Hello Everyone,
For those of you managing large lots of non-accessioned material in TMS, specifically archives of documents or vertical files (numbering in the thousands of objects), what has been your strategy for entering the data into TMS? How are you organizing the material in the database so that it reflects the physical organization (or are you)? Do you make associations between the object files as part of keeping the material related? Do you create a hierarchy of information and create ‘parent-child’ relationships etc.? Or do you have another strategy for relating the material. Also, how are you identifying the un-accessioned material and keeping it separate from accessioned material? Do you create another department or classification, or an elaborate numbering schema for each file?  

Thank you in advance for your ideas and insights, 
Karen Ostrom
Assistant Registrar, Collections
The International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY. 10036
212-857-9762

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