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David Parsell <[log in to unmask]>
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The Museum System (TMS) Users
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Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:12:32 -0500
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Works OK for me.


At 09:38 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Hopefully you all received the listserv email from Mignon Erixon-Stanford
>about the recent move of the TMSUSERS listserv to a new server with slightly
>different domain address. According to Mignon the transition was to have
>been seemless and we would have noticed nothing.  But a few of you have
>written to me recently about the lack of activity on the list and wondered
>if there was some technical problem or if things had just been quiet. So if
>you're receiving this message, let us hear from you.
>
>Also, my supervisor and mentor Bruce Young (Head of Collections Management
>at the Freer and Sackler for many years) and I have been talking recently
>about data standards.  Here at our museum I have recently formed our first
>Collections Information System Data Content Committee made up from
>Collections Management and Curatorial advisors. This is a major step for us
>as our administration and the curators have joined us in support of tasking
>the data base to serve as the primary and authoritative source for
>collections information instead of our long venerated paper records and
>published comprehensive catalogs. The questions that will have to be
>answered and procedures that will have to implement to accomplish this are
>too numerous to mention here at once.
>
>Are any other of you doing something similar? And if you're already well
>into the process would you have any wisdom you could share?  I have
>considered the idea of sending out an email on a very focused issue once
>every two weeks. Would you all be interested in discussing and sharing your
>ideas on topics such as retiring paper files, managing massive data entry
>projects, style sheets, thesauri, collections information system mission
>statements and TMS functionality in relation to your goals, etc.?
>
>Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
>
>Best as always,
>
>Dave

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