Brief Description

MuseumPlus is a complete standard Museum and Collection Management System developed by the Swiss company zetcom. The company has over 15 years experience in database technology and over 8 years experience in designing museum management software and in conducting informatics projects worldwide.

MuseumPlus provides all features needed to support efficiently most tasks and processes of a cultural institution. It is fully configurable (down to each field) and offers a modular structure so that it is suitable for any kind and size of collection, gallery or museum. The comprehensive terminology control (thesauri, authority files, etc.) and access management allows also large museum networks to work with one central system - MuseumPlus. MuseumPlus is compliant with national and international documentation standards (by CIDOC, Getty, German Museum Association and others).

Public access via the Internet/Intranet to the data is provided by the complementary, platform independent web application eMuseumPlus. Extensive research and display facilities with optional access restrictions makes it easy to explore the entire museum's database, e.g. collection, exhibitions, literature, multimedia files, etc.

Minimum Hardware

Minimum system requirements for computers that run the application:

• Processor: > 500 MHz;
• Memory: minimum 128MB RAM;
• Disk size: > 250MB of available hard disk space;
• Video: High-Colour (16 bit) video card, 1024 x 768 monitor resolution or higher.

Operating Systems and Networks

Recommended client operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP

or

MacOS / Linux and other OS with Citrix Metaframe Terminal Server.

Recommended server operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003

Images

Each record may have relations to an unlimited number of (multimedia) files.

Over 150 different formats may be displayed within the application. Other formats (doc, xls, indd, vsd, etc.) are automatically opened by the respective software.

Public Access

Public access may be provided either by eMuseumPlus or by a web-based terminal server client.

See also Internet below

CD Publication

Yes.

Internet

eMuseumPlus

eMuseumPlus is a web application and gives access to the MuseumPlus data via the Internet/Intranet. Extensive research and display facilities with optional access restrictions make it easy to explore the entire museum's database, e.g. collection, exhibitions, multimedia files, etc. In order to guarantee the best possible integration into an existing web presence, eMuseumPlus can be adapted to the layout and corporate identity of the museum, existing websites or individual criteria both in terms of graphics and functionality.

It features adaptable search and result views, automatic image processing, login and encryption functionalities and a lot more.

The eMuseumPlus web application uses open source software and can be used inexpensively on all standard computer platforms. eMuseumPlus can also be adapted to retrieve information of non-MuseumPlus databases.

Database Architecture

MuseumPlus uses proofed standard database systems:

• MS Access;
• Microsoft SQL Server;
• Oracle.

eMuseumPlus supports the use of nearly any database. Among the open source databases, the following are tested: PostgreSQL version 8 and higher, Max DB, MySQL.

Cost - Single User

MuseumPlus Standard: c£800.

Cost - 5 Users

MuseumPlus Standard: c£3,650.

Additional Pricing Notes

MuseumPlus prices:

MuseumPlus licences are per user one-time licences. Concurrent licences are available upon request.

The cost per licences decreases as more users are licensed.

The modularity of MuseumPlus allows the museum to purchase only the required modules.

• MuseumPlus Standard: all core modules;
• MuseumPlus Professional 1: all core modules plus 1 add-on;
• MuseumPlus Professional 2: all core modules plus 2 add-ons;
• MuseumPlus Professional 3: all core modules plus all available add-ons.

MuseumPlus core modules:

Collection management including artists/producers, address management including PR/mailings, bibliography, catalogue exchange, conservation, historical events, provenance, thesauri, keywords, location management, values and transaction history, accounting and invoices, lightbox, multimedia centre, duplicate control, list generator, query generator, security management, system administration

MuseumPlus add-ons

• Exhibition management modules: exhibitions, loan contracts, photo orders, authors, transportation, facilities;
• Event management modules: events, event list, calendar, room management;
• Image archive modules: image archive, image orders.

eMuseumPlus prices:

eMuseumPlus licences are one-time licences. The licence cost depends on the number of purchased MuseumPlus licences and on the number of modules:

• eMuseumPlus Standard: all core modules;
• eMuseumPlus Professional 1: all core modules plus 1 additional module;
• eMuseumPlus Professional 2: all core modules plus 3 additional modules;
• eMuseumPlus Professional 3: all core modules plus all available modules.

eMuseumPlus core modules:

Collection, artists/producers, literature

eMuseumPlus additional modules:

• exhibitions;
• events;
• multimedia;
• room management.

