Hi everyone –
I’d like to get a sense of how
much use TMS museums are making of the CCO (Cataloguing Cultural Objects) and
whether / in what form an ONLINE version of the CCO would help in your
cataloguing environments. Please feel free to answer me off list – [log in to unmask].
Many thanks in advance.
Cathryn
From: The Museum System
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David
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:51 PM
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Subject: Crates as objects or containers
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