Greetings Chad & all, In our system, the Title field was renamed/reconfigured to hold philatelic catalog info. Therefore, the Object Name field is the only place for object titles, etc. Furthermore, this field pulls over to our online catalog, Arago www.arago.si.edu <http://www.arago.si.edu/> and so has to be somewhat consistent yet descriptive enough for the public. In general, we use Subject + object type. We use initial caps for the entire subject name, followed by lowercase object type. Ex: Rural Free Delivery wagon model Ex: Railway Post Office mail sack label Ex: World War II Patriotic post card For stamps, we include the denomination and format. value + Subject + format Ex: 1c Franklin die proof Ex: 6c James Garfield block of eight One thing that is regrettable about how our object names function for stamps is that no one thought to put the actual word postage stamp in the Object Name when describing stamps. When our data went live to the web, the public was unable to search for the words 'postage stamp' and get hits of all our stamps. We've devised some work arounds but I would urge you to think ahead of the data-how will it be used in the future? Kate Diggle Database Administrator National Postal Museum ________________________________ From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chad Petrovay Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Object Name Does anyone have a style guide for Object Name that they can share? Chad M Petrovay Collections Database Administrator The Walters Art Museum 600 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 P: 410.547.9000 x266 F: 410.837.4846 [log in to unmask] www.thewalters.org <http://www.thewalters.org/> Exhibitions: Mapping the Cosmos: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope through July 27 Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art on view July 20-September 7