Willpower Information Information Management Consultants

Consultancy projects completed include:

• Acting as Technical Assurance Coordinator for the Museums and Galleries Commission LASSI (Large Scale Systems Initiative) project to develop a collections management computer system for a consortium of nine large UK museums. Coordinating input of technical requirements from consortium members and quality assurance of SSADM systems analysis done by external consultants.
• Review and report to the Council for British Archaeology on options for converting the British Archaeological Bibliography into electronic form, including a consideration of retrospective and future subject indexing.
• Review and report to the International Council of Museums on the use of the Internet to aid communication throughout their worldwide organisation of national and international committees.
• Review and report to the British Academy on the use of electronic means, and the Internet in particular, for the distribution of research grant application forms and for the receipt and processing of completed applications.
• Review and report to the University of Lancaster Library on documentation and digitisation aspects of setting up the Ruskin Library (a collection of books, archives, manuscripts, art works and museum objects) relating to John Ruskin , being housed in a new building funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
• Review and report to the River and Rowing Museum on setting up the museum library, including objectives, layout, equipment, resources and methods.
• Acting as Technical Consultant to the Public Record Office on the automation of its library , including drafting specifications for an integrated library automation system and for retrospective conversion of its existing records.
• Survey of the status of archival collections in UK universities and colleges for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC): Research Collections Coordination Office.
• Survey of expenditure on the conservation of archival collections by universities and colleges in three survey areas of the UK for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC): Research Collections Coordination Office.
• Advising Leicester City Museums on options for the automated documentation of their collections records.
• Acting as consultant to University College London in assessing needs and procuring a computer system to manage the records and documentation of many important collections which they wished to bring into an integrated system.
• Advising the Rural History Centre at the University of Reading on documentation of archival, museum, library and photographic collections.
• Preparing assessment reports for the East Midlands Museum Service on the outcome of projects they had grant-aided: (1) to digitise photographic collections in an independent museum and (2) to reconcile and computerise collection records in a city museum.
• Advising the Ryedale and Scarborough Museums Partnership on the feasibility of a joint project to digitise collections of photographs. A summary of this project is in mda information vol.5 no.2, May 2001, p.79-84
• Transfer of collections records for the Horniman Museum and Gardens from many different MS Access databases into an integrated set of documentation in an Oracle-based system running MultiMIMSY software, including thesauri for objects, places and biological taxonomy.
• Consultancy to The Royal College of Surgeons of England on the procurement of a computer system for their collections of historical medical objects and anatomical specimens.
• Consultancy to The National Maritime Museum on the indexing of their object collections, including development of thesauri of placenames and subject terms.
• Documentation review and report for Kingston upon Hull Museums and Art Gallery.
• Consultancy on thesaurus development fo the RSLP project Palaeography : developing the national resource, at the lead site, the University of London Library.
• Transfer of collection records from Microsoft Access into MultiMIMSY software for the British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists
• Acting as consultant and external evaluator to the HILT (High Level Thesaurus) project done at the University of Strathclyde for the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) and the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC).
• Consultancy at the Centre for Documentation and Research of the Presidential Court of Abu Dhabi on the automation and documentation of its archives collections.
• Work with the Courtauld Institute of Art on the development of a taxonomy for its Web site.
• Consultancy with Glasgow City Council on the development of a thesaurus for its community information Web site.
• Consultancy with National Museums Liverpool on the transfer of records into their MultiMimsy collections management system.
• Consultancy with Scottish Natural Heritage on the development of metadata standards for use in internal and external databases.
• Development of a thesaurus for Transport for London, for use in various applications including the Group Archives and Records Management and London's Transport Museum.
• Development of a thesaurus for the Responsibility in Gambling Trust.
• Consultancy with Newsquest (publishers of the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times) on controlled vocabulary development and use in conjunction with NewsML, the news metadata language developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC).
• Consultancy with the European Union's Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Alicante, Spain, on the development of a thesaurus of terms for indexing decisions of Boards of Appeal.

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