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November 13, 2019 By Vernon Systems

A new home page and a new way to search

Welcome to a new way to explore eHive! The eHive.com home page has been revamped and there are extended options for searching for objects on the public website.

Explore eHive records through the Recently Added Objects, Popular Objects, and Catalogue Type lists, or views records through our links on the most popular Object Types.

eHive homepage

From the count next to each Object Type, we can see that there are more photographs than any other medium.

You can use the search box to look for any objects recorded in eHive, which now includes over 1 million objects. At the time of writing, there are 3,571 boats, 172 bras and 12,477 records to do with brass bands.

When you’re on the search results page you can refine your search even further with different facets. You will find a range of facets (or filters) on the left side of the page.

eHive Example Search Page
Example eHive search results page

These filters give a whole new dimension to searching eHive. You could restrict your search to only records with images, or only the records related to a particular maker. You could refine your search for plants so that your results only showed you records of Object Type photograph or fossil.

Once a single record has been selected, then you will see high resolution copies for some images using pan and zoom options added earlier this year.

You can read more about this new way of treating images here.

How to get your records ready for Faceted Search

This new faceted search functionality may have you revisiting your records to see how they will be affected.

The search box will search all text in the object record, so you do not have to move terms to specific fields for them to be searched.

You may want to see what other terms might make your objects easier to find or more relevant to the visitor. You may want to add Object Type, Maker, Subject and Association Keyword, Images and Documents to your records to give better access to your collection.

You can also add tags to your object records. Find out more about how to add tags and comments .

We’re now working on extending the search facets options into the logged in application (my.ehive.com) for eHive account holders to make use of. This will be available in December 2019.

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Testimonials

New England Regional Art Museum

I’ve worked with the Team at eHive to deliver three online collection projects – across archives, library and art museum collections, both in New Zealand and Australia. The technical support is exemplary and the eHive Team have offered guidance and advice that makes solving any problems easy and maximising project potential possible. I’ve used eHive as both a host website for online collections, and for a fully integrated museum website search experience that has helped diversify our audiences and allow people to respond to collections in a tangible way.

Tanya Robinson - New Zealand & Australia

Mataura Museum

Thanks to eHive we are now a museum without walls. After putting our collection online, web visitors exceed physical visitors by a factor of ten, all without having to set up and maintain our own website. This wider reach has brought a raft of new connections to our small community museum.

David Luoni - New Zealand

Tweed Regional Museum

eHive has allowed the Tweed Regional Museum to easily publish our collection online, making it more accessible than ever before, revolutionising how we work and how far our collection can go. The back end of the system is incredibly easy to use, making it simple for staff with non technical backgrounds to publish the collection online. The team at Vernon have an excellent customer service ethos and help is never far away. We can’t recommend eHive to other small or medium museums enough.

Erika Taylor - Australia

Ashley Parker

Personally I consider eHive to be an absolute triumph. It is easy to use, logical, comprehensive, economic, safe (as in backed up), it has an open data/migration path to get data out and the support is superb. I will absolutely encourage other institutions I come across to change over to it. I did a pretty thorough analysis of the competition out there before selecting eHive and it seemed the best approach of all the choices.

Ashley Parker - Australia

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