting, sculpture, print, drawing, ceramic, photography, textiles and includes one of Australia’s largest holdings of artist books.
Join our Online Basic Course
With the Vernon CMS Online Self-Study: Basic Course, you can study at your own pace over two months. You get access to the Vernon CMS Demo system so you can freely practise the lessons. Videos, assignments, and quizzes help you to absorb and retain the knowledge you need to use the system effectively.
Hundreds of people have completed the course and gained their certificates that demonstrate their skills in cataloguing, attaching images and documents, searching, using lists, reporting, and working with bulk tools.
Watch our free webinar videos
We regularly hold a live webinar over Zoom about a particular feature of Vernon CMS. The videos are published on YouTube so you can watch anytime. We have over 30 videos ranging from basic to advanced topics.
Vernon Systems develops innovative software for cultural organisations to manage and share their collections. We've been dedicated to the cultural sector since 1985.