Has anyone changed the field properties to allow for > 450 characters? I
have some longer urls that got truncated, which is why I repurposed the
Remarks field. I worried that if I changed the properties of the altnum
field I'd lose some links once we upgrade to the current version.
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:18 AM Danielle Uchitelle <
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> At Gallery Systems, our recommended best practice for leveraging linked
> data such as VIAF and ULAN is to use the Alternate Number field to hold
> this information, as Jeff, Emmanuelle, and others have already said.
>
>
>
> Beginning with TMS 2016R2, the Alternate Number field can include a URI
> that is dereferenceable (resolvable) to any linked web resource, so that
> clicking on the link within the TMS record immediately opens the associated
> web page in a browser:
>
> [image: cid:image003.jpg@01D2DFAD.90EF3DE0]
>
>
>
> If you are using eMuseum to publish your collection information, these
> linked data references will allow you to include canonic information from
> the linked authority in your museum’s collection website.  I’ll be hosting
> a webinar later this summer to demonstrate this feature using eMuseum 5.1,
> the latest version supporting linked open data.
>
>
>
> Regarding field lengths, an argument can be made for entering only the
> root ID (in the above example, the ULAN ID 500017300) rather than the
> entire URL (http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500017300).  This would assure
> that the linking ID would fit easily within the 450 character limit of this
> field, and would also make it easier to manage in cases where a linked web
> server changed URL addresses without any change to the URI, although this
> should not happen often.  Entering the ID without the full URL would still
> allow linking data using eMuseum but would mean that you wouldn’t have a
> dereferenceable URL to click on inside TMS.  In practice, I’ve sometimes
> done both in the same record, using the Alternate Number description field
> to denote separate rows for ULAN ID and ULAN Subject URL.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Danielle Uchitelle
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> *From:* The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> *On Behalf Of *Delmas-Glass, Emmanuelle
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 7, 2017 3:55 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
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> *Subject:* Re: Adding VIAF and other linked data references to
> Constituents
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>
>
> Same as Jeff: Constituent alternate numbers – using the full VIAF URL as
> the number and with ULAN chosen from the drop down as source of the data.
>
> Emmanuelle
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> Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
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> Collections Data Manager
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> Yale Center for British Art
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> 203-410-4069
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> On Jun 7, 2017, at 19:27, Smith, Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Constituent alternate numbers – using the full VIAF URL as the number.
>
>
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> *From:* The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>] *On Behalf Of *Welsh, Sylvia C.
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 07, 2017 11:20 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Adding VIAF and other linked data references to Constituents
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> Hello TMS list,
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>
> I was wondering where in your Constituents Module you add information from
> VIAF, etc.? We are looking to start adding that data and were wondering if
> anyone had suggestions for best practices?
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>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Sylvia,
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