This is the basic outline of ours. Our geography is completely split out
from our other attributes. So we just link the Geography Xrefs directly to
that.
From Continent we break down to county, then state, and county if
applicable, then town, and even to local names within towns. Works really
well - we can search for somethink like all of Europe by just clicking the
'include narrower terms' part of the search.
I hope that helps answer your question! Let me know if it doesn't make
sense.
D.
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I am really interested in how people have set up their Geography Authority
scheme. --Suzanne
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Subject: Re: Advice needed on Attributes
Hi Suzanne -
Do you mean you are looking for what Geography Types people have created? Or
how they've set up the actual Geography Authority scheme? (We didn't get the
TGN either - being the Connecticut Historical Society, we figured we could
add stuff like Africa and other non-Connecticut locations as needed.)
D.
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:06 AM
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Subject: Advice needed on Attributes
Hello, wise TMS users. Our museum did not get the TGN when we originally
converted to TMS because most of the geographical terms were not needed for
our collection cataloguing. However, I am now trying to create an attribute
that would make it easy to find all of the works created in Europe. I have
played around with Geography/ Continent/ Europe on the Constituent record as
well as creating an Attribute for Location/Continent/Europe. If anyone
already has this functionality, could you send me a screen shot or a "best
practices" recommendation for this purpose? I also need to do the same thing
for Africa, so I suspect that I should add a geographical context for every
object related constituent. I would love to hear how other people have
dealt with this.
--Suzanne Stephens
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Birmingham, AL 35203-2278
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