Oh, thanks for reminding me on what else I
was going to add –
As far as digitization, our object numbers
are the file names, so the object would be identified using the last letter
subpoint, so we’d have two images attached to the record as 2000_1_0a and
2000_1_0b. For some of our objects, we’ve designated a side 1 and
side 2, and the filename would be 2000_2_0s1, and 2000_1_0s2. That way
the image is always able to be tracked back to exactly what it relates to.
Diane
Collections Manager
The
From: The Museum
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Subject: Re: Recto/Verso Objects
We map objects to records as 1:1, therefore, we treat verso and recto
as the same object (which, they are). We attach multiple media records
using a digital accessioning system, which extends our accessioning system by
adding a "dumb" serial indicator to the end of the accession number.
It's not ideal, but we
figure the difficulty and error-prone-ness of synchronizing location,
dimensions, etc. (other physical properties they share) via multiple records is
problematic. Components might be an interesting strategy, but we havn't
experimented with them extensively, yet.
-Thanks
Ryan Donahue
Manager
of Information Systems
George Eastman House
International
585.271.3361 ex386