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Chantier des collections

English translation: collection review / survey

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French term or phrase:Chantier des collections
English translation:collection review / survey
Entered by: Sandra Petch

17:12 Dec 4, 2020
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
French term or phrase: Chantier des collections
Here is the definition. Is there an equivalent in the English-speaking art world?

Un chantier des collections est la mise en œuvre d'un programme muséologique qui permet l'étude systématique des collections d’un musée, la réalisation de récolements, d'inventaires précis et informatisés des objets du musée, leur prise de vue photographique et la mise en place de campagnes de restauration (nettoyage, traitements, voire décontaminations) nécessaires à la conservation et à la lisibilité des œuvres.

Issu du monde de l’industrie, ce système était déjà en vigueur dans le contexte du traitement en série des livres de bibliothèques, notamment à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Sa transposition dans le monde des musées est récente.


Thank you!
Sandra Petch
Local time: 09:09
collection review
Explanation:
As museums face the reality of perpetually growing collections and ever-shrinking storage space, they must confront the difficult and often long-overdue task of collection review and refinement.
http://www.aam-us.org/2019/10/23/collection-ranking-making-d...

Collection review – Managing and documenting any formal assessment of your collections that follows a stated methodology.
http://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/spectrum-5/

The Yolo County Historical Collection is undergoing a comprehensive review of the 11,000 items at the Gibson Museum and Cultural Center operated by YoloArts. This endeavor requires planning and volunteer efforts to ensure documentation and re-housing of objects in accordance with museum and archival standards.
http://www.yolocounty.org/residents/gibson-house-and-histori...
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
I've gone with collections survey as per this museum website https://www.amnh.org/research/natural-science-collections-conservation/general-conservation/documentation/collection-surveys but review is an equally valid option. Thanks Phil.
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4 +3collection review
philgoddard
4collections management/information systems
Francois Boye


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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
collection review


Explanation:
As museums face the reality of perpetually growing collections and ever-shrinking storage space, they must confront the difficult and often long-overdue task of collection review and refinement.
http://www.aam-us.org/2019/10/23/collection-ranking-making-d...

Collection review – Managing and documenting any formal assessment of your collections that follows a stated methodology.
http://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/spectrum-5/

The Yolo County Historical Collection is undergoing a comprehensive review of the 11,000 items at the Gibson Museum and Cultural Center operated by YoloArts. This endeavor requires planning and volunteer efforts to ensure documentation and re-housing of objects in accordance with museum and archival standards.
http://www.yolocounty.org/residents/gibson-house-and-histori...

philgoddard
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 61
Grading comment
I've gone with collections survey as per this museum website https://www.amnh.org/research/natural-science-collections-conservation/general-conservation/documentation/collection-surveys but review is an equally valid option. Thanks Phil.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bokani Hart
40 mins
agree  Thomas Miles: That does seem to fit nicely here, although I am concerned that the word 'chantier' is being semantically stretched so far by the French that it will snap.
19 hrs
neutral  Francois Boye: look at the site on 'chantier des collections'. it talks about something different from collections review//https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantier_des_collections
21 hrs
  -> Which site?
agree  Eliza Hall
22 hrs
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1 day 43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
collections management/information systems


Explanation:
A Collections Management System (CMS), sometimes called a Collections Information System, is software used by the collections staff of a collecting institution or by individual private collectors and collecting hobbyists or enthusiasts. Collecting institutions are primarily museums and archives and cover a very broad range from huge, international institutions, to very small or niche-specialty institutions such as local historical museums and preservation societies. Secondarily, libraries and galleries are also collecting institutions. Collections Management Systems (CMSs) allow individuals or collecting institutions to organize, control, and manage their collections' objects by “tracking all information related to and about” those objects.[1] In larger institutions, the CMS may be used by collections staff such as registrars, collections managers, and curators to record information such as object locations, provenance, curatorial information, conservation reports, professional appraisals, and exhibition histories. All of this recorded information is then also accessed and used by other institutional departments such as “education, membership, accounting, and administration."[2]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collections_management_system

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 03:09
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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