Hey everyone,
I’m wondering how everyone uses artist’s birth and death dates in the Constituents module. In our TMS, we use the Begin and End Search Date fields. If an artist is still active and alive, we just fill the Begin Search Date with the year
they were born and TMS automatically fills the End Search Date with that same year. If we know the time of death, then we fill the End Search Date field with that year. For example, if an artist was born in 1979 and is still alive, both the Begin and End Search
Date fields will have 1979 filled in.
This hasn’t been a problem until I’ve recently tried to query all active artists in our collection who are still alive. This wouldn’t be an issue if the End Search Date field were blank or ‘0’, for example. Should that field be blank since
the beginning? Would doing an advanced search of Objects-related constituents with End Search date equal to ‘0’ would have solved my query problem (if all End Search Dates were zero for alive artists)? I would love to hear how other institutions are using
these fields.
Thanks in advance!!
Eddy
Eddy Almonte
Assistant Registrar
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
2 East 78th Street
NYC 10075
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