Renee,

I have written standards where both names were recorded, and a custom SQL
View would create a label like: Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul,
Turkey) or Ur (in modern-day Iraq). My goal was to always keep the context
in which the artifact was made in the forefront.

~Chad


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Bomgardner, Renee <
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> I have been working on standardizing the geography fields on the Context
> Tab in the Objects Module by using the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
> and other authoritative standards when needed.   I would like to know how
> other institutions handle the data when a locale or entity has changed its
> name.  Do you record the current name or the former/historic name?  If you
> record both the current and former names in which order do they appear?  *
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> Renee****
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> Renee E. Bomgardner****
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> Philadelphia Museum of Art****
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