Events

The Otago Museum and the University of Otago are glad to welcome you to the 2018 joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), held from 25 August to 1 September in Dunedin, New Zealand. The theme of this inaugural joint meeting is ‘Collections & Data in an Uncertain World’, allowing delegates to explore the strategies and practices that may mitigate the risk to both the physical collections and the data derived from them. We look forward to welcoming you to Dunedin.

Vernon Systems are a sponsor for the SPNCC conference 2018 and will be attending for first two days.

We are running a Basics/Refresher group training in Auckland on Tuesday the 11th of September. Please email leisa@vernonsystems.com by the 7th of September to secure your place.

Basics/Refresher training: Tuesday 11th September

Topics include:

Data entry

Images and multimedia

Searching and retrieval

Reporting

List Manager

Location recording

Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm

Cost: $250 + GST per person per day

Venue: Vernon Systems office, 12a McDonald St, Sandringham, Auckland

We are running a Advanced group training in Auckland on Wednesday the 12th of September. Please email leisa@vernonsystems.com by the 7th of September to secure your place.

Basics/Refresher training:Wednesday 12th September

Topics include:

Security Basics

Advanced Searching and retrieval

Data Cleanup

XML Import

Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm

Cost: $250 + GST per person per day

Venue: Vernon Systems office, 12a McDonald St, Sandringham, Auckland

Vernon Systems staff will be attending the Australasian Registrars Committee conference in 2018.

Duration and Dimension

Across the collecting practices of galleries, social history and science museums, archives and libraries, the increasing prevalence of time-based and born-digital media acquired, lent, borrowed and exhibited presents significant challenges for registrars. As we respond to these challenges, both tangible and intangible, established registration methods are being tested and often falling short.

Caring for these collections is broadly acknowledged as a cross-disciplinary effort involving registrars, curators, conservators, technicians, artists and technology specialists, including IT and audiovisual experts. Duration and Dimension brings together speakers to explore diverse matters inherent to time-based and born-digital media, presenting practical solutions registrars, their colleagues and experts working in other industries apply to the management of these collections long-term.

Melbourne, 3-5 October, 2018