External Email - Exercise Caution Hi Fatima, We also did a review and partial-overhaul of our classifications. Our current iteration is similar to Jeremy’s where we tried to make sure that the end-user was kept in mind to better facilitate queries through eMuseum. Our classifications had not been reviewed for several decades, and there were only like ten or so. It has broadened significantly, but is due for another round of review to address identified gaps from re-classifying. One important aspect we utilized were sub-classifications which were selectively decided upon for more complex areas of the collection. One critical aspect that I made sure we built into reclassifying was establishing and maintaining a definitions document for each classification to provide guidance for future cataloguing. Again, still a work in progress (but will we every truly be done?!), but enjoy! 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Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 9:51 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Sharing your Classifications value list? Howdy, We redid ours a couple years ago, I’m partial towards classifications being primarily a query aid rather than oriented towards specific departments or sections of a museum. For example a pretty classic request I use in TMS training to explain querying is “Imagine someone asks you ‘how many On View paintings are there?” Architectural Element Book and Manuscript Ceramics Decorative Arts Drawing and Collage Figure Installation Jewelry Mask Painting Photograph Print Sculpture Textile and Fiber Arts Time Based Media By FAR our most imprecise one is Sculpture – which essentially contains all 3D objects that did not have big enough sets to warrant their own classification (for example the museum has enough Ceramics and we get enough requests for lists, etc, that it was worth breaking it out from Sculpture or Dec Arts. Same with Jewelry. 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External Email - Exercise Caution Hello, TMSers! We are reviewing our "Classification" field list. Would anyone be willing to share their classifications? Has anyone had any issue in searching on or reporting on sub-classifications? Thank! Fatima -- Fatima Mahdi Collections Information Specialist/TMS Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard Richmond, VA 23220-4007 Tel. 804.340.1443 Pronouns: she/her/hers Teleworking Tuesdays & Fridays [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> I acknowledge that I live and work on the ancestral homelands of the Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Upper Mattaponi tribes of central Virginia. I offer my deepest respect for their resilience and continued stewardship of their culture. 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