Please contact zetcom for detailed price lists.

Training

Standard and specialized one-day training courses are held during the introduction phase of MuseumPlus. Optional courses are available upon request.

Optimal class size is up to 6 persons.

Costs: £575 per day on site.

zetcom offers also free MuseumPlus workshops on an irregular basis for clients with a maintenance contract.

Support

Unlimited free support (by telephone/e-mail/fax or by the online support system) is included in the annual maintenance fee (15% of the total licences costs).

The maintenance fee covers also software updates and releases and as well other services like user-group meetings, newsletters, etc.

Museum Users and Sites in the UK

2 sites; 78 user licences (May 2006)

Museum Users and Sites Worldwide

c400 sites; number of users: over 2,000

Largest Museum Site - No of Users and No of Records

State Museums of Berlin: over 300 users, c3 million records, c100,000 images

Special Features

MusuemPlus is more than a simple collection management system. It is a complete museum management system which enables the museum staff to handle in an efficient way most of their daily tasks.

Modules:

Collection management incl. artists/producers, address management incl. PR/mailings/e-mails, bibliography, catalogue exchange, conservation, historical events, provenance, thesauri, keywords, location management incl. accessioning and deaccessioning, values and transaction history (incl. external and internal movements), accounting and invoices (incl. collective invoices), lightbox, multimedia centre, duplicate control, list generator, query generator, security management, system administration, exhibitions, loan contracts, photo orders, authors, transportation, facilities, events, event list, calendar, room management, image archive, image orders.

Features:

• Usability: direct access to most information in 2-3 clicks, integrated list generator, easy-to-use multimedia and link handling;
• Flexibility: modular structure;
• Access right definitions: per module, per task, per user and/or per field;
• Multilingual capabilities: mulitlingual data fields, unicode compliant;
• zetcom supports a number of documentation standards and works closely with international agencies and committees to make certain that MuseumPlus supports standards requested by the user community. ICOM (International Council of Museums), CIDOC (International Committee for Documentation), MCN (Museum Computer Network), CIMI (Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information), DMB (Deutscher Museumsbund, Fachgruppe Dokumentation), CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network);
• Comprehensive documentation: printed and electronic user and administration manuals, individual help texts per field may be defined by the museum;
• and much more...

MuseumPlus is available in 8 languages, any other language may be delivered upon request.

Future Developments

Please contact zetcom.

Feature

Audit trails

As standard

Passwords

As standard or inherited from operating system

Picklist

As standard

Thesaurus for Data Entry

As standard

Thesaurus for Retrieval

As standard

Screen Designer

Will be available in a future release

Report Writer

As standard

Modifiable Data Structure

As standard

Maximum Characters per Field

No limit; special field formats with limitations.

Maximum Records per File

No limit.

Digital Image Formats

Each record may have an unlimited number of (multimedia) files (related files).

Over 150 different formats may be displayed within the application. Other formats (doc, xls, indd, vsd, etc.) are automatically opened by the respective software.

Data Import Facilities

Customized data entry interfaces.

Easy-to-use, integrated import tool for large amounts of digital images.

Any other data format may be implemented, upon request.

Data Export Facilities

XML, HTML, RTF, TXT, comma delimited and any other format supported by MS Excel and MS Word

Company Name

zetcom Informatics Services Ltd

Contact Name

Norbert Kanter

Contact Job Title

Director

Contact Phone Number

+49 (0)30 2759 4860

Contact E-mail

norbert.kanter@zetcom.com

Address

Koepenicker Strasse 154a
10405 Berlin
Germany

Company Website

http://www.zetcom.com