I’m making a little headway with getting our curators to use TMS for their projects rather than making up their own databases and spreadsheets.  A couple have asked me if they can use TMS as a planning tool for a deaccession project.  They want something more than just an object package that they can put object records into as a way of grouping and considering things that they might want to recommend for deaccessioning. 

 

Naturally, I want to encourage them to use TMS more and more, so I was thinking maybe of encouraging them to make an exhibition record, maybe using the venue features to include or exclude things from active consideration without actually removing it from the table too far.

 

What do you all think?  Is there a better suggestion?  It seems like this could get muddy, but it’s about the best I could imagine.

 

Thanks for any suggestions and advice!

 

David