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Terms linked through conservation are available for query. In DBConfig<Manage<Query Groups, you can select "Term" under "Available Hierarchies", then "Objects", "Object Condition", "Terms". You can add this to a query group and it will search the attributes section in Conservation.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Sarah Evans

Assistant Registrar for Data Management

and the Permanent Collection

Dallas Museum of Art

1717 North Harwood

Dallas, TX 75201

Telephone: (214) 922-1322

Fax: (214) 969-5913

A developer could write a script to insert media records in batches. But, we'd also find it very useful if a plugin could be written to handle batch media record creation. A good candidate for a bit of automation.

On a related theme, are you recording terms with images, via the thesarus? This something that we're looking to do and will shortly begin a pilot with conservation, using our own trial set of terms. However, as far as I can work out, it's not possible to query for terms related to media records from within the Objects module. This limits the usefulness of recording terms - conservation would like to be able to do things like: search for 'paintings' in the 'Rousseau' exhibition with images that illustrate 'cracking' etc from within the Objects module. Or am I missing something?!

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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Suzanne Quigley
Sent: 03 November 2005 17:51
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Subject: Re: carpel tunnel relief (not junk!)

Thanks David,

I have been agonizing about this.

I'm adding each page from many years of sketch books! There has to be a simpler way.

On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:49 AM, David Parsell wrote:

Suzanne,

I wish there was a quicker way. Even with the Image conversion program that moves and formats groups of image files to the server from your workstation, it still takes 23 clicks for each image.

My users are complaining loudly about this tedious method for linking images and thumbnails to TMS.

This is a good opportunity for someone to write a TMS plugin to automate this process.

David Parsell, Yale University Art Gallery

At 09:51 AM 11/3/2005, Suzanne Quigley wrote:

Hi all,

I figured out it takes about 23 mouse clicks to add one image and its thumbnail to TMS. I know I'm going to get carpel tunnel in my clicking finger if I can't figure out a better way. I seem to recall that it is possible to upload images in some kind of a batch mode? Can anyone help me? I'm taking about 100 - 1000 pix each day and need to get 'em in there quickly after I rename all the files. Not counting the file renaming - I am clicking 2,300 to 23,000 times a day - ouch.

Thank you all.

Suzanne
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