Hi everyone,
We are having a lot of discussions here whether to
use the virtual object registration or not for artwork that are now registered
with components but need to have individual information about loans,
exhibitions, valuation & insurance and so on. We do like the parent-child-registration
for portfolios, sketchbooks and so on, and also for these inseparable objects, the
intellectual child-registration. But for the other objects, we are not so sure,
as all the individual records gets confusing for a lot of TMS users here (when
you search for an artwork and you get a lot of records – where can we
find the collected information about the whole artwork?). We think that it is
not clear enough in TMS if the record is a physical/not physical virtual object
or not so therefore we are thinking of not having any “not physical
virtual objects” at all. We would prefer a bigger sign for these kind of
records.
Another thing would be the criteria for making
group records or not. Should we ask every artist before we do our registration
of new acquisitions if the artwork can be exhibited each part separated from
each other, sometimes it is very clear from the beginning but when it is not? That
would be the foremost criteria, I guess.
When we would like to count these objects we then also
would like to count them both ways; a group of records as one piece and also all
the children without the parent record. How is this possible?
I hope some of you would like to share your
experiences,
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Group Manager Collection/Art
Database Manager
Moderna Museet
Utställningar & Samling/ Exhibitions and Collection
Box 16382
SE-103 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 8 5195 6275
Fax: +46 8 5195 5250/5292
Mob: 070-883 89 54
Besöksadress/Visiting address:
Skeppsholmen
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