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Morning, Brenda!
I'm pasting below the terms we use in our TMS "Classifications" field. I don't think anyone is particularly happy with it as a general classification scheme for the museum. There's too much of a mix of medium terms and functional terms and old school art historical terms. But when we tried to come up with solutions at a cataloging standards meeting about a year ago, there wasn't really any consensus on what to replace it with. So it remains basically a collection of terms added individually over time that we can use to slap some kind of classification(s) on whatever object comes into the collection.
I'm eager to see what other museums have come up with!
Cheers,
Fatima
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Fatima Mahdi
Collections Information Specialist/TMS
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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VMFA TMS Classifications – 8/1/2022
Architecture
Arms And Armor
Books
Calligraphy
Ceramics
Clothing and Accessories
Coins and Currency
Collage
Containers
Boxes
Vessels
Decorative Arts
Drawings
Ephemera
Fiber Arts
Frames
Funerary Art
Furniture and Furnishings
Glass
Icons
Jade and Stones
Jewelry
Lacquerware
Lighting Devices
Manuscripts
Masks
Medals and Plaques
Media-Based Art
Metalwork
Miniatures
Musical Instruments
Paintings
Photographs
Prints
Scrolls
Sculpture
Assemblage
Installation
Stained Glass
Textiles
Tapestry
Rugs
Timepieces
Tools, Equipment, Utensils
Toys and Games
Unknown
Woodwork
Works On Paper
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From: Brenda Podemski <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 3:54 PM
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Subject: Share your Subject Terms
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Hello all,
I have contacted a few of you via other means, but would like to cast my net a bit more broadly in this ask: would you be willing to share with me the Subject terms you assign to your objects? (and if you have linked them out to external vocabularies, I'd love to see those, too). I'm interested in seeing what kinds of overlap exists across institutions and determine if there's a common set of terms we could collectively use and share with the community.
I'm primarily interested in subjects for artworks similar those at Getty to begin with (antiquities, paintings and drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts decorative arts, and photographs), but any and all are welcome! I am happy to share out results at the end.
Many thanks in advance,
Brenda
Brenda Podemski (she/her or they/them)
Head of Collection Information & Access
J. Paul Getty Museum
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