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Every few months we will be sharing some updates on eHive and interesting things that we have come across in the wider world of museums and collections.

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A new home page and a new way to search

It has been a busy time in eHive development. Following up on the introduction of pan and zoom to images, we have given the eHive home page a new look, and we’ve added options for filtering your search results.

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Tagging and commenting

Tagging and commenting can help encourage eHive visitors to interact with your organisation and collection.

Tags are keywords that can be added to a record to describe, group or categorise an object. As an account holder you can add tags to your own records and can also choose to allow the public to add tags as well.

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Using the Create screens

The Create screens are where you catalogue your object. There are lots of fields to choose from, and to make it easier to negotiate we created three tabs you can use while you are cataloguing:

Detail, Core and Public.

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4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance

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Can AI Art Authentication Put An End To Art Forgery?

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Skeleton Lake: Genetic Surprise Deepens Riddle Of The Dead – Dead Things The authors of the new research describe their findings as “unanticipated” — which is about as close as you’ll get in a measured, peer-reviewed research paper to “what the hell?”

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Welcome to THE BUZZ newsletter.

Every few months we will be sharing some updates on eHive and interesting things that we have come across in the wider world of museums and collections.

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This newsletter follows in the wake of the terrorist attack on New Zealand’s Islamic communities on the 15th March. We give our support to all of those affected by this tragic event and we encourage empathy for all of the cultures that make up our country. Al salam Alaikum — peace be upon you.

The artwork is from Pat Campbell. The silver fern depicts 50 people in stages of various stages of Muslim prayer.

Updates – Pan and Zoom

eHive is releasing an upgrade to the way you can view your images. Now you can refine the square cropped image and – this is very exciting – pan and zoom in on the detail of larger images. 

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Updates – Roadmap

Have a look at our roadmap to see what we have been up to, and what is coming next.

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Education – Writing a loan request

How to write a succinct and persuasive loan request letter in order to successfully secure the loan of an object​

Watch it here…

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My favourite places: Dexibit’s Angie Judge

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Palaeontologists have been urged to share 3D scans of fossils online, but a Nature analysis finds that few researchers do so.
#3D#musetech

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Some systems within the museum industry are long overdue for a revamp, whether that’s in regard to ease of use, accuracy, or accessibility. Blockchain could be the key to bringing both historic and contemporary institutions more fully into the modern age … or so it says

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Welcome to THE BUZZ newsletter.

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Case Study: Project Ark –
Digitising Southland’s heritage collections

We know that many of you are interested in the challenges small museums face when digitising their collections. In the Southland region of New Zealand, there is a fantastic project that is tackling those challenges head-on.
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Community
NZ Museums website gets a revamp

We have revamped the NZ Museums website. NZ Museums showcases New Zealand’s museums and galleries and their collections.
New Zealand museums, galleries and other collecting communities can contribute to NZ Museums through eHive.
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2018 in review

We hope that 2018 has been as successful for you as it has for us. We have been working harder than ever to keep up with all the work, and have even taken on new staff.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to all the new collections who have chosen this year to get started with eHive.

We also want to thank those who have been with us for longer. We have spent time working beside many of you this year on some exciting projects.

We wish you have Happy New Year and are looking forward to doing great things together in 2019.

Welcome to THE BUZZ newsletter.

Every few months we will be sharing some updates on eHive and interesting things that we have come across in the wider world of museums and collections.

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Sharing your objects from eHive
Putting your collection online can be a great way to reach out and engage a new audience. Having your collection in eHive opens it up to a larger audience, but a little help can go a long way.

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Are you ready to text in hieroglyphs?
Over 2,000 new Hieroglyphs may soon be available for use on cell phones, computers, and other digital devices.

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How badly is your job shown in stock photos
See some terrible and hilarious examples at #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob.

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Auckland Art Gallery’s chatbot
Users are able to send prompts – such as ‘show me…,’ ‘send me…’ or ‘give me…’ – followed by a keyword, colour or, even, an emotion, and the chatbot will respond with a selection of related More…

A new series by Maori TV
Time travel and delve into taonga both famous and obscure with Dame Anne Salmond, telling tremendous stories about our Aotearoa.

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Open Heritage
Explore iconic locations in 3D, discover the tools of digital preservation, and download CyArk’s collection

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Welcome to THE BUZZ newsletter.

Every few weeks we will be sharing some updates on eHive and interesting things that we have come across in the wider world of museums and collections.

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eHive server upgrade.
In the background, it has been a very busy time as we moved the entire eHive environment to the Amazon web services infrastructure.

What does this mean for you? 

NZ Cricket Museum website inspiration.
A fantastic website showing how to pull out data from eHive via the API onto their own site.

Click here to be inspired

How to add an external link to an eHive record.
Extend the information that you make available through your eHive record by adding an external link. It could be a link to a video, a Wikipedia page or a research source.

Click here to find out how 

Include Social Media Links on your eHive page.
We have updated the public profile options so that it is easier to link to your social media accounts.

Click here to find out how 

Feature eHive community – Devon’s Heritage
Communities in eHive allow users to connect and collaborate with one another by adding object records based on a common theme.

Today Devon’s Heritage Community consists of 42 collections, looking after 67,419 objects.

Click here to find out more. 

Popular on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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The Craft of Creating Wall Texts at the Guggenheim. 

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How a stranger 700 miles away is showing me the world’s greatest art

An anonymous art gallery staff member is showing me round before opening hours
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