Dear All Just wondering if any of you are able to advise on how best to deal with 'unknown' artists in terms of constituent records. At the moment we only have one constituent record called 'Unknown' with over 1300 works linked to this record. In our legacy data many of these unknowns did actually have a date e.g. Unknown, 17th century. Unfortunately this was not addressed at the time of the migration and these dates are not on TMS. I think one way to address this would be to have different 'Unknown' constituents for each century e.g. Unknown, 17th century; Unknown 18th century; and a general unknown where we don't have a date. What are your thoughts on this? What would be another way to deal with this? However, we do have some works with the artist 'unknown' but with a more specific date e.g. Unknown, c1630. We can't have tens of 'unknown' constituents for every single given date. For some records I could put the date of the 'unknown' as the date of the work but this would not always be appropriate e.g. in the case of prints etc. Unless it was entered as a historical date? Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Many thanks Caroline Delahunty TMS Officer National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Square West Dublin 2 tel: 01 632 5525 ********************************************************************** The information contained in this email and in any attachments is confidential and is intended solely for the use and attention of the intended recipient(s). This information may be subject to legal & professional privilege. If you are not an intended recipient of this email, you must not use, disclose, copy, distribute or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email from your computer system(s). This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Square West Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 353-1-661 5133 Fax: 353-1-661 5372 http://www.nationalgallery.ie **********************************************************************