Still receiving postings, here.  Interested in all of the areas you
mention and have experience, if not necessarily wisdom, in many :)


Jon Thristan
Tate
Systems Manager

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pearce [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 18 March 2003 14:39
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