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I have produced a TMS data entry manual which is part
instructional guide to doing the actual data entry in TMS,
and part style guide. As I work on this one manual it
is
becoming clear that we might benefit from a data entry
manual (an extract from the TMS User's Manual) and a style
guide (Data content and formats) as separate references.
Are any other of you heading in this direction?
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It sounds from these posts, that a lot of us are doing similar
things. I wonder if Gallery Systems would be interested in creating
a place on their web site for TMS users to post and access the various
in-house documentation many of us are creating? Jay?
Parallelism in data entry between specialists: This is
challenging. Especially, if there's no mandate from the top.
One thing that has helped especially in the area of provenance is the
manadate from the Association of American Art Museums to make this
information more available to the public especially where there are gaps
in provenance during the Nazi era.
In this area, we started by gaining consensous between the
departments that were ready to field the information which were,
paintings and sculpture. Those discussions included a
representative from manuscripts who were not ready, the special projects
assistant to the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, a data entry
operator and a staff assistant who actually do a lot of the data
entry. It was interesting to see the specialist's realize that what
they thought was so clear and easy to understand was not necessarily so
to those outside their area of expertise.
Amy Noel
The J. Paul Getty Museum