The National Gallery, London has created generic Constituent records in
TMS for attribution of paintings to anonymous artists. For example
'German', or 'Italian, Florentine'. We enter the name in Constituent
record  Display Name, Last Name and AlpaSort fields. We do not enter any
dates in the Constituent Display Date field - instead we enter a date or
date range in the Object record Display Date field.

We have also created a Constituent record called 'Unknown' which we use
during any procedure (loans in, loans out etc) where the artist (or
lender, or exhibition venue) is NOT YET KNOWN but will be established
during the procedure.

Gillian Essam
Collection Information Manager
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
Tel: 020 7747 2543
Fax: 0207747 2472
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Cathryn Goodwin
Sent: 22 January 2007 13:54
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Subject: Authority control for culture / period terms

Does anyone use the constituents module to manage attribution of works
of art with not named artist?  For instance, creating a PERIOD role and
records for Meiji, Edo,Hellenistic, etc?  Or a CULTURE role to handle
Greek, Attic; Maya; Olmec, etc?

I'm leaning heavily in this direction and would like to hear if anyone
has experience / opinions one way or the other.

thanks
Cathryn Goodwin
Princeton University Art Museum

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