Does anyone else out there create object records for
crates? We started doing this a few years ago, mostly so we could put
them into a “Crates” department and allow our art handlers to
create, edit, and delete records as they were needed. They also can link
the objects that belong in that crate to the crate, and link images of the
crate to the record.
Obviously this partially duplicates the function of the “containers”
in the shipping module, and our exhibition registrars will often make duplicate
records so that they can manage the crates in a shipment while our art handlers
can manage the crates as empty things needing to be schlepped around town.
We’re not happy with the duplication, but being able
to keep track of the locations of an empty crate seems really difficult to do
if it’s not an object in itself.
Has anyone else managed a more elegant solution?
Thanks,
David
David Aylsworth
Collections Registrar
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
telephone: 713-639-7824
fax: 713-639-7780