I don't know what happened to the rest of my message, I must have hit send
before I was finished.  I mean all of those Linda.  I have been attempting
to produce an institutional data-entry manual, and I'm sure there must be a
lot of you out there with much more experience than I have, who could share
their experiences.  For instance do you have your own classification system
or do you use Chenhall (sp?) or something else?  Really, any advice would be
welcome, even to know what pitfalls to avoid would be a help.
 
As far as the technical and administrative end of things are concerned, I
admit I am out of my technological depth.  We have a casual IT person who
looks after that at the moment but I feel that the museum really needs a
dedicated IT position.
 
Anne
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Pulliam [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 July 2002 5:16 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Policies & Procedures
 
 
Ann,
 
Do you mean data entry standards, (capitalization, punctuation, etc.), field
use standards, or process standards?
 
Linda Pulliam
Manager of Collections Information
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Marr ( [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Policies & Procedures
 
 
I'd like to introduce myself as a new user to the group.  My name is Anne
Marr and I am the Registrar at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New
Brunswick, Canada.  We have been using TMS for over a year now but we are
still wrestling with problems with our data, not, I hasten to add, Gallery
Systems' fault, but rather with the original data that was converted from
CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network).  Just trying to get my head
around the idea of relational versus flat-file databases is big deal to me!
I would, like Jack, be interested in the experiences of others so that I
don't feel that I'm reinventing the wheel trying to develop standards and .
 
Regards
 
Anne Marr
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Edwards [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 June 2002 1:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Policies & Procedures
 
 
Alberta Community Development is a new user to TMS.  We are looking for
documentation, policies, procedures, best practices, etc related to the
implementation of TMS.  Any information that is available would be
appreciated.
 
Regards
Jack Edwards