As we're planning a broad export of our collections data to eMuseum and our parent institution's Collection Search Center, several of my users have become pretty insistent that I need to create collections-level records for our collection. Much like you'd find in an archive, they want an overview record where overall information about an accession lot can live and link to all of the related object records. I wonder if anyone else is doing this and how you're implementing it. It seems like a constituent record would work for this, or possibly virtual objects (though we're using those in another capacity right now), but I'd like to know how others are doing this.

Thanks for your input.

Best,
Josh Gorman




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On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Smith, Jeffrey wrote:

TMS users here at the Freer|Sackler have for some time complained about the sudden inability to copy & paste from TMS into other applications. This basic Windows function has indeed gotten less dependable in recent years, and TMS has been affected.

But now the problem is hampering the new TMS 2012 export to Word and Powerpoint features available from the Label Copy dataviews. The images export, but full use is hobbled because text copied can’t always be pasted into the new document.

Has anyone found a way to make copy & paste between TMS and other apps reliable again?

Thanks!


Jeffrey Smith
Assistant Registrar for Collections Information
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Washington, DC 20013-7012

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