Liesl
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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