Dear fellow list-servers,
 
We are very much looking forward to the time when TMS supports Unicode and we can enter data using Greek, Chinese, Japanese and other character sets.
 
In the meantime, as an experiment, we scanned the Greek characters written on the catalogue cards for 124 of our Greek coins. We made adjustments in PhotoShop and then attached the scans as media to the object record. It took an average of 7 minutes per card to scan, make PhotoShop adjustments, and complete the Excel spreadsheet of metadata that is used to batch upload the media to TMS. The curatorial department was pleased with the results and would like us to work on their 3,000 remaining coins. An added benefit of scanning is that it allowed for the capture of the positioning of the various characters (super, sub, etc.). I'm not certain that Greek character sets would accommodate this.
 
See attachment below to view the results.
 
Regards,
 
Linda Pulliam
Manager of Collections Information
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Noel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:37 PM
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Subject: ReTMS and foreign characters
 
 
>>> dave.pearce >snip< ...
One of our major style/content concerns, as museum(s) of
predominately Asian art, is that TMS support foreign
language characters - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic,
etc.  Are any other of you also dealing with this issue?  Up
to now we have only experimented with scanning cataloguing
sheets that contain foreign language character and attaching
those documents as images to the object records.
>>>>>
 
I would be interested to hear also if anyone is using TMS in English and Greek.  We have a small Paradox database that contains Greek Inscriptions on ancient art in Greek, using an character set called WinGreek.  
 
Amy Noel
The J. Paul Getty Museum