Hello,
I have a few exhibition related questions
today that I am hoping someone has thoughts on:
1)
We are currently working on an
upcoming loan to another TMS-using institution. A CCA Exhibitions staff member
was wondering if anyone has ever tried migrating certain fields from their TMS,
to another institutions’, so as not to double all of the data entry at
the host institution? I imagine field mapping might be a problem, but for
fields like Object Number, Title, Date, etc., it might not be a bad idea if it
could be done easily. Has anyone ever attempted it?
2)
When you have an exhibition
that includes an object that is physically part of a group (for example, a
photograph in an album), do you link both the item and the group to the
exhibitions module? We are currently struggling with the advantages and
disadvantages (It might be confusing to Exhibitions staff if it looks like
there is an “extra” object in the exhibition - vs - we want to keep
track that both the album and the photo were in the exhibition).
Thanks for your help. Our Exhibitions
department recently started using TMS so there will probably be more questions
to follow…
Also, thanks to everyone who got back to me
about recto/verso objects a couple of weeks ago!
Alexis Lenk
Coordonnatrice, Documentation des collections
Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Montréal, Québec
(514) 939-7000 ext. 1520