Barbara Treitel Manager Visual Resources/Rights and Reproduction The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue . New York, NY 10128 Phone 212.423.3250 . Fax 212.423.3316 [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Diana Lada ( [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:43 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Test and a question > > Hi Dave, > > We're receiving messages from the Listserv here at the Whitney, and we > would > also be very interested in discussing and sharing data standards. > > Diana > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Pearce [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:39 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Test and a question > > 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