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Sainsbury’s Archives selects CALM 2000
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Sainsbury’s Archives, Britain's leading retail history collection, has purchased DS CALM 2000
for Archives to manage its documents, artefacts and photographs detailing the history of the food retailing company which was founded by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury in 1869.
The collection provides a fascinating record of changes in shopping and eating habits from the
days of butter pats and bacon slicers to the technological sophistication of today’s supermarkets. Since its establishment in 1975, Sainsbury’s Archives has become widely recognised as one of
Britain’s leading business collections. The Archives are not open to external researchers except through the Virtual Museum's exhibitions at www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/museum.htm.
Sainsbury's Archives needed a system that would allow them to accurately and concisely record
the collection, with a view to providing limited on-line access to the public in the future. After spending many months evaluating potential suppliers the CALM 2000 system was chosen as the best in the field.
DS Calm 2000 is an archive management system used by archivists in County Record Offices,
City Archives, Local Studies Departments, corporate organisations, schools, colleges and museums all over the UK & Ireland. The system runs on Windows 95/98/2000/NT and includes
accessions, hierarchical archival cataloguing, extensive authority control, and loans/productions.
DS CALM 2000 uses a flexible and relational database structure that simplifies cataloguing,
indexing and searching/retrieval tasks. A variety of data formats are handled, including structured full text records, scanned images and original format files.
Records creation conforms to national and international archival standards – ISAD(G), EAD and
ISAAR/CPF. A sophisticated subject thesaurus has been developed to international standards, intelligent date range handling is possible using a flexible date parser and for organisations
wanting to publish on the Web, there is Web Server capability.
David Stevens, Company Archivist, says, ‘Although our first priority is the retailing business we
also have to meet the demands of the public and the DS CALM 2000 system provides the flexibility to marry the needs of both types of customer.
‘It has a well designed interface and very speedy retrieval facilities which ensure that staff can
input data and monitor collections, images, information, and loans with ease. It is the best Collections Management software for us.'
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