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Alison Melrose Alison Melrose is Co-ordinating Curator (Information Services) at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). She first trained as a museum curator and has worked extensively with art, decorative arts, social history and applied science disciplines in collection management and has curatored numerous exhibitions. Later training and experience in librarianship increased her interest in information management and documentation standards which led on to study in Information Technology. The three aspects of professional training and experience have combined in her present position, with responsibility for the TMAG computer network, collection data, web access, library, archives, central reference collections, photography, photographic services and documentation advice to small museums. Over a period of ten years she has worked toward consolidating the TMAG’s collection and related information. This has involved combining the standards of the various disciplines of humanities and natural sciences into a workable database structure which can comply with various matadata outputs but remain flexible, based on standard exchangeable formats and scalable. She represents the TMAG on national committees for Australian Museums On Line (AMOL), Australian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) and planned access to Australia’s biological collections (OZCAM).
Alison will present Starting small, thinking big |