Barbara Treitel
Manager Visual Resources/Rights and Reproduction
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue . New York, NY 10128
Phone 212.423.3250  .  Fax 212.423.3316
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Lada ( [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:43 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Test and a question
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> We're receiving messages from the Listserv here at the Whitney, and we
> would
> also be very interested in discussing and sharing data standards.
>
> Diana
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pearce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Test and a question
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Hopefully you all received the listserv email from Mignon Erixon-Stanford
> about the recent move of the TMSUSERS listserv to a new server with
> slightly
> different domain address. According to Mignon the transition was to have
> been seemless and we would have noticed nothing.  But a few of you have
> written to me recently about the lack of activity on the list and wondered
> if there was some technical problem or if things had just been quiet. So
> if
> you're receiving this message, let us hear from you.
>
> Also, my supervisor and mentor Bruce Young (Head of Collections Management
> at the Freer and Sackler for many years) and I have been talking recently
> about data standards.  Here at our museum I have recently formed our first
> Collections Information System Data Content Committee made up from
> Collections Management and Curatorial advisors. This is a major step for
> us
> as our administration and the curators have joined us in support of
> tasking
> the data base to serve as the primary and authoritative source for
> collections information instead of our long venerated paper records and
> published comprehensive catalogs. The questions that will have to be
> answered and procedures that will have to implement to accomplish this are
> too numerous to mention here at once.
>
> Are any other of you doing something similar? And if you're already well
> into the process would you have any wisdom you could share?  I have
> considered the idea of sending out an email on a very focused issue once
> every two weeks. Would you all be interested in discussing and sharing
> your
> ideas on topics such as retiring paper files, managing massive data entry
> projects, style sheets, thesauri, collections information system mission
> statements and TMS functionality in relation to your goals, etc.?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
>
> Best as always,
>
> Dave