Sue, what are you doing????!!! Deb says "you go
girl!"
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Am receiving messages, and yes, would be interested in sharing
ideas related
to data standards.
Susan Foster Garton
Data
Administrator
Center for Electronic Research and Outreach
Services
National Portrait Gallery
Tel: (202) 275-1842
Fax:
(202) 275-1907
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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