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.

I am really interested in how people have set up their Geography Authority scheme. --Suzanne

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.

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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